Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-30
NEWS NUGGETS
Brought BY the Wires From the North.
East, South and West.

III New York. She was taken ill with
| influenza three weeks since from which
| time she has grown steadily worse
Mrs. Stoddard is well known as a
writer.
Reports from Portuguese West At
| RIGA, where there have been rumors of
| troubles with the natives, show that
| the disorders are assuming a grave
character. In the province of Loand
several garrisOns We're attacked and
| is feared.
John w. Ross, for two years a men,
| Der of the board of commissioners Of
| the District of Columbia, died, Tuesday
| morning, at Washington. aged 81. He
| was appointed postmaster of Washing
ton in 1888. which office he held until
| appointed in 1890 by President Harri-
| son as the Democratic member of the
board of district commissioners.
The body of Bernard Perkins, 20
years OLD, was found bound to a tree
| just off the Amesbury road at Haver-
bill, Mass, Tuesday. The man had
| evidently bound himself to a limb of
| the tree and swung into the air, hang
| ing himself. The body had apparently
| been there about two days. The man
was supposed to be insane and no rela-
| tives can be found.
| The young woman who was found
| dead, early Monday morning, in a wine
| room of a Wells street saloon, in Chi
cago, hes been identified as Mrs. Ernest
| Blohm, who disappeared from her
| home in Lasalle avenue two weeks ago.
| The police have abandoned the theory
| of murder ard state that the woman
| probably died of accidental stranguia-
| ton. The saloon has been closed by
! the police.
| As the result of a premature blast
in the Rapid Transit subway on Park
! avenue at Al street, New York, Tues
| day, four men were seriously hurt, two
| of whom it IS thought will die. One of
! the men received a fracture of the
skull, another was lacerated in the alb
| domen. third sustained a confusion of
the back and the fourth had his head
| cut. This is the unlucky section III
" hich 4 number of accidents have oc-
| Cured
At n meeting of Beerwin. ILL.,. citi-
Gems Monday evening in the town hall
it was decided to present gold medal
u Nlllldlu L. tldlh N, d bdoCp.ii pioJNi
and member Of the football squad ut
Yale, for his bravery in stopping a run
away horse that threatened serious in
jury to four small children. Clark is a
| student in the school Of Philosophy at
| Yale and expects to take his first de-
gree next spring. He is not z resident
of Beerwin but is visiting there.
Indications point to a z lively labor
| war between the Boss BARRIERS Asso-
| citation of Lynn, and the Journeymen
| BARRIERS Union over the question of
shorter working hours demanded by
the union, which is five hours week
less than the present schedule. Ont OF
over 100 barber shops in Lynn only 50
have signed the union agreement and
the organization has issued an order
for a strike in all shops not having the
union cards, Thursday morning.
Orders received at army headquar-
tiers in San Francisco, announce that
Pres. Roosevelt has saved a soldier
from hanging. Guy Stevenson, Troop
NJ 9th Cavalry. was found guilty o.
criminal assault and sentenced TO
death. The sentence was approved by
the secretary of war but the President
has committed the sentence to 10 years
Imprisonment. Stevenson is now nj
Alcatraz Island. but will go to the
United States penitentiary at Leaven-
worth, Kan.
Capt. Harry Taylor in his annual re-
port to the chief Of engineers for the
river and harbor district comprising
part of Maine estimates for the fiscal
T year 1904: Saco river, Maine, $4,000;
Cochoco river, n. H., 100000; New
, buryport harbor, Mass. $234,047; Mer-
rimac river, Mass, $91,442; PoWoW
river, Mass, $4,000; Harbor of refuge.
at Sandy Bay. Cape Ann, Mass, $500
900 to complete the project, S3,65O,0Oo
Gloucester harbcr, Mass, 100000: har-
Dor 1T Burlington, VT. $4,000.
| Richard Henderson, presiding at a
; meeting of the Anchor Line at London,
Tuesday, said that homeward freights
in the American trade had been de-
moralized for the past Is months and
there was small prospect of speedy I'M
provement The general American
freight outlook was unpromising. Mr..
Henderson said he did not think the
Morgan combine would injuriously at
feet the Anchor Line, since the lines
had working agreements. All interests
involved, he said, were now working IN
perfect harmony.
Vast areas of timber along thousands
of miles OF the heavily wooded Yuko n
slopes have been ravaged by fires and
devasted of their splendid growth OF
spruce and birch timber in the last
few weeks says a Tacoma, Wash, dls-
patch to the Times. From Dawson
to near the mouth Of the Yukon the
great valley is clouded with smoke
Captains Of river steamers from st
Michael report at Dawson that hres
are raging extensively in the vicinity
of the lower river stations of NunlVlk
Greyking and Kahtag.
1t is stated on reliable authority that
the supply of anthracite coal in the
hands of the railroads and dealers at
Philadelphia will, at the present rate
of consumption, probably be exhausted
by the middle of September. The re-
port that the railroads>are turning over
to the retailers supplies they have been
holding in reserve since the inaugura-
ton of the strike is said not to be true,
| In only one case it was said, that OF
| tba has any of the loads