Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Judge w. II. III. EmmonS of Boston, was
unanimously confirmed as police commits
ecntve Council Wednesday.
Rev. D.. j Doughtery of Girardville, Pa
sailed on the steamer St Paul from New
York. Wednesday. for Rome, where he is
to be consefrated by bishop of Nova
Segovia, LuZon.
BY the collapse of an old building which
was being torn down in South Boston
"Wednesday afternoon, two men were kill
ed and several others were injured. The
DEAL Vim. Dolan, aged 80. Robert Ready
aged IS.
Rev. DR.. Chester ID. Hartranst presi-
dent of the Hartford Theological Semna-
ry. has resigned his position. The trus-
tees have rendered the office to Rev. w
Douglass Mackenzie of the Chicago Thee
logical Seminary.
The Fart and Countess of Yarmouth
sailed on the American Line steamer st.
Europe. The Marquis and Warehouses
OF Hartford, parents of the earl sailed for
England on the Celtic
Queen Wilhelmina has notified the Unit.
ed States government that she has ap-
pointed DR. Charles Augustnus Henry
Barge to act as umpire in the arbitration
between the United States and Venezuela
at Caracas, OF American claims.
Elsie Barrett, who shot Bessie Palmer,
the actress, in their lakewood boulevard
apartments at Chicago last January. was,
Wednesday, found guilty of the second
count in. the indictment charging Grim
inal negligence. This means that a short
Jail or house Of correction sentence will
be imposed. A motion for new trial was
made. .s.s, Y. ..... t.- NJ
Two hundred weavers at the Cornell
cotton mills at Fall River Mass, struck,
Wednesday, i'll sympathy with IL loom
hxers. The latter had complained that
they did not get the wages they expected
ana an sought 2 conference with Treasurer
meanwhile the loom fiXers went cut, the
weaVers joining them later.
Atty. Gen. Knox has appointed G. Nc
REYNOLDS of Tennessee, assistant attor-
ney general of the United States to sue
coed James M. Beck, resigned Mr.. Nc
Reynolds is Nashville lawyer, a. years
OF age and formerly lived in Washington
sen CT Tennessee, who subsequently be-
came an assistant justice of the supreme
court of the United States.
Katie WhaIen. aged 5, saved the life of
ker, Attie sister, aged 4, Wednesday- at
caught hre. but was so badly burned that
she may die. Beating out the fire in her
sisters clothing. with her bare hands,
was terribly burned Physicians say the
brave little girl cannot live Her sister
was not burned in the least
Cummings w; True was arraigned,
West Derry, \. H., upon the charge OF,
shooting Fred Gowan with n 32-caliDre re-
volver. Saturday night, and was placed.
under $loU0 bonds to appear at the Octo-
Der term of the superior court. Bail was
furnished. Gowan lies in serious condi.
zion with bullet wound through his left
leg and blood poisoning is now feared
Crazed it is believed, through fear Of
the Malta, Fenedetto Caccinello 'Wednes-
day, at Newark. n. j., attempted to COM
NIT suicide by taking arsenic. His condi-
ton is critical. The Italian colony there
has been in state of excitement ever
since alleged agents of the Malta came
from New York and attempted to collect
contributions toward the defence OF the
men arrested in connection with the bar
rel murder
Judge Warren W. Foster of the court
OF general sessions at New York com
menting on the decision of the court of
appeals sustaining his decision in favor
OF the defendant in the pool room case
said, Wednesday, there was no definite
law on which to convict keepers of pool
rooms, and therefore it was impossible to
result of the decision the pool rooms
which 1t had been claimed We're all closed
are preparing to reopen.
The police of Boston and neighborinc
places were instructed. Wednesday, to as
SiSt in the recapture of Edward Con-
nauEhton of Dorchester, and Joseph Nor
ton or Cambridge, two prisoners who were
serving sentence at Deer Island for bur-
glary and who escaped from that iustitu-
ton, Tuesday night. 1t is believed that
then men were either taken off the island
in fishing boat. which was seen in the
vicinity early last evening, or else they
performed the difficult feat of swimming
the swift current between the island and
Point ShireIay ''N