Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-26
bally Asnnsbse Journal
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Rev. Jos. w Cook, pioneer Of In,
dian missionary work IN My9hl,E anu
the Dakotas. is dead at st. Louis OF NAlE-
uiar disease of the heart The body VIII
he taken to the Yahkton Indian agency
where he had requested That he be
buried.
The run on the Dime Savings Bank at
Detroit was resumed whom the pank
line of waiting depositors GraduIiE
dwindled down during the morning ~
ii 20 o'clock the bank officials said they
expected the run would be broken by
O'clock
Grace Eptseopal church Of Madison.
Wis has asked rev simon u. hunt, one
OF the clergy connected with st. stephen =
church, Providence. II. l., to become i10
rector. Some time ago the 'huI'h 81 ny
Intercession at Stevens Point ehlTdNol ="
to engage Rev, Blunt, but ne uecllhed u
leave Providence.
The steamboat +, II Bacon was tota ~
wrecked In the TENNESSEE tlNcf seven
miles below London, Tenn, IuesuaE; "
the explosion of it's boiler EStii tiad-
gins, assistant engineer was killed; ROD
crt Bird a passenger, who was en-. route
home from the Philippines, was fatally
injured and Albert c. Claiborne; tnEl-
uerr and Cook Smith, deck mana "e't
badly hurt.
Mrs. Kate Soffel. wife of the Pittsburg
jail warden who assisted in the ESCAPE
Of the Btddlc brothers and was wounded
during the battle when they were recap
tured was removed from the Butlof, va
hospital, Tuesday morning. ana taken !,
Pittsburg. She had fully recovered IRON
her wounds. She was later released o"
$500 bail and left with her father ior hl-
home in Mt. Washington.
The carriers in cities Of less than 800
population are now planning tq erect
separate association. \ quiet canvas has
gone on among the carriers organizations
in the smaller cities and convention
probably will he held In Canton wilhlt
three weeks. This action Is taken by IN,
carriers on account of the endorsement
by the national association of the pres
ent legislation in Congress providing toi
new salary rating, making the dlNldhs
line for cities of I3,eo population
United States Marshal Hackett and
deputies left South McAllister. !. T.. Mon
day night, for Atlanta, Ga. with i? prs
oners, sentenced to the new federal pen
itentiary at the recent term OF court a
Atoka. In the number are three trali
robbers who are the last of the gang VIE
held up a Missouri Kansas x TeNa'
train at Caney, last summer. The arriVa
of the prisoners will be the first con
siSnment of prisoners from the lnoidi
territory at the Atlanta penitentiaiy.
Fletcher Barnett, n school teacher
Tuesday, entered school house one mix
from Camargo. Ill. and without warning
shot and killed Miss Eva Wiseman. the
teacher in charge. He then shot at Al
bert HopweII a pupil who attempted Il
interfere. but missed him. Barnett thei
shot himself but apparently without Sc
rious injury. He rushed out of the build
ing and shot himself again. but still no
fatally. He then jumped into q well anc
was drowned. Barnett had been suito
for the young woman's hand. Both Were
highly connected.
The New York state architect has SUD
mitted TO Superintendent of Prisons Col
Inns plans for a new prison to be devoted
exclusively TO the confinement OF pris
oners under sentence of death. He esti
mates that it will cost 10000. Supt. Col
Inns suggests that the code be 50 change,
that justices will be authorized to sen
tence all such TO one prison. When :
prisoner takes an appeal and secures :
stay the superintendent suggests that ht
be removed from the death house am
confined in the prison proper and moi
hours He is TO be kept there until IL,
appeal is decided.