Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-15
NEWS NUGGETS.


| Gov. Crane of Massachusetts has
named Saturday, April rs, as Arbor
day.
Frederick Bryton, the well-known
actor, who was associated with Clara
Morris, at one time, Is dead at his
home in Rochester, according to a New
York World special from that city.
The Orchard grove, located in Month
cello, N. Y, one of the best-known
summer resorts in Sullivan county, was
destroyed by fire, Monday The loss
Of $4,000 was partly covered by in
surance.
Robert NJ. Burnett, receiver of the
/ New England Gas & Coke Co. was
authorized by Judge Colt in the United
States circuit court at Boston, Monday,
| to issue $2S5,000 of receivers certifi-
Gates which are to be first lien on the
property of the concern in his hands.
The negotiations for final arrange
ment of the disputes between Chill and
Bolivar are very far advanced. The
Bolivian minister at Santiago De Chile,
Senior Aramayo, is going to Buenos
Ayres to discuss the propositions with
the Bolivian minister to Argentina, DR..
Garlic.
| Mrs. Hannah Barlow is dead at her
home in New Brunswick, N. ]. She
would have been LOG years old in May.
In her younger days Mrs. Barlow was
servant for Commodore Vanderbilt.
When Lafayette passed through New
York city she helped cook the dinner
for him and his staff.
Two American Mormon missionaries,
/ nd
have been expelled by the police from
Insterburg, Germany, as Objectionable
characters. The Mormons now have
upwards of 100 missionaries in Ger
many. The Berlin Mormon congrega-
ton numbers 1000 persons.
Captain Umstead of tug Navigator,
now at Providence, r. l., reports that,
Friday, when about five miles south
southeast of fuckers Beach shoal
light, she sighted the submerged wreck
of barge Mindora, which was lost, last
Tuesday, off Barnegat. Its position
makes it dangerous to navigation.
| An investigation has been opened by
the court at Saghalian, an island OFF the
east coast of Asia, belonging to Russia,
| into numerous charges of theft and
embezzlement brought against govern
ment officials. Although only minor
offences thus far have been accused,
the affair promises to develop into
sensation.
BY the purchase Of the properties OF
the two large Independent oil produc-
ing firms in Marshall county, West Vir-
gina, the Standard Oil Co. blocks out
the only Independent and rival pipe line
concern in the state. The Standard
pays $4,000, it is said to the Benedum
Co., which gives up IA wells and sew
eral hundred acres.
A dispatch to st. Petersburg, from
Kovno Capital of the government of
the same name, SIS miles west north
west of Vilna) announced that all the
members of a Jewish family number
ing seven persons residing near that
place, have been slain by robbers who
beat out their brains with axes. The
murderers also burned the house occu-
pied by their victims.
Col. Guzman, the Cuban, who re-
Gently returned to Havana, from Spain
and was imprisoned on the charge of
having murdered Cuban colonel
named Cepero in the field, In 1896, has
been released under the decree which
grants pardon for crimes committed
during the revolution. He is remain
ing in the Vivae Jail for safety. He in
tends to return to Spain.
Among the passengers who arrived
at New York, Monday, on the steamer
Hilaria from Barbados were four sea-
men. said to be deserters of the crew
of the United States cruisers Alliance
and Prairie, who rate as '1andsmen
for training" The four men were met
at quarantine by Detective Sergeants
Farley, Collins and Leonard OF capt..
Titus staff who were instructed to Jake
them to the Tombs.
Phillip Hans, 14-year-old boy, in his
freshman year at the Manual Training
High school at Louisville. KY, has been
arrested on the charge of making
counterfeit nickels and quarters. The
boy says he found the money by the
secret service agent declares he has
made use of the dies and mold en-
ployed in the metal working depart
ment Of the school. The counterfeit is
a crude one and the officers believe he
was alone in his work.
Mrs. Sarah l.. Williams. one of the
pioneers of Toledo, Ohio, died there,
Sunday at the age of so. She was the
widow of Jos. X. Williams, formerly
proprietor and editor Of the Blade for
many years before his death in 1861.
one Of the foremost public men In
Michigan and Ohio. Mrs. williams was
for years proprietor and editor of the
Sunday journal in Toledo She found
ed and edited the Ballot Box in adj
vocacy Of woman suffrage.
A Chicago Inter-Ocean Milwaukee
special says that the federal authori-
ties intend to demand over 900
inheritance tax on the will II the late
Daniel Wells. Jr. The estate Is esti-
mated at s1s,00O,00O. Several requests
TO charitable institutions were made
by Mr.. Wells in his will Barring these
the entire tax IL collected according to
the provisions of the laws by the Inter-
Oceans special will be about 81, 100000, Z
one Of the largest ever imposed by the
government.