Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Robbers cracked the safe in the Farm
ers Loan and Trust Cos. Bank at Ar
thur, Ia, Tuesday morning, and secured
$1,000 in cash.
Government receipts, Tuesday, were:
From internal revenue. $251 .4S7; customs.
81, DIG, TIC; miscellaneous, SIP ,S73; expendf-
lures, x,765.OO0.
VIM. Duffy. NJ. P. CNationalisp. was
three months Imprisonment for conspi
racy ami Indictment to commit crime.
About 200 delegates from all parts OF
this country and Canada are in attend
ance at the national convention of the
Brotherhood of ST. Paul now being held
at Buffalo.
Mrs. Rosetta Etzler. an alleged beauty
specialist" has been arrested at Peoria,
ILL.,. charged with having caused the death
of Mrs. Hattie Hart at Pekin. Medicine
composed, it is said, largely of arsenic
figured in the case.
Harvey Logan. the alleged train rObber,
whose gang held up a Great Northern
express train in Montana for $4,000, has
at Knoxville. Tenn. He was taken into
the court roOE. under heavy guard and
manacled.
A pulp paper mill with strong financial
backing and which Is to be one of the
largest industries of its kind in the
South, is to be established in western
North Carolina. The promoters are now
negotiating for tracts comprising 2,0O0
acres OF land near Forney Creek.
A dispatch to the Niue Friere Presse OF
day, announced that three violent earth
shocks, accompanied by wind of extraOr-
binary violence were felt there during
Monday night No serious damage was
done but the pOpulace was panicstricken.
The court of appeals at Albany. N. Y.
Tuesday, handed down a decision grant,
ing a new trial to George Bissert for
mer wardman in the New York police de-
.rtvv hxS vrync frfo birth
before Recorder Gon and fined $1,000 and
sentenced to five and one-half years in
Sing Sing prison.
There is a great g1ut in the cocoanut
market at Mobile, Ala: caused by un-
available there 100000 cocoanuts and
four more vessels are due which will add
900 to the number. Railroads are con-
crease the supply rapidly. There has been
a material slump In prices.
Announcement was made at Greenfield,
Mass, Tuesday, that the trial of Louis
Martin Bitter. charged with the murder
his clerk. Miss Ida Cole. at Turner's
Falls, Dec. 81. last, will commence there
on Dec. 2. Atty. Gen. Parker and Dist.
wealth and the defendant will be looked
after by Frederick l.. Green.
When asked a question in the British
House of Commons, Tuesday, about the
abandonment of the special mail train in
connection with the White Star Line
steamers, Postmaster General Austen
Chamberlain declared 1t was a mistake
to suppose 1t was an accelerated services.
The former arrangement had no postal
advantage whatever and had been made
reluctantly at the request of the White
Star Line.
The movement among the students Of
the German universities against pistol
duels is gaining ground. Meetings of stu
dents at Tuebingen and Bonn have petit
toned the minister of war to forbid pis-
tol duels between officers and students
except in the gravest cases. The Berlin
students have called a meeting of duel
fighters for Thursday to take similar ac-
ton. The Leipsic students are also acting
In the matter.
At Emmanuel Church at Boston. Tues
day, Miss Alice Parks, daughter Of Rev.
DR.. Leighton Parks, rector OF the church.
was married to Mr.. John Nicholson Bar
ron of Lees. Eng, son of the late John
Barron and grandson Of Sir John Barron.
The ceremony was performed by Rev. ].
Lewis Parks, d. D., rector of Calvary
church. New York, an uncle of the bride.
and Right Rev. William Lawrence. bishop
of Massachusetts,.