Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The French cruiser Jurien De La
Graviere, Commander Lemondc, arrived
at New York, Sunday, from Sydney, G.
IS, and anchored in North river The
cruiser carries a crew of AGO men.
The police Of Middlctown, Conn, have
under arrest, a man whom they claim
to be q clever burglar who has oper-
ated extensively in eastern Connecticut
and Massachusetts. His name is +. II.
Ward and the charge against him is
burglary. ,.s.,
Miss Mary Archer, formerly of Mil
waukee. who sued the Sacred Heart
Convent of London, for damages for
dismissal from the order and incarccra-
ton in an asylum on the ground of in
sanity, and also for remuneration for II
years service, has been awarded $4,000
damagcs-$3G0 for wages and S50G0 for
wrongful dismissal after her liberation
from the asylum.
Exercises in celebrate of the Goth
anniversary of the berth of Johnathan
Edwards. began at the Andover Theo-
logical Seminary ut Andovcr, Mass,
Sunday, with Il sermon in the chapel by
Dr. II. Richards of New York. Public
Monday afternoon and evening, when
several prominent Cungregationalsts
will be heard.
\ despatch from Ufa, capital of the
government of that name in Russia,
says II train in which Interior Minister
Nor Plchvc was travelling went off the
track near Smolino, Sept. 8. as Il result
of Il collision caused by a herd of cattle
being driven across the tracks There
was TO loss of life and Minister Won
Plehvc, who was not injured. proceeded
after repairs had been made to the line.
Col. Leonidas Williams Pratt one of
the surviving members of the Southt
Carolina secession convention and first
cousin of President Polk, died Sunday,
at Jacksonville, Fla, in his S5th year.
lie was editor of the Southern Stand
ard, which was established in Charles
ton, s. c., i'm 1853 He was sent by the
secession convention as q member to
Florida to induce the state to cast ito
lot with South Carolina and succeeded
in his undertaking.
The New Foundland sealing steamer
Neptune, conveying the Canadian gov
eminent expedition to Hudson bay,
w.1ither it is going with the object of
expel.ing any American whalers found
fishing in those waters, passed northern
Labrador, Sept. g. and entered Hudson
strait. The steamer was expected to
reach Chesterfield inlet in the north
west section OF Hudson bay, about
Sept. 20. and make it's winter quarters
there. The expedition will not be heard
from again until next summer.
George T.. Williamson Of Chicago, and
Marvin WEIGH of GAINESVILLE, Wis,
clerks in the auditors department of
the Central Union Telephone Co, at
Indianapolis, have committed suicide
by shooting through the head. The two
men We're sent from Chicago by the
company four months ago and were
close friends. They killed themselves
at separate boarding houses The Off
Gals are investigating in the belief that
the two friends planned the double sui
eide. Wiilimson's suicide is thought to
have been the result of disappointment
in love affair.
Two men were instantly killed in Pont
st. Charles near Montreal and another
badly shocked by the boom of derrick
which they were operating coming in
Contact With All eltctfic wire. n. fdF-
ent and p. r. Provost were turning
the handle at the time. Provost had
only one hand on the handle and did not
receive the full force of the current
Parent vas using both hands and was
Instantly killed. Prevosts cries atract-
ell the notice of J. Curtin, the foreman
on the job. He rushed to Parents as
sistance and was instantly killed. Pre-
vost will recover.