Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-22

tate for 100000 for maintenance and
support. returned a verdict for the full
amount. Thursday with $576616 in
terest. The boy in suing claimed to be
! the son of the late Charles Broadway
Rouss
The apostolic delegation at Washing
ton. has received from Rome briefs APP
pointing Mrg. Henry Moeller coadjutor
to the archbishop of Cincinnati, Mgr
/ J. j. Glennon. coadjutor to the arch
bishop of st. Louis, and Revs. E. Cot
fey and p. Nagel, of the diocease of
Scranton to the dignitaries of domestic
prelates.
Bench warrants have been issued for
the arrest of all of the Waterbury, Ct,
trolley strikers who were bound over
some weeks ago to the superior court
after a trial in the city court on a
charge of assault committed upon a
non-uniOn motorman and conductor of
Il trolley car in Waterville on the night
of Feb e.
A. b.. Atwater, general manager of
the Grand Trunk Railway, announces
at Toledo. o.. that the receiver for the
Detroit & Toledo Shore Line will be dis
C1ldISeu HtAl week anu tIldl the prop
erty will then be taken over by the
Grand Trunk. Trains will be running
between Toledo and Detroit over the
line by August 1.
The final and formal order in the
case of the Western Union Telegraph
Co. in the United States circuit court
at Pittsburg was made, Thursday, by
Judge Joseph Burlington. The order
permits the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
to begin at once to remove the poles
and wires of the Western Union Tele-
graph Co. from it's right of way.
Quartermaster General c. F. Humph
rey and Brig Gen. Rogers have arrived
at San Francisco, on the transport
Sheridan from Manila. Gen. Rogers in
coming home to be retired. He was
formerly colonel of the Both Infantry.
Gen. Humphrey, who was recently ap-
pointed to succeed Gen. Ludington, is
on his way to Washington to assume
office.
In the presence of scores of people an
unknown man threw himself under a
Michigan Central train at the station at
Michigan City, Ind, Thursday. Three
trucks passed over his body, killing
him almost instantly. People who con-
versed with the stranger thought that
he was insane. In his pocket a card
was found bearing the address: III.
Matson. LyonsvilIe Mass"
Secretary Root received a cablegram,
Thursday, from Governor Taft, saying
that Professor Dean A. Worcester, a
member of the Philippine commission,
had been granted a leave of absence
for six months and that he would come
to this country for his health. Prof.
Worcester will probably have to I'M
dergo a surgical operation when he
reaches the United States.
The body of George Lewis, wealthy
farmer of Great Bend, Ohio, has been
found in the Ohio river near Middle
port. Ohio, with a bullet hole in his
head. Lewis disappeared from Ravens
wood. w. Va, on the night of Novem-
Der 80 after an all nights debauch
Fifty dollars which the dead man had
in his possession are missing and it is
thought he was robbed, murdered and
thrown into the river by his compan-
ions.
Eight passengers were slightly in
jured, Wednesday, in the yards of Tiff
ton, Thomasville and Gulf Road at Tiff
ton. Ga. A combination freight and
passenger train was wrecked by a de-
fective switch and two passenger
coaches overturned. Among those in
jured was H. Kohn of New York. The
others were Georgia people. Most of
them were able to proceed on their
journey after receiving medical treat
ment.
Under the designation of Household
effects" ]. Pierpont Morgan will be
able to bring into this country most of
his art treasures that are now scatter
ed throughout the museums of Europe
or are in his London home. Mr.. Nor
gan has ordered his agents to gather
together all his paintings, bric-a-brac
and antiques and it is believed that
Americans will soon have an opportun
ity of seeing one of the finest private
collections in the world.
An inventory of the will of the late
Arioch Wentworth of Boston, made by
the special appraisers appointed by the
court to make an inventory for the
special administrators was filed, Thurs
day, at Salem. The total value of the
estate is $6.4S2,S93. Among the items
of personal estate are the following:
Lynn Gas and Electric Co, $3.50, 900 and
Lynn & Boston Railway, s4O,95O. All
the real estate with the exception of
$4,000 in Sampscott is located in Bos-
ton.
Details have just been learned at
Ellaville, Ga, of the killing of the s.
year-old son of Albert Wall, a we'll
known citizen Of Schley county, by two
negro boys aged 10 and II years. The
negroes enticed the boy into a shuck
pen where with a heel pin wrapped in
a shuck they attacked him, breaking
three ribs and inficting other injuries.
Spinal meningitis resulted from which
the boy died after much agony. The
boys are being held pending a full in
vestigation of their crime by the grand
jury.
Robert G. Cook. hardware merchant
of Mt. Vernon, N. Y, killed himself in
his store. Thursday, with a revolver.
Business troubles are said by his
friends to have caused the act. Cook
and his wife and 9-year-old daughter
came to Mt. Vernon a year ago from