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

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GERS.
The Allan Line steamer City of Bonn
bay, which arrived at st. Johns. N. F..
Sunday. from Liverpool, reports having
passed an unusual number of icebergs
on the Grand Banks. She sighted Is
bergs in one fleet. The British steamer
Silvia. which arrived, Monday, from
Halifax, passed AZ icebergs off Cape
Race. Several sailing ships reported
sighting hergs and the presence of
heavy foes in the track of shipping.
Chambers has caused the death of
Simon Wilson, a colored stableman in
Newark. N. j. This is the second case
recorded there in which this disease,
peculiar to horses, has attacked a hui
man being. The other case is that of
Alfred Meyer. who is in the last stages
of the disease. The doctor who attend
ed Wilson says the man became ill last
January with an affection which, at the
time. was believed to be cancer of the
nose.
The story sent out, last Friday night.
under Westport, Conn, date line and
telling of the alleged defalcation of the
former cashier of the Westport Ma
tional Bank, was erroneous. There has
been no defalcation at the Westport
National Bank and the bank is not
officially closed as stated. The item
was intended to refer to the Southport
National Bank and the Westport was
Inadvertently transmitted instead of
Southport.
The state militia standing guard, the
grand jury of Breathitt county, at
Jackson, KY, Monday, began an in
WESTON of the assassination of Lawyer
James E. Marcum. When the grand
jury was sworn in, Jugde Redwine call
ed attention to the lamentable condi-
tons in Breathitt county and urged
that not only the actual murderers of
James Is. Marcum be convicted but that
all who were in any way connected
with the murder be treated likewise.
Representative Frederic o. MacCart-
ney died at his home at Rockland,
Mass, at SIS p. M, Monday, succumb-
ing to bronchial pneumonia from which
he had been ill nine days. Mr. Mozart
ney was born at Prairie Duchein, Wis,
in 1864 and educated for the ministry.
In 1899 he left the pastorate of the Uni
tartan church to become secretary of
the Industrial Peace Society and in the
same year was elected to the Legisla-
ture on the Social Democratic ticket.
Nearly 80 arrests were made at Mont
real, Monday, of strikers who were con-
cerned in the attacks made upon the
cars on st. Catherine and st. Dennis
streets. Sunday afternoon. Among the
men arrested was Business Manager
Aube of the local union, who is charged
with intimidation. Instructions were
given by Attorney General Archam-
bault that bail was not to be accepted
for any one arrested in connection with
strike until they had appeared in court
Replying to a question on Chinese
labor in South Africa, in the British
House of Commons, Monday, Colonial
Secretary Chamberlain said the gov
had not sanctioned and was
not supporting the movement of the
ME owners to import Chinese and Other
Asiatic laborers into the Transvaal. His
with Lord Miner (The
British higher, in South Africa on the
subject followed the lines of his in the
House of Commons, March 10, in
which he said he thought every source
Of supply in South Africa ought to be
exhausted before Chinese or other
Asiastics were introduced. If however l
he Transvaal and other set of the gov
arninG colonies concluded that they re-
1uired to import Asiatic labor the i'm |
oerial government had no power to pre- |
vent it.
The annual elections of the Royal |
Arcanum was held at Quebec, Que,
and resulted as follows: |
Supreme regent A. S. Robinson of Mus
souri,: supreme vice regent, Howard C. |
New York; supreme orator,
Robert Van Sands of Illinois; past SUI
,reme regent, ]. A. Langfitt of Pennsyl- |
5ania; supreme secretary, w. o. Rob- |
son of Massachusetts,; supreme treas
lrer, Z. A. Skinner of New York; su-
oreme auditor. Alfred T. Murner of |
supreme chaplain, Rev.
?. Leinsring of Pennsylvania; supreme |
guide, H. S. Burkhart of Illinois; su- |
creme warden, l. w. Caulfield of New |
York; supreme sentry, r. M. Millican |
If Indiana; supreme trustee, J. H.
Johnson of Illinois; Charles L. Prentice
Of Connecticut; Uriah W. Tompkins of
New York Il n . i.