Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-02-15
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| SONDeNoEO DISPATCHES.
Former Chief Louis p. Weber If
the Boston fire department, died at hi,
home at Quincy, Mass. Saturday. after
q stroke of paralysis
AlNinze Hayward, the millionaire
mining man, who was stricken with
paralysis, several weeks ago, did
Sunday, at San Francisco.
| Two persons were killed and about
a. injured, % of whom We're seriously
| hurt, in Il trolley car accident ia
FrostburS, Md. Sunday. The car ran
away on steep grade on Grant street.
and upon reaching i sharp curve jump
ed the track and crashed into 4 tcle
| graph pole.
The body found in n cunning hut on
| Plum Island marshes, Newburvport.
! Mass, Saturday. having Il bullet wound
| in the head, was identified. Sunday.
as that of Cornelius Healy, a peddler
| of Lawrence. He WAS 81 years old and
| married. 1t is believed that lie com
! mitted suicide.
The blockade of the Central Pacific
! railroad between Sacramento, Cal.
and Truckce. is reported to be serious.
Snow sheds have been broken down by
heavy snow at several points and will
require many hours to clear the track.
East bound passengers are halted at
Sacramento, and west bound trains
are at Reno and Truckee
1t was officially announced, Satur-
day. at Princeton, that the nth annual
Yale-Princeton debate will be held
there on March %. Yale will choose
sides on the question which Princeton
submitted, as follows: Resolved. That
the government of the United States
was warranted in recognizing the indie
pendence of the republic. of Panama
According to a compromise effected ,
between the litigants in the case of the
estate of Edwin NJ. Thayer of Boston.
and the insurance companies which
withheld payment of the policies on the
ground that his death might have been
due to suicide, an adjustment will be
made and all outstanding claims set
tied upon the basis, of so cents on the
dollar, amounting to s273,580. N
Second Lieut., PaulAIcCane has arriv-
ed at San Francisco, on the transport
Logan. under sentence of one years
imprisonment in FofteLeavenworth for
embeZzfement of furIaA of the United
States government. He was tried AMI
convi1te1 by Court martial at
Mania. He will be detained at Alcat-
rag. and will then be kent under guard
TO Fort Leavenworth Serve out his
sentence. ~
The comptroller of ~ currency, Sat
urday. announced the failure Of the
First National Bankef Matthews. Ind.
National Bank Examiner Willard D.
Frazer has been appointed. receiver.
The resources and liabilities of the in
stitution at the tirue of its last official
statement We're $134,0OO. The capital Of
tie concern was 5000. The National n
Rank of North America is the New
York correspondent of the bank.
Three lpbbers. -harricaded behind a
pile of farm implements. stood off the
citizens of harrisburg, Nsbs Satur-
day, while two other robbeEsfset off 10
explosions of dynamite in the State
Bank. About 200 shots were exchanged 7
between the robbers and the citizens
hut none was hurt on either side. The
robbers were unable to reach the inner
compartment of the safe. co:1taining i
$500. They took about $40 worth, Of i
stamps from the post office, WHICH is
in the building. and ssea ped. u
A writ of prohibition granted by the
supreme court Of Montana, Saturday.
restraints Judge +. w. Hearney of thef
district court of Silver Bow county
from hearing the famous Pennsylvania
mining case, involving large copper
interests III Butte. The Boston e Mon
tana Co. which petitioned for the writ,
alleges that it has disqualified the
judge by affidavits under the provisions
of the fair trial law. but that he has
refused to change the place Of trial.
The writ was made returnable, Feb. e.
Fire, Saturday, at Topeka, Kan,
destroyed the Parkhurst- Davis Mer-
camille Co.'S. building and stock at
First and Kansas avenue, the Sells
building adjoining. occupied by the
Mccormick Harvester Co, and W. 1.
Schick rs storeroom for mattresses
and some smaller property. The total
loss is put at $4,000, divided among 30
insurance companies. During the prog
ress of the fire several thousand cat
ridges stored on the third floor OF the
Parkhurst- Davis building exploded
and half a dozen spectators were hlft
slightly by flying shells.