Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Mill & Knight Co. of Boston,
one of the oldest printing and book
binding houses in New England, has
assigned to r. H. Keenan,. The la
bilties are placed at $91,279, with as
sets nominally the same.
The Sunset Limited" on the South
ern Pacific and another passenger train
collided at La Coste, IS miles west OF
San Antonio. Texas, at 955 Thursday
night. Three passengers We're killed
and nine injured. The bodies of the
dead were burned.
James Mcneil Whistler, the Ameri-
can artists, will receive the degree of
doctor of laws at the forthcoming
Glasgow University graduation cere-
mony. The degree will be conferred
in absentia, as owing to the state of
Mr. Whistler's health, he will be I'M
able to be present.
Since Mrs Chamberlain's return from
South Africa it is understood, says the
London correspondent of the New York
Tribune, that she has been approached
by many publishers in the hope that
she might consent to write the story
of her travels and impressions. but in
every case she has expressed regret
that she cannot entertain the proposal.
The short circuiting of an electric
light wire in the Carthage tissue paper
mill at Utica, N. Y. Friday caused a
fire with a loss of $4,000 to the paper
company, and about $4,000 on the By
Their & Pringle storehouse and con-
tents. Several houses at some distance
caught fire. but they We're kept from
burning by the local fire company and
citizens.
Dr. Duncan McFarlan. a wealthy
physician of Philadelphia, escaped
from the Rivercrest sanitarium at AS
toria l.. l.. Friday, and committed sui
eide by leaping into the East river. A
Waterman saw the doctor leap from the
window and followed him to the river.
but was too late to save him. DR.. Nc
Fraland had been at the sanitarium
since Wednesday.
The entire Bulgarian cabinet has re-
signed, owing to the inability to find
any one who will accept the portfolio
of war unless the cabinet agreed to the
army appropriations. 1t was the re-
fusal of the ministry to do this which
caused the resignation, March 8, of Ma
ior General Paprikoff, the former min
lister of war; his colleagues having re-
iected his demand for a credit of ST.
900, 900 for the purchase of war ma
terial.
Between the hours of / and Satur-
day afternoon, 400 church and Sunday
School workers will take d complete
census of the people of the city of ST.
John, n. b., ascertaining who go to
church, what church they attend and
what church they would prefer to at
tend. 1t is a scheme entered into by
all the denominations to check crime
and improve the moral status of the
city. Each denomination will look af-
ter the on-attendants when the CEN
sus is completed.
Two hundred members of the Vassar
Alumnae Association of Chicago and
the West attended reception given IN
honor of Pres. Taylor of Vassar Col
lege. Thursday night, at the Virginia
hotel. at Chicago. In the afternoon
Pres. Taylor visited the University of
Chicago where he was the guest OF
Pres Harper. In responding to toast
Pres. Taylor expressed pleasure at the
enthusiastic effort to fulfill the condi-
ton on which John d. Rockefeller Of
fered 5000, 900 to Vassar, that $500, 900 be
secured by the university before June,
1904