Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-08
NEWS NUGGETS
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East, South and West.

The bank of Dixon Bros, at Maple
Creek, N w. T., has been entered by
burglars, who went through a two-foot
brick wall. and got into the vault They
secured $1,000.
The German tank steamer Burger
meister Petersen from Philadelphia for
Stockholm. which went ashore opposite
Chester, Pa. Wednesday, was fioated,
Thursday. She was apparently in good
condition.
A telegram. received at Berlin from
Blasgovestchensk says that the medical
resources at hand are entirely mad
quate to cope with the cholera cpl
demic. Between July % and Aug. 8
there We're 161 cases and 101 deaths
from the disease.
At Blossburg, near Ration, N. NJ, a
cloudburst, Wednesday, drowned Mrs.
Francisco Dominguez and three chill
dren. and family of husband, wife
and three children arereported drowned
at Terco. They were seen just before
the arrival of a big wall of water, but
all efforts to find them since have
failed.
According to the Northwestern Mil
Ter. the Minneapolis flour mills Will
beat the record for output with the
1912 wheat crop. Including an esti-
mate for the ensuing four weeks it is
expected that the flour mills in the
year ending in September will have
produced 15,000G00 barrels of flour, Or
$780, 900 more than in any other year.
James Big Heart, nominee on the
ell Ill hoe oil
principal chief of the Usage Indians for
a two-years' term over Bacon Rind,
candidate on the progressive ticket.
The principal issue was the proposed
allotment of the Indian lands. Big
Hearts election means that the land
will not be allotted during his term.
A new telephone cable across Vine
yard sound connecting Vineyard Haven
with the mainland was put up. Thurs
day, and communication by telephone
established. The cable. which is four
miles long, was laid by the tug Western
Union of New York. The terminals Of
the line are at Nobscott lighthouse and
Lamberton Cove near Vineyard Haven.
The courtmartial called to try Chas.
W. Penrose, assistant paymaster, u. S.
NJ, and attached to the United States
steamer Michigan at Erie, Pa, con-
vened at Erie. Thursday. and adj
iourned until Friday. Maj. Waller of
the Marine Corps, is expected to defend
the accused. The charges against Pen
rose are rendering false and fraudulent
returns of balances to his credit, en-
bezzlement, scandalous conduct, abb
sence from station and duty and neg
ligence in obeying orders.
After a special investigation amongst
the agricultural laborers in Eastern
Galicia. the Vienna Neue Friere Presse
draws a gloomy picture of the miser-
able conditions which led to the exist
ing strike. The average mortality from
famine for several years, according to
the Neue Friere Presse, aggregated
$4,000 Laborers' wages range from S
to Is cents a day and women earn from
4 to cents day. The peasants rarely
taste bread and exist chiefly on a soup.
the principal ingredients of which are
water and herbs.
The second days session, Thursday
of the Negro Young Peoples Educa-
tional and Christian Conference at
Piedmont park, Atlanta, Ga, began
with a largely augmented attendance.
1.-THE Religious Life of the Race" was
the general theme of the morning ses-
sion. Addresses We're delivered by Rev
Ernest Lyon of Baltimore; Rev. Geo.
T.. Morris of Morristown, ~ J.; Rev. A
G. Garner of Washington: Rev. A. T.
Gaine of Norfolk, Va; Rev. d. C. San
ders. Charlotte, n. c., and Prof. w. E.
Pegues of Raleigh, n. C.