Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-18
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South ana West.

| At the Deauville, France, races, Fri
day, w. X. Vanderbilt's Marigold wof
| the race for the PriX Bochan Moiress
The turning over of the government
| of the city of Tien Tsin to the Chinese
| authorities was completed, Friday
| with considerable ceremony.
Charles E. Frost, a motorman, en-
| ployed by the Springfield Street Rail-
| way Co, sustained a serious fracture
| of both legs, and Edward Viens, a pas
.senger, received a cut over the head as
the result of collision of a special and
regular car in Chicopee, Mass, early
Friday morning. A misunderstanding
Of signals and a dense fog are account
able for the accident.
The British steamer Floridian, from
Liverpool. July "a, for West Indies and
Central American ports, arrived at
Kingston, ia, Friday, from Colon and
reported considerable insurgent activ-
ity in the neighborhood of the isthmus.
An attack on Panama was feared and
the Colombian government was MAX
ing strenuous efforts to largely rein
force the garrisons there and at Colon.
Henry and Eek Thompson, who shot
Sheriff Barnhill at Napoleon, Ohio,
have been traced to a dense thicket a
few miles from Miller City and are
surrounded by armed men, who are
determined that those within shall not
escape. Marshal Hiser has called for
more men and bloodhounds. A $500 re-
ward is offered for the men dead or
alive and there is a standing reward
of 5000 for horse stealing.
Friday night brought to a close the
18th day of the fish SINNERS, cutters
and handlers strike at Gloucester
Mass, and shows practically no change
in the situation since the very first
hour of the trouble. There have been
no breaks in the ranks of the strikers
and although the employers claim to
have secured an occasional outside
man, they have made no progress
toward doing their former volume of
business.
Samuel Napier. at one time mem
Der of the Legislature Of New Bruins
wick. was employed by a numbering
firm about 100 miles north of Desert,
Ont. He was at a shanty all alone. His
only companion was a dog. He was
last seen alive in June. Last week he
was Iouilu uedO III the SnanIy. Inc
body, which was badly decomposed,
was partly eaten by the dog. Napier
was a married man about 60 years old
and his wife lives at Bathurst, N. B.
News from the camp of the Column
bian revolutionists in the Aqua Dulce
district says that after naval engage
ment the Columbian government gun
boat Boyaca was captured by the Co
lombian revolutionists. Three humid
red government soldiers and Gems Or
tia and Henao and supplies of NUM-
tons of war and provisions were cap
tured with the Boyaca- The Colombian
revolutionists are said also to have
captured a gasoline launch which was
in the government service.
While Supreme Judge Wesley An
derson of the Choctaw government was
in the act of opening the ballot boxes
at South McAlester, I. T., Thursday.
used in the recent tribal election, armed
horsemen rode uD, and, under orders
from Gov. Duke, forced Judge Ander-
son to turn over the ballot boxes. Silas
Cole was named by Gov. Dukes as
temporary judge and is now in custody
of the election returns. The opposing
faction will urge the interior depart
ment to take charge of the election
returns.