Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-08-22

| was ditched. Geo. Wells, fireman, and
| Frank Murray, engineer, both of Full
| ton, ILL.,, were killed. One of the cars
was loaded with horses, which were
| killed and MANNED. The loss to the
| formers is estimated at S150,000.
In response to orders issued by the
| Building Trades Council $50 painters,
| plasterers and their tenders, plumbers,
| steam filters, gas filters. lathers, sheet
and metal workers, roofers, artificial
stone workers and marble workers up
on the New England Conservatory of
Music building, and also upon the Ma
jestic theatre at Boston, refused to
work with non-union men, Thursday.
With the exception of carpenters and
housesmiths, none Of the building me-
chanics are to work on either structure.
Seventy-five girls at a silk winding
plant in Paterson, N. j., are on a strike
because two of their number had been
| discharged for not obeying rule of a
new foreman. The girls have been in
| the habit of resting when their ends
| are all up and of waiting until their
spools are refilled. The new foreman
| did not like to see the girls leaning
against the wall and issued rule that
if he found any girl standing against
/ the wall she would be discharged. The
| foreman saw two girls in the objection
| able position and sent them home. The
strike of the other girls followed.
Mai. George A. Armes, retired army
officer. was shot but not seriously in
iured at his home, a few miles outside
of Washington, Thursday, by j. Ro-
land johnson. Major Armes was able
to go to the city and go to the army
hospital for an operation to extract the
bullet. According to his account, john
son was formerly one of his tenants
with whom he had some difficulty and
who threatened to shoot him. Major
ArneS says he was sitting on the porch
of his house when Johnson approached
and fired two shots, the first taking ef-
feet in the right breast. The second
shot went wild.
VIM. J. Duffy, connected with the in
ternal revenue office in New York, has
Just made what is believed to be
record in local waters in long distance
swimming. Accompanied by two men
in boat he swan from a point 100
yards below the Brooklyn bridge to
400 yards below Channel buoy No. II.
neaflY ODDOSltc lUt 1lOIi olS'hiJooe
pier at Coney island. A conservative
estimate of the distance is IL miles.
The time was four hours, ten minutes.
The tide was with him, the wind
against him. Mr.. Duffy is 40 years old
and at one time was well known as an
amateur athlete.
The Shah paid long visit to the
Maxim works near London, Thursday.
He showed keen interest in the latest
inventions in artillery and electrical
appliances. On the invitation of the
president of the works he got astride CT
the seat of a Maxim gun and fired
three belts of blank cartridges. His
Majesty was considerably shaken by
the recoil at his first attempt, but he
stuck to his post and finished up like
an experienced gunner. The Shah and
his suite posed for moving pictures be-
fore leaving. He subsequently proceed
ed to the Persian legation where he
gave a state lunch which cost $4,000.
so sumptuous were the decorations and
arrangements.
Twelve known dead, three injured
at the hospitals SO seriously hurt that
| they cannot recover and three men
/ still missing whose bodies are supposed
| to be in the ruins of the wrecked build
! ings, make up the terrible result of the
explosion at the Delaware Pulp works
of the Jessup and Moore Paper Co. at
/ afternoon Geo. Durham, the 18th vic
| tim. died at a hospital, Thursday
morning, and later in the day the body
of Joel Hutton was taken from the
ruins. Hutton was fireman in the
Digester room where the explosion oc-
Cured. 1t is almost sure that the
total number of deaths will be Is. 1t
is practically certain that the bodies
of three missing men are still in the de-
bris.
The tests of the seven field guns sub
jected to trial at Sandy Hook, N. j.,
and at Fort Riley. Kansas, with a view
to the selection of a new weapon of
this type for use in the United States
army. are practically complete. After
the guns were tried at Sandy Hook
they were taken to Fort Riley and sub
jected to an arduous field test and then
brought back to Sandy Hook. 1t is the
general opinion of army officers who
have witnessed the workings of the
guns that the choice lies between the
long recoii weapons, the ordnance gun.
the Bethlehem piece, otherwise known
as the Lewis gum and the Ehrhardt
gun. The complaint against the short
Iccoil weapons was that they jolted
themselves out of range time and
again.