Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-08
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought BY the Wires from the North.
East, South and West.

1t is rei0rtud ut FindIay. Ohio. that
The Cincinnati. Hamilton d Dalton WIFI
i'll the near future transfer its recent
acquisition. the tangent line 10 the
Wabash, system, and that the ROAD viii
be used as one OF the connecting links
jn through system projected by the
Wabash.
Five mon nave heon killed in Floy
county, Kentucky, by Constable Reedy
ana q posse as the result Of the murder
of Sol Osborne ana Bud Little two
weeks ago. According to reports tho
men engaged in q desperate fight with
q posse and were shot 10 death while
resisting capture.
John shorten, editor Of the Cripple
Creek Herald, and one Of the best
known newspaper men in Colorado, is
dead. Mr.. Shorten was 81 years Of age
and was born in England. he saw ser
vice III the Confederate army and was
on board the Trent at the time of the
capture of the Confederate agents. Ma
son and Slidell.
Tile Munising Paper 90. Limited,
which has just been organized with =
capital OF $1.000,G00 will build the larg
est plant and paper mills in the United
States at Munising, Mich, in the upper
peninsula. The company owns Il large
tract of land covered with spruce and
maple which viii be used in the manu-
facture of wood pulp.
After four-hours conference be
tween the joint committee Of the Cen
trail Labor Union ana striking brewery
workers organizations and the eXecu
tive committee of the Boston Brewers
Association, Wednesday night, ii was
found impossible to arrive at an agree-
nlent by which the existing strike could
be settled and the conference adjourned
sine die.
a fight to a finish has been arranged
in San Francisco between Jack Root
and George Gardner the middle-weight
boxers. The men are to meet in Ne
vada on u day between July and g.
A $4,000 purse is to be divided, 70 per
cent. to the winner and - per cent to
the loser. The men agree TO weigh in
at 8 A. NJ. on the day of fight at 16l
pounds, give or take two pounds.
The will of John ID. Maud, a Butler
county farmer. who died, last week, has
been filed at Hamilton, Ohio. During
all his life, Mr. Maud was noted for his
hatred of weeds. This characteristic
appeared in his will, by which he left
$4,000 to the mound cemetery at Mon
roe. where he was buried, TO keep the
cemetery free from weeds and all nox-
iouS plants which tend to its disfgure- /,
ment."
Gov. Davis, Wednesday. a t Little !
Rock. Ark, filed a reply to charges pre- |
ferred against him by the discipline
committe of the Second Baptist church
OF which he is a member. He insists
that in accordance with the church /
rules and usage. the charges must be /
made over the signature of an indi- /
vidual member and not through com
mittee on discipline which he declares I
is an unheard Of thing in The Baptist !
church.
George Fl. Peters and John Graham /
We're arrested by city detectives. at /
New York. Wednesday. Peters is !
charged with stealing the blue prints
Of the original plans of Holland sub
marine boat and Graham with at
tempting 10 sell the prints. Both men
are said to have recently come from
San Francisco. According to the de-
Iectives, Peters was employed in q
capacity in the Office of the
Holland Torpedo Boat Co., and the