Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Banks at Ira, Baxter and Mingo,
Iowa, owned by Geo. D. Weeds, who
committed suicide at Colfax, Friday
Albert A. Honey, Chicago, said to
have been the inventor of the UNDER
ground trolley, is dead, from a stroke
of paralysis, in the Chicago Union hos
pital
Milton Carleton, farm hand en-
ployed by Thomas Smell of Central
street, Groveland, Mass, committed
suicide, Saturday, by cutting his throat
with razor.
Since Mrs. Clemens, wife of Samuel
L. Clemens mark Twain) arrived Al
Florence Nov. s, she has been so in
disposed that no one outside her family
has been allowed to see her.
Chairman Hanna of the Republican
National committee, has appointed Will
alarms in the place of the late Mr..
WisWell. He also appointed Elmer
Dover as assistant secretary of the com =
mittee.
The board of directors of the West
inghouse Brake Co. met, Saturday, at
Pittsburg, Penn, and declared the reg
ular quarterly dividend of az per cent.
and an extra dividend of 312 per cent,
payable to stockholders of record Jan.
il, 1904.
Lewis Jackson, a negro charged with
attempting to assault a young white
girl has been lynching near Tampa,
Fla. Owing to the popularity of the
crime there was no law under which
the negro could be convicted and the
court released him, but he was seized
on the outskirts Of the town and hang
ed.
Thomas E. Barrett, the former st.
Louis court official, recently convicted
of completely in the naturalization
frauds, was sentenced in the Federal
court, Saturday, to five years impris-
onment in the penitentiary and to pay
fine of $1,000. Pending an appeal the
prisoner was released in bonds of $780,
000
The Central Freight Association roads
have decided to refuse the application
of the iron and steel men for a reduc
ton of freight rates on domestic ship
ments of steel rails. The Central roads
reached the conclusion that the reduc-
ton made in export rates is all that
the manufacturers can demand reason
ably.
The government authorities have con-
fiscated 1900 Mexican cigars in prl-
vate warehouse at San Francisco many
of them valued at 25 cents each. 1t is
believed the cigars We're brought in, con-
ccaled in casks, by members of the crew
of the cruiser New York upon her last
arrival at San Francisco from Mexican
waters.
The national headquarters Of the
Brotherhood of Railway Firemen and
3aggdgemen of America, located in
Lancaster, Penn, was closed by the po-
lice officials, Saturday, in accordance
with orders received from Baltimore.
General Secretary John Ripley, who
was locked out, asserts that he knows
nothing about the matter.
After singing a lullaby taught her
by her mother, the 4-year-old dauSh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. George Il. Edwards
of Yonkers N. Y, died, Friday night
from the effects of burns received at
her home. Her mother, who tried TO
extinguish the flames, was badly
burned and is now in a critical condi-
ton. How the child's clothing caught
fire is not known.
AS the result of fall of 80 feet from
a roof on which he was sitting, Thomas
Woodhouse, % years old, a painter, was
probably fatally injured, Saturday, at
Fail River. He sustained fractured
skull, broken wrist and rib, a dislo-
Gated shoulder and internal injuries.
Woodhouse had just climbed through
a scuttle on the roof Of the house, and
was standing near the chimney; other
workmen were nearby. Suddenly
Woodbury. stepped around the Chin
ney, lost his balance and rolled down
the slanting roof.