Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-10

Great Britain can take any steps she
dustry.
| 1t looks as if the receiving ship Yer
mont would stay at the Brooklyn navy
yard, for at the public auction, yester-
| day, the amount bid was away below
the government appraisal. The board
of naval officers had agreed upon sIS.-
600, but L. L. Hunt of Melrose, Mass.
offered only $10,65S and George Nj.
! Anon of Brooklyn, 5000, and it will
4 be necessary either to throw both these
bids out or secure the written permits
sion of the President to dispose of the
historic ship for less than S1S,000
| The mystery surrounding the killing
| of Mrs. Ada Klump of Lowell. by the
poisonous headache powder, last Sun
day. is still unsolved. William Klump,
her husband, is still confined in the
county Jail at Grand Rapids, Mich. 1t
is on the theory of a woman in the
case that the officers are working.
When closely questioned by the sheriff,
Saturday, Klump broke down. II think
there must be a woman in the case, =
ne said. And if I could only tell you,
/ would, but / don't know anything
about it,
The University of Chicago is planning
| to offer a special course of instruction
for such of its students as wish to go
after graduation to the Philippines or
other countries of the Orient. In order
to get the data necessary for the ar
| rangement of these courses the univer-
cit ha a1 Anauna nd n
| traveller and student of colonial poll
| tics, a special commissioner TO study
/ the conditions in the East. He has
started. on his mission, and will spend
the next six months in the various
countries of the Orient.
| The crews of the sealing feet at St
Johns, N. F., numbering about 5000
men, went on strike, Saturday, de-
| handing a higher price for the catch
than is now paid. The present rate is
SO per hundred weight. The men de-
| mand S4 They paraded the streets
with flags and proceeded to government
house, to lay their case before the gov
ernor Sir Cavendish Boyle. The
demonstration was orderly, but the
ships will be unable to sail, Monday
1 iiloI HlllS, uIlSSS otu adjustment Is III
fected before that time.
The entry list will close, today, for
| several large purses offered by the New
England Breeders Association, which
| will be decided at their grand circuit
! meeting, Aug. is to %, at Readville.
The program is always on a large scale,
and each year sees new features or an
enlargement of old ones. There are six
purses in number, and the star of the
list is the Massachusetts for the 2.12
| trotting class, which has been raised
from $4,000 to $4,000. The stake will
be on the subscription plan, and horses
will not be named till August A.
| Foreigners scarcely ever meet the
real aristocracy of France" said
Hughes lie Roux to Columbia students
Saturday. 'These people of the genuine
aristocracy are in financial poverty be-
cause of the industrial expansion of the
times, which has destroyed their form
er means of support, and are sensitive
/ because unable to entertain foreign
guests in the style to which they have
been accustomed M. LIE Roux at
tackled the conceptions of French so
ciety held by the average foreigners
and those depicted in French novels of
the day.
The grand jury for Suffolk county,
Saturday, presented it's report for the
March term in the superior criminal
court at Boston. An indictment was
| found against James Mclean, accusing
him of assault with intent to murder
| On Jan. II, Mclean and John McPher-
son had some words in Boylston street.
which resulted, it is alleged, in the for
| mer firing a shot at the latter. wo-
man is said to have been the cause of
the trouble. Manslaughter is the charge
set out in the indictment returned
| against Antonio Francis. The latter is
alleged to have killed Giovanni Celia
| The injury was inflicted, Jan. 81, death
resulting, Feb. Z.
Constructor John G. Tawresey, u. S.
| N, for the past three years and eight
months head of the construction de-
partment at the Kittery navy yard, has
| received preparatory detachment or
ders from that station. Constructor
Tawresey went to that yard, July Z,
| 1893, after the Spanish war. and since
then he has been untiring in his efforts
|
especially his department, which since
his arrival has increased twofold in
number Of men employed and many
fold in capacity. His orders are for the
Union Iron Works in San Francisco,
where he will be supervisor of con-
struction. of government work
| Exeter. n. H., was shocked by the
news of a fatal accident at A. NJ Sat
urday, the victim of which was Samuel
F. Chase. superintendent of the Exeter
Machine Works, and a former select
man. Mr. Chase was obliged to cross
the Boston & Maine tracks to reach the
shops, and attempted to cross between
two sections of freight train, the
opening being about three feet. At that
instant car was being sent up the
line to be coupled to the end of one sec
tion, and striking with much force the
two sections were thrown together just
as Mr.. Chase reached the middle of the
track. His injuries were in the abdo-'
men, and he lived but few minutes.
J. E. Cushman, Vermont state tax
commissioner has made new ruling
on the taxation Of insurance companies,
| which will affect nearly half IF the