Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-18
BITS BY WIRE.
Rhode Island Fishermen Suf-
fer $4,000 Loss by Storm.
Prompt Relief for the Stricken Pee
pie Of Heppner, Oregon.
News in Brief from all Parts of the
Country.

Tuesday, and as a result of the trial
Colman was admitted to bail in the
sum of $4,000 on the charge of man
Slaughter
Helen S. Bishop, the 17yearold
daughter of the Rev. E. A. Bishop,
superintendent of the Ferris Industrial
school at Wilmington, Del, who was,
Monday, feloniously assaulted and
slashed with a knife, died. late Tues
day. as a result of her injuries.
At the Matinee races of the Gentle
mans Driving Club at Cleveland, Ohio,
Tuesday, Lou Dillon, owned by c. K.
G. Billings, made new worlds record
to wagon of 2.06A, the former time be-
ing 2.07 by Lucille, also owned by Mr..
Billings. The last quarter in today's
race was made in .30A.
The Building Trades Employers AS
sociation, New York, has ordered all
hosting engineers in the employ of
association members not to resume
work. This order if followed out to the
letter would mean that all building
operations in New York will have. to
stop work abruptly as without the
hosting engines no material can be
handled.
Rev. Edwin Stevens Lines of New
Haven. Conn.,, was elected bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal diocese Of
Newark, N. J., Tuesday, by bare
majority of the clerical vote. Some of
the extreme high church men refused
to make the nomination unanimous
Rev Alexander Mann of Orange, with
drew his name as candidate for sue
cessor to the late Bishop Starkey.
AS result of the storm which has
been sweeping along the New England
coast since last Friday between 5000
and 10000 barrels of soup which had
been held in pounds owned by various
fishermen in the vicinity of Newport.
r. L., have been lost. The fish were
valued at nearly $4,000. The loss is
one of the most serious ever sustained
by the fishermen of Rhode Island.
The leading feature in the Reichstas
elections which were held in Germany
this week. was the success of the Socia.
Democrats, who have probably i'll
creased their representation i'll thu
Reichstag by Is seats and their tota.
vote of upwards of 100000 or more
than 100000 more than in 1885, All the
parties concede the success of the
Socialists, which has been at the ex-
pense of them all.
Three judges of election who ofliciat-
ed in the 18th ward of Chicago, during
the recent judicial election, were Tues
day found guilty of contempt of court
and sentenced by Judge Carter to three
months Imprisonment in the county
Jail. They were charged with having
permitted men registered from lOdS-
ing houses to vote repeatedly and to
impersonate deceased persons whose
homes appeared on the registration
lists.
George Eaton, who was arrested at
Corning, n. Y, Monday, charged with
attempt to bride Horace A. Taylor, as
sistant secretary of the treasury, to
purchase his property for a site for a
federal building in that city, protests
his innocence of any such intention as
he is charged with. Mr.. Eaton says
that the intent of his letter was en-
tircly misunderstood at the treasury
department. His employers have an
absolute confidence in his innocence.
Laurent Grenon, was tried in the po-
lice court at Lowell, Mass, Tuesday,
for assault on Joseph A. Carrier a
Lewiston mule spinner, employed as a
strike breaker. Carrier testified that
Grenon and another man accosted him
on the street and asked him to join the
union now on strike, he refused and
was Immediately struck and pun
mclled by the two, who knocked him
down and injured him so severely that
doctor was called. Grcnon was fined
$25.
NJ. Gerochich, the vice-presidcnt OF
the Servian Senate, has resigned as a
protest against the ascendcnCy of the
military party. The difficulty a&Usc
over the appointment of officers to be
attached to the Kings suie. The mill
tary party demanded that two of the
conspirators be appointed, but he gov
eminent opposed this demand and
General Popovitch, Colonel Costics and
two lieutenants, who were not in
volved in the conspiracy, were chosen
and dispatched to Geneva.
A section of the Madison street
bridge approach at Eau Claire, WIS.
went down under the weight Of a large
crowd of people, Tuesday. Six persons
were seriously injured, and % or 80
others were less seriously hurt. The
accident occurred during a street
carnival illumination. 1t was found
that the death list will be comparative
ly small if any. The 40foot section of
the bridge which collapsed dropped its
200 sightseers 25 feet into a bank of
sand and debris on the river bank.
Relief measures for the stricken, peo-
pie of Heppner, Ore, were taken up.
by the Merchants Protective Associa-
tion at Portland, Ore, Tuesday. Dona-
ton of money and supplies were large.
Every city and town within radius
of 200 miles of Heppner has started q
relief fund and large quantities1of SUD-
plies are now on the way. The Oregon
Railway & Navigation Co. is transport
ing all supplies free of charge. Hun-
dreds of people who have relatives al
Heppner, have gone there to assist the
living ones to bury their dead.
There will be no strike in the anthra-
cite region growing out of the refusal