Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-05
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North,
East, South and West.

Pierre Lafntte, leader OF the french
Postivists, is dead. He was born in
1929.
Jacob Zook, a farmer residing near
Eden, Pa, was driving from church
with his two daughters, Fannie, aged
is, and Katie, aged 9 at noon, Sunday,
when q trolley car crashed into his
team, killing Fannie instantly and in
flicting serious injuries on Mr.. ook and
the youger daughter.
Senatorial elections were held, Sun
day in "a departments of France, AL
geria and in the colonies of La Re-
union and Guadeloupe to select So SEN
ators, of whom "a will fill seats of SEN
ators whose terms have constitution
ally expired. The other four will fill
vacancies caused by death.
The Delhi correspondent of the Lon-
don Daily Mail says: "a body of Pa
thans made a bold attempt in broad
daylight, Friday, to attack the guard
and rob the jewel room of the arts ex-
hibition, where gems valued at $780,
600 were in keeping. Members of the
police force and the guards present af-
ter a scuflle succeeded in foiling the
attempt"
Three negro prisoners suspected of
being infected with smallpox, escaped
from the county Jail at Louisville, KY,
Saturday night, by removing window
from the tower or third story of the
building where they had been placed
to separate them from the other pris-
oners. They are still at large. A fourth
negro, who had developed case of
smallpox, refused to go with his COM
panions.
1t is said at Paris that Mules Sieg-
fried. Richard Waddington and Felix
Meline. as we'll as other French depu-
ties and senators and a number of
leading cotton manufacturers, have
formed colonial cotton association
with the view of resisting the American
cotton monopoly by aiding the develop
ment of the growing of cotton in the
French colonies, and especially in the
Soudan.
Passenger train No. 81 on the South
ern Railway, bound from Atlanta to
birmingham, was derailed, Saturday
night, near Weems Station, about 10
miles from Birmingham, Ala. The bag
gage and mail cars were thrown down
an embankment and wrecked. Engi-
neer White was the only person killed.
About q passengers were injured but
none seriously as the passenger coach
es remained on the track.
-Four miners We're probably fatally in
jured and a number of others badly
burned and cut by falling coal in an
explosion of mine dust in the Chicago
Nirden mine at Auburn, ILL.,, Saturday.
Three hundred and fifty men We're in
the mine at the time, but all except II
Or - who were caught in the entry
1000 feet from the face, succeeded in
reaching places of safety. The eXplo-
sion was said to have been caused by
a shot.
Rev. A. H. Norris, pastor of the Con-
gregational church in Torringford, CT,
while driving to Burrville, Sunday, to
preach to his congregation in that
town. was struck and instantly killed
by a special train on the Naugatuck
division of the New York, N. H. & II.
Railroad. Mr.. Norris was in covered
carriage and drove upon the railroad
crossing without noticing the approach
of the special. The horse was killed
and the minister was hurled 100 feet
through the air.
Two men took their lives in lodging
houses at Boston, Sunday, because OF
dependency, and a woman was found
dead in bed ina Hanover street hotel
under circumstances indicating sui
eide. VIM Giraffe, a German, 6S years
old, shot himself, and Frank Stone, a
waiter. % years old, swallowed a dose
of carbolic acid. The woman, about e
years of age, supposed from letters in
her rocket to be Nettie Colsen, it is
thought committed suicide, as friends
say she had threatened to do so.
The conductors and motormen on the
Barre &, Montpelier, VT, Street Rail-
way have struck because their demands
for 20 cents an hour and 10-hour day
were refused by the company. Twenty
two men are out and only one car was
running, Sunday. Everything is quiet,
the men obeying orders to keep away
from the cars. The company offers a
scale of SO per week to 1-year men,
81 to 2-year men and S12 to 3-year men
and started the new schedule, last
Monday. The wages previously We're
at the rate of 14.S cents per hour.