Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-29
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ford, Mass, and was drowned.
The fishing smacks st. Thomas and
st. Gustave of Calias, France, are re-
ported to have foundered in the chan
mel. Fourteen men are believed to
have been drowned.
The 23d Infantry regiment, number
ing nearly 900 men, has arrived at San
Francisco. from New York state and,
with other troops, will sail on the trans
port Thomas, Friday, for Manila.
Josiah Willard Gibbs. Ph.D., Lib,
Math D., professor of mathematical
physics at Yale University and Il schol-
ar of international fame. died sudden
ly, Tuesday at his residence at New
Haven.
A strike of the 100 union carpenters
in Providence, r. l., and vicinity it is
announced, is likely to occur, May /,
unless the demands of the men for an
S-hour day, with a minimum wage rate
of IS cents an hour, are conceded by the
master carpenters.
Mgr. F. II. Rocker, formerly secreta-
~ of the Apostolic delegation at Wash
ington, d. c., who has arrived at Rome
for his conservation as bishop of Nueva
Caceres. Philippines Islands, Tuesday,
visited the College of the Propaganda,
the Vatican and several of the cardi-
nails.
The big Prohibition auditorium at
Port Richmond, S. l., where many Pro-
hibition conventions have been held,
WAS destroyed by fire, early Tuesday,
together will two small residences near
by. The blaze is believed to have been
the work of a firebug. The loss was
$2l eco
Thomas F. Seixas and b. Frank
Brown, school directors at Phladel-
phia, convicted of eXtorting money
from school teachers, and David G..
Johnson, who acted as go-betWeen,
We're, Tuesday, sentenced by Judge Da-
Wis to Is months Imprisonment and to
pay fine of 500 each.
Frederick Tarleton, alias Fred Will
son, was arrested near Weehawken, N.
Y, Tuesday, by post office inspectors
on the charge of breaking into the post
16. 1902. Tarleton admitted his iden-
to the Hudson county Jail.
The body of an Italian identified as
one Of the victims of the Spier Falls
disaster of a month ago in which 10
Workmen were drowned, was found
floating in the big bay among the logs,
Monday night, at Glens Falls, n. Y.
This is the third body that mas been
rpcONprpI since the accident
G. Mailman Sims, Tuesday, at At
lanta, Ga., pleaded guilty to the en-
bezzlement of $4,000 of the funds of the
Capitol City National Bank and was
sentenced to six years in the federal
prison. Sims was collection clerk of
the bank and was for some time d
prominent figure in the social life of
Atlanta.
Isaac Strauss, who has been quite
prominent during the shoe strike at
Lynn. Mass, by reason of his import
ing Hebrew stitchers to take the places
Of strikers. was assaulted on Union
street. Tuesday night, and knocked
unconscious into the street. He was
taken to the hospital, but proved to be
not seriously injured.
Counsel for Mrs. VIM. *. Vanderbilt,
Jr.. and Mrs. Herman Oelrich. sisters
Of Charles j.. Fair, who with his wife
was killed in AN automobile accident in
France, appealed, Tuesday, to the SUI
prcme court of New York for an order
to compel Albert J. Moranne to answer
questions in the contest. Mrs. Fairs
relatives are making over the Fair es-
tate. The justice reserved decision.
Fred Foster, Harvard's strong man,
has just made remarkable record un
der DR.. Sargents new strength test,
his figures being 100000 foot pounds
more than the old record. d. Tying, the
collegiate strong man of last year,
tried to equal Fosters figures, but
failed so that the latter is undoubtedly
the strongest man in the college world.
His grand total was $50, 213 foot pounds.
A special to the Worcester (MassD
Telegram from Whitinsville, Tuesday
night, said: Arif FANNY, aged 80, died
this afternoon, from stab wounds re-
ceived, early this morning. at an old
hut i'll the east part of Northbridge.
Assat Abraham, Husseyen Abraham
Tufik Haker and Jeller Diem, who lived
in the shanty with Faimey, have been
arrested. They claim it was case of
suicide.
The secret service department of the
n. y, N. H. Il II. II. r. has been aboi-
ished by an order recently issued at
New Haven. The order will go into eff
feet. Friday. BY the abolition score
or more expert detectives are thrown
out OF employment. 1t is understood
that railroad men who met President
Hall of the system a few weeks ago to