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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26

The directors of the Village School
District have called a special meeting
of the voters of the district for Satur-
day, June 6, at P. M. to listen to their
report in regard to plans and specifica-
tons for the erection Of the new school,
house on Lincoln street, and to see if
the district will vote to raise sufficient
money to proceed with the work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26

Col. f. c. harrington and Henry N.
Whitman arrived on the Pullman, last
night, from Moosehead lake, where
they have been since Friday last on a
fishing trip. They were very success
full, each getting his full complement
of fish.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26

Overseer of the Poor Wentworth has
esta blished office hours, and is regular
ly at his office in the City building from
8 till II o'clock in the forenoon and from
till 5 in the afternoon
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26

City Marshal Breen has succeeded in
collecting licenses on 402 dogs for this
year, as against $50 for 1902. He has
been after delinquents recently and has
notified many dog owners to call on
the city clerk and settle, or it will go
hard with the dogs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Roy are the
happy parents of baby son, born on
last Friday, named Joseph Angus
tine; and Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Roy
are likewise happy over a son born to
them on Thursday, and name. Joseph
Wallace.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26
Mrs. Henrietta T. Ward is having

Mrs. Henrietta T. Ward is having
general repairs made on her house at
SIS Court street Mrs. A. S. Staples,
head book keeper in the Augusta shoe
factory of G. A Eaton & Company, will
move there as soon as repairs are COM
pleted. Mrs. Staples son, Louis, is in
Augusta now, and the daughter, Maisie,
is in the academy at East Greenwich
Conn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26

Otis Bckford, r. f. Norcross, Alfred
Couverette, Harry Pullen and Percy
Marston.
Twenty three licenses have therefore
been granted to cab drivers authorizing
them to do business in this city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26

The 10Th annual meeting of the American
Baptist Publication Society began. Mon
day at Buffalo, n. Y President Samuel
A. Crozier delivered the opening address,
The treasurer's report showed the assets
OF the society to aggregate $1,J90,6ll, and
the liabilities $3.50. 3l6.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26

Augusta railroad depots are to be
lighted by electricity. The freight de-
pot has been wired, and worl. begun on
wiring the feight office. The lights will
be going in all the buildings by next
week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26

The Cushnoc hose was called by still
alarm to a grass and rubbish fire on
the bank above the railroad in the rear
of 10 to q Gage street, yesterday fore
noon. 1t is supposed to have caught
from a locomotive.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26

The two-masted schooner, Abenaki,
of Bath. Captain w. E. Snowman, came
into the harbor. yesterday forenoon,
for the second time this season, bring
ing 275 tons of hard coal for the Pur-
inton Brothers Company. She sailed
from Perth Amboy, N. j., May II, and
had a pleasant voyage. She left
South Gardiner two weeks ago, with
a cargo Of lumber for New York.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26

The A. P. Lord Company not only
makes tents and awnings but it also
furnishes excellent window screens at
short notice.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26
Paint Your Buggy for 75c.

to 81 90 with Devoe's Gloss Carriage
Paint. 1t weighs to ozs. more to the
pint than others, wear longer, and gives
a gloss equal to new work. Sold by ].
H, Cogan & co.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26

Workmen began, yesterday, to retop
the chimneys on the residence of Joseph
A. Holman. State street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26
Daily kennebec journal


There will be social dance at Pet
tingilPs Corner, tonight, with grand
march at 9 o'clock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26

Prof Monaghan's pupils will give
their closing assembly at Union hall,
Wednesday evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26

Calanthe Lodge, X. of p, will work
the rank of Knight on eight candidates,
tomorrow night, followed by supper.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-26

Dr.. David kennedy's Golden Drops
instant relief. Neuralgia, rheumatism,
Bruises, Burns. csc, soc.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
TROUBLE ON THE WABASH
Discussed by Trainmen's officials
and Attorneys

anu AttOFheNS-
st. Louis, March 6.-The general Of
ficers of the Brotherhoods of Firemen
and Trainmen and committees here in
relation to the strike situation of the
Wabash tonight issued a statement,
addressed to their members on the
Wabash Railroad. giving a resume of
the situation and advising them to
continue loyal to the railroad company
and TO their respective organizations,
and to pay no attention to the state
lnents or threats of any person, nor
to any rumors that may be put in cir
culation. The statement says the in
junction of the court will be respected.
An alI-day conference was held by
Grand Masters Hannahan and Morris
sey of the Brotherhoods of Firemen
and Trainmen with their attorneys.
Their answer. with affidavits. may be
filed in court tomorrow. If not, then
it will be filed Monday. John H.
Murphy, chief counsel of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen, who
reached here to-day from Denver
joined in the conference.
There were no developments at Wa
bash headquarters, President Ramsey
reporting that the service throughout
the system was proceeding without
anything to interrupt it. In an inter-
view he reviewed his action of last
Monday, when the injunction was
served to prevent a strike, going into
the details which have not before been
made public.
President Ramsey said that if the
injunction We're dissolved he believed
a strike would be ordered at once.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
Hayward SAYS NO
RACE QUESTION CONVENTION Is AN
ABSURDITY.
WILL NAME NO DELEGATES.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A
RACE QUESTION.

Governor of South Carolina Dis
cusses the Proposition That
Comes From ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ton Would Be a Heterogeneous
Mixture With no Knowledge OF
the Subject-LOng-R Range Would
he PhilanthrOphists Have Been
Too Busy,
= Columbia, S. c., March 6.-Replying
to a request for an expression of opin-
ion on the action of the Wisconsin
Legislature in calling on the Governor
of that state to call a national conven-
race question and to invite all Cover
nors to send delegates, Gov. Hayward
said to-day:
Il think from every standpoint that
this action of the Wisconsin Legisla-
ture is worse than meaningless. Of
all available reasons for the consider
alton of the race question, know of
nothing more directly aimed in abso-
lutely the wrong direction, so far as
the proper solution of the problem is
vention.
The personnel of such a body would
be heterogeneous mixture entirely
without the proper knowledge of the
subject they were supposed to be able
to discuss. The interference and
ignorance of long-range would-be phi
lanthropists have done more to create
a race question, where none exists,
than all other combined agencies that
have ever come within my observation
L have always been a friend of the
negro and have never spokeEA with
more sincere consideration for his in
terest than in what l am saying now.
This outside interference involves
many conflicting dangers and displays
absolute ignorance of the fundamental
principles of the question. 1t is a
charitable reflection, mildly expressed,
to remind these champions of such
vapid nonsense how the streets of Je-
rusalem were kept clean.
Il shall certainly not appoint dele
gates"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
ENSIGN WORKMAN
BEFORE COURT MART lAL
Charged with Responsibility For
the Accident on the Massachusetts.

Charged with Responsibility For
the Accident on the Massachusetts.
Pensacola, Fla, March 6.-The court
martial for the trial of Ensign Ward K.
Workman, for alleged neglect of duty,
resulting in the death of eight men of
the battIeship Massachusetts, convened
at the navy yard to-day, with Rear Adj
miral w. C, Wise as president and
Lieutenant Commander Winslow of the
Bureau of Navigation as judge advo-
cate.
Ensign Workman pleaded not guilty
to all the charges and specifications,
and asked permission of the court
which was granted TO have Lieut..
Wiley r. NJ. Field and Lieut.. Henry
C. Muster act as counsel for him. The
court then proceeded to examine wit
neSseS.
Lieut. Commander B A. Fiske tes-
titled that on the date the explosion oc-
Cured the AIassa chusetts was engaged
in target practice off Culebra. and that
he saw great volumes of smoke issuing
from the S-inch turret and saw men
taken out, badly burned. The breach
plugs of both guns were open and shells
in the guns. He said, as the gun crew
had been properly drilled, he did not
think it neceSSar.- 0r the turret officer
to witness the 1C g.
Lieut.. w. G. Coo was the next wit
ness, but the questions asked him re-
lated largely to regulations, and their
Interpretation. He had assisted in res
cuing two men from the turret after
the explosion.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
HOOKER FOR JUSTICE.
stormy Convention of Michigan Re-
pubIicans.

Detroit, Mich, March 6.-Judge
Frank A. Hooker of Charlotte was to-
night renominated for justice of the
Supreme Court of this state for term
of ten years by the Republican State
Convention in the stormIest meeting
held in this state since the Grand
Rapids convention that nominated
Gov. Bliss in 1898. Seven candidates
were in the field against Judge Hook
er. and the convention was stampeded
during the taking of the sixth ballot
in the interest of Judge Edward d.
Kline of Ann Arbor, but the seventh
ballot gave a large majority to Judge
Hooker.
For regents of te University of M.eh-
igan the convention nominated Peter
White of Marquette and Loyal T..
Knappen of Grand Rapids. The plat
form adopted says:
I'VE. the Republicans of Michigan,
in judicial convention assembled, re-
affirm our allegiance to the principles
and policies of the Republican party.
We cordially indorse the patriotic,
courageous and wise policy of Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt, and hereby
renew our pledge of support and our
expression of confidence in him and in
his administration"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
LETTERS OF AGUINALD0
show That HIS Would Not Have Es-
tabIished "A Republic.

Washington, March 6.-The Bureau
of Insular Affairs. War Department,
has just published a pamphlet of for
ty-eight pages, giving the Geographic
correspondence OF Emilio Aguinaldo
from July Is, 1898, to Feb. %, 1898, the
period just preceding the fall of Manila
and following the outbreak of hostili-
ties between the United States and the
insurgents.
These kilograms were discovered by
Capt. ]. +. M. Taylor, Fourteenth In
fantry, among a mass of papers cap
tured from the so-called insurgent gov
eminent. They are sufficiently COM
plete to show that the insurgent leader
leaned strongly upon others for advice
and counsel, that there was serious OPP
position to his authority even among his
own people, that an attack upon the
Americans at Manila had been fully de-
cided upon before the outbreak of hos
tilities on Feb. 4. 1892 and that in the
event that the struggle should prove
successful, the new government that
would have been created would not
have been a republic, for titles of no.
bility We're on Jan. IA, 1899, promised
to certain insurgent officers as reward
for entering Manila and capturing the
American forces and their officers.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
MORGAN COMING HOME.
Paid a Lengthy Parting Call to
President Palma.

Havana, March 6.-J. Pierpont Nor
gan and his party leave Havana for
New York, via Tampa, Fla, to-mor-
row. They had luncheon to-day at
Minister Squiers' residence.
Mr.. Morgan paid a lengthy parting
call on President Palma, who person
ally assured the Associated Press cor
respondent that the impending govern
inent loan was not mentioned at the
interview. Senior Palma added that
the government was not ready to adj
vertise for bids for the loan until the
collection of the new taxes, designed to
pay off the loan, had been arranged
for.
President Palma was much interested
in the dispatches from Washington re-
garding the situation of the reciproc-
ity treaty there, and expressed the
earnest hope that the pending treaties
would shortly be concluded, and that
the period of Intervention would be sat
isfactorily and wholly concluded,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
KILLED HIS BROTHER
ABOUT HIS WIFE.

Holly Hill, s. C., March Elm
Berkeley county. Fred Martin, young
white farmer. who lives eighteen miles
from here, rode up to the field where
his brother was blowing and without
a word Of warning fred a load OF
buckshot into the shoulder 0f his
brother. Joel Martin, killing him In
stantly. lie then quickly rode or, re-
marking that his brother had only
gotten what he deserved long ago"
Fred Martin claims that his brother
had been eriminaliy intimate with hls
(Fred'a) wife.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
SERIOUS IN CHINA.
Crisis Is Approaching in the Re-
bcIiIOn of Boxers.

- IN AAAC AhC-
bcfifOn of Boxers.
Washington, March 6.-While no ad-
vices have been received at the Chi
nese legation here regarding the seri-
Gus condition of affairs, which are APP
preaching crisis in the interior of
China, as a result of the renewed ac-
tivity of the Boxers and of other rebels
in various parts of the country, it is
the understanding that the new min
lister, Sir Leang Chen Tung, who sail
ed from Hong Kong on Feb. % on the
steamship Korea for San Francisco,
will bring to Washington important
instruction bearing on the subject.
In addition to the uprising of the
rebels and the increased importation
of arms, the extortion practiced by the
viceroys in the collection of the in
demnity is said to have caused the
most distressing conditions in many
provinces. European advices that
have reached Washington in the last
few days show no evidence of weaken
ing on the part of the Powers in their
demands for the payment of the in
demnity in gold. This problem will
be the first with which the new min
lister will grapple upon his arrival in
Washington.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
WILD WEST STUNT
IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Johannesburg. March GA desperate
attempt at highway robbery in the
center Of johannesburg was made to-
day. A couple Of men attacked two
customs officers. conveying $4,000 to
the bank. and throwing pepper in
their eyes. secured the money bags.
which they threw 10 a hOrseman, who
gaiioped on. The horseman IN his
tight knocked down man named
brandon. who was fatally injured, and
soon expired. Suddenly the horse
b0ited and unseated its rider. who
Wa then arrested. and the money re-
covered
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
HANGED IN COURT ROOM.
Henderson Faced His Death With
Perfect CnImness.


Duluth. Mimi, March Elm the same
court room in which he had been con-
victed of the murder of his sweetheart,
Charles f. L. Henderson, a negro, was
hanged at o'clock this morning.
The prisoner, while striving to APP
pear Indifferent, displayed a calmness
in the face of his doom that filled the
spectators with a feeling of awe.
To each of the deputies the prisoner;
as if he were an attentive host hand
ed roses. To Sheriff Butchart he gave
a testament, remarking quietly as he
did so, Il want about thirty minutes to
talk The sheriff nodded assent. and
then, without tremor in his voice,
the murderer began his address. He
expressed no sorrow for his deed, and
said that it would come out that the
crime was not premeditated. After
talking for about half an hour. he
turned to the sheriff, Strengthened UP
and said:
Il am ready"
He held his hands behind him for the
cuffs, and the black cap was adjusted.
The execution followed.
The crime for which Henderson paid
the death penalty was the murder on
June q. last, of Ida Mccormick. He
had gained entrance TO her room UNI
known to her. and secreted himself in
a closet. While there he overheard the
woman declare that she loved Hender-
son no more. and that another had
gained her affection.
Suddenly he burst through the door,
with a huge knife in his hand and
plunged it into the woman seventeen
times. Henderson, following his con-
viction, addressed "A long plea in verse
to the Governor, speaking of his (the
prisoner's) services in the Spanish war
and asking for a nardon.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
FATAL DUEL FOUGHT
ON QUESTION OF HONOR.

Columbus, Miss, March 6.-Joseph
Sloan was shot and instantly killed in
a duel by A. P. Taliaferro. a prominent
jeweler, tonight. Eleven shots We're
fred, five by Sloan and six by Talia-
ferro.
The trouble occurred in a store on
Main street, and when the officers
reached the place Sloan was lying in
side the door, dead.
When arrested Ta1iaferro said the
trouble grew out of family affairs, and
that he was forced to shoot Sloan 10
protect the honor of his home.
Sloan was comparatively a stranger
here. having come, so he stated, from
Virginia.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
SCRATCH OF HIS RAZOR
CAUSED HIS DEATH.

Denver, Col. March e.-James Stet-
tauer. prominent club man and
financier Of Chicago. died at Mercy
Hospital In this city OF blood poison
ing resulting from a scratch inflicted
while shaving The injury was receiv-
cd a week ago. A day or so later
a complication OF diseases.
The body has been shipped 10 Chi
cago for burial. Mr.. Stettauer left
fortune estimated at s5OO0.000. He
came 20 Denver two weeks ago TO
transact business.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
BROKE OUT OF JAIL
WITH A CORKSCREW.

Hinesville, Ga, March ED S.
Baily, the young white man, who was
lodged in Jail here some three weeks
ago. charged with forging cheeks and
drafts on the brick and tile company
at Johnston, effected his escape at an
early hour this morning by breaking
the bolt to his cell door with a sash
weight and boring through the brick
wall with a corkscrew
He wrote Sheriff Brewer a long let
ter and left it in his cell, stating that
he had just received a letter from his
sister, who is off at school, and was
dependent upon him for funds to Sc
cure her education, and that he could
not bear the thought of her being
withdrawn from school at this time and
on his account.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
LILY WHITE LEADERS
GET THREATENING NOTES.
Republicans Do Not Seem to BE Safe
From Negroes.

From Negroes.
Birmingham. Ala, March 6.-Several
Republican leaders in Birmingham
have received threatening letters sign
ed vigilance Committee
1t is said that at least half a dozen
of them have been received by as many
Republicans. One of them was sent to
Mai. c. ]. Allison. clerk of the Unit
ed states Court. Maj. Allison declined
to make statement. but it is known
that threats were made against him
and Others.
The letter to Maj. Allison was writ
ten OH what appears to be a slip of
yellow wrapper. cut in the shape of a
coffin. The letters were rudely printed
with a pencil and were evidently dis
guiseJ The letter stated that the
Lilly Whites" were marked men, and
would suffer and that the negroes had
been accorded worse treatment at
their hands than they had been given
by the Democrats.
On another letter written to a prom
inent Republican who was active in
the Lilly White" movement it was
stated that the houses of the Lily
Whites" would be burned or blown Up
with dynamite; that the leaders would
be called upon to suffer death for their
actions, and that ex-senator PritcSard
of North Carolina was a marked man.
On the letters the names of promi-
nent Republicans appear, including
Daniel Cooper, marshal; Chief Clerk
Ashley of the marshaPs office; VIII
liam Vaughn, j. H. Bingham, j. w.
Smith, ]. Carter Cook, ]. W. Davidson,
w. l. Wellman and others.
Where the letters originated is UNI
known. Those whose names We're
mentioned in the mysterious lettars
and who received them decline to dis
cuss the matter. An investigation will
he M q de hNr nffininls
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
BERG HAD A BUG.
Said He Had An Inside Tip On the
Loss of the Maine.

Said He Had An Inside Tip On the
Loss of the Maine.
Washington. March GA Swede, who
gave his name as u. Berg of Provi-
dence, X. l., tried for an hour to-day
to see the President He was urged by
the White House attaches to reduce
his communication to writing.
This he endeaVored to do, but failed.
One of the secret service officers inter-
viewed him, and found him possessed
of halucinations. Berg said that sew
eral years ago he had informed the
United States government that the
Spaniards intended to blow up one Of
its battleships, and he wanted the
President to see to 1t that he received
100000 for his information.
Berg was persuaded to return to
Providence, and there place his claim
in the hands of lawyer.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
REFUGEES ARE RETURNING.
COnquering Their Fear of the
Plague Taking Them.

Mazatlan, Mex, March 6.-People
who had fled from this city when the
plague was violent are nov returning!
This is in part due to the fact that the
new regulations provide that from to-
day nobody will be allowed to enter or
depart from the city without undergo
ing a quarantine of ten days. This
measure was adopted as the plague
appears to be decreasing.
One person at the observation sta
ton died to-day from the plague.
Employees of the distinction depart
ment of the department of health at
the City of Mexico have arrived.
Gov. Canedo has returned from Villa
Union, where directly after he had
left there was riot, which was quick
ly suppressed by the rural guards. One
more fatal case of plague is reported
from Villa Union.
A large quantity of virus to kill rats
is expected soon from the federal au-
thorities at City of Mexico.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
POPE RECEIVED ONE
OF HIS CARDINALS.

Rome, March 6.-All the sensational
reports circulated regarding the health
of the Pope are unfounded. Although
his holiness is not yet restored to his
normal condition, he is better to-day
than he was yesterday, so much so that
he gave his usual audience to Cardinal
Rainpo1la, and later had a conference
with the sub-treasury of state.
Although Pope Leo did not attend
the usual Lenten sermon preached in
the Vatican to-day before the cardi-
nails and bishops, he has been sitting
up all day and his cold has almost
entirely disappeared.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07

Graeme Stewart Secured n Majority
of Delegates.

Chicago. March 6.-Graeme Stewart,
the present Republican national COM
mitteeman from Illinois. secured a ma
jority of the delegates at the Republi-
can mayoralty primaries to-day. The
total number of delegates is $40; nee
essary to a choice All. OF these Stew
art had 531 with five wards to hear
from, and John NJ. Harlan, his only
competitor, 266, and rs delegates are
unrestricted.
Stewart and Harlan both reside in the
art secured every delegate.