Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-29
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North,
East, South and West.

George A. Kannard, broker, com
mitted suicide, Thursday, at New York,
by shooting himself through the left
temple while in a bath tub in barber
shop.
The funeral of Max O'Rell paul
Blouet) who died at Paris May "a, took
place, Thursday, at the Church of St
Pierre de Chaillot. A number of liter
airy notabilities were present.
The torpedo boat NO. 27" was run
down by tug, at Cherbourg, Thurs
day. The formers boiler was pierced,
her stoke hole filled with steam and
five of her crew were severely injured.
Lucien Lyme, the American jockey,
rode in his first race in England, at
EPSON, Thursday He finished second
in the royal stakes on Foxhall Keene'S
Cap and Bells II. Sundridgc won by a
length. Seventeen horses started.
Dean Sutherland of the Boston Uni
vcrsity School of Medicine. Thursday,
announced that 81 students had sue
cessfully obtained diplomas, IA of whom
We're young women. Glass day exer-
cises will take place. Monday even
ing.
The special commission of the British
Columbia Legislature inquiring into the
Columbia and Western subsidy deal has
reported that the award of the South
kootenay lands to the Canadian Pa
cific Railway is against the public in.
tcreSt.
A special from Tabor, Iowa, states
that DR.. John Gordon president of Ia
hor College, has received an offer of
the presidency Of Howard University
at Washington, ID. C. The doctor says
he probably will accept the Offer but
will confer with the trustees of Tabor
College before doing so.
The Namquit cotton mills at Bristol,
r. L.. were closed, Thursday night, be-
cause of a lack of raw material Or
ders We're placed for cotton weeks ago
and its failure to reach here forced
them to curtail the production recently
and finally tC suspend operations for q t
least week. Three hundred hands are
employed.
The grist mill and store house owned
and occupied by caves & Town of
Kecne. N. H., and which were located
about Is miles below that city. were
destroyed Thursday, causing a loss of
over $1,000. There was an insurance
Of $500. a connecting bridge, bulk
head and flume were also destroyed.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
The directors of the United States
Leather Co., met, Thursday, at New
York and declared the usual quarterly
dividend of preferred stock. 1t was re-
ported that a bond issue, part to be sold
for cash the rest to be used to pay ac-
dividends of the preferred
would be taken up. but it was officially
stated that no formal consideration had
been given to the plan.
Quite sensa ton was created. Thurs
day, 1T Deal Beach, n. j.. through the
executive committee of the Metropoli-
tan Golf Associate ClisquaHfying DIR.
Leroy Culver, Jersey City. on a charge
made by A. f. Taylor, Lakewood that
the Doctor had taken more strokes on
certain holes than appeared on his card
The surprise of the morning was the
defeat of Walter j. Travis, Garden
City. by John NJ. Ward, Fox Hill. |
Findley S. Douglass, Nassau, beat
Charles H. Seeley, the Connecticut
state champion.
Fire which started in an overheated
smoke house in the plant of Q. Diet
rich & Sons pork packers, Allegheny
City. did 100000 damage. No one was
injured. through several. narrow es- !
capes were reported. Insurance, $4,000
Gen. MacArthur with his Wife and
aide Capt. Parker West, will leave San
Francisco, Tuesday, for West Point,
where his son will graduate. Young
the distinction Of rank
ing first in his class at the Military
Academy Gen. Macarthur will return
to California by July l.
Introduction of testimony by the state
in the second trial of George II. Green
leaf for the murder of Mrs. Nancy j.
Folsom of Boscawcn, oct. 23 1901, was
Thursday, at Concord, N.