Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-23
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North,
East, South and West.

East, South and West.
Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by two
or three of the White House domestics,
will leave Washington at A. NJ, Tues
day, for Oyster bay.
Vice Chancellor Stevenson in Jersey
City. Monday, declared insolvent Inc
Asphalt Co. Of America and granted the
application for an order restraining the
company from dong business.
The shipping traffic at Cienfuegos,
Cuba, is tied up by strike of lighter
men for higher wages. Heavy rains
have caused overilows in some sections
of the country. The cessation of cane
grinding is everywhere complete.
Five workmen We're badly but not
fatally burned, Monday evening, at Co.
lumbus, Ohio, by an explosion of nat
ural gas at the mouth of a shaft lead
ing to a sewer tunnel at Park and
Hickory streets. The explosion wreck
ed an engine building at the mouth Of
the shaft.
An Alden dispatch to the London
Daily Telegraph says it is reported
liCic lIl6il bCil.
the Somaliland expedition, against the
Mad Mullah and Col. Conbe, who, it
was feared, had been cut off near Da-
mot, have succeeded in joining their
forces and have reached Bohotle, in
safety.
Senven Indian boys, pupils of the Mo-
hawk Institute at Brantford, Ont, We're
arrested, Monday, for causing five in
cendiary fires, including the destruction
of the institute. Some of the lads con-
tossed, including the ringleader, Roy
Wilson, aged II. The others average
Is years. They say they wanted to see
a big blaze.
Joseph De Grasse, sailor, on the
bark Josephine, who was arrested on
his arrival in New Bedford, Mass, last
Saturday, on n charge of kidnapping a
9-year-old boy, was arraigned, at New
Bedford, Monday, and pleaded not
guilty. His case was continued until
next Saturday, as the prosecution was
not prepared to proceed.
Louis Ingwersen, former agent in
New York of the German immigration
Society and later of the Atkinson,
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Central Railroads, died, Monday, at his
home in Yonkers, aged Sc years. He
was one of the founders of the I'm
proved Order of Red men and supreme
vice commander of the order.
The police of South Norwalk, Conn.,,
have in custody, a man whom they be-
lieve is wanted in New Rochelle, N. Y.
for the murder of a policeman in that
town u few days ago. The man was
found in East Norwalk, Monday, beg
ging for food. The prisoner, who says
his name is Edward Lenler, looks like
an Italian, but speaks French.
In the chancery court at Richmond
Va, Monday, Judge Grinnan dissolved
| the injunction restraining the United
States government from taking posses
sion of the cruiser Galveston. The fed
| eral government stipulates that the shiI
shall remain the property of the Trigg
creditors until the case is determined
| by the court of highest resort The
| Galveston will be launched this week
Samuel Vernon Steels, for many
years one of the best known dramatic
| and musical critics in Chicago, died
| Sunday, at Chicago, of bronchitis. Dur
| ing the Worlds Fair Mr.. Steele was sec
ond in command of the bureau of pub
licity and promotion. After the close Of
the Exposition he became an editor ia
writer on the Chronicle. but ill health
forced him to give up the work severa
| months ago.
The findings and award of the board
| of arbitration appointed at New York
to settle the differences between the
marine engineers and their employers
wre made public, Monday. The aware
| denies the request of the men foi
| shorter hours of service, but gives In
| creased pay to all departments anc
| grants two days a month and a vaca-
ton of seven days each year with full
| pay to the men. The award is to take
| effect from May l, 1903.
| The candidate most preferred at the
| Vatican to succeed the late Cardina
| Vaughan, archbishop of Westminster
is Mgr. Gerry Del Val, formerly apos.
| tolic delegate in Canada. His father
was for many years Spanish ambassa'
| dor to the Holy See, but his mother
| was English and he was horn in Lon
don. The objection regarding the ma
tionality of his father, it is reported. i:
that Cardinal Wiseman, who was frs
archbishop of Westminster, was borr
in Seville.
Three persons have been severed!
hurt and a score were bruised in {
panic aboard an Amsterdam avenu,
trolley car at New York. The fuses il
the comptroller box blew out and jet
nearby. A woman ieaped off ant
struck her head against an iron pillar
She was badly cut. Her HUSBAND
jumped with their little girl and ais
was badly cut. The child was unin
jured. Another man broke one of hi
legs. BY this time the excitemen
aboard the crowded car became intense
Several women tainted and their fellow