Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
The civic laborers strike at ST. John,
| N. B., is at an end and Wednesday over
| 100 men resumed work, gaining 10 per
cent. raise in wages.
In compliance with her request, King
George has conferred on the Princess
Louise, former crown princess of Sax
ony, the title of Countess Montignoso
An epidemic Of dengue appears to be
sweeping over the Hawaiian islands.
| More than 1900 cases have been report
ed but there have been no deaths di-
rectly attributable to the disease.
The Pacific Commercial Gable Co. will
| lay cable from Manila to Shanghai
| and surveys for the work will shortly
| be made. Engineer Lucas, who had
charge of the laying of the cable from
Honolulu to Manila, has arrived at San
| Francisco.
| The Southport express train, crowded
with passengers, jumped the track,
| Wednesday evening, at Waterloo, five
mile from Liverpool, Eng. Five per-
sons were killed and about 80 injured,
Is seriously. The train was partially
wrecked.
John (Twim Sullivan gained the de-
cision over Martin Judge in a 10-round
bout at the Tammany Athletic Club, at
Boston, Wednesday night. Sullivan
had the better of the fight from the
start and had Judge in bad way sew
| eral times.
NJ. Loqui Lobet, member of the
French Geographical Society, is at San
Francisco. 1t is said that he is inter-
ested in the scheme of building a trans
Alaska Siberian railroad and thereby
atfording an all-rail route from New
York to Paris.
| The barge Argentina, which turned
| over at Rear river, Nova Scotia, last
week. when the tide went out, was sur
| veyed, Tuesday, and the 100000 feet of
| lumber taken on board, is to be dis
| charged and the ship towed to Var
| mouth, for repairs.
| Herman Hansen and Adolph Weber,
workmen on the new East river bridge.
at the foot of Delaney street. New
York, were killed. Wednesday, by being
thrown from the top of the iron con-
struction to pile of iron beams, a
distance of nearly so feet.
| In attempting to stop his horse which
had been frightened while he was de-
| livering ice on Washington street.
Lynn, Mass, Wednesday, George T.
| Day, 81, a well-known ice dealer, was
thrown under the wheels and crushed
tc death A family survives him.
| Hudson Samson, known in Methodist
Episcopal church circles throughout
the United States for his charity and
philanthropy and as the builder of
score or more churches throughout
Pennsylvania and the middle and far
West, is dead at his home in Pittsburg,
Pa.
The Chicago Record Herald says:
Former Pres. Cleveland will speak in
Chicago at banquet of the CONNER
| cial Club early in the fall. The exact
date has not yet been fixed but it will
be at time when the Presidential
election of 1904 will be demanding at
tention.'
The New York board of estimate and
apportionment, Wednesday,, unani-
mously re-appropriated s6,533,000 for
the usage of Manhattan bridge (No. 8
over the East river between Manhat-
tan and Brooklyn). This is the appro-
priation defeated, Tuesday, by the board
of aldermen.
Manuel Ferrio, an employee at the AL
gonquin Print works at Fall River,
Mass, was crushed to death by an ele-
vator. some time Wednesday afternoon.
No one witnessed the accident and the
first known of it was when Ferrio's
body was found, at night. wedged be-
tween the elevator and the floor He
was % years old.
Judge F.. II. Gary, chairman of the
executive committee of the United |
States Steel corporation, has arrived at |
San Francisco from New York. In an
interview he said that there was no /
business significance attached to his |
visit, that he was there simply for rest 4
and pleasure, and will remain in the II
vicinity of San Francisco for the next
two weeks.
The strike OF the teamsters at New
Bedford, Mass, appears to be nearing II
it's end, if it is not already virtually II
broken, and union men are resuming II
their old jobs. John Duff of David III
Duff & Son, has declined an offer of the
R. s. Brine Transportation Co., of Bos-s
ton, to furnish him so men at once, and /
predicts that all the strikers will soon
be around for their former places.
Despite the fact that his skull was
trepanned and anti-toxine injected into
the brain, Willie T. Grahama, a Mt.
Vernon, n. Y, boy is dead from lock-
Jaw. The palm of Graham's hand was
acerated by blank cartridge, July A.
4ockjaw set in but was relieved by the
In few days the effect OF
he operation wore off and the lockjaw
eturned.
The United States International ex-
mango commission arrived at Berlin.
tuesday, evening, from The Hague and
as received, Wednesday, by the under