Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-22
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought ny the Wires From the
North. East. South and West.

Mrs II. 3. Holman of New York City.
announced. Tuesday, that her daughter
Josephine and asked Guglielmo Marconi.
the developer OF wireless telegraph, to
release her from her engagement to mar
ry him and tina: Mr.. Marconi had com
plid with her request.
BY order OF the board of health, the
steamer Kansas, which arrived at Bos-
aboard was quarantined. Tuesday. and
although this is the date of her sched-
Lled departure from port, no attempt was
made to get under way.
Daniel Bacon. who operates an indie
pendent line OF steamships between New
York and Cuban ports, is authority for
the statement that an extension of the
new service is contemplated so as to in
clude also leading ports on the south side
CT the island. such as ManZahil SANTA
go and Cienfuegns.
The National Butchers Protective AS
| sCciatiOn. organized in local. state and
| national bodies. and having a membership
of 1900, was represented by 1913 delegates
| in a national convention in St. Louis
Monday. In the course of oedings
| resolutions were adopted calling an in
| ternational convention OF butchers in ST.
Louis in 1893.
| A Tacoma, Wash, Ledger reporter VINO
has returned from the chase after tho
| federal convicts, report that w. d. Say
| der, sent up from Idaho; James Carroll,
Alaska murderer, and Harry Davis. sent
from Nome for larceny, were recaptured.
Monday evening. Davis broke away
from his captors who fired on him and
IL is thought injured him. He was not
II captured.
| Governor Docl1ery of Missouri, pardoneG
from the penitentiary J. l.. Craft, serv-
| ing i5-year sentence. that he might.
| Tuesday eXpiate the crime of murder on
the gallows, Craft having killed Henry
Sp.eLer. penitentiary guard, Dec. 8. 1873,
while endeavoring to escape. Gov. Dock
cry received an anonymous letter threat
| ening him with assassination unless ne
| Commuted the de3 tn sentence to life i'm
prisonment in the case of Craft, but the
governors answer was the pardon, that
the man might hang in Cole county.
One hundred girls employed in the Non.
otuck silk mill ut Northampton. Mass.
are on strike They declare that they
will not return until their wages hav',
been satisfactorily increased. Their
wages were reduced year or more ago
about 20 per cent. the girls state, and
they signed petition for the reinstate-
nent OF the former schedule. They dis
covered when their time cards were deiiv-
cred. Monday, that their pay for last
week was the sa:;e as 1t had been since
AWAY.
Manslaughter is now the charge upon
which Timothy Murphy and James T.
Tumilty, alleged to be responsib for tn
Geath of Wm. Kilfoil of Cambridge
Mass. are held. The men had been ac-
cused Of murder. but. Tuesday. in the
district court Judge Amy on receipts OF
Information from the police decided te
modify the charge. The police learnel
that kilfoiI died of congestion, of thu
lungs, caused by exposure, and not d.
rectiy from the assault. which II is al
legged the defendants committed upor
him. Murphy and Tumilty were held by
Judge Almy in $1,000 each for. the grant
jury. t.,
Director of Works Isaac s. Taylor o.
the Louisiana Purchase Co., will adver'
tlee In local papers and high-ciass tech
meal journals throughout the country TO-
ried Industries, building (the first of tn
Worlds Fair buildings at st. Louis for
which plans and Specifications have been
finished). All bids must be sent to Nj
Taylor before 2 o'clock T. NJ, on Feb. !
1902. The cost nf the building will b'
$4,000. The general drawings for the
Manufacturers building were received By
Director OF Wcres Taylor, Tuesday, I'M
makes six buildings in process OF devc'-
lopment. .'l|' ~