Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-10-31

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is SIS. ~. $50. Of which SIS, 7sS, 1850 il pay
able in cash. $2s.174. 900 in preferred
shares and $12,5S7. 900 in common. The
shareholders thus receive over $4,000
for each 1000 shares.
The courtmartial which il to try En-
sign Arthur Crosby Owen, now at
tached to the Columbia at the Brook
Ign navy yard. convened. Thursday.
Owen will he tried on two charges
one of absence from his ship without
leave. and the other alleging conduct
tending to the destruction OF good
morals.
Six months Imprisonment in the
Kings county penitentiary was the SEN
tence pronounced. Thursday. by City
Judge Kellogg of YOnkers, N. Y, upon
w. B. Raymond, the automobilist, who
was arrested after his machine had
been in collision with a trolley car.
Sunday. The accident caused injuries
to % persons who were on the car.
The Venezuelan transport Ossun,
towing a schooner loaded with troops,
is proceeding to Port of Spain, Trini-
dad. toward the Orinoco river. 1t is
believed there that the vessels will
meet the Venezuelan warships BOliver,
Restaurador and Zumbador and that
they will renew the bombardment of
the city of Bolivar where there are a
number of Europeans. for whose safety
great fears are expressed.
Although only six days have elapsed
since John D. Rockefeller offered to
x~SH oh
at New York. contingent on the raising
of $40. 900 by the college trustees, the
efforts of the latter have SO far sue
ceeded that the successy of their cam
wasting Is practically assured. The au-
thorities of the college have received
pledges nearly for all of the $4,000
which the college must obtain.
After brooding for Is years over the
accidental shooting of a friend, Henry
Sweet. a farmer living near East Glen
wood. Ills, has killed himself with the
shotgun that had ended the friends
life. The accident for which the farm
err apparently decided to atone occurred
while Sweet and his friend were on a
hunting trip. No blame ever was at
tached to Sweet. A widow and five
children survive him.
Joint agencies shortly will be estab-
lished by the Southwestern railroads in
New York. Boston and other Eastern
cities, and also in the principal Euro
pean capitals for the purpose of turn
ing the tide of immigration into the
Southwest. This move, says the Times,
involves an aggressive competition
with the Northwestern roads, which
have been carrying the greater proper
ton Of west bound immigrants for sew
eral years.
At the annual meeting of the Amer
lean Advent Mission Society held at
Chelsea, Mass. Thursday. the treas
urers report told OF the total disburse-
ments in the past year of $13.291.
which is an increase on the amount
expended by the society, last year.
There is balance in the treasury. c.
w. Wentworth of Cumberland Mills,
Me-, and Rev. o. S. Frazer of Bath,
Me-, were chosen members of the board
of directors.
After an interval of several weeks
the migration of Roumanian Jews
Vienna for the United States
has recommended heavily. Parties of
numbering 400 persons, were
there, last Tuesday and Wednesday.
The most remarkable feature Of this
revived movement is that half of the
cmigrants are men, whereas former
parties were almost entirely composed
of women and children. The men now
are chiefly artisans.
Thaddeus b. Keller. chief electrician
If the Pneumatic Signal Co. of Troy,
n Y, and widely known as an expert
n signalling work, was instantly kill
ID by train on the drawbridge over
he Harlem river of the New York
Central railroad. He was directing a
gang of machinists who were engaged
n putting UP system of pneumatic
signalling on the bridge. Mr.. Keller
vas Al years of age and leaves a wife
and four children in Danbury, CT.
Margie Hoyt, the 2-year-old daugh-
er of Bonnie Hoyt, the actress, who
lied in a Chicago sanitarium, Tuesday
night, has been found at st. Louis in
care Of Mrs. Richmond, who has tele-
yraphed the baby's grandfather. Prof.
Windsor who lives near Boston. The