Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The contract for repairing the steamer
All, winch put in at Halifax damaged
has been awarded to S Nj Brookfield 81
me Halifax dry dock. The contract prize
~ about S-6,Oo0 and there were sCVcra!
tenders.
Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, the
canadian high commissioner. has sent a
check for G25.0D to tue authorities Of
Aberdeen University. The money is to go
towards completing the extension to the
university.
The receipts and expenditures for tbe
iiarvard-Gale ball game were as follows:
Gross receipts. $6l.Sl9: expenses. includ-
ing building extra seats, sI5.3io.54: net re
shared with Yale.
John G. Goodwin and his wife were
found dead in a room Of their home, No
a Nichols street. Havc-hill Mass FRI
iay. ueath being due TO accidental gas
were each about 50 years old.
The American liner st. Louis. which
VIII san from Southampton Saturla
Jan. 4. and touch ut Chcrbourg the same
ssSato Mii an n1k Mr am9 2 her PASSENGERS
ana MI. and Mrs. Nat Goyuwfl.
an engine running light collided with
.ne rear OF freight train in q binding
blizzard Friday afternoon. at Sennett,
near near ia AuGurn, n H., on the New York
central Railroad, and seriously injured
several employees but none fatally
ihree men were killed and four badIy
INJURED IN Il wreck on the PENNSYLVANIA
Kaiiroad near Conemaugh Furnace. near
Jamestown, Pa, Friday night fast
express and mail train ana two easf
bound freights and one fast westbound
freight are mixed ny in the wreck
The Ancient Order of United Workmen
lias the right to make bylaws changing
me plan Of payment Of assessments. nm
Ter the statute. in the opinion Of the full
Oehch OF the supreme court, which hand
"a Gown us decision in the case of George
y. Messer "gainst the order. today.
While investigating the damage done
20 the dam Of the Columbus Power 90 |
" Columbus. Ca. by the .acrnf flood
chief Engineer John Lee and four me-
sroes were carried through one OF the
breaks in the structure. Mr. zee and one
negro were rescued badly bruised. but |
the other three negroes were drowned.
Clarence and Earl Goodwin. sons of
capt. VIM. Henry GoUGw;n OF Argyle
sound, near Yarmouth. S., went out
n boat. Thursday, to attend their lob
ster traps. They did not retutn. Friday
TrorF' 1g. h-'r bcat gear and oars wen
found and they doubtless were drowned
clarence is married and a widow and
-wo children survive him.
The full bench of the Massachus,ttsI
supreme court. Friday. handed down a
Iecislon IN the cases of j. MONTGOMERY
sears ana others against the street corn
mlssloners Of Boston. in which sos 215
oetterment assessment upon mum troiis
state in the vicinity of the South Union
statlon rs held to be constitutional and
falid. The petitions brought to quash I
he assessment are dismissed.
Edward Kelley, the vagrant who was
AIKEN TO Norwich, CT. Thursday from
y orcester- Mass, on account of the stis-
'icion that he was the tramp Fred MGR I
Ill, wanted in Montvilie FOR connections: ;
With the murder of Jeremiah Sbumway
vas released Friday after cxaminati n
" me state attorney He satisfied his
!uestioner that he knew nothing If inc !
'humway murder and that he IS not In
nan known as Fred Merrill.
line Of merchant steamers between {
IAN Francisco and Manila will snon be
Established. says the Call, by the Empire,
teamship CO.. acting in conjunction with
he owners OF the steamer Albion. Thpi
ompany VIII put on the trans-Pac fieI
QUITE the steamships Ohio. fl Indiana and
wniie the Albion will run