Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-07
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Joseph Reilly, an athlete, died, Tues
day, in Brooklyn. Before his death he
said he had been hurt, Monday night,
in Il boxing match.
The Master Painters Association of
Schenectady, N. Y, met. Tuesday
night, and decided to employ VIM.
Potter. the expelled guardsman, no
matter what action might be taken by
the local union.
VIM. Francis Chapman, one of the
best known paint and oil men in New
England, died suddenly of apoplexy at
the Massachusetts General hospital at
Boston, Tuesday. Mr.. Chapman was
born in Paris, Me-, SO years ago.
After running Is miles beyond Bos-
ton light, Tuesday, the torpedo boat
destroyer Lawrence returned to Bos-
ton harbor, it having been decided to
postpone the official trial until tomor-
row because of unfavorable weather.
Buren, r. Sherman, Iowa's war gov
ernor. is lying at his home in Vinton,
ILL.,, suffering from a serious fracture of
his arm near the shoulder as the result
of a fall on an icy sidewalk. On ac-
count of his advanced age and the gen.
eral condition of his health he may not
survive his injuries.
An anonymous gift of $4,000 to the
proposed fund for a memorial to Henry
Ward Beecher has been made. 1t is
expected the fund will reach a total of
100000. Booker T. Washington has
been appointed to represent the ne
groes on the general committee and p.
M. Arthur to represent organized labor.
The stockholders Of the Equitable
Trust Co. met Tuesday, at New York,
and increased the capital stock from
81, 900 900 to $3,O0O,O00. The new stock is
to be issued at $500 per share.
Chauncey M. Depew, Clarence Mackay
Sir William c. Van Horne, J. F. Dry
den and Charles Francis Adams "a
were among the directors chosen.
Raffaele Carnuecio, an italian. who
recently went to Boston from New
Hampshire, fell among thieves, Tues
day night, was beaten and robbed OF
$2350 which he had drawn from the
bank, Tuesday. One of the three men
alleged to be implicated in the crime
is under arrest but the two others to-
gether with the money have not been
found.
Dr. Kennedy, rector of the American
College at Rome, sailed from New
York, on the Raiser Wilhelm Der
Crosse Tuesday, accompanied by DR..
B. +. Da Costa, former rector of the
Episcopal church of st. John the Evan
gelst, New York city, and DR.. Doran
formerly a Protestant minister in Phil
adelphia, both of whom are going to
Rome to become Roman Catholic
priests. DR.. Da Costa is II years old
and a widower
Il will accept the offer of the Hay
HALEY A. C. of San Francisco to fight
Jim Jeffrios for the championship of
the world" said James j. Corbett,
Tuesday night. at Buffalo, N. Y. Cor
bett believes Jeffries will also accept
the offer. because the club is reliable
and the champion has had no match
for a long time. The Hay-Halley A.
C. announced that it would offer a
purse of $4,000 for a 20-round contest
between Corbett and Jeffries.
Representatives of Armour & Co. of
Chicago, have been through the dairy
sections of central and northern New
York asking the creameries to name
chase the entire butter output of this
district. amounting to several million
pounds of first class creamery butter
per annum. No terms or contract have
been offered by the agents, who have
simply asked the creameries to name
prices at which they will sell exclusive
ly to Armour & Co.
The members of the state board of
arbitration and Cancellation who were
at Amesbury, Mass, Tuesday, of their
own volition. making inquiries regard
ing the strike of the carriage workers,
held conferences with the manufacture
ers and with a committee from the
Carriage Workers Union, but if any
progress was made toward an adjust
ment of the difficulties the act was not
made public and the members left for
their homes. Tuesday night, without
giving any intimation of their future
action. There is no apparent change in
the situation.
The trial of DR.. C. ]. Alexander,
demonstrators of anatomy at the Cen
trail College of Physicians and Surgeons
at Indianapolis, Ind, who is under in
diCtment with about 20 other men on
the charge of wholesale grave robbing,
has been postponed until February on
account of the Illness of DIR. Alexander.
This is the third time the case has been
postponed, but Judge Afford of the
criminal court. said, today: ''These
grave robbing cases will be disposed
Iof if court has to hold through the
summer. Criminal court will not adj
journ until the grave robbers are tried
Another conference between a COM
mittee OF the Order of Railway Con-
ductors and Vice President Merrill of
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad, was held, Tuesday, at the
general office building in New York
city. 1t is stated that the conductors
ask, among other things Z restoration
of the old pay to passenger men and
slight increase per mile to freight men.
These increases would bring wages to
| 81 a day. A member of the order said
that MIR. Merrill presented a counter
proposition to the committee, acceding
to some portions of the request as APP
plying to men on the New York. High
land and Midland divisions of the sys-