Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-20
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by Wires from North, East
South and West.


The body of DR.. Largin, chief of the
Berne court, was found. Monday, at the
| bottom of a precipice of Mount Dom.
near Zermatt, Switzerland. which the
deceased climbed, Saturday.
Joe Nelson, the cycle wonder, sup
ported his title. Monday night. at Pitts
burg. Pa, by breaking the worlds rec
ord for 20 miles and beating Freeman
| and Mcfarland. Nelson's time for the
20 miles was 27.1s, beating the worlds
record of 27.24 2-5. fGf
| Miss Alice Roosevelt arrived at Bos-
| ton from Newport, with Miss Ellen
Drexel Paul of Philadelphia, in an au-
| tomobile. Monday, making the trip in
about six hours. and both are the
guests of Miss Roosevelt's grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George c. Lee
Of Brookline.
A bye-election for a successor to Will
liam Johnston, formerly Conservative
| member of Parliament for the south d.
vision of Belfast, Ire, who died, July
| Z. has resulted in the selection Of
Thomas Sloan. the nominee of the
Protestant Association, with a major
ity of S26 votes over Charles w. Dun
bar Butler. the Unionist candidate.
| Having failed to make a financial
success of a vineyard established IL
years ago on what is known as the
Mount Olivet Farm" which they
| bought from the Trappist Monks Of
| Gethsemani. near Bardstown, KY, q
party of French colonists. said to be
descendants of the French, nobility,
1nft
| they will sail for France.
After secret meeting, Monday, Of
| it's board of directors, the Mutual
Building and Loan Association of Pas
sale. N. j., suspended business. Its
| books were closed and turned over to
State Examiner Johnson pending fu-
| ture action. William Malcolm, the for
mer secretary, through whose errors
the association funds We're 100000
short. was not in Passaic. Monday.
After conferences with General Manager
Dickinson and other Union Pacific Rail-
road officials and with committee OF
strikers and citizens, Gov. Savage OF
Nebraska, announced he did not think il
necessary to call out the state troops to
guard railroad property at North Platte.
He said that should the sheriff or mayor
make request for troops would act
promptly. One of the railroad officials
was hung in effigy, Sunday night, but this
strikers disclaim responsibility for the
act.
The navy department has entered in
an arrangement with the sureties OF
O'Brien and Sheehan, the contractors
for the government dry dock at Bos-
ton. by which the former will under
take to complete the dock. The con-
tractors sureties, Philadelphia trust
company, undertakes, under a tripartie
agreement between it and the con-
tractors and the navy department, to
complete the dock.
The authorities at Washington. ass
sumo that there are no developments IN
the situation either in Venezuela or
Hayti, as neither the state nor navy
departments, Monday, received a single
dispatch from its representatives In
those countries. Acting Sec. Darling
cabled Commander McCrea of the Ma
chias at Cape Haytien, that the Poto-
mac with coal and supplies, for him,
had left San Juan for Cape Hayden.
At the session Of the Supreme Lodge
of Knights of Pythias at San Fran
cisco. Monday, the proposition to erect
a sanitarium at Hot Springs Ark. for
sick and disabled knights, was defeat
ed. 90 to 30. and the report Of the spe-
cial investigating committee adopted
at the last session was completely dis
regarded. 1t was the voice OF the SUI
preme Lodge that 1t has no rights UNI
der the constitution to tax the. members
of the order for such purposes.
1t was announced at Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad headquarters at Balti-
more. Monday, that an order would be
placed within a few days for 100 addi-
tional locomotives for delivery next
spring. With this new order for loco
motives the company will have placed
orders for 254 locomotives, 1000 steel
heppers and gondolas. 1900 box cars. 700
fat cars. so passengers coaches, "a bag
gage and mail cars three dining cars
and two parlor and dining. cars.
The hearing instituted by District
Attorney Jerome before Justice Julius
M. Mayer, sitting as magistrate, at
New York. to determine the responds
bility for the collapse Of the Tripler
Liquid Air Co., and to disclose what
has become Of several hundred thou
sand dollars alleged to have been re-
ceiyed by the company for stock, was
begun, Monday. The hearing was not
public. At it's close the statement was
made that the only witness examined
was John NJ. Hoen, one of the original
promoters. who told OF the early his-
tory Of the association. AM adjourn
ment was taken until some time In Oc-
tober. n.