Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-04
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North
East, South and West.

The 15-mile motor paced race be-
tween Bobby Walthour and Gus Law
son at the Coliseum, at Lowell, Mass,
Thursday night, was won by the
former by a quarter of a lap in 20.2S Is.
The executive committee of the
Consolidated Lake Superior Co, Thurs
day. at New York. decided to pay back
to stockholders the 100000 depos-
tied under the proposed bond issue,
which has just been declared off.
Among the officers elected, Thursday,
by the convention, at New York, of the
American Society of Professors of
Dancing, was Director George T. Will
son, Portland, Me. 1t was decided to
hold the 1904 convention in St Louis.
In anger at the alleged poor ratons
served aboard their vessel the crew of
the United States lighthouse tender
Hyacinth went on strike at Milwaukee,
Wis, Wednesday night. The Hyacinth
is the supply boat for many light
houses on Lake Michigan, and safety of
navigation upon the lake depends upon
the ship being kept regularly in Ser
vice.
Albert Champion established new
worlds record for motor cycles at
Charles River park track, Thursday
night, by riding a mile in Sc seconds
The occasion was the benefit meet to
add to the fund for monument to the
late Harry d. Elkes, who was killed at
this track, May 80. of the present year.
Seven hundred and seventy-two dollars
and fifty cents ware contributed by the
1000 spectators present. The fve-mile
open event, amateur, was won by
Marcus Hurley. Time, 7.57 2-5. The
half mile open also was won by Hurley.
Time, 1.17H.
Fire, which at one time seemed to
threaten the whole town of Merrimac,
Mass, caused a damage of $4,000 at
the wooden factory of the Walker Car
riage Co, Wednesday. The absence of
wind made it possible for the local fire
department. aided by divisions of the
AmeSbury and Haverhill departments,
successfully to cope with the fire and
prevent it from reaching adjoining
buildings. The Baptist church and the
Pcase Carriage Mfg. Co. buildings
We're endangered and it was only by
the hardest work on the part of the
firemen that the structures were saved.
Tho final protocol of the internation-
al wireless telegraph conference, held
in Berlin. last month, was made public,
Thursday, at the state department at
Washington. General Greedy was cha ir-
man of the American commission. This
commission had no authority to make
any agreement for the United States
but the protocol embodies most of the
essential features of the views express
ed by the American commissioners.
Another conference will be held and if
all the delegates have full power. nc
doubt the protocol will be embodied in
a treaty of the government in wireless
| telesraphy communication.
Mrs. Roland B. Moineux, who went
to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, nine
| months ago, shortly after the acouittal
| of her husband on the charge of caus-
| ing the death by poison of Mrs. Adams,
has returned to New York. 1t was
said when she went to Sioux Falls,
| that it was her intention to sue for
divorce. 1t is rumored that the case
was heard before a referee in Ham!in
| county and that the evidence was sub
mitted to a judge sitting at Dcsmet
South Dakota, but those interested in
| the matter absolutely refuse to make
| any statement or even admit that tes-
| timony has been submitted to the
South Dakota courts.