Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-19
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Recitations at Lake Forest University
at Chicago. has been suspended tempora-
| riiy owing TO a number OF cases OF scarlet
fever that have developed among the
| students.
Gov Durbin of Indiana, has signed the
Senate bill ap2ropriating $1,000 for a swor.l
| for Admiral Taylor. former comma ntler-
OF the battleship Indiana. The governor
design.
Prof. Arthur Wisner, 81 years of age. a
French lecturer, dropped dead from heart
failure at New York, Sunday night. PROF.
Mlsner mas peen a lecturer in French on
French literature in this country fol.
about 10 years.
EARLY Saturday morning, five strangers
blew up the safe in the postoffice at
Phoenixville Pa, secured $50 in ca eh and
stamps and $3.50 gold be al ing bond and
made their escape. Posts. ,efa c.
Bishop gave the alarm and he and his
family We're shot at The postoffice was
badly wrecked
Definite information has reached Tan
gier that the Sultan's troops came into
contact with the forces of the pretender.
Jan. 10. 1t was, however, only AIN outpost
AFFAIR and there were very few casualties
on either side. The Sultan did not meet
with general disaster as had been rt-
mored. serious engagement, however.
may follow at any moment.
The taking of testimony in the Wilcox
trial at Norfolk, Va, ended. SATURDAY
and Atty. Leary for the defence. bega,
his address to the jury The defence adj
vances the theory of suicide Mr. I.eary
created a stir of indignation by saying
TO the jury that the prisoner was ma
tive, while the Cropseys were but yam
KEGS. The case will go to the jury, Mon
day afternoon or Tuesday morning
The petition for a receiver of the Old
Butchers and Drovers Bank of Provi-
dence, which went out of business in 1868
was, Saturday, referred to w. S. Rev
nolds, master in chancery, by order of
the appellate division of the supreme
court. The court instructed the master il.
clancery to ascertain the name and adj
dress of each of the officers of the Butch
ers' and Drovers' Bank; also to ascertain
ana report the name and address of each
stockholder and the amount of stock held.
and to procure certain other information
in rele iii y 10 the books and records of the
bank.
i Ja s,s, I q ton, chief clerk of the Unit
Washington, suddenly, Sunday night.
shortly after returning from Atlantf.
City. He was 60 years of age and Wild
Upton went to Washington from Man
chester, N. H., in 1867. He entered the
service of the treasury and with success
slve promotions rose to the position Of
assistant secretary, which he afterwards
resigned and established himself in bust
ness in that city. Later he again entered
the treasury service, being appointed Il.
position in the life saving bureau. He
was unusually well informed on financIai
matters.
The Berlin South American Outlook,
speaking of Cuba, says in effect that tEa
transfer of the Pearl of the Antilles from,
Spanish ownership to the control of the
American Union has not, during the past
year. exerted any Injurious effect upon
European trade with this island. On the
contrary. the Cuban demand for German
wares is, judging from the figures for,
1901, considerably Increasing. The annual
expectation to Cuba from Hamburg In
1901 was s2,427 600. The articles taken to
Germany from Cuba in 1901 were cigars
valued at SIG 600, and raw tobacco val
ued at S1l4e00, wood valued al $2SS, 900, wax
valued at S2O5,S7o. and cattle skins valued
at $7l. 400.
Instead of blowing down coal in mines
by means of dynamite, an Englishman An
tends to make use of a hydraulice cart
ridge, which is said. to obviate the waste-
ful shattering Of the fuel. The cartridge
is 20 riches in length. Orifices along III;
sides admit of the application of a pres-
sure of some three tons per square inch
The total pressure is about 80 tons. When
inserted In hole the cartridge Is coupled
up with a small hand pump. 1t is said
that in a few minutes after the apparatus
has been at work the coal breaks uu and
falls in great blocks. About one and one
half pints of wafer are used in the opera
ton. One colliery proprietor who has
adopted the invention for use in three
mines computes that each cartridge saves
SIS a week.
~ Int TRIAL dt d. LOUIS, MO-, SATURDAY,
Of Charles f. Kelly, former speaker Of
The house of delegates, on the charge OF
bribery, the. $75000 deposited in the Lin
coin Trust Cos. vaults as a bribe to the
house of delegates combine was present
cd in court and counted for the fourth
time of Philip Stock, "the legislative,
agent" He identified it as the same
money that he received from President
Charles II. Turner OF the Suburban Rail-
road. Edward e. Morrell, George +. Rob-
ertson and William K. Tamblyn were
among the members of the house cofnbi-
nation who testified of its dealings ana
OF Kelly's connection Herewith. George
Trust CO., told of the deposit of the $75.-
600 in the vaults of that concern.
Mrs. Lucy w. Drew, widow of <Jo-
saah G nraxxr 81 Of