Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock, proprietor of
| the Omaha, Neb., World Herald, was,
| Saturday, nominated by the Democrats
of the 81 Congressional district.
David 7. Gilmore, 60. former mayor
| of Patterson, N. Y, killed himself, Sun
day, by shooting. He has been des-
pondent for some time over i'll health
Hon. John T. Sparks of Lowell,
| Mass, Saturday, formally announced
| his candidacy for the Democratic NOM
| nation for Congress from that district.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to do
nate $4,000 for the establishment of
| free libraries in the borough of Maryle-
bore, Eng, on condition that the
borough provide for their maintenance.
The Viceroy of Szechuan, China, re-
ports that imperial troops attacked the
rebel headquarters at Inchawan, Aug.
| H. One thousand rebels were killed
and their leader was captured and ex-
ecuted.
Attorney General Knox, accompanied
| by his wife, arrived in Boston, Satur-
| day. and was a guest at the Hotel
Somerset for a few hours. Mr.. Knox
refused to see all callers and left for
New York on the 8 P. NJ. train.
The annual convention of the United
Association of Plumbers, Gas and
Steam Filters will begin at Omaha,
| Monday, and most Of the 200 delegates
have arrived. The organization has
| 400 local lodges and $4,000 members.
Two Englishmen and two Zermatt
guides were overwhelmed, Saturday. by
| Uot
| terhorn One of the tourists and a
guide We're killed. The other members
Of the party were seriously injured.
Inspector Colby of the Lynn police
started. Saturday, for Toronto, Ont, to
| bring back George w. Clarke, arrested
there as a fugitive from justice, Fri
| day, by the Pittsburg police. Clarke
| is wanted on the charge of forgery in
Lynn.
At Walnut Grove, I.eake county,
Mississippi, Friday night, Chas. John
son, colored, was lynched by party of
| citizens for making an assault on a
young white woman. Johnson was
| forcibly taken from officers who were
| carrying him to prison.
The Narrow Guage hotel, one of the
| oldest landmarks of Revere Beach, was
| completely destroyed by fire, Saturday.
| The building, which was owned by A.
| c. Norcross, has been unoccupied for
several years The fire was probably
| incendiary. Loss. $4,000.
The retreat of the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe Indians from Gen. Custer
| and his troops was re-enacted, Sunday,
| by 400 members of those tribes on their
council grounds in western Oklahoma.
| The occasion was the annual feast at
which the Indians indulge in their war
! and crow dances, so-called.
The Macedonian committee which
| has been in congress at Sofia, Bulgaria,
since Aug. 10. has reelected the former
committee. The adherents of M. Sar-
| affoff. the notorious ex-president of the
| committee, held a separate congress
| and elected another committee. The
| actual leader Of the committee is Gen.
| onticheff.
Ella Bailey, who was formerly treas
urer of the Cobb Everett Investment
Co., appeared before United States
Commissioner F'iske at Boston. Satur-
| day, and was released from custody on
| the presentation of the necessary bond,
| she having been held in $4,000 on
charge of conspiracy to defraud. NJ
NJ. Lee was the bondsman.
One Boston firm has yielded in the
| fish cutters strike. Howard w. Spur
& Son have taken their men back at
the pay demanded, namely s13 week
| The employees of Treat, of Caswell &
| Livermore, Pierce & Austin, as well as
few others. however, are still holding
down the fish crates and curbstones
| along Atlantic avenue.
| Charles c. Rubsam, a well-to-do
dealer in house furnishings at 4SO Will
lis avenue, New York, Saturday, shot
and killed his wife. He then shot him.
self, dying instantly. Religious mania
so the police believe, led Rubsam to do
the deed. He was AZ years of age and
his wife 40. The couple left three chill
| dren, the Oldest being is years.
The steamer Araphoe, the newest
vessel of the Clyde Line fleet, sailed
from New York. Sunday. for Philadel-
| phia where at The yards of her builders