Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-12

own passage. Ninety officers and
burghers are booked for the Pretoria
which will sail, Saturday, for New
York.
The village of Bear Greek, 80 miles
northwest of Appleton, Wis, was
practically destroyed by fire, Friday. A
dozen stores, the post Office. Chicago g.
Northwestern depot and a lumber mill
had been destroyed by noon and the
fire was still raging. The fire began at
1 A. NJ. in millinery store. The loss
may reach 100000. The residents
fought the fire with buckets.
DIR. John H. Reinoehl, a prominent
physician of Lebanon, Pa, was killed.
and DIR. E. P. Marshall of Annville, was
seriously injured in an accident, late
Thursday night, near Annville. Their
horse took fright and ran away. over
turning the carriage. DR.. Reinoehl was
thrown out and instantly killed. DIR.
Marshall was injured internally. DR..
Reinoehl was at one time a member of
the Pennsylvania Legislature.
Karl Won Boeckmann, who shot and
killed his wife in her home in New
York, last Monday, and who also shot
O. f. Farewell who attempted to inter-
fere in the woman's defence, died, Fri
day. Farewell also died. Friday. Won
Boeckmann, who had been released
from prison, was angry at his wife be-
caused she refused to give him money
and after shooting her and Farewell
he put bullet in his own head.
Gen. Calvin H. Frederick, IA years
20 H.
died at Omaha, Neb.. Thursday. after
a lingering illness. In the Civil war
he rose from colonel of an Illinois
regiment to a brevet brigadier general.
After the war he was made a first
lieutenant in the regular service and
left the army in 1870 with the rank of
major. settling in Omaha, where he
has been a merchant since that time.
The charge of assault with dam
gerous weapon hanging over Anton
Wispicer, an elderly German citizen of
Springfield, Mass, was dropped, Fri
day, as Mrs. Wispicer, the principal
witness for the commonwealth. refused
to testify against her husband. The
alleged crime happened on the morn
ing Of June II. Mrs. Wispicer was
badly cut about the jaw with PEN
knife and her husbands throat was
also cut.
Rhoder Clay, representative in the
Missouri Assembly and recently nomi-
mated for a second term, is dead at
Mexico City. as the result OF pistol
wounds inflicted by c. A. Barnes,
young attorney. Five shots were fired
during the fight which took place in
A. haiU
through the breast and Barnes having
| his wrist shattered by n ball from his
opponents revolver. The shooting grew
out of business transactions involving
| the principals.
Peter Carr took the stand in his own
defence in the murder trial before
| Judge Dubers at Providence, Friday.
| The jury was told that instead of being
| the aggressor in the barroom fight in
| Pascoag, in which Simon White, Jr.,
| lost his life, March %, Carr was the
| prosecuted man and acted solely in his
| own defence. He steadfastly denied
using a knife at any time in the fight.
| The case will probably go to the jury.
/ Saturday. as the defence has received
| all the testimony from it's witnesses.
Sir Christopher Furness, the we'll
known ship-owner and shipbuilder mas
| taken the entire 1900 new shares of the
Gulf Steamship Co., issued to raise
capital for building steamers. Sir
| Christopher will hereafter control the
| management of this company. 1t was
| announced in London in a dispatch to
i the Associated Press, July 3, that
| Sir Christopher Furness has purchased
| four Clan Line steamers which he IN
tended to place iE the London and
| Halifax trade, making a regular 10
| day service.
A shooting affair which occurred at
an early hour at Iron Belt, Mich, on
| the west end of the range, is mystify- :,
| ing the authorities. One Finlander,
named Hill, was killed. and fellow
countryman naaed Reibeck, probably
fatally wounded. Residents Of the
town, awakened by the reports OF hre-
arms, found the two men lying near
he depot. Each had received several
bullet wounds from revolver found
nearby. 1t has not yet been determined
| whether either of the men did the
| shooting or whether an unknown party
| is responsible.