Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-07
NEWS NUGGETS
Brought by the Wires from the North
East, South and West.


The Pope, Thursday. received in pri-
Nate audience Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen
Baker of New York.
Government receipts, Thursday, were
from internal revenue. S526,964: GUS
toms, S1,235, 500: miscellaneous, S235, rs
Expenditures, S1,Sa00OO.
Fire. Thursday. at Dunbar, Pa, de.
stroyed an entire business and resi-
dence block on Woodville avenue, en-.
failing loss of about $4,000.
Admiral and Mrs. Schley arrived
Thursday. at New York, on the steam
er Concho from Galveston. Tex. They
will proceed to Washington, tomorrow
George Vest, Jr, son of Senator Yes,
of Missouri, was found dead in mis-
room nj "A hotel at Washington, Thurs
day morning. Mr.. Vest. for Il number
of years had acted as private secretary
to his father.
"A prominent Grand Trunk official
stated. Thursday, at Montreal. that
joint control of the Detroit & Toledo
Railway had been acquired by the
Grand Trunk and the Toledo. st. Louis
& Western Railway.
A proposed deal By which an East
ern syndicate was to have purchas ed
the % coal mines of Sangamon. Chris
tian and Menard counties in Illinois
has fallen through. Options amount
ing to sS00,CGG have expired.
A fashionable gathering witnessed
the wedding at 81. Patrick's cathedral
New York City. of Mercedes. daughter
Rcdulfo q. Canton and Fernando Gar.
cia of New York City. Archbishop
Farley performed the ceremony A
special train brought the large bridal
party from Merida, Mex
The steamer Lady Mildred arrived a,
New York, Thursday, from Rouen and
Swansea and brought 1865 tons of coal
Over 2G00 tons WAS portion of 10000
tons of Schuylkill coal shipped from
Philadelphia for Roeun. A New York
concern bought the coal at R0uen and
shipped it on the Lady Mildred. thus
making the trip twice across the At
lartic
With 100 doctors of San Francisco
and some 200 medical students and
trained nurses for an audience in the
lecture hall of the affiliated colleges of
the University of California, DR.. Adlof
Lorenz has successfully performed
bloodless operations on two 4-year-old
boys suffering from hip disease. He
also treated . case of double club feet
on n child five months old.
The American exhibits have met with
remarkable success at the international
Photographic exhibition at Turin, Italy.
The New York Camera Club secured
the King of Itallys prize, while alto
gcther the United States, although its
exhibits were fewer in number than
those of other countries, received the
highest number of prizes, including
five grands prix. two gold medals, four
silver medals and eight diplomas.
A bad freight wreck occurred about
one mile above Conway. N. H.. on the
Mountain division of the Maine Gen.
trail Railroad. about 10 A. NJ. Thurs
day. The freight was on it's way to
Portland and it is believed the accident
was due i'm some manner to the aiI
brakes. which resulted in their being
set suddenly and the cars were piled
on each other in considerable confusion
No one was hurt. About 10 cars were
thrown off the track and several OF
them were badly injured. Traffic was
delayed for some time but has since
been resumed.
Dispatches from Chiolaye. announce
that the captain and officers Of the
steamship Maipo declare. says New
York Herald dispatch from Lima,
Peru, that on the. night of Nov. ],
shortly after leaving Chimbote. they
saw what apparently was a stream OF
lava fow from a peak in the Corbil-
leras toward the plain. According to
the latitude and longitude given the
volcano evidently il near the town OF
Rocuar. The vessels trip northward
enabled the ships company to witness
the eruption fer 20 minutes and then
other mountains closed the view.
The Minnesota Harvester Co.. has
been incorporated at st. Paul, Mimi.
with a capital Of $6,OO000O. Its object Is
said to be to oppose the recently form
ed Harvester combination. The incor$
porators are: G. A. Severance. Robert
r. Olds and Charles w. Withee, who
with f. r. Kellogg and Alfred T. Els
berg compose the board of directors.
These are all St. Paul men and the
identity Of the real promoters. who are
said 10 be Eastern capitalists. Is now
disclosed. Cice President O'Shaugh-
messy of the American Grass Irvine
Co., has issued a statement to the eff
feet that the new company Is independ-
ent Of the new combination Of harvest
err companies