Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-03
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North
East, South and West.


COMMUNICATIVE chief of the Salvation
Army, left San Francisco, Friday, for
Salt Lake and Omaha.
The Commercial Treaty Society OF
Berlin, has issued a circular complain
ing of the United StatesG customs
treatment of German goods.
AT the age of 104 years Mrs. Balla-
han, the oldest resident of bingham,
| Mass, died, Friday. She was born in
! Ireland and came over many years ago.
One son survives.
The Dutch steamer Dordrecht, Capt.
Vesser, from Pensacola, Dec. 23, for
| Bremen, has arrived at:HaInilton, Ber-
muda, in distress, The cargo in her
fore hold is on fire.
Elias Ellis, a veteran of the Mexican
war. and who is said to have captured
the Mexican general, La Veja, after a
personal conflict, died at Independence,
O., Thursday, aged so years.
| Robert J. Johnston, a member of the
| New York Cotton Exchange, shot him
| self through the head at his residence
| in President street, Brooklyn, Friday,
and died shortly afterward.
| III. facunQO NUTS Duran, the newly
appointed governor of Panama, assum-
ed the duties of his office, Friday. The
appointment indicates a new political
attitude on the part of the government,
a policy of Cancellation, and is well re-
ceiyed. ~ ~
Parole, the noted race horse, is dead
from old age. He ran under the late
Pierre Lorillard's colors, in England
and won the City and Suburban handi-
cap in EPSON in 1879. Parole was near
~ 80 years old. He was by bennington,
out of Marden.
The Lane block at North Sidney, N
S. was destroyed by fire, Friday morn
ing. 1t was occupied by Cavanaughs
confectionery store, Pilkington's jewel
ry store, Rice's book store and Rices
photograph studio. The block was own
ed by Rev. w. G. Lane.
Prof. Dominica Barnola, a teacher of
languages, was shot dead in the home
of Giuseppe A. Pasca in East 18th
street, New York, Friday night. Pasca
and his son have disappeared. Mrs
Pasca. her two daughters and a young
man have been detained by the police
In recent fight between Bulgarians
and Turkish troops at the village of
Deecnova. Is of the latter were killed
or wounded. The Turkish commander
was among the killed. The Bulgarians
who We're barricaded in a house. also
sustained losses, but the survivors es-
capped.
The Pittsburg branch of the Inter-
| national Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, Friday, sent
out copies of q new wage scale, to the
manufacturers in that district. The
scale calls for an advance from 4715
to so cents an hour for an S-hour
| day and provides for apprentices.
| determined attempt at suicide was
made at Waltham, Mass, Friday, by
John Bergenson, a Swede, AZ years of
age, the act being due to dependency
| Bergenson drank a quantity of kero-
sene oil and when that failed to do the
work intended he cut his throat and
severed the arteries in his throat. 1t is
| thought that he will recover.
| Fire started Friday, in a room over
| the Cudahy Packing Co. at Gadsden.
| Ala, and quickly spread to the Turren,
| tine wholesale grocery store and Tur-
lcHtlilt DoltllIlS WOlkS. l0TeG stores
with their contents We're destroyed The
| loss, is estimated at $4,000. Joseph
Wilson, in whose room the fire is said
to have originated, was burned to
death.
1t was learned at Waterbury, Ct,
Friday night, that vigorous prosecution
will follow the management of the
puane-Bolan contest held in that city.
Thursday night. The bouts are held to
be prize fights. Detectives in the en-
ploy of the State Law and Order
League and retired New Haven cler-
gyman witnessed the contests from the
audience.
A man apparently insaa,es tried to
gain entrance TO the private office. of
Gen. Greene. the newi fpplicep commits
sioner, at police headquarters at New
York, Friday, saying that he was the
new commissioner. Inspector Brooks
by ruse managed to get him to the
Mulberry street station. When he
was searched two revolvers fully load
ed were found in his coat pockets.
An engine crashed into a Pullman
sleeper OH the Baltimore & Ohio at
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