Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-24
NEWS NUGGETS.
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East, South and West.

The election of Gen. Gil as president,
| Gen. Deschanaps as vice president Of
the Dominican Republic. passed off
| quietly, as the whole republic remains
| tranquil.
An autopsy upon the body of Mrs. G..
T. Snyder, the burial of which was
| stopped in a sensational manner at
Passaic, N. j., by the coroner of New
York, shows that the woman died from
natural causes.
Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, Bart,
member of Parliament for Durham
City, Eng, and chairman of the North
eastern Railway CO., died, Tuesday,
of heart failure. He was born in 1928
and was created baronet in 1882.
| In a head-on collision, between two
| Seaboard Air Line freight trains at
| Niagara, near Southern Pines, n. c.,
| Tuesday, Engineers D. M. Stewart and
w. p. Wall both were instantly killed
and Fireman Wright of Raleigh, dan
gerously hurt,
| Bates of Massachusetts,, Tuesday,
signed the Luce caucus bill. This bill
in the form finally agreed upon, pro-
|
cusos of all parties shall be held at the
same time and place while in other
cities and towns the question of ac-
ccptance of act will appear on the bal
| lot next state election.
Prof. Lang of Yale University, it was
announced, Tuesday, at New Haven,
has been made a knight commander of
the Order of Santiago by the King of
Portugal for his services to Portuguese
| letters. He received the insignia of the
order through the Portuguese minister
at Washington. Prof. Lang is eminent
as a scholar in Portuguese literature.
| The summer meeting of the Institute
of Naval Architects opened, Tuesday,
az Belfast, Ire. Admiral Cleveland Gre
tircd) discussing the fact of coalng
ships for the navy, deprecated at large
expenditure because "oil will be the
| future fuel for warships and expert
ments in this direction are being car
ried on by the admiralty with great
success
| Proprietor kubelik of the Belfast no.
! tel at Buford, N. D., has been shot and
killed, supposedly by Convict Pierce
who escaped from the Glasgow Jail with
William Hardee. Pierce is known to
be in the vicinity of Buford and there
| is little doubt that he was recognized
by Kubelik, who shot him to prevent
being apprehended. A large posse is in
pursuit of Pierce.
| Encouraging reports of the progress
made during the past year have been
submitted to the National Association
| Of pataiI JT,,rpitI1rp Daalarc in cpSSjOn
at Grand Rapids, Mich. Sec. r. G.
| Alexander of Boston, reported mem
bership of more than 1000. The annual
meeting of the association for election
of officers will be held during the Jam
uary Exposition in Grand Rapids.
The Great lakes tug c.. w. Cheney
| was run down by the propeller Che
mrng, Tuesday, about seven miles up
the lake from Buffalo, N. Y, and three
members of the crew We're drowned.
| The Cheney had gone to meet the Che
mung and tow her into port. AS the
| tug was taking the line she ran I'M
der the bow of the propeller and was
struck amid ships and rolled over and
sunk.
The clearing away of the debris
caused by the flood at Heppner, Ore, Is
progressing rapidly. Sanitary condi-
tions of the town at present are far
better than had been hoped for, but
every precaution is being taken to
guard against an epidemic. One hun
dred and seventy seven bodies have
been recovered and 35 persons are miss
ing. The relief fund has reached
$26, 900.
The Ziegler polar expedition sailed,
Tuesday, from Trondhjem, Norway, on
the steam whaler America for Franz
Josef Land. where the America will
mss the winter and whence expeditions
will he sent out with dog sledges. Ma
terial for the construction of winter
quarters was taken on board the
steamer. Among the members of the
cypedition is DR.. G. w. Shorkley of
Camden, Me.
Charles Taylor, a merchant of Roam
oke. Ala, was shot and Instantly
killed. Monday night, on a crowded
business street of Montgomery, Ala, by
Bvron Trammell, a deputy United
States marshal. The killing resulted
from bad feeling caused by Trammell's
testimony in bankruptcy proceedings
AGAINST Taylor. ON meeting, Monday
nipht TrammeH is said to have been
struck by Taylor at whom he immedi-
ately fired five pistol shots. Trammell
was arrested.
/ AS Gov. Bates of Massachusetts, is /
going, Wednesday, to Harvard Uni
yersity to attend the commencement,
the weekly meeting of the Ecxecutlve
Council was held, Tuesday. Gov
Bates made a number OF nominations,
among them being the following:
Woodward Emery of Cambridge, har-
Dor and land commissioner; n. Mayo 4
Over of Melrose, commissioner of the
Massachusetts Nautical Training