Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-19

salesman, shot himself twice in the
left breast, Monday afternoon. with
suicidal intent. Both wounds are
serious and it is thought that he can
not live. He is at the Haymarket
Square Relief station. AZ
Corporal r. T. O'Brien, who was ar
rested in North Adams, Mass. on a
charge. of perjury before the United
States committee of inquiry, investi-
eating the war in the Philippines, was,
Monday, ordered to be delivered in the
custody of the Washington authorities.
by Judge Lowell of the United States
supreme court. O'Rrien will be taken
to Washington at once.
Following out determination
reached long ago to submit to a sur
gical operation, which largely was his
special reason for returning to America
at this time. Hon. George Won l.. Mey-
er. United States ambassador to Italy,
Monday. entered a private hospital at
Boston to undergo an operation SINH
Lar to one performed some time ago.
1t is understood that the trouble is not
of serious character.
A fervid assemblage of 1000 Poles at
Berlin. Sunday, cheered what was
called the Polish Democracy" There
was scene of extraordinary enthusi-
asm. Herr Wrobel, editor of Polish
newspaper published in Berlin, during
the course of speech exclaimed:
Russia will disappear from the map
before they succeed in Germanizing the
Poles and destroying their hope of the
resurrection of Poland
Gen. Charles G. Loring, who recently
resigned as director of the Boston Mu-
scum of Fine Arts, died at Pride Cross
ing. Mass, Monday, aged "A. Gen.
Loring was a native of Boston, where
he was born in 1928. He was gradu-
fited from Harvard and his military
title was won in the Civil war. He
first became connected with the Mu-
scum of Fine Arts in 1872. He resigned
as director. May 1, 1902.
Karl Lipsky, who has been held by
the Boston police on the charge of
having thrown his wife Alice from a
third story window of their house at
Roxbury. was arraigned Monday in
the RoXbury municipal court on the
charge of murder, Mrs. Lipsky having
died, Sunday, from the effects of her
injury. The case was continued until
Aug. 80, and Lipsky was ordered to be
incarcerated without bail in the Charles
street Jail.
Pres. ]. J. Hill of the Great Northern
Railway, will erect monster steel and
iron plant, for which plans have been
drawn, according to information from
those close in touch with Mr.. Hill. The
reported purchase of half interest in
the Conrad iron mines of Chateau
county for $4,000 by him, has been con-
firmed. All along the lines of the Great
Northern system Mr.. Hill has been ac-
quiring iron deposits, paying for one
group near the Spokane & Northern
line, 100000.
The report that an attempt had been
made to blow up the German imperial
yacht HohenZollern off Reval, Russia.
recently, while Emperor William of
Germany and the Gar of Russia were
on board, which has previously been
denied in these dispatches, originated
in an irresponsible newspaper pub
lished in Buda Pest. The story is dis
credited by all the newspapers of vi
emma, Monday, including the Neues
Wiener Journal which published the
report. Aug. is.
The project of establishing a wireless
telegraphy service between Highland
light and Boston is being considered.
A representative of the American Mar
conf Co. has been in consultation with
Boston steamship line agents and 9TH
ers to whom establishment of the SER
vice is of vital interest, including Ell
Wyn G.. Preston, secretary of the Bos-
ton Chamber of Commerce, who is re-
sponsible for the plan. 1t is under
stood that the step is viewed with favor
by the company.
Two persons We're killed and eight
others were injured, one probably IA
tally, in two street car accidents at
st. Louis. Mo-, Sunday night. Charles
Bronson. a grading foreman, was run
down and killed as he was crossing the
Olive street car track. A wagon con-
tanning a picnic party of IS young per-
sons was struck by Page avenue car
and overturned. Harry King, aged IS,
was killed and Katie Brown, aged 16,
was probably fatally injured. The 9TH
ers received minor injuries.
The Ell Paso Limited on the Rock
Island Railroad was wrecked by a
washout, early, Monday, one mile west
of Leets. Iowa. The baggage, mail,
express and two chair cars We're ditch
ed, but the engine and Pullman re-
manned on the track. No one was
seriously injured, although several of
the passengers We're bruised. The
waShout was caused by cloudburst,
accompanied by terrific electric storm.
Two houses in the adjacent country
are reported burned by lightning and
it is feared much other damage was
done.
The condition of Jos. Westlake, a po-
liceman of Narragansett Pier, who was
shot by a soldier near Canonchet, the
Sprague villa, early Sunday morning,
was slightly improved, Monday morn
ing. w. T. Lacey, the soldier who is
accused of firing the shots, and his
companion, Edward Clemens, are in
the Kingston Jail, awaiting a hearing
in the Wakefield court. Lacey claims
that he supposed two men with whom
he had quarreled in saloon at the
pier were chasing him. Had he known
that they were policemen ne says he
would not have fired on them. il.@ ~
The Boenos Ayres correspondent of
the Rome Secolo cables that further
news has been received there CT th,