Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-17
NEWS NUGGETS.


Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge will deliver
the annual address to the graduation
class of the Yale Law School, June 70,
according to an official announcement.
". S. Oddie, secretary of New York
Yacht Club, died at his residence in
New York City, Thursday. Mr.. Oddie
had been i'll for about two weeks of
kidney trouble.
Richard Patterson, vice president of
the National Liquor Dealers Associa-
ton died at his home in Wisahickon, a
suburb of Philadelphia, Wednesday
night, aged 50 years.
In a disturbance at Pekin, Wednes-
day evening between three Japanese
soldiers and an Austrian sentry, one of
the Japanese was killed and the sentry
was badly bayonetted.
The French Senate, Thursday, re-
elected NJ. Fallieres, president of that
House. 1t was decided to devote all the
sessions, except that of Friday, to the
discussion Of the budget.
The New York Stats Zeitung prints
special dispatch from Berlin, which
states that Count Won Waldersee and
his wife. will visit America in April.
The dispatch states that the trip is
made for the field marshaIs health.
A resolve was introduced in the Mas
sachusetts Legislature, Thursday, call
ing upon the authorities at Washington
to take steps to secure the release OF
James L. Malloy. a young Boston man,
held by the British and imprisoned in
Bermuda.
Chief Justice Mason of Massachu-
sets, has named James Stewart Muir
ply of Lowell, as junior counsel for
Miss Jane Toppan, the alleged murder
ess now awaiting trial at Barnstable.
Judge Robert o. Harris of Brockton,
recently was named as senior counsel.
The Leyland Line steamer Victorian,
which is to transport the second de-
tachment of the Canadian Mounted
Rifles and a field hospital corps to
South Africa, arrived at Halifax,
Thursday, after an days run from
Cape Deverde She will sail with troops
in about week.
Gov. Odell of New York, Thursday,
issued proclamation that Jan. 20, the
birthday of the late President McKin-
ley,t be observed in that state. He
recommends that suitable exercises be
held in public schools on that date, and
that the flags be displayed upon public
and private buildings.
]. M. Mcknight, former president of
the defunct German National Bank of
Louisville. KY, who was convicted,
last Saturday, of embezzling the banks
funds, was, Thursday, sentenced to the
penitentiary for six years and was fined
$40. The case will be appealed. Nc
knight has been tried four times.
J. Mcknight, former president Of the
defunct German National Bank of
Louisville. KY, who was convicted,
Saturday, of embezzling the bank
funds. was, Thursday, sentenced to the
penitentiary for six years and was
| fined $40. The case will be appealed.
Mcknight has been tried four times.
| A 100000 shoe factory has been COM
pleted at Torreon, Mexico. Arrange
ments are being made to open up all
departments of the tannery and fac
tory proper. A dozen skilled shoe
makers from Brockton, Mass, are there
for the purpose Of teaching the natives
how to operate the shoe machines.
Secretary wilson Of the Kentucky
Trotting Horse Breeders Association,
Thursday, sent kilograms to T. w.
( Lawson and E. e. Smathers, making
bid for either the Boralma- Derby
| or Boralma The Abbot match race for
the Lexington, KY, track. The induce
ment was not stipulated in the mes
sage hut viii receive attention later.
Al the trial Of the charges growing
out of the Cuban post Office frauds at
Havana, Thursday, the examination of
Estes G. Rathbone. ex-director general
Of posts 81 cuba, was concluded. Coun-
sci for ". Hskeeves. ex-deputy auditor