Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-10

each man swimming lou leet, which
was four lengths of the tank.
The schooner Susie NJ. Plummer,
Can't. Lund, arrived at Tacoma, Wash,
exactly one year after she left New
York for Tacoma, via South Africa and
1.-THE Hawaiian Islands. She was delayed
| in Cape Town by the plague and the
Boer war from May until August last.
| Charles A. Semlem, one of the best
known young business men of Akron.
10. is missing, and he is accused of
taking $4,000 of other peoples money.
Senior has been acting as agent for
various banks in small towns, and has
placed loans amounting to $4,000 a
/ week.
| Emperor William has received the
| following dispatch from Prof. Eliot,
president of Harvard University:
| Harvard University thanks your
ma esty for your inspiring message to
Prince Henry, and for your muniticent
gift May your acts draw together two
kindred peoples
| Rev. John F. Spalding bishop of the
| Protestant Episcopal church of the
| diocese of Colorado. is reported as dan
gerously i'll from heart disease at the
home of his son. Rev. Frank S. Spald-
T; ing, at Erie, Pa. Bishop Spaldins is
well advanced in years and has been in
| bad health for some time.
At a luncheon given at Los Angeles,
by Miss Nellie Grant, granddaughter of
| Gen. Grant, in honor OF Miss Mabel
Gassan, hollow cannon balls of choco-
late, containing the announcement of
the agement of Miss Gasson to
Capt. Adrian S. Flemming of the 18TH
| Co. Coast Artillery, were served.
! Summonses to appear before the
grand jury in East Cambridge. Mass,
! Monday, and present testimony in the
| BIondin case, were served at Lawrence,
Saturday night, by City Marshal O. Sui
Ivan, on Mrs. Margaret Casey, sister of
| the victim of the alleged murder. and
her daughter, Miss Mary Jane Casey.
| Henry Holtgrewe, strong man of
| Cincinnati, O., defeated Otto Ronaldo
of New York City, the champion dumb
bell litter of the world in a contest for
$500 a side at Cincinnati, Saturday
| night. 1t was a series of 10 lifts, five
selected by each man. each to perform
the others feats. Holtgrewe won by
IS pounds on the ninth lift.
The loss of Mrs ]. M. Cotton, who
passed away at her home in Portland,
Me-, on Friday, will be felt and
mourned by a very large circle of
friends Mrs. Cotton was born in Port
land in 1921 and had always lived there,
with the exception of a few years
which she spent at the home of her son
| VILLA m al WipthroD Mass
The American jockeys in England ex-
press little hope of TOD" Sloan's rein
statement on the turf. 1t is intimated
among Sloan's friends that he followed
Lord Marcus Beresford's advice to APP
ply for a license and that the Jockey
Club is suspending it's decision, pending
a reply from the Paris Jockey Club
concerning it's desires in the matter.
A special cable dispatch to the New
York Sun from London says Vickers
Sons & Maxim have begun at Barrow
the construction of a warship which is
described as a semi ttleship and
semi-cruiser having the strength of
the former and the fleetness of the lat
ter She will be the most powerful
arnored warship ever built. 1t is not
known for whom she is being built.
Gov. Yates and staff and members of
the Union League and Hamilton Clubs,
about 100 strong. left Chicago, Saturday
by special train for Charleston. The
Marquette Club decided not to go as
body, on account of the recent telegram
sent by Lieut.. Gov. Tillman to Presi-
dent Roosevelt withdrawing the invita-
ton to the President to participate in
the sword presentation to Maj. Jenkins.
Col. Oliver H. Payne has purchased
from Henry H. Cook a plot of ground
on Fifth avenue between 18th and 10Th
streets, New York City, and will pre-
sent it with a handsome residence, ac-
cording to report, to his nephew, Payne
Whitney, who was recently married to
Secretary of State Hays daughter. The
property is 20 by 100 feet on Fifth ave-
nue.. The price paid for the property
is said to have been 100000
Owing to the heavy and continued
SHOWS on the eastern end of Long Is
land, hundreds of deer are reported
staMing, while the deep SHOWS have
wrought havoc among the smaller
lgame. Many wealthy families and coun-
try clubs have made it a practice re
lCtHtiy " wv oNl lldy oid otiiCi lOcu
for the deer. In consequence droves
of deer now daily frequent the places
where food is set out for them.
The lower House of the Kentucky
General Assembly, Saturday, struck
out of the revenue bill all proposed in
crease of the rate of taxation of life
insurance companies doing business in
Kentucky. allowing the present law to
stand. The House adopted a section
assessing an annual tax of one-eighth
of l per cent. on the capital stock of
corporations doing business in Ken
lucky which have organized in other
states.
The man who died at the Emergency
hospital in Haymarket square, Boston,
Friday. of gas poisoning, and who was
reported to be Geo. r. Brown of Mel
rose. was Richard Vaughn, a carpenter,
whose home was on East Foster street
Melrose. Vaughn was unmarried and
3S years old. He had been a resident of
that city Is years. The police say it
was probably case of suicide. and
that it was not the first time he at