Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-11-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Tommy Ryan of Kansas City, MO-. anu
Jack Root of Chicago have Deen Hia'Ine" Ii
for a 10-round fight at kansas City' Deo'
| 1G
Nearly 5000 900 gallons of petroleum:
| stored in reservoirs on the OUTSKIRTS ol
Odessa Russia, nave been Destroyer "s
fire. :,
| The business portion of the llttie VII
lage of Lysander Ondagu county, NV Nw
Work has been wiped out by fire. 1Ee
loss is S3G 600
| Government receipts, Wednesday were:
From internal revenue, $l,o20 - c, cusioli,s'
ST. 131 ,O42; miscellaneous, slsZ'S''' eApe""'
lures, s.. 2.555OOO.
| Juan p wandesford. an artist with an
international reputation. Is dead az san
Francisco He was native OF Ehsiahi
and So years old.
Andrew Carnegie is rapidly reSoVelliis % @
from his recent indsposition. The doc-
Tor SAYS there is no cause whatever Tor
anxiety and that he only needs Il ie"
kdays' rest.
Tommy Reilly knocked out Ben Trem.
HE with "A short-arm blow on the polit
of the law in the eighth round at Seattle,
| Wash. Tuesday night 1feihpie h'o u
be carried to his corner
The Hardwood Lumber Dealers Ass'-
ciation Of the United States, in session az
Asheyjlle. N G., decided, Wednesday, TO
hold lumber dealers convention III
AsheVilie early next summer
An iron and copper smelling plant to
employ 1900 men is reported oy st ,ne 1n'' inl
| Francisco Chronicle to be the next IN
dustrial project of magnitude TO pc
launched on the Pacific coast
John erosion, 35 years old. of Boston,
captain of the cattle ship North Point
lnow living at a dock in New YORK city,
fell from the deck of his boat into the
hold. Wednesday. and was instantly Kill
ed.
jackson Stoll. vice president Of the w.
IT AkerSOn Co. of Patterson n. j., has
committed suicide at San Jose, Cal, ny
swallowing half of a small bottle of chic
roform There has been no explanation
of the suicide.
Professor Alfred G. Compton Of the de-
lpartment Of physics, has been selected as
| acting president of the College of the
city of New York in place of Gen. Alex
ANGER S. Webb, whose resignation Will
take effect, Dec. l.
An alI-nisht search was made for ne
gro who assaulted Mrs. John Lemon, wife
. of a farmer near Oaktown, Ind. posse
with bloodhounds is still searching the
surrounding country and lypchins Is
| probable if the chase is successful.
The body of a man, we'll dressed, was
washed up on the Long Island Sound
shore near Northport, l.. l., Wednesday
The body apparently had not been long in
the water. 1t is thought that the man
fell or jumped from a Sound steamer.
| Morton McNutt was found guilty at
Truro n. S. of attempting to murder
his wife and was sentenced to 20 years
. Imprisonment in Dorchester penitentlary.
He also received five years additional for
shooting at Mrs. Hamilton, his mother
in-laW.
Harvey Graham of the coal department
) of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Co,
ANNOUNCES at Montreal that the company
. has sold to the Boston & Albany Road all
the coal the company would be able to
produce during December. delivery to ne
made at either Boston or Portland
Mrs. Bridget Barry, the oldest resident
of South Boston. died, Wednesday. at
the age of 100 years. She was born neai
the Lakes Of Killarney in Ireland and
was related TO the famous Irish orator
Father Tom Burke, and to Kate Conway
whose beauty was many times the theme
of the Irish poets.
School teachers of Hoboken will in al
r probability take steps within a few weeks
to make an application for admittanct
4 to the American Federation of Labor
g The plan is being backed by number oi
|. the most prominent members of the
Teachers Mutual Aid Association and ths
Principals Association.
t Henry Hoppel a small iobber in tho
! South African market, shot and killec
himself at London, Wednesday, in tht
lavatory Of the Stock Exchange. He lef
). note saying: II have been speculatint
= mady. ! am ruined one of the shot.
:. passed through the lavatory door ans
slightly wounded another broker.
The condition Of DIR. Parker. minister
of the City Temple at London. is now
V considered hopeless. DropSy set in, Fri
day. since when oxygen has been admin
istered to the sufferer DR.. Parker him.
= self wrote a bulletin which was read il
= the City Temple, Sunday, remarking tha
I ii was the last thing he would ever write
!. Riotous demonstrations Tuesday, a
= Rio Janeiro. marked the departure from
=. | that city of the retiring president, Dr
d Campos SALES. Crowds of people hooteC
the former president and stoned newspa
" per offices. Troops charged the rioters
g at least one man was killed number OF
s persons were injured and numerous ar.
i, rests were made.
The Danish government has selected al
y the members of the commission which !:
d to go to the West Indies in December t6
investigate and report on the necessary
steps to be taken for the improvement OF
the economic conditions of the islands
NJ. Norden, chief of the department OF
railroad and telegraph in the ministry OF
public works, is head of the commission
| Hon. James Stillman. president of the
National City Bank of New York, wnC
has made many noteworthy gifts To Har-
: ward University has supplemented his
c generous deeds by a gift of 100000 for tho
= endowment of a prOfeSSOrShip i'm compre-
henSiVe anatomy. This gift was made
= known at a special meeting of the boar
of overSeerS at Boston. Wednesday, when
n the proiessorship endowment was formal
: ly accepted.
Secretary Hay and the Portuguese min
= lister, Visconde de Alte, Wednesday, a,
Washington, signed a supplementary con
venton stipulating that the agreement
between the United States and Portugal
> under the terms of Section of the Ding
! ley act. shall apply to trade between Por-
! to Rico and Portugal This particular
u agreement provides for rebate Of 20 pc.
!, cent. on still wines, argoles and a few
u other Portuguese products.
Col. o. J. Hopkins of Toledo, a noted
= artillerist and authority on Gatling gun
= tactics. was killed by n street car at
! Columbus. Ohio. Tuesday night Col.
j Hopkins served through the war under
: James A. Garfield an infantryman.
: Later he became lieutenant colonel of the
1 lst Ohio Artillery and was regarded as
an authority on the Gatling gun. The tao
ties that bear his name have been adopte. !;
4 by the United States army and many of
| the European armies.
j. Mrs. Lulu Miller Youngs. accused Of
having murdered Miss Florence McFar-
9 Ian at Rochester N. ". Tuesday, was
| arraigned in the police court Wednesday,
and pleaded not guilty. She was held to
await the action of the grand jury The
coroner will hold an inquest i'm the case.
Thursday. Mrs. Youngs has expressed no
remorse for the deed which she is charg-
ed win having committed. but still pre-
ISpryeS the imn1 n1SSiveppSS bac