Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-31
NEWS NUGGETS.


Julian D. Fairchild. president of the
Kings County Trust Co. of Brooklyn.
has been elected director of the Maine
Steamship Co, to fill vacancy in the
board.
Andrew Carnegie has been proposed
for membership in the Reform Club of
London by George Armstead of Dun
| dee, and Sir Francis Mowatt, says the
London correspondent of the New York
Tribune.
Columbia building. the largest office
building without exception i'm Norfolk,
Va, caught fire, Thursday night. 1t
adjoins the Atlantic Hotel and at A.
NJ. it looked like difficulty in prevent
ing the flames from reaching the hotel.
J. NJ. Mcknight, late of the defunct
German National Bank of Louisville
Ky, has been released from jail in
which he has been confined since his
third conviction of embezzling the
funds of the bank. He gave a bond of
81, O0C.
The Illinois Pure Food commission
made another attack upon dealers and
has commenced suit against Is grocers
for alleged violations of the statute
governing the sale of chocolate and
cocoa and five for violations of the pro-
visions regulating the sale of vinegar.
The British war Offices casualty list
issued, Thursday night shows that in
a hitherto unreported engagement at
Abrahams Kraal, near Koffyfontein.
Orange River colony, Jan. %, Col. D..
T.. DuMoulin. of the Sussex Reg, and
eight men were killed and seven were
wounded.
Sharp frosts and heavy SHOWS are
greatly impeding traffic and work in
| the United Kingdom and are causing
many casualties. Cross channel traf-
| ic is interfered with on account of a
binding snow storm. and thousands of
workmen employed at the ship build
| ing yards are idle.
John Willis Baer, general secretary
of the Worlds Christian Endeavor
Urion. who arrived in Danver, Tues
day will go East bearing an invitation
| from the city of Denver to the society
to hold it's national convention there in
1908 Work will be begun at once to
raise $4,000 to defray the expenses of
that meeting.
Two hundred NeZ Perces Indians are
engaged in a tribal dance on Lapwai
Creek Is miles from Lewiston, Idaho.
| The dance is the result of council
that convened last week to discuss the
proposed abandonment of the Lapwai
agency and the transfer of the same
to the superintendent of the Lapwai
| Indian Industrial school
/ LnsA
Telegraph and Telephone Co. at New
York, Thursday. the proposition of the
directors to sell all property rights,
privileges and franchises of the corpo-
ration to the Occidental Telephone Co.,
was ratified. The board of directors
was reduced from Is to 5, each director
to hold office for one year.
1t is stated at Savannah, Ga, upon
the authority of Bishop Kelley of that
diocese. that Very Rev. VIM. j. Ken
ney of Jacksonville, has been appointed
bishop of st. Augustine, to fill the va
cancy created by the death of the late
Bishop Moore. The appointment at
Rome was transmitted to Cardinal
Martnelli, the Papal delegate at WASH
ington.
| lie COIiliIiOIl plcdS Nodi VI IDChhhNN
county, Ohio. has issued an order to
the receiver that the Defiance & Lima
Line must be abandoned after March
I. The road is in operation between
Lima and Defiance and is % miles long.
The court gives as its reasons for the
O, der that the tracks are in such poor
condition that it will be dangerous to
loperate over them when the frost comes
out of the ground.
Gilbert Parker, the English author
and member of Parliament, said before
sailing for home from New York. on
the st. Paul: "One of the objects of my
| visit here was to look into the labor
question for Parliament. In my Opin-
ion the American workman is more en-
terprising than the English. The
American workingman welcomes ma
chinery, while the English working
man has not come up to that yet
The British ship Red Rock and the
Dutch steamer Folmina have been
placed on the overdue list at the Mer-
chants Exchange at San Francisco.
The snip is bound from the Frazer
river for London with a cargo of sal
mon and the finding of wreckage on
| llt vancouver eo'tSl a. iSN eays' I'D"
gives rise to the belief that it was
from this vessel. The steamer Folmi-
ma is 81 days out from Java for Puget
Sound via Moji.
Fire that broke out early Thursday
morning destroyed the five-story brick
building at 1912 Illinois street, Chi
cago, with its contents. causing loss
of about $l500oO. The first and second
floors were occupied by the Dauchy
Iron Works and the upper floors by the
l.. b. Smith Shoe Dressing Co. Heavy
machinery in the upper part of the
building caused the floors to collapse
and the entire contents of the structure
crashed through into the cellar.
Mary Christensen has secured a YER
dict at Onawa, Iowa. for $4,000 in her
breach OF promise suit against dead
man. She sued the estate Of Frank
Crun. who died last summer, for $1,000
claiming he had postponed the date OF
4 their marriage and finally died before
the new date fell without wedding her
1t was proved conclusively that he in
tended to marry her and the suit was
begun as the best legal way to recover
portion of the property left by him.
Wilmar Hill at Pittsburg, was,
Thursday morning, the scene of the