Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-07-15
NEWS NUGGETS
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South and West.

| Xioft ISltt was III uPtIOIs Soutdi
day night and Sunday.
I The unknown woman found dead a
Lawrence. Mass, Friday last, was
Sunday. identified as Margaret Mur.
ply. While she had worked in loca
| mills. Manchester, n. H., was believed
to be her home.
A mass meeting of the Catholics was
held at Grand Rapids, Mich, Sunday
night, to protest against the United
States forcing the friars out of the
Philippines. All the Catholic clergy,
including Bishop Richter. attended.
The United States battleship illinois,
flag ship of Rear Admiral Aren't S.
Crowninshield, commander-in-chief on
the European station, with the United
States cruiser San Francisco. sailed
from Gravesend, Saturday, for Chris
tiania. Norway.
What proved to be the most disas-
trous fire that has visited a Boston
church for some time completely de-
stroyed the interior of ST. James Epis-
copal church on st. James street, Rox-
burk. Saturday. The damage is placed
at $4,000; the building being insured
for about $4,000.
The reiterated assertion that the
Cunard Line has been absorbed by the
Morgan shipping combine is as un-
founded as the previous reports of the
same tenor. Negotiations in other
quarters, however, as previously set
forth in these dispatches, are still
pending.
The steamer Pretoria, which left
Bermuda for New York, Saturday, had
among her passengers Mr.. Molloy of
Boston and Lawrence, who went to
South Africa with the Boer Red Cross
ambulance. was wounded in an early
engagement, and later was taken pris-
oner. and lis Boer officers, who were
prisoners Of war at Bermuda.
Mrs. Ada Eugene Vrooman Leslie
died. Sunday, at New York, after "A
lingering illness. She was born in 1876.
She married Alfred Leslie, a son of
Frank Leslie. After his death Mrs.
Leslie edited the Ladies Bazaar" In
recent years she assisted her sons, Ar
thur and Frank in organizing the Les
lie syndicate.
The steamer Portland arrived at s..
Michaels, July 2, according to a spec
ial dispatch received at Seattle from
Dawson. The news was telegraphed up
river to Nulato, where the steamer
Sarah brought it on to Eagle. Thence it
was wired to Dawson. The Portland
sailed. July 3, for Port Townsend. The
vessel is in good condition and the
passengers and crew all we'll.
About 300 union mechanics employed
in the construction of new buildings at
the Chicago University struck, Satur-
from Tuskegee and other Southern
schools are employed in the work.
These negro students are under con-
tract to H. d. HaltOn, agent of John
d. Rockefeller. They receive little
more than half what union men do.
The trial of Frank Fibbish, charged
with arson as result of the Webster
Block fire, and Clara LeBreuX, charged
with being accessory, was continued in
the Sd district court at New Bedford.
Mass, Saturday, with some sensa-
tional developments. The prosecution
showed it's hand to the extent of stat
ing it expected to point that the fire
was started by Fibbish in the elevator
shaft by means of a candle or fuse,
and considerable expert testimony was
introduced upon the latter point. The
hearing was adjourned until July Il.
The prosecution needs over a day more
to complete it's evidence.
The foreign ministers to China have
agreed upon the conditions for the
restoration of the government of Tien
Tsin to China and these conditions
only await the signature of the Italian
minister. who is absent, for presenta-
tion to the Chinese government. Ac-
cording to the condition the 80 killo-
meter radius from which Chinese
troops are excluded is reduced to 20
kilometers. the limitation of the num-
Der of police which the Chinese may
maintain within the radius is elimi-
rated and the concessions granted by
the provisional government are
ignored.
The secretary of war has made an
apportionment for the construction of
barracks and quarterers for troops out
of the appropriation made by the last
Congress amounting to s650,250. This is
only a part of the appropriation, and
is divided among the following posts:
For necessary buildings and accom-
mo5ation at Vancouver barracks,
Washington, $4,000. For building and
headquarters at Fort Lawton, Wash,
sl05 500; at Fort Wright, Wash, $4,000;
for buildings at Madison barracks and
Fort Ontario. n. Y. $780, to estab-
lsh a cantonment for a depot of re-
cruit instruction at San Francisco,
$4,000: to carry on the work of rehabi-
litating the post at Whipple barracks,
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