Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Two cases Of smallpox were discov-
eyed at Lowell, Mass, Thursday, in the
family Of AIphonso Niteau. The II
members Of the family were removed
to the pest house
Asunciyn Esquivel was inaugurateI
! President Of Costa Rica, ut san Jose,
| Thursday. ne was elected, Feb. ".
The country is quiet and no trouble Of
any character s expected.
rhe board Or review of the National
! Trotting Association, Thursday. at New
! York, denied the application for the RE-
movaI Of expulsion Of G.. 3. Williams,
f, Fort Fairfield, Ma. ana others.
Two hundred girls employed at the
American Tobacco factory Nt Albany,
Y. ~. struck. Thursday, baAause their
| foreman, . man named Smith. had been
| transferred. The strike caused excite
ment.
Lord Kitchener reports another ac-
cident. May :, TO a train bound from
| Pretoria to Petersburg. northern
Transyaal. The cars We're dcrailed al
Il curve ANA IN officer ana ~ men were
killed.
}. Adriancc Eueh, assignee for Henry
| Brothers K. 90. ~ New York. said
Thursday, that the liabilities Of that
| hrm amount 10 $2.1do.2ti. lIe says aI-
50 that the firm has sufficient assets 10
cover all debts.
| The Mayo Wooden 90. Of MiIlbury.
| Mass announces that the pay If It's
! sp!nrers viii ne advanced ST per week.
| No. / min is running night and day
ANA No. mill will soon De operated 10
Is; full capacity.
| Disheartened at his failure after
years of 4ndeavor 70 learn who his pa
rents were, Henry King, 70 years ot
age. attempted suicide in the yestibule
of The Now York Founding Asylum.
| The doctors say he Will probably re-
cover
! Charles w. Flood Of New York. Won
the grand American handicap at tar
gets from field Of 81 contestants,
Thursday. He stood or the 1S-yard
mark ANA out # The 100 targets broke
"a. Last year +. G. Griffith Of Pascoag.
| II. l., from the same mark broke 90 ana
Won the honor, having previously won
| The grand American handicap al live
! birds.
| There was another gain in the num-,
| or If looms started up at the Wash
in@toA mills 1T Lawrence, Thursday.
! Many III tne Germans il is said are re-
tuning. The strikers declare that the
return Of a. few does not hurt their
cause il the least. The executive conf
1nittoe Of The strikers met, Thursday /,
morning. to complete arrangements in |
regard To soliciting funds.
AT 4 meeting of the National Board
Of Fire Underwriters ut New York. /
Thursday, the following officers were I
elected: President, Robert +. Reath, /
Philadelphia: wee president, Henry Fl. I
Hail, New York; secretary. Charles a. /
Shaw. New York: treasurer, Fred W. !
Arnold. Providence; and members of /
the executive committee for thre years |
Geo. w. Burn+ll, ". N. kremer. and /
c. J.. Case. All OF New York.
Seven hundred ana fifty men Of the
Canadian Mounted Rifles embarked on /
the troopship Cesterian at Halifax, N. 4
s. Thursday. for South Africa and /
sailed i'll the afternoon. There are about
1909 more men in camp there awaiting
transportation. Seven hundred and !
fifty Will sail on the Winifredian,
Thursday next, and the rest on the Cor
nthian week later. The Cesterian il
taking SEQ horses
The intercollegiate strength test re-
Gently ended has been won By Harvard
with a total Of 1864 points Coium-
bia is second with 72.64S7: University
Of Minnesota. third. 66,S152: Amherst
fourth. with 55,307.1. Columbia has
Won for two years. Last year. Har-
wards total was 6i.094.4. so that this
years increase is 10,505.7. Columbia'st
winning score. last year. was 65,271.5.
or less by 9,324.6 points than this years
winning score.
IN a fire that practically destroyed
Albert Guppy's residence at Dover NJ
f., Thursday night. Mrs. Emiline Rob-
erts. aged 81 was burned to death,
James May, an aged boarder in the
house. was terribly burned ana is not
expected to recover, while the other
occupants of the house were consider
ably burned. The family had retired
for the night, and it is supposed the fire
started from an exploded lamp that had
been left lighted in the upstairs apart
ment.
Coronation rllmors are plentiful these
days says a London dispatch to the
New York Herald. The latest is a re-
vival of the statement that VIM Wal
dorf Astor will be made peer in June.
OF late MIR. Astor's gifts to scientific.
educational and patriotic institutions in
Great Britain have been large and
numerous. Rumor stiIl insists that Sir
Thomas Upton will receive a peerars
in recognition Of his work in connection
with the Kings dinner TO 100000 poor
on Coronation day
Admiral Prince Henry Of Prussia, and )
the Duke of Connaught, commander of !
the forces of Ireland, visited the EorI<
International Exhibition, Thursday
forenoon. They We're received at the
railroad station by the lord mayor and
other officials and were driven to the
exhibition grounds, where their high
nesses were welcomed bysan enthusiasts
tic crowd. The German national an
them was played. Prince Henry in
augurated the water chute, by start
ing the first boat
AZ Thursday mornings session Of the
hon and Steel Institute at London, II
was announced that the Andrew Car
negie scholarships for this year had
been awarded to MIR. Campbell of Svra-