Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-03-17
Bon
Ami
Cleans and polishes the house
from kitchen. to parlor, pots
to statuary, paint to mirrors.

terprising in all public matters. He was
unmarried, his household comprising
himself and sister. He had served as
postmaster since the establishment of
the office. He leaves a valuable estate.
So much opposition has developed to
the plan for the leasing of BlackwelPs
island at New York, to the federal
government for uses as a naval drill
ground and recruiting station that it
is doubtful, even should the bill pend
ing in the Legislature be passed, If the
sinking fund commissioners execute
such a lease. One, of the main reasons
for objection is the fact that the federal
government has always treated the city
with marked liberality.
AS a condition of restoring the yalu-
able salt heaps at Tang Ku, which
were seized last August, cables the Pc
kin correspondent of the London Times,
Russia has extracted from Prince
Ching, president of the foreign office, a
written engagement to employ no for
eigners. The Chinese navy and Tuan
Shi Kai, governor of Chi Lo province
and director of the Pekin Shan Hal
Kuan Railroad continues the corre-
spondent, will refuse to be bound by
Prince Ching's undertaking.
Frank Woods, about 40 years old,
was drowned in the Connecticut river
at HolyOke. Saturday. Some boys who
were nearby say that he walked into
the water until beyond his depth, and
then sank from sight. They saw the
body rise twice, and then he clutched
ut a log, on which the body caught. The
boys pulled the log to the shore, and
they say the man was dead. 1t appears
that he tried to save himself. but it
was too late. The police removed the
body to an undertaking room}
Accused of numbering his mother,
young John Voepel was in Jefferson
Market court at New York, before
Magistrate Olmstcad, Saturday. The
hearing was adjourned until Monday,
after the lads lawyers declared there
was no justification for the arrest, and
that it was a move by the police to
shift the responsibility to the district
attorneys Office. Witnesses who had
searched the rooms said they failed
to see a knife which was found on
shelf few days later. They said 1t
was not there when they searched.
The will of the Rev. Charles b. Tap
pan, WHO uieu recently III tOHcOTu, N.
H., leaving his estate, with the eXcep-
ton Of public bequests of $4,000, to a
niece, DR.. Eva March Tappan of Wor-
cester. Mass, is to be contested. The
public bequests were $4,000 each to Am
herst College and the Hartford (Ct)
Theological Seminary. Other relatives
of Mr.. Tappan are preparing to contest
the will on the ground of undue inbu-
ence. and as the preliminary step
local banks have been enjoined from
paying out funds on deposit with them
under Mr.. Tappan's name.
Pursuant to orders of the court of
common council, Saturday. the street
commissioner of New London, CT, de-
molished a two-story building at the
corner of State and Bank streets,
which was some time ago partially de-
stroyed by fire. p. III. Fitzgerald, own
er of the building, threatens to bring
suit against the city, and the comment
caused by the councils order has re-
suited in the resignation of C. Royce
Boss. the senior alderman, and other
designations are reported as being pre-
pared. The situation is causing no end
of diSsension among the city officials.