Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-16
Daily ksnnsbet Journal
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| OF nervous prostration.
| a special dispatch from Paris an
| nounces that Countess Boni de Castel-
lanelane formerly Anna Could gave
| birth, to son, Monday.
Leonard L. Garkin, %. committed
suicide at his home in Hudson, n. H.
| Tuesday night, by drinking carbolic
acid. a widow and one child survive
him.
| DR.. Mcacham. the assistant of Major
| Maus, the insuiar health commissioner
| died at Manila, Tuesday, of heart fail
ure, caused by overwork on the cholera
cases.
The trial of Berry Howard of Bell
county. charged with being one of five
principals in the murder of VIM. Goe-
fort, Ky.
Reviewed by Coy. Crane and Mayor
| Collins, the members of the Massachu-
sets Association of Minute Men of 81,
some 900 strong, paraded the streets OF
Boston, Tuesday.
The Clarendon Street Baptist church
| Of Boston, has called Rev. James A.
| Francis Of New York, to its vacant
pulpit. lie is now pastor Of the Second
| Avenue Baptist church.
Mrs. Nancy Washington, an inmate
OF the Home for Aged ColOred Women
at Boston, Tuesday, reached the age
of lC7 years. Mrs. Washington is pos
scssed Of all her faculties.
The Vienna representative of The AS
socIated Press has been Informed upon
| the highest diplomatic authority that
| the triple alliance, somewhat modified,
will certainly be signed within Il fort
night.
Fire, Tuesday, damaged the works of
the General Chemical GO. at Shadyside,
y. j., to the extent Of 100000. 1t
burned rapidly, owing to the fact that
the buildings We're filled with casks and
| carboyS Of chemicals.
Advices from ell-informed Vatican
circles. says the New York Herald
state that the Pope ut the consistory
| in May to fill the vacancies among the
cardinals, will elevate Monsignor Begin
Archbishop Of Quebec.
-Four persons We're found dead, Tues
day night. in the living apartments Of
| Esther Kohcn, 4 widow living on Third
avenue, New York. They had been
killed by inhalng the fumes of gas
After an investigation, tonight, the
| coroner decided the deaths were acct
dental.
| The Bulgarian government has de-
| tcrmined to dissolve the Macedonian
| revolutionary committee. ana has SC
Informed the latters executive, giving
as reason for its action the fact that
the chief agents of the committee have
been caught in the act of forming rev.
dictionary bands.
| The bondsmen at Cape Town of Prin-
cess Radziwill, (accused of forgery i'll
| connection with notes purporting to
have been signed by the late Cecil
Ehodes), having Withdrawn from her
bail, the princess was committed to
Jail, Tuesday. while awaiting her trial
which is fixed to begin on Monday next.
Charles A. Tinker, for many years
| the general superintendent of the East
ern division of the Western Union Tel
| egraph 60, has resigned, to take effect
May /. Il. Brooks, superintendent Al
| Denver. COLO, has been promoted to fill
| the vacancy. The territory includes
| New England the MIu0le Suites
land and the District of Columbia.
There were no special features in the
brewery workers strike at Boston
Tuesday and both sides profess to be
satisfied with their own progress. The
master brewers claim that they never
sent out more beer in one day thar
was the case. Tuesday, while the strik-
ers' pickets say that a smaller amount
of beer than ever was "delivered' and
that 50 additional retailers applied foi
union cards.
An Internal machine was received a
the post Office at Grand Junction, Colo.
and was delivered to Isaac q. Wymar
the Boston millionaire, the owner o.
the Bookcliffe Railroad. to whom ii was
addressed. He handled the package
carefully and there was no explosion
The machine was inserted in paste
board box in such a manner that hat
it been forced an explosion would have
followed. 1t was turned over to th'
post office authorities, but it is no
known where it was mailed.
Six weavers under escort of a deput.
sheriff and a special constable return
ed to work, Tuesday morning, in tn
Anchor mill of the American Woolel
Co. at Pascoag. r. l., where a strike il
in progress This is the first attemp
made there to break the ranks Of tn
strikers. Manager w. A. Inman said h
expected to have a considerable mum
Der of looms in operation. StrilS
leaders in Pascoag say that the stor.
| that a number of weaverS wish TO re
turn to work lacks confirmation.
Gunnery Lieutenant James III.
Bourne. Lieut.. Miller and nine blu
Jackets. were instantly killed, Monday
by the bursting of a 12-inch gun OIL
! board the British first-class battleshil
Mars. during gun practice of Bere
haven. In addition several men Wer
Injured by the explosion. The breacl
of the gun blew out after it had twic
missed fire. The bodies of the two mel
who were sighting the gun We're scat
tered to pieces and blown overheard
. The injured seamen were brough
l ashore, today.
! The discrimination of Harve.
Hruce. the companion of the Van Wor
mer boys and charged with them witt
the murder of Peetr Hallenbeck, wa
continued at Hudson, n. Y, Tuesday
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