Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-02
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North.
East, South and West,


+. f. Smathers. the BROOKLYN horse
man. has bought McChesney for $50
600 He will race him in the West and
probab bly, at Saratoga.
The Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Pau,
Railroad has bought the Wisconsin,
Western Railway. The road is 81 miles
long. The price is not made public.
but it is said to be about 100000
The directors of the New Haven
Clock Co. at New Haven. Ct. have
elected Walter Camp president to sue
coed the late Samuel A. Cabin, VINO
died while in England last summer.
The compulsory education law of
Indiana is having a very beneficial eff
feet at merely Il normal cost. In 1902
| nearly $4,000 children were brought
into the schools and the poorer ones
provided with books and clothing at a
cost of $1.Sl a child.
General J. B. Gordon, comma nder-in-
chief of the United Confederate ~eter-
ans, who was taken violently i'll on =,
! Queen & Crescent train en- route to
! jackson, Miss, is reported as much bet
to- 1t is not thought that his condi-
ton is at all serious.
/ Prof. Andrew Mclaughlin, SON law
! OF President Angel Of Ann Arbor.
! Mich. has been offered the position OF
| head of historical research in the TO-
! 100000 univ ersity which Andrew Car
negie is endowing at Washington. 1t is
not n'ade public what the salary is
I After Il severe lecture, Frank Hert-
I ypl Iii old ri
of having been engaged in an Anarchist
plot 20 kill European rulers and charg-
ed with having made incendiary re-
marks was discharged by the police
magistrate at New York, Saturday..
The upper House of the territorial!
Legislature of Arizona has adopted
joint resolutions in favor of accepting
| Joint state hood with New Mexico, if
* should prove that it is the purpose
and intent Of the Congress Of the Unit
ed States to refuse them admission as
a separate state
The movement to build Il monument
to the martyrs of the prison ships III
the revolution seems likely to be sue
| cessful. 1t IS to cost S200,000 and all
but $11 ,000 is subscribed. Congress, the
state of New York and the city Of New
York have appropriated amounts ag-
9regating $4,000.
Thos. W. Lawson, whose country
estate is in Scituate. Mass, and who
was given 4 quit claim deed of the
towns common has put in Il
foundation Tor a soldiers monument
and presented ii to the town. George
W. Perry Post 81, G. A. r., will Gem
pie L. tie monument
1t was announced at Dubuque Sat
urday, 1T the law office of Henderson.
I.iuehan, Hurd & 1kiesal. that Speaker
Henderson has retired from the firm.
Although not officially announced, Il
was stated that Mr.. Henderson will
enter a New York law firm as success
scr Of ev-Speaker Reed.
Dr.. NJ. K. Grswold who was SEN
fenced seven years ago to serve 10 years
in the state prison at Hartford Ct, for
arson. died ut that institution, Sunday.
from uraemic poisoning. DR.. Griswold
was convicted of setting fire to the
Woodbridge building. He was prom
inent physician in Hartford before his
arrest.
The st. Paul Dispatch says: 1t Is
stated here that William Il. Merriam.
director of the United States census,
before many days will tender his resig-
nation To President Roosevelt and ask
that it take effect at once. Mr. Mer-
Ram has accepted 4 position with an
international credit concern and will |
make his headquarters i'm New York
The body of Edwin Ford Howard. a
Junior in the Sheffield Scientific School
OF Yale, WAS found. late Saturday. lying |
on 4 rocky projection about half way
down the face of East Rock cliff. How |
ard had been missing for several days. |
but no public announcement had been |
made OF the fact. his friends thinking
he had gone to his home in Montclair |
n. J.
j. Pierpont Morgan, accompanied by
Miss Morgan. H. r. Hollis. DR.. Marks |
and Mrs Mackoe c. F. Linear, Mrs |
Douglas and Miss Rhett. arrived at
Havana. Saturday. on board the Oil |
vctte from Key West. The members Of
the marty said that Mr. Morgan and
Mr.. Hollis went there on a pleasure |
trip. which was entirely unconnected |
with business.
At the suggestion of Lord Strathco- |
na and Lord Aberdeen. party of MEM |
bers of both houses of Parliament is |
being organized to pay a visit to Cam
ada in the autumn recess. The object |
is to study the resources of the Domin- |
ion. with view to more thorough en- |
lightenment of the people of Great |
Britain. 1t is proposed to leave Liver |
pool in August.
The finding of the body of Miss Mar |
earet T. Lyman in the canal at the |
Baltic cotton mill at Norwich, CT, Sum |
day. clears up the mystery of the disap- |
pearance from home some three months |
ago. Medical Examiner stanton in
formed Coroner Brown that he is of the |
opinion that the young woman commit |
ted suicide. as she had been somewhat |
demented for some time.
An unidentified man, claiming to he a !
citizen of the United States, has been
arrested at Venice on the charge of |
! having fraudulently cashed at the Ban |