Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


4 EHat.
Maj. Tom E. McClelland, Tuesday
night, seized 10 Winchester rifles and
600 rounds of ammunition at the res.
| idence of ]. f. Coogan of the free coin.
age miners, at Victor, Colo. -
The British steamer Logician, at New
Orleans. from Algoa Bay. Africa, re-
ports that. Oct. 26, at noon. in the Gulf
of Mexico, south Is degrees east, true,
225 miles from South Pass, she passed
the derelict schooner G. B. Bently Of
Peterborough, NJ s., dismasted and
abandoned.
Under a decision of of the board, Of
classification of the United States gen.,
eral appraisers, Wednesday, at New.
| York, silk ribbons are to be classed for,
| duty as trimming" subject to duty
| of 60 per cent. ad valorem and not as
manufactures of silk on which the
duty is so per cent. ~.
| A despatch from Alberton, P. E.,tTa.
says that the Gloucester schooner
Martha A. Bradley. which sailed from
that port for New London, p E. L., is
ashore on the bar near the latter port.
The crew has abandoned the vesseF
which is full of water and will be
| total loss. The vessel registers 20 totas.
BY furnishing a bond for $4,000 Nc
Williams Bros. of New York, have OBJ
tanned the release of their barge Alli-
son White, which was attached at Paw
tucket, r. l., Friday morning. as the
beginning of a damage suit brought by
Thomas Hayden for $4,000 for injuries
alleged to have been received when the
barge was at Pawtucket. z s.
Jack Johnson, champion heavyweight,
was given the decision over Samuel
McVey of Oxnard, Cal, at the end OF
20 rounds, Wednesday night, at Los
Angeles, Cal. johnson had the better
of the fight from the very first minute
to the sound of the gong in the goth
round. He punished McVey severely
and escaped withous a mark.
The IL boiler makers at the Allston,.
Mass, shops of the Boston & Albany.
Railroad Co., who struck, yesterday,
because the company took back into its
employ a non-union blacksmith who
failed to support the strike, returned
to their duties. Wednesday. No con-,
ference had been held between the
strikers and the road officials.
lass Smith, young men of Port Roch-
ester, N. Y, who left, Monday, on a
small auxiliary yacht for fishing trip
have not since been heard from and a E
boat said to be that on which they
sailed, has been found bottom up OF
Stamford, Conn. The yacht in which,
the young men sailed was about IS feet
long and was owned by Berrian and
Saver. -Tpfi
After a brief elaboration, jury in
the Suffolk county superior court at
Boston, Wednesday, found John Mar
rotta, an italian guilty of manslaugh-'
ter, in having killed Katherine J. Keen-F
an, at the West End, last April. Mar
rotta testified in his own behalf and
then tie case went to the jury which
soon reported the verdict. The Keenan,
woman who lived in the same house
with the defendant, was fatally stabbed.
in the neck. t,a4
Michael ]. Buckley, aged q, employ
Jed in a shoe factory at HaverhilL.
Mass. died suddenly, Wednesday, from
poisoning. Oil of mirbane was used by,
the deceased in his work and, Tuesday
evening, when he purchased a quantity
of medicine, he also procured some Of.
the poison to be used in mixing q shoe
polish in the factory. After taking the
dose he realized his mistake and hast
ened to the office of DR.. O'Donnell, who
was his physician, but medical aid was
unavailng. A widow and three children
survive him.
A mob, composed of persons supposed
to be members of law and order
1aa TrIac 1,,rv
Dodson. Mo-, The place was occupied
by +. F. McReynolds and the mob be-
lieved that he was in the building. The
mob was armed with rifles, shot guns
and pistols. They poured kerosene
literally on the building and applied
torch to it and it was soon destroyed,
The burning Of the building follows a.
bitter fight that has been made on the
sn-called Joints or unlicensed saloons
Of that district. McReynolds was not
in the building, having been warned Of
of approaching danger. .s
The steamer Lain, which arrived
Wednesday, at New York. from Naples
and Genoa, brought Rev. e. e. Strong,
D. D., Of Boston, editorial station of the
American Board of Foreign Missions.
and Rev. Sydney Strong, D. D., Of Oak
Park, Ill, the deputation sent abroad
by the American board to South and
East Africa: also the body OF Mrs. :.
Sydney Strong, who died in Naples OF
heart failure, just before the steamer .
sailed. DR.. Sydney Strong, on the OUT
ward trip, had pneumonia. The depu-
tation was warmly received by repre-
sentatiyes Of the British government
in London and South Africa. s:.s
It is estimated that during the last