Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-20
NEWS NUGGETS.


VIII Lance, murderer, was hanged
at Aberdeen, Miss, Wednesday. He
said the cause of his downfall was
gambling and illicit whiskey making
When the drop fell Lance's head was
jerked from his body
| EX-President James II. Fairchild, for
SO years president of Oberlin College.
| died at Oberlin. Ohio, Wednesday
night He was connected with Oberlin
| College for IS years and had served
| longer than any college official in the
United States.
The United States Cotton Duck Co.,
Wednesday filed certificate at Tren-
ton, N. j.. decreasing it's authorized
capital stock from $5O,000,000 to $780,
| 100000. The certificate was signed by
7. l.. Park, president and David H.
Carol, secretary.
AT a special meeting of the board of
| overseers of Harvard College held at
Boston. Wednesday, it was voted to
| concur with the president and fellows,
in their vote electing Charles Emery
Parker, A. B., assistant professor of
Greek and Latin from Sept. 1, 1902
There are grave fears at Quincy,
Mass, that unless the strike of coal
teamsters is soon settled, a coal famine
will be experienced. Only one coal
dealer is running teams and the manu-
facturers have engaged supplies from
out of town. No house coal has been
delivered since Saturday.
At the spring session of the Institu-
ton of Naval Architects at London,
Wednesday, the president. the Earl of
Glasgow. announced that the admiralty
had decided to create a new class of
war vessels to be known as the scout
class. somewhat after the type of tor
pedo boat destroyers, but of greater
sea-keeping power
The Vienna Neuese Weiner Abend-
blatt says serious troubles are antici-
pated in Macedonia and that the Porto
has ordered $4,000 men to be sent to
Macedonia and Albania. There seems
to be no doubt that the agitation is the
work of Boris Sarafoff, the former
president Of the Macedonian commit
tee. who is using Miss Stones ransom
in his efforts.
Edward D. Holden, one of Lowelrs
ClllZcIlS anu agent OF the
Sterling mills of that city, died,
Wednesday, at the Lowell General hos
pital, death having resulted from a
complication of heart failure and kid
ney disease. The deceased was well
known in mill circles and was a hard
and earnest worker for the institution
at which he died.
Agent Frank Battles has resigned as
the official head Of the Shoe Council at
Haverhill, Mass, and Agent ]. f. Crab
tree of the Lynn Branch of the Turned
Workmen's Unions, has been chosen to
temporarily fill the vacancy. A strug-
gle for the possession of the labor head
quarters is now on between the Ha-
verhill Protective Shoe Workers Union
and the Boot and Shoe Workers Union
NJ. Santos-Dumont, at Paris,
Wednesday, accepted an invitation
from the officials of the st. Louis Ex-
position to go to st. Louis to assist
the authorities in the organization of
the proposed balloon contests and select
a site on which to erect a balloon shed
for himself. The aeronaut will sail for
New York on the Hamburg American
Line steamer Deutschland. April 4. He
will not take balloon with him.
The composition of the new Spanish
cabinet is announced as follows: Pre-
mier. Senior Sagasta; minister Of for
eigp affairs, the Duke of Almodovar;
minister of justice, Senior Montilla
minister of finance, Senior Rodriguanez
minister of the interior, Senior MOret
minister of war, Gen. Weyler; minister
of marine, Duke of Veraga; minister
of public instruction, Count Romano
nee; minister of agriculture, Senior Ca
nalejas. The new ministers are Senores
Mcntilla, Rodriguanez and Canalejas.
Eighteen years ago, Tuesday, r. c.
Davis, resident of Columbus, o., lost
his voice. He was then a bass singer
of some note in the choir of n church
at Indianapolis. His misfortune re-
fused to yield to the treatment of sew
eral of the most noted specialists of
the country. They treated him in vain
for asthma, catarrh and all kinds of
throat diseases. Tuesday, Mr.. Davis
was seized with a violent fit of cough
ing. and elected q small substance,
which proved to be a bit of a tooth.
which he had unconsciously swallowed.
The removal of the obstruction, which
had found a secure lodging place in
a little pocket in the Oesophagus just
below the larnyx, restored his voice.