Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-01
removal from Office pending the court
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removal from Office pending the court
proceedings.
Twenty five Waziris killed. 202 taken
prisoners, two wounded. 50 towers and
three villages destroyed and 5000 head
of cattle and IS guns captured is the
net result of the British EXPEDITION re-
Gently sent against the rebellious
tribesmen in India. The effect of this
punishment upon the offending tribes
is said to have been salutary.
Ten thousand tons of iron ore. a
freight engine, small derrick and
about 100 feet of dock sunk so feet in
auicsand at the Lehigh Valley ore
I docks at the Tiff farm, west of Buff
falo, Saturday. Officials of the Lehigh
estimate the damage at $4,000. No one
was injured 1t is. believed a large
| bed of quicksand lies beneath the
| strata Of clay on which the dock was
built
| Grave fears are held for the safety
of the steamer Dawson City and the
schooner Gen. Sigin. The steamer
left Nome for Dutch Harbor, Oct. 30.
and had not reached that port on Nov.
| 20. nor had she been heard from, so
4
pected to land a party of eight pros
pectors on the Boring Sea coast of
the Alaskan peninsula. The Gen. Sig
| lin was last reported on Oct. 81, head
ed for Dutch Harbor. ~
A shocking story is published at
| Vienna, of the smallpox scourge in the
Greek archipelago. over 1000 persons
are dead ut the Furni Islands, which
are inhabited by 800 Greek families.
When smallpox broke out the Turkish
authorities quarantined the islands and
the people, being without doctors, re-
sorted to the eXpedent of vaccinatinS
the healthy people with lympth from
the sufferers. The disease spread
rapidly in all directions.
l. Adjutant General Ayling makes
public at Concord, n. H.. the findings
Of the court martial in the case of Capt.
Mark II. Hodge of Co. l, First Infantry,
n. II. n. e., Nashua, accused of dis
obedience of orders to the prejudice OF
good order and military discipline.
Capt. Hodge pleaded guilty and is
sentenced To be reprimanded in gem
eral orders. Governor Jordan. com
mander-in- chief, approves the finding
2 The manufacturing plant of George
Stevens at Great harrington. was to-
0 tally destroyed, Saturday afternoon
involving Il loss of about $4,000. The
buildings included a foundry. ma
4 chine shop, planning mill. box shop
Z storehouSe and sawmil. The frame
2 house owned and occupied by Mrs. Eu-
n gene Mccarthy was also destroyed. The
t house is insured for $4,000 but there
G was very little insurance on the
o Stevens property. The factory build
S ings burned covered two acres. The
n blaze started in the foundry. There is
TO fire apparatus in the village, ano
: il was thought for time the entire
!, settlement would be cleaned out.
n A tragedy in which jealousy. ar
: reused by the detection of the MUIR
n derer's double dealing. figured as tn,
= motive. was enacted, Saturday, il
t Providence, 4. L.. when Henry Croch.
I. ford, colored. 90 years of age. engaged
IS as an itinerant banjo player. shot anc
: killed his sweetheart. Miss Ella Lewis
y pursued and attempted to xiii Mrs
Lewis, her mother. probably fatally
n wounding another girl. Miss Mabe
s Nixon. then turning the weapon upon
i himself. closed the affair by sending
|
&c women We're cOlored.
isl With a deafening report a boiler il
+ Swift & Cos. plant at Chicago explod
II ed. shortly after 10 A. NJ. Saturday
, Thirteen lives We're sacrificed ant
g scores of employees, visitors and other!
# were injured. Huge boilers were sen
through the roof of the structure anc
# hurled hundreds of feet. Nobody with
:. in the boiler room survived to tell th'
4 story of the accident. and it may never
=. be known what caused the explosion
al A careful investigation, however. con
o WINGED the experts that the explosion
s was the result of carelessness on tn,
" part of an employee, whose own life was
% sacrificed.
n Chao Chau the son of eX-Minister
= WI Ting Fang. viii not go back to
e China with his mother when she leaves
San Francisco. The lad will remain
n at Atlantic City, and be graduated
# from the public school. He is a bright
: student, and keeps teachers and
r scholars busy answering questions.
n In addition to the regular course in
a the High school, he is taking French.
o and is studying American military tao
, tics with the Morris Guards. He is
| rather small for a soldier. but is bright
: and quick to catch the different COM
: mands. Mrs. WI is with him, but will
a leave in three or four weeks.