Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-13
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Hon. w. j. Bryan addressed the Har-
vard Union members, Saturday night
in Sanders theatre, being given a cor
dial reception.
Four cases of smallpox were reported
at Boston for the "a hours ending at
p. NJ Saturday. The number of cases
reported for the week is 40, and there
were six deaths.
The supreme court at Topeka, Kan
Saturday, decided the Parker-Hughes
mayoralty contest of last spring In
favor of Albert Parker, the Democratic
contestant, Col. Hughes.
The jury in the divorce suits of Mil
Iionaire Francis ]. Cakes against AIDE
line Estelle Sullivan Cakes disagreed
Saturday. at New York. 1t is said they
stood 10 to in favor of Mrs. Cakes.
The Earl of Dysart has offered G1O,-
coo toward the erection of a national
opera house in London, provided the
balance of the G5OO,0OO, which he be-
lieves is needed, is raised in six months.
The plans for improvements to be
carried out by the Union Pacific road
Omaha, Saturday, and will result in
The expenditure of from $25,0O0,000 to
10000, 900.
While a train carrying workmen to
repair suspension bridge near Brin-
dist. Italy, was passing over the
bridge, it collapsed and the train was
precipitated into the river Callareges.
Several men We're killed and injured.
Discovery by secret service agents at
Chicago, Saturday, of complete outfit
for the making of counterfeit silver
dollars came as a sequel to the arrest,
Friday night, of Joseph Strauss and
William Scott on charges of uttering
spurious coins.
1t is reported at Willemstad, Island
of Curacao, that British war vessels
have received instructions to seize the
Venezuelan revolutionary steamer
Libertador, formerly the Ban Righ, if
they meet her flying the British flag
and bearing her original name.
King Oscar and the government have
decided to present bill to Parliament
permitting Iceland to have an indie
pendent ministry with headquarters at
Reikiavik, the capital of Iceland. Up
to the present time the Icelandic min
lister has resided at Copenhagen.
A stadium which will seat $4,000 peo-
pie and excel any other building ever
erected for a similar purpose it outlined
for the Olympian games to be held in
Chicago in 1904. The building will cover
approximately II acres. the arena alone
being 500 feet long and $50 feet wide.
Miss Jane Toppan, charged with
triple murder in causing the deaths of
the members of the Davis family, last
summer. and now held in the Jail at
Barnstable awaiting trial, learned,
Saturday, that Judge f. NJ. Bixby of
Brockton, had been assigned to defend
her.
The schooner Damon of Fall River,
Mass, a vessel of 127 tons net, was
beached and left by her crew at Here
ford Inlet, between Atlantic City. N. j.,
and Cape May, to prevent her from
sinking after she had sprung a leak off
that place. A wrecking tug is trying
to save the vessel.
The CHILEAN Congress has authorized
a loan of E2,500.00O. The Valparaiso
newspapers, commenting upon the Off
cial reports of the Pan-Amerfcan con-
gress in Mexico City. point out that the
attitude of the United States and
Chile has alone prevented the congress
from being a failure.
Now that William c.. Whitney's Der
by candidate Nasturtium and his sta
bic companion are safe at Newmarket,
Eng, and the English experts have
had chance to see him, Nasturtium
has become a prime favorite for the
Derby, sharing with Duke of West
minister the top price, to l against.
While drawing lumber from yard
seven miles from Manchester, VT, on
the Green mountains, John d. Candall
was thrown from his load. and the run
ner passed over him, breaking his neck
and killing him. The body was found
some time later and taken to Manches-
ter. Crandall leaves a wife and two
children in Londonderry.
Mrs. Lena ChristeI, aged 20, was lit
orally roasted to death at Milwaukee,
Wis. Saturday night. Her charred
and lifeless body was found in her
room by policeman who had seen
smoke issuing from the place. The wo-
mans death was a mysterious one ard
Martin Christel, her son, is in jail
awaiting an Investigation.
For the first time since the prohibi-
ton law was placed on the statute
books of Now Hampshire. it will be en-
forced in Portsmouth Tuesday evening.
when all of the saloons will close This
order was issued in person, Saturday,
by Marshal Entwistle, who made a
round of the SO places holding United
States special tax.
The steamer. City Of Fitchburg,