Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

From internal revenue $606,207; Gus
toms, 1901, 611: miscellaneous, $32,1l8;
expenditures, S1,420,000.
The British steamer Manchester Mar
llet, from Manchester, April "a, for
Philadelphia, which stranded, Sunday
on Gipsey rock off Tuscan, Ireland, is
! breaking up.
kilograms received at Vienna from
Sofia, Bulgaria, announce that a fierce
fight between Turkish troops and
large band of insurgents has occurred
| on the right bank of the river Struma,
in the district of the Dischuma, Tur-
key.
Rock Sand ridden by j. II. C'Skeets')
Martin, wan the 2000 guineas stakes
(for 3-year-olds, one mile) at the New
market first spring meeting, Wednes-
| day. TlOtsam with Danny Maher
up, was second; Rabelais came in third.
| Eleven horses started.
While Everett Santana, aged Is, and
his brother John. aged &c, We're build
| ing q fence over creek at WestvilIe
10 miles north of Malone. n. Y, Tues
day, Everett fell into the water. In an
endeavor to rescue hirn the older
brother jumped into the creek and both
were drowned.
Roland Huntley Gordon, son of the
late Cosmo William Gordon of London.
was married, Wednesday, at Twicken-
ham. Eng, to Mary, daughter of Mrs.
Charles Kuhn of Philadelphia. A re-
ception followed ut Fullwell Park.
which was lent for the occasion by
| Reginald Ward, who was best man.
John NJ Smith and Rudolph Sherman
We're dangerously wounded by an un-
known Italian in a shooting affair in
Second avenue. New York early
Wednesday. The quarrel began in q
| saloon Lncause of a disparaging re-
mark about a woman which Smith re-
| scented. Smith was wounded in the
| Stle and back of his head and Shcr-
man received a bullet in the left eye.
| Their wounds may be fatal. The as
saildnt escaped.
A dispatch from ST. Petersburg to the
Lokal Anzegier says it is reported from
kars. Asiatic Russia. that squadron
of Turkish cavalry crossed the Russian
| frontier. 10 versts from Sara Kamysh
| Transcaspan territory, and is advance
ing. A Russian frontier post gave the
alarm to a regiment of Cossacks, which
fred on the Turks, killing an officer
| L
no loss. The Turks then retreated
| across the frontier.
In the Iowa river. about 10 miles
north of Cresco, Ia. the body of Gus
Kreuger was found near his farm
weighted down with a stone. His head
was terribly crushed and mutilated.
tracks of a buggy were found leading
to the river and the fact that passer-
| A., L.,
ing her buggy out Of the river and
also that the blankets and q sofa in
the Kreuger house were spotted with
blood led to Mrs. Kreuger's arrest. She
protests her innocence.
The Staten Island police believe they
captured the frebug who has been
alarming the islanders, when. early
| Wednesday. they arrested Rockwell
| Reynolds. aged 10. Reynolds was at
the top Of ladder with long pole.
having a blazing torch at tn" end try
ing to set Gre to the Masonic Temple mt
Port Richmond. He was captured
without difficulty. Reynolds, the police
say, confessed that he set fire to- the
Prohibition auditorium, which was
burned, Tuesday.
Judge Hazel. in the United States dis
trict court. ut Buffalo. n. V. Wednes-
day. handed down his decision in the
suit brought by the Beard of Trade of
Chicago against the Consolidated Stock
Exchange of Buffalo and others. The
| decision is in favor of defendants. A
molten by the plaintiff for temper
| airy injunction. is denied. The plain
tiff wanted n temporary injunction re-
straining the defendants from using
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| city as published on the Exchange
| floor iE Chicago.
| On the ground that the war tax i'm
| posed on the gross receipts of the SUI
| gar refneries was unconstitutional. the
American Sugar Refinery Co. has
brought suit against the government to
recover $4,000, which II paid in taxes
on business amounting to $21 ,O00. 600.
| This tax was paid under protest from
June 13, 1898 to July l. 1902 when the
law was repealed. The papers in The
case have been served on Internal
| Revenue Collector Jordan In Brooklyn,
and argument viii be heard by United
States Judge Thomas within few
| days.
| Prof Benjamin Duryea Woodward
Of the department of Roman languages
| at Barnard. Columbia University, has
been commissioned by President Roose-
| Welt to wind up, on behalf of the Unit
ed states, all business relating to its
| share in the Paris Exposition of 1900.
| Prof. Woodward's work involves the
| distribution OF between 5000 and COCO
| medals and diplomas of award to ex-
| hibitors in the United States and Cuba.
lie will sail for France to begin his du-
ties at the end of May. Prof. Wood
ward was assistant commissioner gen.
eral from this country to the EXPOSE
ton in 1900.
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