Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

George w. Thatcher, a Utah pioneer
and for years prominent in political
and church affairs, is dead at his home
in Logan, Utah, after a long illness,
aged 62 years.
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon devoted
Wednesdays session of it's convention
at Washington, to routine reports from
committees. The society will resume
its sessions, Tuesday.
The jury in the case of Police Cap
tam Daniel C. Moynhan, on trial at
New York on a charge of accepting a
bride of SIS. returned verdict,
Wednesday. of not guilty, after being
out three hours.
Mrs. Minnie Bean Hoxie has present
ed Cornell University with a life-siZed
bust her own work. of Ezra Cornell,
founder of Cornell University. The gift
is made on the condition that the figure
be transferred to bronze.
Wm. Waldorf Astor has given $3.50, OOO
to build new out-patient department
for the hospital for sick children in
Cheat OrmOnd street, London. 1t will
be dedicated to the memory of his
daughter GwendOline, who died recent
| ly.
Thomas J. Sharkey, the private detec-
| tive, who was convicted at New York,
| of manslaughter in the second degree
| for having killed Nicholas A. Fish. the
| banker. on september q, was senten-
| ccd, Wednesday, to states prison for 10
years.
Deeds of conveyance, naming $10,-
100000 as the purchase price, were filed,
Wednesday, at Omaha, Neb., transfer
| ring the properties of the Omaha
Street Railway Co. and integral prop
/ critics to the Omaha & Council Bluffs
Street Railway Co.
Freight traffic on the Iowa Central is
| badly tied up in the yards at Marshall
| town. Iowa, a division point, on ac-
count of a strike of the switchmen, be-
| cause of the failure of the company to
reply to their demands for an increase
| of wages made three weeks ago.
President Mclean of the Iowa State
University announced, at Des Moines
Ia, Wednesday, that the investigation
| into the recent student riots had prac-
tically closed. The sophomore class
agreed to pay the damages approx
| mating $500 resulting from the riot.
Jack Munroe of Butte, Mont, states
| that he will not meet Champion James
| j. Jeffres at present. MY condition is
| wholly unfit at the present time to fight
| successfully any one, let alone Jeffries
| or FitZsimmons." he said. Il propose
to devote myself to diligent training
and in short while any one who wants
| to can challenge me-"
| Eighty members of the New Found
land naval reserve are included among
the crew of the British cruiser Charyb-
dis. which recently bombarded the
forts at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. 1t
has been officially reported at st. Johns
that the New Foundlanders made an
excellent showing both in gunnery and
in the landing parties.
| The British steamer Platca. Capt.
| Dawson. from Boston via Lousburg
&C.. B.. which arrived at Amsterdam
Tuesday, and which cOllided with a
pier and went aground, Dec. 90 at
Ymuden. had her stern post broken and
her plates torn. Part Of the keel was
also carried away. She has been locked
! md her cargo is being discharged.
. At the SdlNdtioH ATTny dinner 10 the
I moor of Toledo, Ohio. Christmas, James
! Corbett. John l.. Sullivan, Mayor
Jones and Rev. F. d. Kelsey will ad-
dress the assembled diners. Sullivan
and COrbett are playing at a theatre
| here. Each volunteered to act as a
waiter at the dinner, but the Army
suggested that they make speeches.
Police Commissioner Partridge of
New York City. rendered his decision,
Wednesday, in the cases of Inspector
Adam Cross Captain John D. Herlihy
and Capt. Charles A. Albertson, who
were charged with neglect of duty
growing out of the riot at the funeral
of the late Rabbi Joseph. The COM
mission found the defendants not
guilty.
The steamer Magnific returned to St.
Johns. n. F.. Wednesday, from her
search for three schooners which have
been missing since the gales. The crew
of one schooner was landed. Tuesday,
at Bologne. The Magnific sailed to find
the crews of the other vessels. 1t is
believed that they foundered and that
the IA persons aboard have been
drowned.
VIM. Potter. the member of the I'd
Regiment, State National Guard, who
was expelled from the Schenectady, N.
Y, Painters Union because of his SER
vices in the Hudson Railway strike,
was reinstated. Wednesday, by that or
sanization and he Immediately applied
to his former employers to re-employ
him. His request was acceded to, and
he was put to work.
Charles G. Warner, vice president