Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

John II. Dolph, the artist who has some
times been called the Landseer of Amer
lea because of his work as an animal
painter, died suddenly, Monday, at New
York. of heart trouble
The White Star Line steamer Majestic,
which will sail from Liverpool for New
York. Wednesday, will take among her
passengers Chief Justice Fuller and Mrs.
Fuller and A. j. Drexel: The Celtic of
the same line, which will sail for New
York Oct. ., will have Mr. and Mrs. r.
p. Whitney on board.
A meeting of the board of governors of
the Building Trades Employers Associa-
ton was held. Monday, at New York. for
the purpose of taking radical action in
the matter of the Stone Cutters Union
The employing stone cutters represented
in the meeting asked adjournment of ac-
ton until Friday, which was granted. The
adjournment delays the locking out of the
stone trade, which it mad been decided to
order
Rear Admiral P. ii. Cooper, comman nd
ing the northern squadron of the Asiatic
fleet, has advised the navy department by
cable of the death, Sunday, at the Yoko-
hama hospital. of Commander E. M
Hughes. He was assigned to duty, last
November, on the Asatic station in COM
mand of the gunbOat Annapolis. He en-
tered the service in 1866 and for conspc-
number in grade.
Kid Carter and Gus Rubin fought a
hard siX-round draw, Monday night. at
the Washington Sporting Club at Phila-
delphia. Carter was the aggressor in five
of the six rounds but Rubin evened mat
terS up by giving the most punishment
In the fourth round Carter was sent to
the floor and took the count, and in the
sixth round Carter struck Rubin a sting
ing blow which cut the latter under the
right eye. Rubin weighed 1862 pounds
and Carter 112.
So numerous have been the instances
during the past year or two, of the break
ing away of harges from lows in the
coastwise shipping that one of the large
towing companies has decided to equip
one of its tugs with wireless telegraph
system. The first tug on which the appar-
atus will be installed is the tug Savage
of the Consolidated Coal Co, and two top
masts and the necessary rigging will be
ready for the vessel when she next ar
rives at Boston.
At the continuation of the examination
of James w. Erwin, the indicted postal in
spector, before Commissioner Heacock at
San Francisco, Monday he was again put
on the stand by United States Attorney
Woodwork in an attempt to show that
the Postal Device and Indicator Co. had
monopoly. He said that the field of sale
for the device was small. Several other
witnesses testified regarding the value of
the patent controlled by the company. Ar
guments We're then begun.
Arthur G. Lockwood of Boston, an Eng
fish bred player but who for the past five
years has been playing for the Allston
Golf Club of Allston. Mass. won the I'll
tie as the first champion, of the New
Massachusetts Golf Association. Monday
at Hamilton, Mass, by defeating Hugo
r. tombstone of the Myopia Hunt Club
in a 36-hoe match by score of up and
5 to play. Lockwood outplayed his OPP
ponent almost from the start, Johnstone's
famous long game showing up only at in
tervals.
BY the will of the late Elizabeth Fiske
of Boston. which has been filed for pro-
bate, a bequest of $25, 900 is. made to the
Boston Young Woman's Christian Asso-
citation for new building The Domes-
tic and Foreign Missionary Society of the
Protestant Episcopal church receives $40
000 half for foreign missions and half for
home missions, and $4,000 is bequeather to
each of the following institutions: At
lanta University and Tuskegee. Alabama,
Normal Schools: Wellesley College for
and Penitent Female Refuge.
The validity of the indictments against
eX-Congressman Edmund H. briggs of
Brooklyn, and George f. Miller of New
York. agent of the fraudulent Auto
matte Cashier Co. charging them with
participation in the postal frauds, was
upheld in decision handed down, Mon
day. by Judge Thomas in the United
States district court in Brooklyn. briggs
was charged with receiving money while
congressman for furthering the inter-
ests of the Automatic Cashier Co. and
Miller was accused of paying money to
corrupt a congressman.