Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27
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Dr Samuel Houston &c Pennsylvania,
Thursday. was appointed chief mstlicil
referee Of thc pension bureau
Al Taunton. Mass Thursday RulT
NIay Won tho 2.25 pagc. Euuita thy 2"j
trot or ra,c. md Byron Wilkes tn
2.i> trot.
con Charles Smart assistant surgeon
general. has been designated as chief sur
gtOn of the division If tn" Philippine 4
nd wiz soon leave for Manila under on
Gcrs of tn. war department. COL. Smart
viii look into the cholera situation.
President Roosevelt has chosen charl"-
magnr Tower. ambassador 30 Russia -
succeed Nj. White as ambassador to Ger
many. Notifications of this decision AMI
that Mr.. Whites letters IF recall had
been issued by the state department,
have reached the foreign Office at Berlin.
The candidacy nj Former Secretary N.
War Il; \. Algpr tur United States snna 4
tor ~ succeed the lat" james Mcmillan
Wa endorsed. Thursday, by the special
Republican state convention at Grand
Rapids Mich. called to select a canddat F.
'ur supreme Justice % succeed the lat"
John y. Long
\ a dispatch received at Berlin from
Tashkrnt. capital Of Russian Turkesttn
/ reports "a terrible earthquake. Aug ~
the shro ks continuing until Sept. 3. one
! hundred were Killed at Kushgar. in east
/ ,Tu JHv.."staa. in1 i'm the village of A.
: typ, ~ ut Jaagi. Will" the town 81 Az
SukSlltD'' WIS tfUliltt'lN tcSLipt Gu
Driven to desperation by the prospect
d # being forever separated from her lover.
/ in the pxpecjatipn of marry ing whom she
I had nearly Circicd the globe. Alexandra
Joseph. Il young Syrian girl, threw her
self from tuc window of Michigan Cen
4 irll passenger train running 80 miles an
\ hour. Thursday, ana WAS instantly killed
Tour stoclmen were killed and sew
\ cgal injured III y collision near Maiden.
Y Ill.,, NH the Burlington road early
\ Thursday. a passenger train crashed
into thc rear end Of 4 stock train. tele-
sgoping the caboose
A cublrgram received by the Siamese
minister at Washington, Thursday, in
dictates that the crown prince Of Siam
has again advanced the date of his visit
to America. The dispatch states that
hr will sail from Southampton, oct. ;.
Fred Geo lspeed, the companion Of
Frank Higgins. who was convicted of
murder at It. John, y. +. Thursday. in
deliberately shooting and killing his
rlpymate. William Doherty was no,
llaccd ou trial as I'M access cry after
Thu fa,t Thursday. The case VIII come
up III tEc next term Higgins will be
sentenced. Friday. ana death * the
/ probable penalty.
Andrew ]. H. Bickford was arrested
III Lynn. Mass. Thursday afternoon,
charged with assault with intent "a
Kill. upon his wife The affair took
place Wednesday night. but not re-
ported until Thursday. and Eickford
refused to say anything about il Mrs
= Bedford Is terribly bruised ANA IS be-
HeVed to bt, internally injured, the re-
suls. - the attending physician says
Of being kicked ard jumped upon.
y squadron of the north Atlantic
/ fleet is Ia rendezvous in the Caribbean
Z sea good while before the appointed
time FOR the assembly Of the vessels o
the North and South Atlantic ant
, European squadrons. The navy De
partment mas Two objects IN view ],
This. eagIy dispatch 81 vessels namely