Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
1863 Water ST.

Alfred Booth. who founded the firm
of A. Booth & CO.. Chicago, in the fish
trade, died, Wednesday, at his resi-
dence at Chicago. For two weeks, the
patients arteries have been gradually
hardening.
The centennial of the Incorporation
of Cincinnati was celebrated. Wednes-
day, with appropriate exercises by the
municipal authorities. both executive
and legislative. the chamber of COM
.merce and other organizations.
II. It. March of Allegan county, Mich,
has sold to Count carl Kleinstuck $50
acres of land lin Martin township.
which the co3tHf intends putting into
peat beds. This Vi1l be an entirely
new industry tor this country.
The warehouse audi table of the De-
Forest Express Roseville, N. j.,
was burned. WedAeed6yx The property
of the company Elzd besn attached by
the sheriff on beh63 OF Ereditors Of the
Thirty tMp u horses We're
burnedydeath and the. loss by the fire
win exceed $4,000.
Aspecia1 from lawson tells of one
of the richests fndssreported for a year
in the Klondike hard Butler, owner
of claim on BeaEcreek, was about to
abandon his property. when he discov-
cred an old bed rock many feet below
the first one. from which he took out
SIS, 200 in one day. One pan of earth
alone washed out $500 in gold Other
claims are now being prospected for
this bed rock.
A special meeting of the Warren
county board of free-holders has been
called at Belvidere, n. Y, to take ac-
ton toward the rebuilding of the
bridges swept away by the flood which
is now subsidng. All the bridges on
the PequeSt creek from Belvidere to
Alamuchy except one have been swept
away. Two of the bridges carried away
by the high water were rs years old
and We're built of stone. The large mill
was known as McMartin's dam on the
Pequest at Belvidere went out, Tues
day night.
Percival Roberts, Jr., president of the
American Bridge Co, who resigned
from the executive committee of the
United States Steel Corporation, de-
clined, Wednesday, to say whether or
not he would tender his resignation as
director. Mr.. Roberts said that his
withdrawal from the executive commit
tee was due almost entirely to a lack
of sympathy with the methods of Pres.
Schwab. but he declined to go into de-
tails. Mr.. Schwab and other leading
officials of the Steel Corporation had
nothing to say regarding Mr.. Roberts
action.
The Chicago Tribune's Louisville
ntnI ca
Paducah has taken to the stump with
her father in his campaign for the Dem
ocratic nomination for member of Con-
gress fro mthis district. Mr.. Greenup
is music dealer and Miss Lolita an
accomplished musician. During her
fathers tours of the district she plays
the violin and sings before the audi
ences which he addresses. The South
mas seen nothing like it since Bob Tay-
Tors Kidding tour Of Tennessee. The
double bill is drawing big crowds every
where.
The Prince of Wales, Wednesday,
turned the first sod Of the new dock at
monmouth, Worcestershire, Eng, on
which the sum Of 920,0000OO is about
70 be spent and by which it is proposed
10 recover a portion of the American
trafilc formerly enjoyed by the port of
Bristol. At the luncheon which fol-
lowed the ceremony, the Prince Of
wales in a speech said the great enter
PRISE will have the effect of strengthen
ing the grip of hands across the sea. It
would tend to increase the interest,
trust and sense of kinship, all
u which would help to strengthen the
empire
zen chakir Pasha, a brother Of the late