Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-17
NEWS NUGGETS.
5rousht by the Wires from the NortEs,
East, South and West.

East, South and West.
Ky order of Coroner Davis, who is
conducting the investigation of the
murder of Mrs Mary Czejar of Middle
field, Ct, Alfred Jambrick. who former
ly boarded at Mr.. Czejar's house, was
taken into custody, Tuesday.
Harry Smelling, champion wclter-
weight of Quebec, received the decision
over First-class Petty officer Doran of
II. NJ. $. Ariadne in 10-pound bout 1T
the Halifax armory, Tuesday. The
fight was one of the fastest ever seen
in Halifax and was witnessed by 1000
people.
Justice Moore of the Michigan SUI
preme court has affirmed the Judgment
Of the Wayne county court in the case
Of the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance
Co. against the city of Detroit. This
means that the reserve fund of an in
surance company is not taxable in the
state of Michigan.
Three judges of election who of1iciat-
ed in the 18th ward of Chicago, during
the recent judicial election, were Tues
day found guilty of contempt of court
and sentenced by Judge Carter to three
months imprisonment in the county
Jail. They were charged with having
permitted men registered from lOdg-
ing houses to vote repeatedly and to
impersonate deceased persons whose
homes appeared on the registration
lists
The second session of the seventh
Union met at Saratoga, n. Y, Tues
day. The speakers of the body is james
j. Condor of New York. The message
of the president, VIM. Horries of
Brooklyn, described the union as being
in a better condition than for many
years. The reports of several eXccu-
tive officers accompanied the message
and the message was referred to COM
mittecs Tor consideration.
George Eaton, who was arrested at
Corning, N, Y, Monday, charged with
attempt to bride Horace A. Taylor as
sistant secretary of the treasury. to
purchase his property for site for a
federal building in that city, protests
his innocence Of any such intention as
he is charged with. Mr.. Eaton says
that the intent of his letter was entire
ly misunderstood at the treasury de-
partment. His employers have a abso-
lutte confidence in his innocence.
Laurent GrenOn. was tried in the 20
lice court at Lowell. Mass, Tuesday,
for assault on Joseph A. Carrier, 4
Lewiston, mule spinner, employed as n
strike breaker. Carrier testified that
Grcnon and another man accosted him
on the street and asked him to join the
union now on strike, he refused and
was Immediately struck and pun
melled by the two, who knocked him
down and injured him so severely that
n doctor was called. GrenOn was fined
SO.
The steamer HarlaW arrived at North
Sydney, G. b., Tuesday night, with 10
head of cattle, 600 sacks of flour and a
quantity of lumber and other goods
salVcd from the steamer Norwegian.
capt. Scott reports that four steamers
made an unsuccessful attempt, Monday,
to float the Norwegian. There is no
water aft of the engine room, but there
is IA feet of water in the forward hold.
Pumps are being placed in position and
dlOlHcI attempt VIII ne Hld,lt " llodl
her.
Joseph II. Stevenson, IS years old, a
veteran of the Civil War, and Il mem
Der of Post ., G.. A. r., was buried,
Tuesday, from the new home of his
daughter, Mrs. C. II. King, shoe manu-
facturer OH Ocean street, at Lynn,
Mass. MIR. Stevenson was found dead
in his room in the new home, Sunday,
with the gas escaping. The family
state that it was accidental. Friends
of the old man say that. he was heart
broken at leaving his old home in
Swampscott and had declared that he
would never live in the new house his
daughter had erected and into which
the family moved last week.
Rate clerks of the Central Passenger
Association will meet in Cincinnati,
Thursday, to try and have the Lake
Shore abandon its rate announced from
Cleveland to San Francisco for the Grand
Army encampment. The rate is said to
be an infringement on differentials by 9TH
er lines and unless the Lake Shore COM
plies with the wish of the clerks n general
overturning of rates to the Pacific coast
is probable.
Helen S. Bishop, the 17-Vear-old daugh-