Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-10-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

The Massachusetts railroad commits.
sioners have approved an issue Of $l25..
900 additional stock by the Lawrence
& Reading Street Railway Co. for pay
ing floating Indebtedness incurred in
the construction and equipment Of the
road.
Albert w. Smith and Cummings.
Pierce & Co., wool dealers. occupying
! nearly the whole Of the five-stOry
block, 13l to 1a5 Federal street, Boston.
suffered an aggregate damage to their
stock of $4,000, Friday night, by fire,
smoke and water.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain in
formed an inquirer at London, Friday,
! that he was in correspondence with the
governments of the colonies and with
the Board OF Trade in regard to the
| possibility of introducing the metric
system in the empire.
George NJ. Sisco has been arrested at
| Marion, KY, charged with numbering
| Miss Nellie Williamson from ambush.
! Wednesday night, while she was ac-
/ companied from church by Grover
! Brown. Siscos son Allie and. Browa
! We're rivals and had quarreled.
| At Fridays session of the five years
\ meeting of Friends at indianapolis.
Ind, much time was spent in discuss
| ing Just what attractions should be Of
! fered by the church. Many Of the del
| egates thought that all forms Of amuse-
ments. or even entertainments. should
be tabooed.
| The London Daily Mail says it UNDER
! stands that the government will. next
week. ask Parliament to vote grant
of 100000 for the benefit Of those
residents of the Transvaal who re-
/ manned loyal to Great Britain during
| the war in South Africa. in addition to
the $4,000, 900 granted under the peace
4 treaty.
A dispatch received at Madrid from
! Tangier. Morocco. says: The Sultans
vigorous act in dealing with the muir
derer of Missionary Cooper was due to
the discovery of q plot to Kill all the
Europeans in Fee. This plot would
nave been carried out by mob rising
had the Sultan shown any weakness
or hesitation.
Charles F. W. Nicely has abandoned
! his plans to return to Cuba and will
make Muncie. Ind. his home, opening
ar office there in which he will attend
to his business affairs. He says he has
abandoned for i time at least. his de-
mand upon the United States govern
ment for $4,000 taken from him at the
! time of his arrest.
While digging a ditch nine miles
| northwest of Paris. ILL.,. Charles
| Fletcher and James Murray unearthed
/ the remains of full sized MastodOn.
| Seven feet of the right tusk were In.
| tact. which was attached to the skull
! All the upper teeth We're also well pre-
/ served. The skull will be presented
| to the State University at Cham
| paigne.
| The correspondent of the London
Daily Mail i'm Stockholm says the utter
failure of the harvest in the Tornea
valley has caused great distress In
northern Sweden. Famine is APP
| preaching, adds the correspondent. all
, the stock of grain from previous years
having been exhausted and an early
and severe winter aggravates the des-
titution.
Marshall o. Waggoner for SO years
prominent attorney of Toledo, ONO,
and whose conversion from widely
known matcrialistic infidel to an equal
~ aggressive Christian upon the death
of mis- wife. was accompanied by the
public burning OF his/extensive libra
ry. died ut Detroit. Friday night. al
Emergency hospital. He had been IN
senile decline for several years.
At the annual horse show at Kan
sas City. Mo-. Friday. one of the SEN
sations was the winning by Limestone
Bell. owned by o. D. Woodward o.
Kansas City. of the High School even,
from Florinus Whirlng Prince. inc
great $4,000 chestnut horse owned py
Thomas w. Lawson of Boston. There
were several other noted horses In the
ring besides the Lawson horse, which
took the yellow ribbon.
Able Salaun, parish priest at Les
neyen. Finistere. was sentenced III
court at Brest. France, Friday. to four
months imprisonment. and several
other persons. including three women
We're given various terms in prisons ior
acts committed in connection with the
resistance to the closing. last August
Of unauthorized Congregationahst
schools at st. Neon and other places
in Brittany. All the prisoners were
granted the benefit Of the first 0nehcs
law.