Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Yale basketball team won from
Harvard. Thursday night, in the Yale
gymnasium at New Haven, by good
team work. Score "a to q.
Capt. Edward Chambeau, one Of the
best-known scouts during the Indian
wars in the Northwest, died at Port
land. Ore, Thursday. aged 81 years.
The large and fashionable dry goods
store of Cordes and Mosby on Broad
street, Richmond, Va, was burned out,
night. The building and
stock are a complete loss. The fire is
to have been started at the
foot of the elevator shaft, how it is not
known. Loss estimated at about $780,
900, fully covered by insurance.
The officers along the Mexican bor-
der are watching for George McCar-
thy, Well Fargo messenger, who is
alleged to have robbed his car at San
Luis Potosi. Mex. The story of the
disappearance of Mccarthy as told to
the officers, is that he jumped from his
car just as the train was leaving San
Luis Potosi and it is claimed took with
him between $4,000 and $4,000.
Seven of the precious stones in the
altar of the Tiffany chapel in the crypt
of the cathedral of st. John the Divine
on Cathedral Heights, New York, were
removed by thieves who broke into the
chapel. early Wednesday morning, the
fact becoming public that day. What
is the value of the stolen jewelry and
particulars of the robbery are withheld
by those in charge at the cathedral.
Howard F. Brewer, the Pacific coast
swimmer. broke three more American
middle distance records at the Sports
man show at Chicago, Thursday night.
The records lowered were the 700 and
500 yards and the half-mile. He made
the 700 yards in 1902 3-5. He covered
the 500 yards in 11.31 Is, clipping 1
minute and A seconds off the record.
Brewer then continued to smash the
half-mile mark of 12.45 rs, finishing in
1888 Is.
The destruction of rats throughout
Germany, so far as this is practicable.
is under consideration by the imperial
health department, of which DR..
Keohler is president and to which some
of the most distinguished scientists of
Germany are attached as counsellors.
The object of the health department is
to mitigate the danger of contagious
disease. DR.. Robert Koch, the eminent
bacterioIogist, has been commissioned
to devise the tactics of the campaign
to this end. which will be begun in the
seaports.
Fire which started just before mid
night in the dry goods store of Logan
Haney at Lafayette, Ind, threatened
to wipe out the entire block. At 1870
A. NJ. Thursday, the buildings occupied
by the Lafayette Journal and the La
fayette Call, the Mccormick s. and 10
cent store. Reeves shoe store and Lev
ering's hat store, were in flames and
threatened with destruction. 1t is i'm
possible to estimate the loss at this
hour. but it is believed property valued
at 100000 has already been destroyed
The Haney store is destroyed. 1t was
the largest in the city.
The repair shop the machine shop and
other buildings of the Fifth Avenue
branch Of the Brooklyn Elevated Rail-
road, were destroyed, late Thursday
night, by fire. The largest building
burned was the machine shop, which
covered a space 500 by 200 feet. It
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under the elevated tracks. Besides the
destroyed. Is elevated cars
were reduced to ashes. The station of
the Bath Beach line, close by. was
slightly damaged. President Great
singer, who was at the fire, estimated
the loss at anywhere between $780,
900 and $25O.OO8. Three firemen were
slightly injured.
The fiscal began summing up for the
at Havana, Thursday, in
the cases of the Cuban postal frauds
He maintained the charges of cOnspir-
acy and extravaganza against Rath-
bone and said these cases were the
most important that had ever come be-
fore the Cuban courts. The fiscal de-
clared that there was no doubt from
the testimony of the experts, that
$122,000 had been stolen. He said
did not deposite the funds as
by the postal laws, that they
should have been deposited when they
were received, instead of which Rath-
bone left the money in the safe. This
alone, the fiscal declared, rendered
Rathbone's liabilities to Imprisonment
for six months. He said Rathbone
must have known of these irregulari-