Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-17


the company's force, was shot twice but
not seriously injured. The fight was
most determined but the thieves finally
gained the upper hand and forced the
company men to retreat toward the big
shaft. giving the thieves an oppor-
tunity to escape.
The fire which broke out at Eden
toro. Pa. Wednesday night, and which
for time threatened to destroy the
entire business section of the town,
Tvs gotten under control at midnight.
The principal losses are: c. H. Proud
foot, grocer, $4,000; A. ]. Johnson, jew
eler. $4,000: S. B. Hanson, residence and
store, $4,000; James McCreel, residence
and store, $4,000; ]. II. Billings, resi-
dence. $1,000; E. B. Kenyon, store and
residence. $4,000; Greenfield & Kenyon,
clothing, $4,000. The State Normal
School was saved with difficulty.
The Emperor went from the Forbid
den city to the Temple of Heaven, be-
fore daylight. Thursday, offered sacri-
fees and gave thanks for his safe re-
turn to Pekin. All signs of the Brit
ish occupation of the temple were re-
moved and the streets traversed were
illuminated. A military escort sur
rounded the Emperor and a great body
of mobiles and officials followed him in
chairs or on horseback. The Manchu-
rian negotiations continue slowly. Rus
STA. in spite of her protestation of firm
ness, is disposed to compromise.
A fire broke out in the Union Rail-
road station at Chicago, Thursday. and
for a time not only threatened to de-
stroy the building but the flames and
smoke spread so rapidly that the pres
ent employees had an exciting time to
escape suffocation. All got out in
safety. More than $1,000,0O0 worth of
unstamped tickets were destroyed, but
it is thought no valid tickets are miss
ing. The station which is the property
of the Pennsylvania lines was DAM
aged to the extent of $4,000. The an
nual passenger statements of all the
roads were destroyed.
The Grand Canadian handicap, the
championship event of live bird shoot
ing in Canada, was completed at the
annual tournament of the Hamilton
Gun Club at Hamilton, Ont, Thursday,
and resulted in another victory for H.
D. Bates. the young Canadian expert,
who won three years ago, and winner
of the Grand National representing the
championship of the United States in
1900. Bates got a straight string of 20
birds and was the only one to do so.
He shot from the limit line, 80 yards,
only one other man, Tanning of New
ork, being so far back from the traps.
With her legs frozen to the knees, and
lying in the snow, UNCONSCIOUS from her
sufferings and the cold, Mrs. Lizzie
Murray was found, Thursday, in field
in West Everett, Mass. Bernard Heir
lex, who lives in the vicinity, and who
was crossing the field, discovered the
woman. In his arms he carried her to
his home and then notified the police.
She was taken to the Whidden Memo
rial hospital, where it was discovered
that her legs were so badly frozen that
both of them would have to be ampu-
tated Mrs. Murray is SO years Of age
and a widow. She could not tell how
she happened to wander to the spot.
Col" Henry S. Greer of Virginia,
well known to the police of New York,
who for some days past has been an
noying wealthy residents of the Back
Bay by his queer actions, was arrest
ed, Thursday, at Boston. Some persons
who had suffered annoyance made
complaint to the police. The man was
given a hearing in the police court and
| the case was continued a week. The
police think the man is insane. He is
| a person of correct attire and most po-
| lite in manners, while his age, which
| is about so, enables him to carry HIM
self with great dignity. 1t is said that
| his picture is in the rogues' gallery as
a swindler.
When Frank Aldrich, a wealthy resi-
dent of Washington Heights, New
York, shot himself in the head, last
Thursday, he put an end to what was
practically the lives of two men. In
New York City, Frank Aldrich lived
with a devoted wife and daughter in
handsome residence in West 14th
street near District Attorney Jerome.
He had the respect of his neighbors,
and was supposed to be a mining OPP
orator whose interests required fire.
quent trips to the West According to
the police, he is known in a dozen
other cities as a dealer in gold bricks,
and had such lucrative business that
he was often called the king of the
craft.
The executors of the estate of Jacob
S. Rogers, the Paterson millionaire.
who died in July last, leaving the bulk
of his property to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York City,
Thursday. filed in the court of cham
Gerry at Trenton, N. j., request for au-
thority to convey to the museum the
real estate in New York and New Jer-
sey which Rogers owned at the time
Of his death. They also asked author
ity to convey the remainder of Rogers
property to the museum as soon as his
debts and special legacies are paid. The
special legacies amount to 100000. 1t
is stated in the request that the per-
sonal property had been inventoried at
s5,543, 400.
Meeting and marrying a woman
whom he had never before seen, was
an undertaking which DR.. Andrew
Stewart Hackney of Kansas City, NO.,
accomplished on his arrival in Chicago,
Thursday. Miss Josephine Mulock, who
came from Middletown, N. Y, to meet
her fiancee. and the physician were
married. Thursday night, at st. Paul's
church. The marriage was the out
come of jest made by. Miss Mulock
when a mutual friend told her that Tr