Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

culel duIIliAiStrdtof VI I1dHONeI, uleu,
Thursday evening. He was IS years
old.
A great fire at Port Au Prince, Hayti,
at midnight, Thursday, burned ca
houses causing damage estimated at
s20e, GOO.
The Briggs washery of the Ontario
& Western Railway in West Scranton,
Pa, was destroyed by fire, Friday. The
origin OF the fire is unknown. The
washery was working with u force of
| SO non-union men. The loss will reach
$4,000.
The Minnesota Interstate commerce
commission has begun its investiga-
ton of the -four rate question. Sub
poenas have been served on local Off
cials of the Wisconsin Central and the
500 lines as well as number of
prominent millers. The summons are
returna BILE before Judge Lochren of the
Federal court in Minneapolis in Sep
TENDER.
| San Francisco is already to welcome
| the Knights Of Pythias, thousands OF
| whom are now on their way there tc
attend the grand canclave Of their or
der. Eighteen special trains are eX-
nected to arrive over the Southern Pc
cific Railroad by the ogden route not
| later than midnight, Sunday. Others
| will come via Los Angeles and several
from the north.
The Office building of the p. & +.
Corbin Co., hardware manufacturers at
Britain, Conn, was destroyed by fire,
! F'riday, with valuable contents in the
shape of papers and documents. The
building was reputed to be one of the
finest Office buildings in the country.
| The money loss is about $4,000, covered
by insurance. The fire is supposed TO
nave been caused by the careless drop
ping Of a lighted cigarette.
Gus Hyatt, who escaped with Is other
convicts from the Nashville, Tenn,
,enitentiary, last Monday night, is
| low sought as the leader of the train
| robbers who held up the Burlington ex-
| lress at Savannah. ILL.,, which occurred
A hours after the escape. AT st. Paul,
Mimi, five men who are suspected Of
| omplicity in the robbery are under ar
est. They We're taken in q body as
they alighted from a Great Western
| train.
The deliberately QUILTED expedition
which sailed from Victoria, E. c., ear
| ly in January on the brigantine Blake
| iy to search for the mythical treasure
| If Cocos island has returned without
| having seen a sign of treasure OF any
| lind The expedition was an utter
| allure. The Instruments which were
| locate the supposed buried treasure
| allied in all instances. The Blakely
| vas 101 days reaching the island from
| Victoria.
| The annual statement showing the
| condition of the New Hampshire saw
| ngs banks, state banks and trust COM
| oanies at the close of the year, June
| 20, 1902, as returned to the board Of
| bank commissioners. is made public
| Friday. The amount of deposits is
noWn to be 500, 249,S62.29 an increase
,ver last year Of $3,171,42914. The
| number of depositors is 47,92S, an in
| 'rease Of 546S. The aggregate of divi-
| lends was $1,7S5,321.47, an average OF
| 34.10 per cent.
| Lucius Clark, who a few years ago
| vas one of the most prominent pro-
| rnoters and capitalists in Chicago and
| Who was associated with Charles 7.
| TerIxes in the building of surface and
/ IeNdlSQ TdllfOduss, HIS SUI
| ide by drinking carholic acid at his
| esidence, 2f72 Kenmore avenue, Chiea-
| 20. His Wife and five children We're in
| he house at the time. Latterly Mr..
| lark had been engaged in mining
| operations and promotion and lack of
| success in that line drove him to take
| his life.
| The United States Cigar Co. has been
| organized at the Hotel Walton, Phila-
| lelphia, with a capital stock Of 49,
| 100000. The combined plants manufac-
| ture 400,000,000 cigars and stogies an
| nually. A Delaware charter was Sc
| cured. One-half of the stock will be
| I per cent, preferred cumulative the
| other half common. Five Pittsburg
| concerns and plants in Cleveland, New
| lrk, Somerset, Lancaster, and Column
| Gus, Ohio, were taken ever. 1t IS
| claimed 30 per cent. of the grade OF
stock manufactured is controlled by
| the concern.
| Edward ID. Ropes, prominent III
| Salem. Mass, in banking and charitable
| ,ircles and Tor many years a leading
| merchant. died at his home there, Fri
| lay, after a brief illness. Mr.. Ropes
| was Ga years old and Mt the time OF
| his death was president OF the Salem
| Savings Bank and a director in other
| savings institutions. He was born in
| Salem in 1888. About 1854 he visited
| Zanzibar, Africa, where he remained
] for seven years, part of the time Of
| iciating as United States consul. He
| had held political offices in Salem and
was a trustee OF the Salem hospital.
A badly decomposed body has been
| found in Mamoroneck bay, Long Island
| sound. 1t was that of young man
well dressed. Around the neck was
| strapped a small valise filed with ma
chinists' tools A ticket dated July
81, for one of the Fall River liners, was
found in the clothing. but all means
of identification failed owing to the
| condition of the body. The coroner
| expressed that the man jumped over
| board. but it was quite evident that he
was not a machinist. Therefore the
presence OF the tools was unaccounted
| for and many persons who saw the
| body inclined to the murder theory.