Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-04
NEWS NUGGETS.
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} During the week ending, Saturday
{ the exports of grain from Boston to
f tailed sos, GA bushels, of which 526,51
bushels were corn, and 32,125 bushel
| wheat.
William Long, a prominent planter
at Adams Landing, Miss, was killed
by negroes, Friday night. A wholesal,
lynching is probable if the murderer!
are caught.
Admiral Dewey and the members OF
the general board, who accompanied
him to the Southern drill grounds or
the yacht Mayfiower to inspect the
north Atlantic fleet, returned to Wash
ington, Saturday..
The courtmartial at Manila, of Capt.
Carl F. Hartmann, of the Signal Corps,
who was charged with embezZling gov
| eminent property, has been concluded
1t is believed that the captain has been
acquitted. The trial of Capt. Hart
mann was sensational.
The hereditary prince of Sake Mem
ingen, commander of the 9Th Army
| Corps at BreSlau and brother-in-law
Of Emperor William, whose recent or
ders against the maltreatment of SOL
diers. and drunkenness in the German
army. created a sensation, has re-
signed.
The most destructive forest fire ever
| known in that section is raging on
Lyndeboro mountain at Wilton, N. H.
A hundred acres of fine pine and spruce
timber is fast going up in smoke, and
many people living in the vicinity have
moved their household effects to places
of safety.
| Fifty half-naked Doukhobors are on
| the march for Saskatoon, Man, say
| ing they are searching for Jesus" and
will not stop until they find him. The
men have discarded their trousers and
are marching in their boots and coats,
shouting and singing. Dutch Lake
constables have been ordered to hold
themselves in readiness.
After filming Mrs. Walter Mcdonald,
| Friday, for setting the fire at New Bos-
ton, Mass, which destroyed woodland
valued at about $4,000, Judge Byram
said that he did not feel that severe
penalty should be imposed, as she was
unfortunate in letting a brush blaze
get beyond her control. There are, how
ever, laws against setting brush fires
without the permission of the foresters.
Fire broke out, Saturday, in the
foundery of the American Locomotive
Works, at Manchester, N. H, the roof
being damaged to the extent of $4,000.
The fire is supposed to have caught
from a defective fiue. Three of the
| members of Hose 8, Frank D. Hardy,
James Mckenzie and A. w. Smith,
were badly cut about the head, face
and shoulders by being struck by slate
| falling from the burning structure.
The intercollegiate shoot at the Clear
View Gun Club grounds at Philadel-
phia, Saturday, was won by Harvard.
with a total of 200. Princeton finished
| second, making 1877; Pennsylvania
third, with 173, and Yale last, with 172.
| The conditions We're five men teams,
each man to shoot at so targets at I'M
known angles, from the 16-yard line
The teams shot in squads of five, each
| man shooting at two targets from each
stand.
Denman Thompson, the veteran ac-
tor, who was taken suddenly i'll at
Claremont, last week, and who arrived
at his home at SWanZey, N. H., Fri
day, had good nights rest and was
feeling we'll. Saturday, save a soreness
of muscles caused by coughing. DR..
Highland, his medical attendant re-
peats that there was nothing serious
| the matter with Mr.. Thompson and
that the rest for a week or two would
restore complete health.
Miss Rosa A. Finley was arraigned
in the municipal court at Laconia, N.
FL, Saturday, before Judge Everett,
charged with the murder of her s.
Weeks-old baby, which it is alleged she
threw into the Winnipesaukee river
from the Gold street bridge last Thurs
day night. The court assigned Ma
poleon j. Dyer as counsel for the de-
fence, who entered n plea of not guilty
Upon his motion the case was contin-
ued for hearing to May 5. AS the
crime with which Miss Finley is charg-
ed is not bailable she was taken to jail
A CHASTITY reminder of a recent dis
aster at sea was sighted, Thursday. by
the four-masted Schooner Percy Bird
sail, which arrived, Saturday. at Provi
dence, r. l., from Baltimore Off the
Jersey coast, Barnegat bearing west
southwest 80 miles, she passed through
lot OF floating wreckage. In the
midst OF the wreckage was the body of
u iHe'ii' II 10 supposed lndC the wreck
age and body were from the big barge
John c. Fitzpatrick, which, while in
tow of the tug Sweepstakes, sank after
her boiler exploded, about six weeks
ago. The whole crew of five men was
drowned.
Norman Whitney, a prominent bust
ness man of Newport, r. l., Is SADLY
afflicted. few weeks ago his wife
died, within about week after the
birth of a child; q few days ago his
rather, William II. Whitney. became
ILL., The skill of the physicians was Mt
terry unable to check the advance of
the disease and Mr.. Whitney died. Fri
day evening. Saturday morning. the
Youngest child of Young Whitney died
Norman Whitney is ill with a severe
attack of the grip, which is aggravated
by his numerous Affections. The re-
manning child and Mr.. Whitney's sister
are also ILL.,
A son was born a few days apo 70
Mr.. and Mrs. Cormac McCallis of
HaZleton, Pa, being the twenty.th;rs