Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-10
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The national Executive board Of Tho
United Mine Workers VIII attic mqt to set
tie the coal difficulty in Indiana without
u strike.
The Duke of Cambridge WAS en.crtain-
cd at breakfast on board the United
States cruiser Albany at Nilleiranchc,
France. Wednesday.
The tariff committee Of the federal
House Of Representatives, at MeIGourne,
Victoria, has fixed the duty on cotton
and linen piece goods at ) per cent. al
valorem.
German yachtsmen We're surprised to
learn. "Wednesday, that a 3"-foot yacht
named Samoa III had just finished at
Hamburg for Emperor William, had been
entered tor races during the kiel regatta
The English Budget statement which
was to have been issued, Wednesday, has
been postponed until Mondays4 hsconse-
quence of the indisposition of the zchan-
cellor of the eXchequer, Sir Michael Hiek5
Beach.
There was an exciting miXup OF tor4
pedo boat deStroyers at PortSmouth,'
Eng, Wednesday. The Crane, Fawn and
Teaser We're in collision each with the
other two. The Teaser was considerably
damaged.
The trial of Police Captain Foody on
charges of neglect of duty and imprpper
conduct. which was set for WedAEsday,
before Police Commissioner PaSR44ge al
New York, was adjourned to m ~ n
the request of counsel for the defenfs
The barge Coal King. feaking from;
Newport News for Boston was tuwed 10
Philadelphia. Wednesda4E She has six
feet of water in her hold her. mizzen mast
is broken at the deck a{3d is hanging BY
the rigging, and her afte cabin is stove
Among the mortga gessrecorded at New
ton Trust Co. sas trustee. covering the
Metropolitan Street RaIlway%C Iss, IL This
funding per cent. 1oc-Neer god bonds.
The anti-Catholic agitation culminated
in a riot at Brussels, "Wednesday night.
a thousand Socialists S6baed the house
of a Catholic deputy, -4THe ponce: chdqZed
the rioters with drawn swords A num-
Der of the latter were 4eyerefy injured
and 20 were arrested.
A welcome dinner" was given at New
York, Wednesday night, to Count Massey
oshi Matsukata, former prime minister
of Japan. who recently arrived IN this
country on a tour of the world. Kokoeo
Takahira, the Japanese minister at
Washington, was one of the guests.
The legislative committee of the United
Textile Workers of America, which met
at Fall River. Mass, Wednesday, took
no action upon the strike of operatives
in the mills at Augusta Ga. The COM
nlitJee adjourned until tomorrow morn
ing, when the matter will be discussed.
A special to the Butte, Mont. Miner
from Blackfoot, Idaho, says the miners
of the White Knob Mining Co at Mckay
went on a strike, Tuesday. The men de-
mand an increase of the wage scale and
a shorter working day. The strikers
number about 400. The mine has been
closed
Rev. James L. Barton. d. D.. foreign
secretary of the American Board left
Boston. Wednesday. for New York to
welcome Miss Ellen NJ. Stone. who is
expected to reach New York, Thursday,
by steamer Deutschland. DR.. Barton
also represents the Womans Board of
Missions.
The building trades of Cincinnati, Cow
ington and Newport have demanded
shorter hours and more pay on and af-
ter May /. The builders say there con-
tracts had been made on old schedule and
none of them have conceded to the de-
mands. About L, 900 men will be involved
in the outcome.
Capt. Sewell C. Cobb. while on pleas
ure trip, died suddenly. off Egmont Key.
near Pensacola, Fla, Monday. The body
was taken to Pensacola, Wednesday. His
wife and daughter are in Boston. Capt.
Cobb was widely known through his nu
merous articles on the Nicaragua canal.
He was 70 years of age.
Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, high
commissioner of Canada, were presented
with the freedom of Aberdeen, Scot, AZ
the town hall there, Wednesday, in rec
ignition of his position as lord rector of
ada. A distinguished assemblage was |
present at the CEREMONY
The Russian military commander in |
the Kwang-Tung territory of Manchuria |
reports that COO ChunchuSes, not Tan |
guses Gas previously reported, attacked |
the Russian post on the Liau-Ho river, |
last month. The Chinese were repulsed |
with the loss of 20 men killed. Two Rus |
SLAMS were killed and five were wounded. |
The executive board of the Brotherhood |
Of Carpenters and Joiners of America is
in session at Philadelphia and is said to |
be arranging for a concerted move look |
ing to an increase in wages and shorter
working day. The union has a member
ship of coo and the movement now I'M
der way will affect nearly every state in
the country.
Rev. DR.. w. A. Crawford Frost of Bal
timore, who made a disturbance at the
can Society of Authors at New York,
Monday night. was discharged from
Bellevue hospital, Wednesday in the care
Of Rev. Edward B. Niver of Baltimore.
MIR: Niver will take Mr.. Crawford-Frost
to Baltimore.
The machinery of the Canadian militia
department has been set in motion for !,
the enlisting of a contingent Of 1000 men
for South Africa. If the first Of the
British troop ships arrives at Halifax on
time the contingent will start for the
front in three weeks. At any rate II
will be ready to go on board the steamer
by that time.
A large oil and gas land deal has just
been consummated at Marietta, Ohio.
whereby the Ohio & California Refining
Oil Co. has acquired 1900 acres of oil
and gas land in West Virginia. Lying
below the Guffey & Gardley tract pur-
chased last week by the Standard OH Co.
The price is not made known, but it is
said to be very large. 4
There has been one prompt response nv
a New York Yacht Club member to the
invitation Of the German yachting au- +,
thorities to send boats to Kiel and race
Isaac Stern has purchased the well
known Herreshoff 30-footer Oiseau and .
will send it across the ocean on a steam
er within fortnight
An unlicensed whiskey still which, ac-
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