Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The strike at the Rio Tinto mines at
Huelva. Spain, is ended and the men
have resumed work.
In the village of Saffern, Rockland
county, New York. diphtheria is cpl
demic. Twenty-one cases have already
been reported and the board of educa-
ton ordered the schools closed, Wednes-
day. A prominent teacher is one of the
victims of the disease.
The government, Wednesday, at Gin
cinnati. closed its evidence in the trial
of D. ". Miller and j. w. Johns,
charged with conspiracy to extort a
bride from John j. Ryan, turf com
missioner 1t is expected that the case
will go to. the jury, Thursday.
The 1102d annual convention of the
Protestant Episcopal diocese of New
at Concord, N. H., at II o'clock, Wednes-
day morning, with the service of Holy
Communion. The annual address of
Bishop VIM. Woodruff Niles review
ing the work of the year, showed two
churches consecrated, 270 persons con-
firmed and one admitted to the priest
hood.
The police at Laramie, Wyo,
Wednesday, found in their home, Gus
Olsen, an employe OF the rolling mill.
his wife and their two boys, Olsen and
the younger child We're dead and the
others dying. i. is supposed that some
time during the night Olsen committed
the deed, crushing the skulls of his
family with Ratchet and then Shoot
ing himself twice with revolver and
once with a shot gun. Olson is believed
to have been insane.
An unusually heavy sentence for wife
beating is that passed upon Frank X.
Charron Of Claremont by the Sullivan
county court at Newport, n. H. Char
ron was sentenced TO the State prison
for not less than eight years nor more
than II years. He had beaten his wife
so severely that the woman is still in
the hospital and will probably never re-
cover her former health. The offence
was admitted by Charron but he plead
ed drunkenness as the cause Of his act.
At the conclusion of the hearing at
Westfield. VT, on the charges preferred
against Mrs Rose Ducharme Ostrout.
who Is accused Of causing the death of
Mrs. Alarmed Hoyt by ill treatment. the
defendant was held in $1,000 for the Or
leans county grand jury. which will re-
port in September, 1904. Mrs. Hoyt
was 4 town charge and the medical
testimony went to show that she had
been beaten land otherwise mistreated,
the in5Myies being found sufficient to
ea 9Th.
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Jefferson Coolidge. JI., of New York,
have agreed to loan the Seaboard Air
Line Railway the amount of money
deemed necessary by the officers of that
company to pay Off its floating debt and
to complete the Birmingham Atlanta
extension. In pursuance of this under
standing board of directors represent
ing all interests was elected, Wednes-
day. The Seaboard Air Line will con-
tinue to be operated entirely as an indie p
pendent line.
Rev. Felix Lepore, paster of Mount
Carmel Catholic church at Denver, Col.
and another Italian, named Joe Sorici,
were fatally wounded at $50 P. NJ,
Wednesday, in a duel supposed to have
arisen over card game they We're
playing III the priests apartments in
the church building. Father Lepore
was shot twice in the abdomen and
bnce dn the face. and Sorici was shot
once in the abdomen. Both men were
taken 10 the hospital, where it is said
they cannot recover. No statement has
been secured from the men.
Prominent among the passengers
sailing, Wednesday,, from San Francis
co. on the steamer Korea for the ORR
ent are Mrs. K. Takahira, wife of the
Japanese minister at Washington, en-
route to japan on visit; Maj. Gen.
and Mrs. Arthur M. Arthur. accom-
panied by Col. Parker West, for Homo =
lulu; Collector of Customs E. r. Sta4les3
pole of Honolulu. returning home;s3 81
Silas B. Terry, wife of Admfraf Terry.
for Honolulu, with her son and daush-
ter to join her husband; Dean c., Mssr-
cester OF the Philippine commission with
his family for ManilasH Lieut.. Com
mander York Soelsof the. navy, with
wife and daughter, for Yokoilama.
The Turks are but yoneesixth of the