Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

j CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Mrs Potter Palmer dcnounces the story
of her engagement TO the Prince Of Mona
co as absurd.
Elections for Congress were held. Mon
day, in Peru, throughout the republic and
Ipasscd off quietly.
Gen. MAYA Rodriguez, a distinguished
fofticer of both the Cuban revolutions, died,
Monday, at Havana.
| Miss Esther Walden Barnes, Il writer of
juvenile and Sunday school books and
poems. is dead at her home in East Or
| inge, Mass, aged 30 years.
| After an all days session of the special
grand jury ut Jackson. Ky. Curtis JCtt
| md Tom White were, Monday night. in
licted for the assassination of James i.
| Marcum.
The Lake Shores Twentieth Century
| Limited, hauled by Engine COS, ran from
Toledo to Elkhart, Ind. 155 miles Mon
day. tn ia minutes. This is two minutes
lower than any previous time.
W. X. Vanderbilt's Bitmore, with j.
Rausch up. at the St. Cloud meeting, Mon
day, won the Printomps handicap, worth
$1,000. Mr.. Nanderbilt's Reinette took see
ond place il the race for the PriX Gleya-
court at the same meeting.
Nanny Bates" formerly slave and
servant in the families of Presidents John
Sunday from the Lincoln bosnitaI ana
home in New York city. Had she lived
Iold
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| Mrs. kemp is a daughter of Mrs. Freder-
lick NniIsnn and n sister to Mrs Reginald
&c. Vanderbilt.
Members of the Amalgamatcd Leather
NorhtiS oi AlleIiCa VIII on 80 M IN
a,e 81 it Iii zoo
ut3 II Is cstiiiidttu tiidr pttMcel -ouo 'liiu
o'Io iiIen ar anJtteu. NJ MI
Nv % utirh +hoi, ,poie rccniI.it,,r for a,
bnnre
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one man wa hiIed diiu one @'iti ~
Dusty injured nH tne colid3St % d oulu-
hg under construction at west ny aNo-
nue. ana North avenue CnicdS"' money!
Eoth were IaDorers emli4EGu upon INC IL
structure. IN" cause or tne dlSaStef Is
not known. IL occurred III the helSht ol d
severe thunuer Stolh'.
| III" Congregation OF the Ifopa Sahda al
Rome MondaN: lihaty decluGl 70 recon,
mend the diViSlon OF tnc arch dlpceSG "l
Oregon and the appointment OF the KEY
CharicS j. y Rcli!y, pastor OF me ciitlfSl
OF the immaculate Heart OF Mary OF
Portland. oregon, to be blShop OF the ne"
diocese subject to the approval OF tht
IPope
The ice manufacturing plant of tn.
American Ice &c. at Sth and Cathaline
iStrcctS Philadelphia. was destroyed ny
tire OF unknown origin Monday. Inc
building is valued at $'ouOu and the ma
lChnC"y is said to he worth Sl30U". During
the progress OF the flfc there were nU1ncf-
Gus explosions OF ammonia, but no one
was injured.
The Winnipcsaukee valley as well as
the whole north county 50 far as heard
from. was visited with a heavy frost sun
day night Thc freeze WAS the NEST eA-
| f.4rlA "a N al
Led as thick as window glass, Wllllc az
kinds of early vegetation. i'll gardens field
crops, etc, were cut down. The mercury
registered Is degrees.
President Palma of Cuba. has auproved
1.-The regulations for the collection of the
STAMP taxes and the taxes on liquors. to-
, la, CO., sugar and matches. which are in
t,ndcd the IaNmcnt of the interest on tbs
, projected S35 0eo 600 The collections will
icGin a month hence. without awaiting
the outcome of the action OF ConGr' IS re-
SardlnS the lottery mn. Inc yIc!u OF tht
taxes is estimated at $l.So5Coo annually
i 1t was made public semi-officially NJ IN
} day. at New York that the syndicate or
ganizcd to convert sou 0D0 600 Of preferred
. ton into new ) per cent. bonds has beer
givcn until June l t. exercise this privi-
} jcgc This maMcs it mandatory upon tho
syndicate to turn III so. 900 600 of cash foi
now bonds, or Sl0O.oooooo in all the amount
for which the members hold themselves
. liable.
The application of the Western Onion
Telegram O.. for an Injunction restrain
ing the Philadelphia Baltimore & Wash
ingtCn Railroad from removing its wires
along the limo of the latter between Phil
adcIphia, Baltimore and Washington has
been set for a hearing in the United States
district court at Baltimore, June T.. THIS
arrangement was made Monday. as a con
ference between counsel for the telegraph
and railroad companies.
A private dispatch from Paris saws that
Paul Blouct (Max O'RclD died of a can
ccrous formation following an operation
for appendicitis. lie was notified som,
DAVIS ago that there was no hope but sale
that he would continue his light agains,
death as bravcly as ever He was en-
gagged in writing n story of his life. as
we'll as an English history Of France. II,
died at his home in the Rue Irreycinet al
SIS p NJ Sunday He was conscious tC
the last.
,y,shi,,oto,, transformation ott,cio1s eaid
M"ndaV' th r., had inVestieatcd report.
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t' @ ~ LID t in,
tl9n papers NJ" ncSn 5o'u ana NJ NV, i.7 III.
tbat was nnt 70 FaciIi
80 tho .,d,ni"sipn Of irnmicrnnfs into th,
IN nite ID Statas int tn hermit mali immi
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