Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-29

inspectors OF steam NeSSels, AiluTeW
Savage and Henry M. Seeley. have re-
voked the license of Engineer Merritt.
In lieu of a championship match at
the Philadelphia Country Club, Satur-
day, there was scrub game for cups
/ between two freebooter teams made up
/ of Bryn Mawr and Country Club play
ers. The former won by score of "a
| to 2. There were at least 10000 people
in attendance.
! George Abbott of Boston, the Oldest
and best-known wool operators of the
Pacific coast, was seriously injured,
Sunday, at Biggs Station, Oregon. He
walked off an unguarded platform in
the darkness and sustained injuries
which necessitated the amputation of
his right leg.
Employer and employe in New York's
labor war seem still to be far apart.
Seventy men, representing 16 strong
unions in the building trades met, Sun
day, and after a long discussion issued
statement, to the effect that they
would not even discuss arbitration until
the lockout was lifted.
The New York boat train struck and
probably fatally injured a 215-year-old
child named Jennie Sousa of 80 Fourth
street at Taunton, Saturday evening.
The child was playing on the track
near the Fourth street bridge and be-
coming bewildered at the approach Of
the flyer stepped directly in it's way.
Her skull was fractured.
The Kings of Italy and Roumania,
President Loubet of France and Prince
Nicholas of Montenegro have added
their congratulations to those already
received by King Peter from other
chiefs of states. These kilograms are
regarded as constituting official recog-
milton of the new ruler of Servia.
Fire almost completely destroyed the
massive plants of the Riddle Coach and
Hearse Co., at Ravenna, o., Sunday,
creating a loss of $250,0o0. OF this
amount only $4,000 was covered by in
surance. 1t was the largest fire i'm the
history of Portage county, and for
a time it was feared that all the bust
ness places along Main street would be
destroyed.
The freight depot of the Midland
Railway at London was destroyed by
fire, Sunday night. 1t was one of the
largest warehouse buildings in London
and burned fiercely for several hours.
The loss will be enormous, although no
estimate has yet been given. Some of
the contents of the warehouses We're
saved. but a great quantity of freight
was destroyed.
Gus Lawson won the 15-nile motor
paced grand circuit championship race
on the Revere track, Saturday night,
his opponents being De Guichard and
Munroe. His time for the distance was
22.06 Is The one mile handicap anna
teur race was won by Neil Dow, from
the 120-yard mark in 2.04. The 10-mile
open amateur was won by C. L. KIM
ball in 24.07 Is.
The threatened strike of the ma
chinists in the vicinity of Pittsburg,
Pa, July l, was probably averted, Sun
day, by the men agreeing to a COM
promise. Over 1000 machinists attend
ed the mass meeting, Sunday, and
agreed to cut their demand for an in
crease in wages from Is to 10 per cent.
A committee will wait upon the manu-
factuters, Monday, to present the
modified scale.
Heart broken by the deaths of wife
and children, bankrupt in pocket and in
hope, Theodore Wallkopf put a bullet
through his brain, Sunday, at New,
York. His weapon was French duell-
ing pistol. Wallkopf, a man of culture
and good family, arrived from Brazil.
two months ago. He carried letters of
introduction from the Brazilian minis
ter and spent money literally but
Stunned society.
The supreme court at Nashville,
Tenn, has denied the constitutionality
of the Adams law, passed by the last
Legislature. This was temperance
resolution providing for the abolition
of saloons in towns having a popula-
ton of 500 and under, upon the submis-
sion of the question to popular vote.
There are only eight towns in the state
that are exempt from the laws opera
ton.
Capt. John Breen of the schooner
Mary A. White of Rockport, Saturday,
picked up near Thatchers island a yawl
boat belonging to the schooner T.. w.
Cooper. There was some wreckage near
near the yawl and 1T was at first thought
that the schooner T. w. Cooper had
been lost. Advices from Machiaspnrt,
Me-, where the Cooper belongs, state
that the schooner reported at Ports
mouth, June 90, that she had lost boat,
jib and foretopsail There was 20
wreck at Thatchers island and the t.
w. Cooper is safe.
The members of the New Hampshire
Weekly Publishers Association went.
Saturday, to Portsmouth, N. H., from
York Beach, and after visiting the navy
yard went to the Isles of Shoals, where
they remained until Sunday These
officers were elected: Judge c. II.
Wells, Somersworth, pres; w. Fl.
Thompson of Claremont, c. blanchard
of North Conway, f. c. Cole of Warner,
vice pres; Charles G. Jenness, Roches-
ter, Sec; E. H. Thompson, Pennington,
treas; E. e. Blanchard, D. M. White,
f. A. Chandler, executive committee.
Arrangements have been completed
for the meeting in Denver, of the list
international biennial convention of the
Society of Christian Endeavor, next
month. The sessions will be held in
tent Endeavor which will be pitched in
convenient place near City park ana