Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-01
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West.

At the Revere track, Saturday cven-
ing. before large crowd Albert Cham
pion defeated Harry Fixes by III laps
in 25-mile paced race. The time was
31nl., los.
A cyclone lifted Chicago & North
western passenger train off the track
four miles west Of Owatonna, Mimi,
Saturday evening, killing at least
three persons and injuring 60 others.
The 5-year-old child of Mrs. A. Han
son was suffocated in a fire, Sunday,
at 1898 Meridian street, Boston. Two
| fremen and "a policeman made two at
tempts to rescue the child, but were
driven back by the flames. The loss
/ to property is $500.
Richard Hoose of Dalton, while on a
J fishing trip in Hinsdale Mass, Satur-
| day, accidentally discharged shot
| gun, its contents passing through his
abdomen. Hoose was taken to the
House of Mercy hospital in Pittsfeld.
His injuries are fatal.
Signor Marconi, aboard the Italian
cruiser Carlo Alberto says he is in con-
slant communication with Berlin, as
well as with British warships from
| Ferrol, Spain, and from Cornwall. He
declares that he has solved the prob
lem of maintaining the integrity of in
dividual simultaneous messages.
James Monroe Rogers case for al
legged attempt to burn building at
| Durham n. c., came up by continu-
| ance in the police court at Brockton.
| again, Saturday. Clement G. Morgan
of Cambridge, his counsel, submitted
| the writ of habeas corpus and Judge
Reed continued the case till Thursday.
There will be a hearing before the su-
preme court in Boston, Wednesday az
ternoon.
William Bush, an Englishman, Sat
urday night, shot and killed Mrs. Edith
| Cripps, his landlady, at the corner OF
sd street and 10th avenue, New York.
He then turned the revolver to his own
head in an attempt to commit suicide
but the bullet only graZed his head
making a scalp wound. Bush was be-
hind in his rent. and was told by Mrs.
| Grips that he would have to pay or
leave. Meeting the woman on the
street he asked why she had not
cooked his supper. Her reply was dis
! pleasing to Bush, who whipped out
| revolver and shot her.
|
reated the Zingaris of Boston by three
| Nickets and one run in the most ex-
citing cricket game played here this
season. The Zingaris scored 80 runs
in their first inning and Is Sin the sec
end, making grand total of 49, The
Garrison scored 1903 in the first. With
lead of 216 runs the Zingaris sent the
| Ga-risons to bat for their second in
| lo t1x-o Int
~eant Cronin and Harrison, sent the
| score up to ia before the first wicket
fell! For The loss of seven wickets they
scored 217 runs and the inning was then
closed.
Tons Of brick, mortar, beams and
coffee fell with crash into the street
and on the elevated and structure and
trolley tracks, Saturday, when two
| five-story brick buildings on Fulton
strete. Brooklyn, collapsed. Twenty
five thousand bags of green coffee.
, owned by ]. H. Taylor and Smith &
| Walbridge of Manhattan, were stored
in the building and proved to great a
burden. By marvellous good fortune
not man was in the building at the
| time. No one was on the sidewalk. nor
were any trolley cars or elevated trains
nearby. The loss is estimated at about
$4,000.
Max Won Guttman, a leading coal
mine magnate, narrowly escaped death
| at SolZthal. Syria, Saturday, at the
hands of an assassin. Hugo Schlotz,
Moravian engineer, threw bomb load
| ed with bullets, which exploded just as
Won Cuttman was entering his car
riage. en- route for his estate. Won
Gutman's chief forester, who was ac-
companying him, was seriously in
jured while the mine proprietor him.
self sustained slight wounds. SchlotZ,
the perpetrator of the outrage. was
blown to pieces. Windows in the build
ings adjoining We're shattered by the
| force of the explosion. The motive of
Schlotz is not known.
Mrs. Dora A. Porter of West Mystic.
was taken to New Haven by Detective
| Dunlap on the charge of unlawfully
taking child. The child which, il is
| alleged. Mrs. Porter took is 9-year-old
| Lottie Wakeman, Mrs. Porter's own
daughter by her first husband. Charles
! b. Wakeman. She was divorced from
| Mr.. Wakeman several months ago. and
the custody of the child was given TO
the father. On July 10 last the mother.
| who had in the meantime married Mr.
| Porter went to New Haven, and while
walking in the neighborhood of her
/! former home, it is alleged. found Lot
tie and took her aboard a trolley car
and disappeared. She is out on $500
| bonds
Baby Kollar. eleven months old
was found guilty of vagrancy, Satur-
| day, by a justice of the peace at Keo-
kuk. la. Sentence was suspended dur
ing good behavior, and the baby de-
PENDANT was discharged. The mother
and some friends swore out a warrant
f! against the infant several days ago as