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

AT least dozen persons, eight of
them nremen, We're seriously injured
in Il collision between q hose cart and
trolley car in Brooklyn, early Satur-
day.
The schooner Victor, of $50 tons, was
burned, Saturday, in the harbor ut
Dorchester, n. b. She left, Friday
night, for New York, with deals, but
put back with fire on board
Mrs Anna Bellew, Saturday, at
Springfield, Mo-, shot her 18-year-oid
daughter dead and then killed herself
She left note saying that her hus-
bands family had wrecked her life.
Jack Monroe announced, Saturday, at
New York, that he had telegraphed to
James j. Jeffries an acceptance of the
latter's challenge to fight him for the
championship at Los Angeles, Oct. l6
Pension Commissioner e. F. Ware an
admirer of Mark Twain, is negotiating
Off the purchase of the log cabin in
which Twain wrote "Roughing It"
The cabin is in Colorado City, Colo. and
for several years has been used for q
Chinese laundry. Wares idea is to give
the cabin to Topeka. ,
Sam Honang, a British subject, who
is said to be one of the wealthiest resi-
dents of the island of Demarara, is
ldsahaarq. the steamship Grenada of
The ITintdtM line. at New York, and
denied o. hndfng in this country by the.
inmigra ton sinspectors. on the ground :
that It woy1d be a violation of the
Chinese sexcis Sion act.
John Matf6ss and Plummer Colby,
the two prisoners who escaped from
ossipee, N. H, jail, some weeks ago.
We're captured, late Sunday night. near
Ossipee Valley, by Sheriff Johnson and
posse. The men We're surprised and
at first refused to surrender. and in
consequence Colby was shot in the leg
by the sheriff. They were taken to Os-
sipee jail.
Harry Y. Fuller, the Broolline, Mass,
exchange telephone inspector, and his
bride, who was Miss Helen Louise Mo-
Han, the handsome hello girl at that
eexchange, arrived in Melrose, Saturday,
k.hltd went to the Fuller homestead. The
'elBing pair We're received with open
arysss by Patrolman and Mrs George
f. Ftlfler at their cozy little home at
81 East Foster street, Melrose.
An amendment recommended by the
general staff will shortly be made to,
the army regulations Increasing to
threefold The amount Of 'baggage Which
officers may have transported at the
expense of the government The
amounts stated are as follows: For a
major general. 10, 800 pounds: brigadier
general, $500; field officer, 1900: captain,
5000: first lieutenant 500: second lieu %
tenant and veterinarians, $500; nom
commissioned officers, 1900. Excess
baggage will be transported by the
government at favorable rates
The first instance of the govern
ment's refusal to admit to this country
adulterated wines under the pure food
set occurred. Saturday, when entry
was refused of a shipment of white
Wine from Bordeaux, found to contain
salcylic acid. Under the new law en-
try may be refused any article of food.
wines. etc, whose sale and consump-
ton are prohibited in the country of
origin. France expressly prohibits the
sale of any food substance into which .
there enters salicylic acid or its aderiy-
atives.
After a quick trip, in which She Il.
reduced her record for the passage by
hours, and minutes, the american
Line steamer st. Louis, from Soutf-Sta
hampton and Cherbourg, arrived in
port at New York, Friday night, and
anchored at quarantine. Her time OF ss
passage was days, Z hours. and 40
minutes, which eclipses her former rec
ord, made in 1892 and comes within
threc-quarters of an hoursof the time
of her sister ship, the St.s Paul, which
holds the record from Cherbourg&for
American Line steamers.