Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-07
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Rep. J. $. Salmon Of the 4th district,
died, Tuesday, ut his home in Boon
| town, y. ]. Apoplexy was the cause
Of death. a widow, two sons ana a
| daughter survive him.
| The officers Of the Medico-LegaI So
CIety announced at New York. Tues
cay that the American Congress Of
/ Tuberculosis had been postponed TO
June ?, and 4. 1902.
Earthquake shocks which occurred at
/ 3 a. NJ. Tuesday, are reported from
| Tordcau. I;ayonne. Pau ana other
places IN the same region of France.
They lasted - seconds The reports do
not mention any damage.
by the Incorporation under the laws
Of the State Of Maine Of the United
! Soap Corpora lion. with a capital of ST.
O00. 600. work has been, it IL said, actual
~ undertaken on plans for the conbi-
nation Of the soap manufacturing in
| terests Of the East. one plant already
| has been absorbed.
y representative of an American
company has purchased the wrecks
Of the Spanish WaIships Almirante
! Cquendo ana Vizcaya, ana they will ne
broken up ana sent to Philadelphia as
scrap iron. says a Santiago. Cuba, dis
| patch to the New York Tribune. The
Vessels will yield about 10000 tons ana
the government viii receive 81 a ton.
The Colorado supreme court has up
held the city ordinance of Denver for
the regulation of wine rooms. The de
| cisiOn revcrses that of the district
court which held that women have the
same right to enter wine rooms or sa-
| looms that men have. The supreme
court holds that injury to public moral
ity would result il women were per-
| mitted to frequent wine rooms unre-
stricted.
In the supreme court ut Concord. y.
H., Tuesday, Chief Justice Blodgett
rendered an opinion in the case Of
Goodell VS.. Woodbury.. overruling the
| exceptions raised by the defense to the
verdict in the lower court. This was
the case in which Judge PeaSlec issued
his famous mandamus directing Chief Of
Police Healy of Manchester, to enforce
the liquor laws. The effect of the su
preme court decision is to sustain the
mandamus.
The old officers of the Choctaw.
Oklahoma q Gulf Railway system,
which was recently sold to the Rock
Island, have filed a charter Of reor-
sanization at Guthrie, Okla, with the
secretary Of state, with $1,00O,O00 CAPT
tai stock and with Guthrie as the prin-
opal place of business. The charter
states that the purpose is to perpetudte
the name of the Choctaw, Oklahoma
&. Guig and to protect their interests
and holdings.
Samuel Wllliston has been chosen by
the trustees of the University Of Chica-
so, to become head professor of the de-
partment of paleontology. Prof. Will
liston is now head professor of geology
and anatomy in the University of Kan
sas. He is recognized authority in
several departments and is the author
Of more than $50 scientific papers ana
books. Mr. Williston was born in Bos-
ton in 1857. For several years he was
professor Of anatomy at Yale.
The Chicago. Milwaukee e st. Paul
Road has placed flour on level with
heat in the matter of TRANSPORTATION
charges. This action, according to the
Chicago Record Herald, which makes
this announcement, will be followed by
all Western lines with similar rates
and means saving Of millions yearly
To the millers Of the Northwest. For
years the millers have vigorously con-
tended that If the rates were made the
same on wheat and flour, grain would |
rot be taken from the United States, |
but would be made into -four here and |
then shipped for export. Strong ap-
reals for relief have recently been |
made to President Roosevelt direct to |
congressional committees and to the |
interstate commerce commission. The !
rate from st. Paul and Minneapolis on
10th flour and export grain i5- now
2o1s cents: formerly it was 20 cents
On flour.