Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-03
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The new cable of the German Atlant-
ic Co. between Embden and Fayal,
Azores. has just been completed. This
is the first section of the second cable
/ between Germany and New York city.
who had lived alone for many years,
committed suicide, Monday, at Gorham,
N. H., by shooting. No cause is known.
kenty was II years of age and is sur
vived by two daughters who reside in
Portland, Me
Philip Khori, who was arrested in
Boston, for Lawrence officers on the
charge of stabbing a fellow cOuntryman
in Lawrence, Karen Abdou, a few
week ago, was sentenced, Monday, at
Lawrence to the Concord reformatory
by Judge Stone.
After suffering intensely for several
hours, Miss E. Marian Tufts, died,
Monday night. at Exeter, N. H., from
burns received while raking leaves into
a bonfire, Monday. Miss Tufts was %
years of age and daughter of Prof.
James A. Tufts of Odlin Academy.
Mrs. Scott w. Powers, aged Al, was
almost instantly killed, Monday night,
in a collision between a carriage. in
which she was seated and a hotel barge,
at Littleton, N. H. She is survived by
her husband, one of the proprietOrs of
the Idlewold cottage at Mann's Hill
who was with her at the time of the ac-
cident, but who was uninjured.
Coroner Willoughby of Kalispel,
Mont, has received a telegram from
the justice of the peace at Haydens,
Mont, saying that five men We're blown
to pieces in an explosion at that place,
Sunday. How the explosion happened
could not be learned. 1t is supposed to
have been an explosion of a magazine
belonging to grading contractors.
Rt Rev. ]. B. Brondell, bishop of the
diocese of Helena, and for a third of a
century one of the leading Roman
Catholic dignitaries of the Northwest,
is seriously ill in Helena, Mont. His
recovery is not expected and the last
sacrament has been administered to
him. Bishop Brondell is affected with
oedema of the lungs and also has weak
heart action.
Monday, at Belleville, Ills, the st.
Clair county grand jury adjourned af-
ter returning II secret indictments
against persons believed to have parti-
cipated in the lynching of the negro
school teacher. David Wyatt, last June.
Wyatt had shot and seriously wounded
County Superintendent of Schools Her.
tel shortly before, because the latter re-
fused to grant renewal of Wyatts
certificate as teacher.
Assistant Attorney General Somerby
| of Minnesota, filed q motion in the
| United States supreme court, Monday,
| for the advancement of the hearing of
| the case of the state of Minnesota VS..
| the Northern Securities Co., to Dec. Is
next, to follow the hearing in the case
of the United States VS.. the Northern
! Securities Co., which is set for Dec. a.
Counsel for the Securities Co. object
ed. The court took the motion under
Amusement
| Despondent because Of ill health,
Grace Combie Thayer, daughter of the
late Joseph Henry Thayer, d. D., Lift.
D., Bussey professor of New Testament
criticism and Interpretation at Har-
ward College. committed suicide some
time, Lunday night or early Monday.
She was found dead in bed at her home
in Cambridge. The examiner stated
that she had poisoned herself. Miss
Thayer was 80 years of age and had
been an invalid for years. A mother
and two sister survive her.