Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The supreme court at Jefferson City,
Mo-, Tuesday, reversed the decision of
the st. Louis county court in the cases
of Former Delegates Falkner and Leh-
mann, convicted of perjury, and re-
manded the cases. Justice CAN'T wrote
the opinion.
An incendiary set fire to the wooden
| chapel used by the First Baptist So
ciety, ut Peabody, Mass, early Tues
day, and before the tiremen could do
anything to eXtinguish the Games the
little structure was burned to the
ground. The loss is $500 and there
is no insurance. The building was
known as the Andover street chapel
and was being used by the Baptist
church until such time as larger
structure could be erected.
After negotiations carried on for
many months with view to CONSOLE
dating the two big street railway com
panieS of Cleveland, Ohio, an agree
ment was reached, today, which will
result in the amalgamation of their
interests and then the placing of cv-
cry line operated under one manage
ment. The new company. it is under
Ht'ot w III iISt w u vi ilpt
less than $23, 100000. Senator Hanna
will, it is said, be the chairman of the
board of directors.
The refusal of % electricians and
cranemen to return to work in the Chi
cago plant of the AlliS- Chalmers Co,
unless their demand for an increase in
wages was granted, has necessitated
the closing down of the entire plant,
throwing 1900 machinists, backsmiths,
pattern makers and other employees out
of employment. Seven hundred street
labOrers, many of them employees of
the Gas Co. on sub-contract work for
the city OF Chicago, are on strike. The
men demand higher wages.
C.. Gray Dinsmorc, w. K. Vanderbilt
Jr, and Tod Sloan were among the
americans who qualified, Tuesday, for
the section of the Paris Madrid auto
mobile race which will start from Paris
for Versailles ut 3 o'clock next Sunday
morning. Mr.. Nandcrblt's machine at
tr2cted much attention. IT is painted a
vivid blue, has a huge body tapering to
point at both ends, and resembles a
miniature submarine boat The judges
scales showed its weight to be 9S5 kiloS.
1t is understood that the machine has
% horse power.
A runaway trolley car on the Goth
street line at Chicago, Monday night,
crashed through the gates guarding the
Fort Wayne tracks and dashed into a
freight train. The car was thrown
from the tracks by the impact and the
crowd of people on board were damned
ard crushed together Six persons
We're severely injured, among them be-
ing Mrs. Mary Scott of Pittsbure, Pa,
who was cut about the head. Witness
sas assert that. although the railroad
gates We're down there WIS no signal of
any kind displayed.
A dispatch to the Chicago Record
Herald from st. Louis. Mo, says: In
his testimony in rebuttal in the Chicago
drainage canal hearing, Prof Whipple,
| consulting engineer of the greater New
York water department, has given as
his opinion that in the event of plague
Of Asiatic cholera in Chicago germs Of
the disease could be transmitted
through the water to ST. Louis. Prof.
Whipple added. however that under
the existing conditions there is little
or no probability of plague of Asiatic
cholera occurring in Chicago.