Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-28
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s Sir Thomas Upton, who has just ar
rived at Paris from Nice, where he had
been sojourning, says that he intends
to go to Glasgow next Tuesday, to
make final arrangements and fix the
date for the launch Of the Shamrock
III. He adds that all reports thus far
as to the date of the launch were
conjectural, because he will not be able
TO settle on the time until he sees the
builders and discusses the situation at
Glasgow.
J. B. Thompson of DeKalb, is at Og-
densburg, N. Y, hospital with an eye
shot out and face filled with powder as
the result of an accident at a lodge
initiation. Thompson was a candidate
for membership in the lodge of a secret
order at Heuvilton, and in a spirit of
fun his friends were preparing to fire
a revolver loaded with blank cart
ridges, when 1t accidently discharged
in Thompson's face. The injured man
is in a serious condition.
Advices received at Victoria, B. c.,
from Shanghai state that kilograms
are, constantly being exchanged be-
tween prominent officials at Pekin and
Tung Fuh Slang. who is now at Hsuen
Hing, in Liang Show prefecture, with
his army urging him to lose no time
in hosting his standard in favor of
Hui Chen, the son of Elk Prince Tuan
and heir apparent as Emperor, and
march on Pekin to dispose His Ma
jesty kuang Hsien. incidentally driv-
ing out the foreigners.
lot oil eto i,,
nection with the death of Mrs. George
w. Berry, Wednesday,, az 1ainesbury,
Mass, have led the police to investi-
gate the case. Medical Examiner
Murphy, Thursday, had the stomach of
the dead woman removed and turned
over to Prof. Wood of Harvard, for an
alysis. There was reason, he said, to
believe that the woman had died from
arsenical poison. Mrs. Berry's hus-
band lives in WATERFOWL, N. Y. She
made her home with her daughter at
Amesbury.
AS the result of an unprecedented
rainfall, San Antonio, Tex, THURSDAY
night, was partially submerged and
much loss of property has been sus-
tanned by the rising of the San Antonio
river. So far no loss of life has been
reported. Many houses along the river
were swept away. The water reached
it's highest point, Thursday morning,
a stage about equal to that of the flood
of 1876, the highest ever recorded. The
loss of property in the city and coun-
try will approximate 100000 not in
Guiding the loss to railroads.
Bark II. G. Johnson, which arrived at
Vineyard Haven, Mass, Friday, on her
way from Rosario, Dec. 81, for Boston,
reports she passed Point Indio, JAN. 5,
and crossed the equator, Feb. 4, in
long. 40 She experienced a heavy
southwest gale, Feb. 22,: but sustained
no damage. Since that date she had
fine weather to port. On Feb. Fl she
passed d whistling buoy adrift on the
southern edge of 4 the Gulf stream.
Schooner John j. Perry, Rockland for
New York at Vineyard Haven. carried
away 'foretopmast and split foresail,
Feb. 25.
The crew of the British brigantine
Persia of Windsor. N. S., which has ar
rived at Havana. from Transport, n.
S., at Bahia, Honda. mutinied, Friday,
and attacked her captain. Cogswell
and the mate. Peter Hobleau, both
Nova Scotians. The mate was so
badly slashed in the abdomen that he
is not expected to live. Capt. Cogs-
well was badly cut and bruised. The
port police boarded the vessel and ar
rested the three rlngleaders named
Harris Small, Canadian, John Boiie,
Nova Scotians, and Frank Kochlin,
| an Englishman.
Gen. Wilders Metcalf. United States
| pension agent at Topeka, Kas., makes
the following statement regarding the
revival of the charges that he ordered
Philippine prisoners to be shot. q
think it is an attempt on the part Of
certain people to make political capita
out of reports derogatory to the arm,
in the Philippines and at the same tim,
an effort on the part of two or tire,
members Of the goth Kansas to do m,
an injury. / never shot Filipino pris.
oners nor ordered others to do SO. Thi.
fact has been satisfactorily established
several times and can be again."