Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-18

| cut in two and a section of 60 fee, .aa
| ed, making her length over 1865 feet Hor
| sistership, the Apache, is now at Phil.
adelphia, undergoing like alterations
The Colombian government gunbo,,
| Gen. Pinzon sailed from Colon. Satpr
| day, for Cartagena. From that nor.
| she Will proceed to Savanilla. wher.
| she will embark reinforcements for M
isthmus. AS yet no news has been 70
ceived from Aqua Dulce, where tba
| government General Morales BERT ana
his army are operating against the IN.
surgents.
The steamship Texan, the last NJ
three sister vessels built at the New
York Shipbuilding Co. at Camden n
j., for the American Hawaiian Steam.
ship Co.. was successfully launched
Saturday. The vessels dimensions are
as follows: Length over all, ASA feet
| inches; nodded beam, 81 feet; nodded
| depth, AZ feet, 6 inches. Her displace-
ment will be 16, 165 tons, and her carry.
| ing capacity is II 900 tons.
The call for tenders for salving and
delivering the wrecked steamer Blaa-
menden at Halifax has been with.
| drawn, and she will be abandoned and
| sold. The captain and first officer are
still at White Point looking after the
ships interest until the sale. The crew
of the Blaamenden, who arrived at
Halifax, Friday night, We're paid of
by the Norwegian consul, Saturday, and
they are leaving on other ships.
'hA ~, - 81
j., Saturday night, resulted as follows:
Half-niIe purse, SIZE, final, Major Tay-
Tor, won; Ed Stevens, second. Time,
1.0f. Second race one mile handicap.
purse s125, jacobson $50 YARDS won;
Kimball, 40 yards, second; Fem,
scratch, third; Bowler, 50 yards, fourth.
Time, 2.03 Is. One mile consolation.
purse $50, Bedell won: Martin, second;
Newkirk, third; Keegan, fourth. Time,
$50
The application of John w. Gates and
others for an injunction against the
officers of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Co., came up, Saturday, at Denver,
Col, before Judge Riner. Judge Riner
granted counsel for the plaintiffs leave
to file an amendment to their bill. He
gave defendants until 10 O'Clock Mon
day to file a demurrer should they
elect. or until noon Monday to file an
answer. and set the case for hearing
at p. M. Monday.
The body of James A. Gray Of
Brooklyn, who, with Henry w. Hollen-
berg of New Rochelle, went bathing at
Coney Island, last Thursday, was found
1ae hot rN1a
The disappearance of both men was
noted when thew failed to reclaim their
clothing at the bath house, Thursday
evening. No trace of Hollenberg has
yet been found. Gray was the son Of
John Morrissey Gray, a prominent
Democratic politician of Brooklyn.
A frightful murder was committed
at Victoria, B. c., Saturday Mrs.
Fleming, a woman over so years Of
age, whose husband committed suicide
seven months ago, was laboring under
a hallucination that her husband had
called to her to take her daughter, "a
years of age, and join him in heaven.
The craZed woman stole to her daugh-
ter's bed as the girl was sleeping and
crushed her skull in with an axe. After
killing her daughter the woman went
into the garden and tried to bury her
SELF Both mother and daughter were
very devout church goers.
1t was reported at Atlantic City. N.
j., Saturday. that broker of Phila-
delphia officerholder, accompanied by
high official of Atlantic City, lost va
900 at roulette in one nights play. the
Philadelphia started in by buying
$1,000 worth of chips. He lost and then
bought $1,000 worth more, and iosl
again. He then bought more chips ana
insisted that the limit be removed. TINS
was done and the other players dropped
out to sec his plunging. Before ne
finished he had lost $4,000. He gaTf
check for this amount and left t1e
place. After consulting friends ne
wired his bank not to honor the theck.
The negroes of Virginia are making
every preparation to fight the suf1rase
clause Of the new constitution. Iney
have already subscribed $4,000 for tne
purpose of paying counsel to prepare
case and carry 1t to the federal SUI
preme court, and they expect. MONDAY
to have all the money needed for tnese
expenses. on Monday. the virginia
Educational Association win meet =.
Richmond. and be addressed by LEADING
men Of the negro race. There are ovv
delegates to this body, represenuns
every section Of the state. Letters nav
been received from John s. Wise ~"
ex-senator Thurston Of Nebraska, WI.
have been, with Others. retained q
counsel. These letters are to De ~
before the association when the appsaS
are made for contributions OF mon"
to fight the constitutions. azxrs