Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-07
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North,
East, South and West.

Gen. Gillespie. chief of engineers will
be designated president of the board of
ordnance and Notifications, on the re-
trement of Gen. Miles.
The worlds running record for three
and one-half furlongs has been cut one
quarter of a second by Ulotma in 41A at
, the "a NftYdows.r tSspttie. WASH e,"s"" ~.
The main building of the plant of the
American School Furniture Co. at Piqua
o.. was destroyed by fire early Thurs
day. Loss. $4,000; partly covered by in
, Sura nee.
The governor of the Russian provncesof
Kherson has been instructed by the min
istry of the interior TO prohibit all meet
ingS of ZioniSts and to forbid collections
and subscriptions III aid of Zionist aims.
Miss Bessie Anthony, the Western
champion, Won the Glenview cup. the
| chief trophy in the woman's golf cham
ponship tournament, by defeating Miss
J. Anna Carpenter in the finals by two
up
ing trades of Minneapolis, refused to go
autwork. Thursday, aud are on strike for
raise of pay from 20 to % cents an hour.
The walk-cut suspended operations on
several large buildings
! James Livingston, a well-known builder
OF New York. has filed a petition in bank
| frhptcy with liabilities of $1.546. 300 and no
assets. OF the liabilities sl,4O7.so0 were
| secured by bonds and mortgages on West
| side residence properties.
! A fire which started. early Thursday.
in the Davis Opera house at Plymouth.
Mass, burned all but the front wall of
a store occupied by the Massachusetts
| Southern Telephone Co. nearby. The loss
is estimated at 100000; partial insurance.
| Among the passengers on the French
New York for Havre. Thursday, were NJ.
| Du Martheroy, Swiss minister to the
United States; c. Rodriguez Maldona.
secretary of the Colombian legation at
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consul general at New York.
| Fire which started in the store of for
/ mer State Senator ]. g. w. Ravens at
Point j.
| of the town. The damage is estimated at
about 100000. Ex-senator Ravens lost a
valuable connection of antiquities which
he had been collecting for 40 years.
Adrian Iselin. the well-known yachts
ma 4, has presented TO the city of New
Rochelle. n. y. Neptune park, which,
under his direction. has been for three
years in process of improvement The
property is valued at more than 5000
and the only condition attached to the do
nation is that no liquor shall be sold
in the park.
The plan of forming a holding company
with a capital of $50. 900 for the Hal
man and Huntington electric lines in
southern California has been abandoned.
were to have held minority of the stock
lin the proposed company. Halman and
Huntington keeping the control. The in
terested parties have decided not to dis
turb the existing four companies which
represent the Halman and Huntington
lines. .
Eugene Bloch and Katie Falsinger. wife
of Robert Falsinger. were found, Thurs
day night, In the latter's apartments at
Allentown. Pa. with their threats cut.
1.-THE woman was dead but the man may
recover Mrs. Falsinger was horribly
sIashed Bloch made statement to the
tpoliee that the deed was committed by II
stranger, Thursday morning. while he
and Mrs Falsnger were in bed; that he
was wounded in trying to prevent her
murder Mrs. Falsinger was estranged
Ifrom her husband. Bloch is divorced from
his wife, ~