Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Ricado Jiminez has been elected Vice
President of Costa Rica, ex-President Ra
fael Eglesias, after having been bitterly
the Vice Presidency.
A locomotive equipped with the Corne-
Illus Vanderbilt boiler made a record
breaking run with passenger tram on
the Harlem Railroad, Friday evening, so
ing at the rate of a mile in Al seconds.
The United States dispatch boat Dol
phin with Secretary of the Navy w. II.
Moody and party on board, arrived. Sat
| urday night, at Gloucester. Mass She
will remain until Monday, when Sne Will
go to Portsmouth.
The hog abattoir of the Central Stock
Yards Co. of Jersey City, was destroyed
| by fire, Saturday night. 1t contained q
large amount of valuable machinery, 81
cattle cars and 600 hogs. The loss is es-
TINA ted to be between 100000 and $500,
Geo.
Marjorie Hoysradt aged 90 niece of the
late Gen. Jacob w. Hoysradt of Hudson,
N. Y. was killed, and about % others
were injured. Saturday evening. in rear
end collision at Roosmans. on the Albany
& Hudson Electric Railway. This is a
one-track third-rail line
Commissioner General Sargent of the
immigration bureau, with the approval oil
Secretary Shaw, has issued circular
prohibiting the coming to the United
States of residents and natives of Porto
Rico and the Philippines, except after the
same examination as is enforced against
other alien immigrants.
A reunion Of the knights Of Columbus,
a Roman Catholic organization, was in
laugurated at Atlantic City. n. j., Satur-
day. in honor of the embarkation of Co.
lumbus. The meeting Will continue until
Monday night. Several thousand mein-
bers of the organization, representing
nearly every state in the Union, are there.
May Yohe, Saturday morning, called in
the police to ask them to lp her find
Putnam Bradlee Strong, but Scotland
Yard declined to have anything to do
with the matter. as she had preferred no
charge against Strong. Miss Yohe started
| for Paris at 8 o'clock Saturday night. on
| Geographic assurance that she would re-
oeive word there of Strong whereabouts.
politician of Corydon. Iowa, and ex-srand
master OF the Masonic order of Iowa, has
lost his right hand from the effects of a
handshake with a friend. The grip re-
ceived was so hard that several of the
small bones were broken and afterward
caused a cancerous growth. Amputation
became necc ssary and the operation has
been performed.
Richard. George and William Taylor,
sons of a sister of Mrs Ida A. Flagler.
divorced wife of Henry NJ. F'lagler Of the
Standard Oil CO.. who had been placed In
q New York founding asylum upon the
death of their mother in 1864, and were
later apprenticed to farmers in Illinois.
have learned that they will be legal heir;
to $Ie9.0e0 each from the estate of their
aunt upon her death She is insane.
A Burial Trades Council is the latest
proposition in labor circles ut Chicago. IL
the promoters can bring II about there
will be an amalgamation Of all the inter
estS concerned in the burial of the dead.
The new council is to take in every inter
est from the grave digger to the under
taker who participates in the ceremony
The movement was started some time
ago. but nothing material was accom-
plished. The strike of the grave diegers
at Concordia cemetery, Friday. revived
the agitation. Now it is said to be on
in earnest.
Prof Claude Nicholson. a French in
structor. who has been teaching at Rich
mond, Ind, and at Dayton, o.. has ac-
Paris. has offered him $4,000 If he will
ride on the same horse from Dayton 20
San Francisco in So days. He has decided
to make the trial. and has reached Rich
left without money and is to pay his own
expenses. One bloodhound accompanies
him. Prof. Nicholson is not overconn
dent but is confident he will reach Kan
sas City and Denver ahead of the sched
ule
Charles Edward Kirchner. then a boy
of II, ppeared from his home in Bal
timore, Md. and, though his relatives
spent much money in having him search
ed for. he was never heard of until Satur
day when he was accidentally discovered
by his brother law. who Is freight
conductor on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road. and while his train was near Bald
irwin he recognized Kirchner in the per
son of n tramp who was stealing ride.
IIirchner is in a slightly dem nted condi-
ton and was able to give only an inccf
herent account of him aimless wanderinss
for the past II years
Conductor Frank De Ia Vergne and En-
gineer Daniel Connolly, whose criminal
negligence is alleged to have resulted IN
u. Xr1y
ley Railroad at Rochester, N. ". July %.
have been arrested, charged with man
slaughter. Both men have been released
on $1,000 bail. Conductor DE Ia Vergne
Hes at his home in a serious condition. Hc
has been suffering from mental collapse
ever since the wreck. and MS physician
says he fears serious consequences for his
patient because of the verdict of the cor
oner-s jury charging him with being re
sponsible for the wreck.
The Louisville Courier Journal, Sunday.