Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

The sub-treasury at New York,
Wednesday, disbursed to the local fl
nancial institutions, $1,1S7,O0O for Aus
tralian gold deposited at San Fran
cisco.
Guilty of assault without intent"
was the verdict returned, Wednesday.
at Boston, by the jury before whom
Hartwell Stafford was tried for assault
with intent to kill upon Stillman Bish-
op, last April.
The directors of the Norfolk & West
ern Railroad Co.. met, Wednesday, at
Philadelphia. and elected f. T. John
son. president to succeed the late F. ].
kimball. Mr.. Johnson will continue to
act as general manager of the com
peny.
The dead body of Tom Madison, the
supposed slayer of the Smith county.
kas., family of three women, was found
Wednesday, in field near CowIes. Neb.
He had been shot, supposedly by him
self and had apparently been dead a
number of days.
The mail train on the PENNSYLVANIA
road, which left Philadelphia at 9.25
A. NJ. Wednesday, was wrecked about
Il mile east of Lancaster. Pa. and a
mail car burned with all it's mail
James p. McAllister, engineer of the
mail train, was seriously injured.
The inquiry into the loss of life
aboard the big river steamer David
Weston, which was burned at Craigs
Point, a week ago last Saturday, was
begun. Wednesday, at Glenwood. King
County. N. r., before Coroner ]. B.
| Gilchrst. There are more than 20 wit
ncsses to be examined.
George w. Harvey, said to be the
| oldest practicing veterinary in that sec
| ton, and who has had an Office in Bos-
| ton, for the past As years, died,
Wednesday, at his home in West Fox
| boro, Mass. MI. Harvey was rs years
OF age and known to horsemen
Throughout New England.
The steamer Retribution. of the
| British navy, sailed, Wednesday. from
| Halifax, n. S. for Boston, where she
will remain during the visit of the
Honorable Artillery Company of Lon
don to that city. The Royal Garrison
Regiment Band, with SO members, al
| so left for Boston by way of Var
mouth.
Veterans of the Chicago Volunteer
Firemens Association have had lively
| and unpleasant experience in giving an
| exhibition run in Michigan avenue at
Chicago. Eighty-one members of the
volunteer department, none under 6S
| years old, participated, and during the
run six were injured or were overcome
by their exertions.
Three men are now in the custody of
| the police at Providence, r. l., as a re-
suit of the investigation concerning the
death of Lewis o. Robinson of Plain
vile, Mass, who was assaulted at
Crescent Park, Sept. s, and died day
| later. The arrested men are: Charles
Curran, George J. Little of Norfolk,
Va, and J. H. Cady.
Relatives of Alphonze ]. Stephani,
who is serving a life sentence in Danne-
mora prison for murder. have entered
an unusual motion before the supreme
court of Naw York. They desire to have
fortune of 100000 possessed by the
murderer placed in trust for his heirs.
in the latter's office, IL years ago during
d .
In the diocesan convention of the
Protestant Episcopal church of the do
cese of New York, Wednesday. at New
York. Or. David Fl. Greer, rector of
ST. Bartholon ew's church, New York,
was elected coadjutor bishop of New
York DIR. Greer declined an election as
bishop of western Massachusetts,, last
year. when DR.. A. HI. VintOn was
chosen.
A sanguinary encounter between the
police and striking carmen, at Buda
Pest, Hungary, took place, Wednesday.
Revolvers were used on both sides and
many persons We're wounded. several of
them mortally. Fifty arrests were
made. The collision was due to an at
tempt of the strikers, numbering about
1000 men. to prevent non-strikers from
working, and to the strikers attacking
the yards of the carriers.