Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-27
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A line reproduction OIL Il SeclloIl VI tHc
Parthenon frIeZe, by 57s feet, i'm plas-
ter, has been presented to Dartmouth COL
lege by c. A. Rich of New York. of the
class OF 1875. The frieze will be hung in
the reception room of College hall.
Safe blowers blew open the safe at the
Big Four Depot at Naysville, O.. with
dynamite and secured just ST. The ex-
ploson shook tie houses for several
squares around. This is the third time
this safe has been blown open.
The marriage of Lord Stravordale, eld-
est son of the fifth earl of Leicester, and
Lady Helen Vane Tempest Stewart. only
daughter of the marquis of Londonderry.
took place at St. Peters church, Eaton
square London, Saturday. 1t was esti-
ma ted that the presents were worth up
ward of 81, 100000.
A board of expert engineers. composed
of Gen II. M. Roberts. formerly chief OF
engineers. L. S. ~; Alfred Noble. MEM
Der of the Walker Nicaragua canal com
mission. and II. c. Ripley, a local engi-
reer, have submitted plans for the pro-
lection of Galveston from the recurrence
of great loss of life and property such as
followed the hurricane. last year. The
total cost is estimated at s., 100000.
In the United States district court for
the Southern district of Georgia at Sa-
vannah, Saturday. assignment of the case
OF Benjamin T. Greene, John f. Gaynor
and w. T. Gaynor was made. The case
will be called on Feb. IL. Greene and the
Gaynors are indicted for conspiracy with
former Capt Oberlin M. Carter to de-
fraud the government of large sums of
money on river and harbor contracts. 4.
Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, Ca
madam high commissioner in London, has
addressed letters to the press in which
he calls attention to the expanding trade
between Great Britain and Canada. eX-
presses his belief that this trade is capa-
BILE of much greater development and in
vites correspondence as to the best means
of assisting this development by the dis
semination of commercial information.
The Associated Press is requested to
say that the statement which appeared
in the Candid Friend Ga London weekly
raper), and which was transmitted to the
United States in these dispatches, Jan. l.
saying that NJ. DeBlowitz was retiring
from the London Times and would be
succeeded as Paris correspondent of That
paper by his assistant, William Morton
Fullerton, an American, is entirely I'M
founded.
More than 400 children at Flushing: L.
r., are down with the measles. Nine
deaths have occurred. In number of
cases pneumonia has followed the attack
and several children have died from that
disease. None Of the public schools nave
been closed. School Superintendent Ste
vens is reported as saying that to close
the schools for measles would be to keep
them closed all the time. The disease
continues to spread despite the efforts OF
physicians to STOP 1t.
Lizzie and Mary Doherty were found
dead in their apartments at 1lS fremont
street. Roxbury. Saturday. by police OF
station TO- When the officers entered the
room they found Mary in bed and her sis
ter Lizzie lying face down across the
threshold of the door leading into the
kitchen A mystery surrounds these two
deaths. and the only theory the police
can advance is that the women perhaps
took poison by mistake. Both had evil
IDENTIFY been dead several days.
,rba obSoJata SDaoiSb x.tlubOat Condor
has been lowed into VigO, Spain. in
damaged condition due to the explosion
of her boiler, which killed two men and
injured nine others. including the COM
mander of the vessel. The Condor was
built at Barcelona in 1881. She Is sin
gue-screw steel vessel, and has dis
placement of As tons. Her length Is Is
feet inches. and her beam Is IL 1eet III
inches. The armament of the Condor
consists of one 3.5-inch breech-loading
gun and two machine guns.
The Hotel Cecil at ottawa. Ont. was
burned, early Saturday morning The no.
The loss is about $50 900; insurance about
SEX. 600 The guests on the iirst moor
saved their belongings, but fhose on the
fifth floor had to run for their llves, IN
their night clothes Some OF them nad TO
i,a taken out of the windows with lad
5 3 One man neld on for 10 minutes by
the window sill. in his night shirt. until
n ladder reached him. 1t Is supposed thar
the fire started on the fourth nat IN the
switch room from bad insulation.
Hon. Charles d. Means died at 2O5 p.
1r Saturday. at Manchester, N. H. Mr..
Means wal born in that city, Jan. 20. 1855.
the son of William Gordon ana Martha
(Allen) Means. He was educated IN the
schnois at Andover, Mass. On CONFLICT
ing his education ne located in Manehes-
fer and became paymaster Of the Man
chester Locomotive Works. rms position
~, hold until the death OF the agent. Hon.
Aretas Blood. whom he succeeded. He
remained agent until the absorption OF
III, ,,emher of the House of Representa-
lives. ard in 1889 in the state Senate: In
lsss he attended the Republican national
Convention as delegate-at-!arge. and at
M convention j., Philadelphia he was
elected as the merrber from New Hamp-
shire of the national commlttse. lie Is
survived, by wife and Two daughters
He leaves largo fortune
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