Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-22

then cut his throat and bled to death.
He was en- route to ST. John, N. b.
Miss lillian Abano of Liverpool,
Eng, a talented harpist, died at Har-
per hospital at Detroit Mich, Monday,
aged 20 years. She was taken sick with
| typhoid fever, Dec. II, while filling an
engagement at the Temple theatre at
Detroit. -.
| Attorney General Crow has departed
| from st. Louis, Mo-, for Red Lands,
| Cal, to remain probably six weeks for
| his health. He has been confined to his
| bed for the past two weeks suffering
from nervous prostration and the eff
! fects of la grippe.
| In the United States district court
at Boston, Monday Judge Lowell APP
pointed jeremiah Smith, .Jr., as CO.
receiver with Joseph p. Morse of the
Gross & Strauss Co., dealers in ladies'
garments. Boston, recently assigned.
Mr. Smiths bonds were placed at
$50 900. X
Joseph Stickney, member of the
coal firm of Stickney. Conyingham &
Co., of New York, died suddenly Mon
day, at his home on 5th avenue, today.
Mr. Stickney was a native of Concord,
N H.. and was educated at the Pinker-
ton. n. H.. and Thetford. VT, Acade-
mics.
Justice Marcus P. Knowlton of the
supreme court, on, application of Saw
ings Bank Commissioners WashbuTn
and Otis, late Monday, appointed w.
/ w. McClench and H. Fl. BOsworth of
Springfield. Mass. temporary receivers
of the Hampden Trust Co., which clos
ed its doors, Saturday.
The trial of Albert ca. Twining and
David G. Cornell former president and
treasurer respectively of the Mon
mouth Trust Co. of Asbury Park, on
an Indictment charging them with
classification of reports and minutes OF
the Trust Co., was begun, Monday. at
| Freehold, N. j., before Judge Heisley.
Frank Roman, aged r. youngest son
of Edwin d. Roman, well-known law.
yer of Albany. N. T., was accidentally
shot and almost instantly killed, Sum
day evening, by a revolver in the
hands of. his 16-year-old brother,
Charles. They We're examining the
pistol and neither supposed 1t to be
| loaded. r..a
| A meeting, Monday, at. Hamburg. Of
! the representatives Of the, principal
shipowners of Hamburg unanimously
agreed to proposal for the, establish-
ment Of an international union Of sail
| ing ship owners, with the view Of fixing
minimum freight rates for honeward
and intermediate voyages. The minf-
mum rates will merely cover actual ex-
penses.
| George T.. Foster, former minister Of
| finance addressed the Canadian Club,
at Ottawa, Ont, Monday. devotfng
most of his speech to Canadian politics.
He said that reciprocity with the
/ United States was a dangerous thing
1 and criticised John Charlton from en-
deavoring to bring it about. He er-
dorsed the bringing of Merchandising
into Canada. n
/ Saloonkeeper James Vloek Of Chica-
go. who few days ago choked his wife
to death, strangled himself in his cell at
the county Jail, with a handkerchief
tightly knotted about his throat. The
man has been acting irrationally since
his arrast and it is now believed That
yloek took the life of his wife after be-
!, ing driven slowly crazy by the woman
alleged drinking spells,
Grace Atwater, alias Grace Gibson
: held at Springfield, Mass, for CONF
{ plicity in robhing the United States
: mails, was remanded to SAIL, Monday
the government not being ready to
proceed against her. Proof of her mar.
, rage to George F. Atwater, in whose
r company she, was when arrested, hal
+, been secured from Portland Me-, and
4 the case will probably be filed away
e Dec. 81, and date set for the hearing