Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-09

the general conference at Los Angeles,
next spring, have decided that everything,
is in favor of Los Angeles and expect
| 10000 Methodists to visit southern Cali
fornia during the conference.
Forty farmers stopped Missouri Pa
cifc train at Boston, Kan, Tuesday
night. and went through it, searching for
! harvest hands. The train ordinarily does
not stop there and the farmers tagged it
with lantern. wrapped in red hand
| kprchief. They offered passengers $50
and So per day for three weeks to get off
| the train. There is a great scarcity of
| harvest hands.
AS the result of blow delivered by an
unknown man on the street at Ports
| mouth N H., on the night of July 3.
Clarence Waldron, aged u died, Wcdnes-
| day. at the Cottage Hospital. Waldron
| was walking along the street ringing a
| cowbell when an unknown man walking
in front of him, turned suddenly and
struck the young man in the face. knock
| ing him down. Conclusion of the brain
+ followed.
A dispatch to the Seattle Post Intelli-
| Gencer from Dawson says the last link
| of the United States government tele
graph system connecting ST. Michael with
Seattle has been connected, but forest
fires have Interrupted cOmmunca ton.
Miles of telegraph poles have been burned
in the wilderness through which the line
runs. 1t IS also announced that the first
| through steamer from st. Michael arriV-
! ed at Dawson, Tuesday
| 1t is believed by the police authorities
| of St. Joseph, Mich, that j. j. Moore.
| whose body was found manglcd on the
| tracks of the Big Four road, Thursday.
mains thrown on the track to conceal the
crime. 1T is said Moore had been seen
with two alleged tramps at Eau Clair,
g., Mich. that later the men engaged in a
quarrel. Moore is said to have had con-
siderable money on him.
! One of the most prominent shoe manu-
facturers in New England and one of the
| heaviest taxpayers in llaverhill and Lo-
Haverhill, Mass. of heart trouble, aged
g. years. The deceased was for many
years in business in Eiavcrhill. but for L;
years past, with his two sons. he CON
Quoted the business of the John IilIing
Shoe Co, with factories in Lowell. He
was a native of Eland, Yorkshire, Eng
land.
The delegates and visitors to the SOW
enth annual convention at Buffalo. N. Y.
of the American Park and Outdoor Art
Association went to Niagara Falls.
Wednesday. A business session Was held
at the Falls. The program provided for
addresses by Andrew L. Green president
of the New York state reservation COM
mission, John w. Langmuir, chairman of
the Queen Victoria park commission and
Thomas " WEIGH. superintendent of the
New York state reservation.
The trial of the action brought by Edna
Wallace Hopper. whose mother was the
wife of the late Alex Dunsmuir, against
Charles DunSmuir to break the will of
Alex Dunsmuir on the ground of uhdu.
influence and incompetcnCH has com
menced at Victoria. T. G, Mr.. Dunsmniir
persisted in his refusals to answer qucs
tons aS to the amount of National Rail
road stock owned by tho firm of Robert
nunsmuir x Son and other intcrroga e
tories dealing with the Dunsmuir estate
The navy department has decided To al
low the European squadron to remain
! nj Out q week longer than intended
in English waters. Orders, "Wednesday,
were sent to Admiral Cotton to leave Eng
land in time to arrive at Lisbon on tho
22d INST, which will involve his sailing
on the lt7h. The Kearsarge is authorized
to remain in England until that date
when she will sail for Maine to rcioin
the North Atlantic squadron The
! brooklyn has been directed to leave the
Azores in time to arrive at Lisbon on
+ the 22d.
A receiver has been appointed for the
Story Motor and Electric Co of TIarri-
son, N. Y. by Vice Chancellor Stevens
The company was Incorporated in Octo-
> Der. 1901. with a capital Of $.0.0m. Tn,
; application was made by Frank r. Me
l Dermott of Jersey City. and Frcdericl,
Weimer of New York, counsel represent
ing Henry e. Fanshaw. vice presiden,
| and general manager of the concern
t Holders of a $4,000 mortgage and more
than IS per cent. of the bondholdcrs CON
CURED. The concerns total nominal MS.
p sets are 100000. and total liabilities $40. coo
I including S4VU dCc 10 the bondholders.
e The United States circuit court of ap
peals at Cincinnati. o.. has dismissed tho
. application for Il rchearng of the case o
Gen. Russell a. AlGer and Louis Keith
\ the dispute being the sale of coal ant
! timber lands to Gen. Algcr at Il pric,
q which he subsequently found was sevora
times their value. The parties who mad,
q the sale obtained from Gen. Alger SOP
: 25' for the land on what ne claimed wer,
false Misrepresentation. Gen. Aieel
| fought the matter through the fedora
q courts of Tennessee, where the lands mr.,
: situated and obtained Judgment re
l. scnding the sale and decreeing the return
:, OF the money to him. The lands wcr,
i then sold by order of the court and Gen
e Alger bought them for $4,000 The cour
I of appeals decided the case in favor O
: Gen. Alger upon appeal made by th
land owners.
RI Charles Vitkofsky of West Spring
y field. Mass. narrowly escaped lynchin,