Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.
A Glance at What is Happening in
Many Places.

The Foreign military and naval at
'tachcs are leaving Port Arthur, matter!
now being at "A crisis there.
DIR. Henry Hartwell Of Washington
Ct, has informed the police that last
week he lost $4,000 to two confidence
men who deliberately robbed him and
left him unconscious by the road.
! Magnificent Partisan gowns, valued
at 100000, on exhibition i'm the Palace
of Manufactures at the st. Louis
Exposition, were ruined by heavy rains
which passed over the Worlds Fair
grounds. The gowns were displayed
in glass show cases, but the rain came
, through crevices in the roof of the
! building and poured down upon the
/ tops of the cases eventually leaking
through and soaking the garments.
The United States cruiser Mayhower
| has sailed with the majority of the
| officers and sailors Of the battleship
kearsarge who were left in the hospital
F! at Triest for treatment for typhoid
| fever when Rear Admiral JEWELS
! squadron sailed. There are only three
officers and four sailors now in the
hospital and it is expected that a COM
/ plcte recovery in their cases will be
| effected in q few days
John kilmoge, prisoner extradited
/ from Norway, charged with the brutal
murder of Marie Trickasack in
/ Bayonnc, N. j., in June, has been
brought to New York. The prisoner,
who WAS employed in the oil works at
Bayonnc. is said to have heard that
Marie Trickasack had $1,000 on her
person and to have throttled her by
tying stocking around her throat.
Upon searching the body, however, it
| is alleged that he found but $50, the rest
of the $1,000 having been sent by the
dead girl to relatives the day before.
Immediately after the crime the alleged
murderer fled to Norway.
tornado struck the townships of
Rich Valley and Bergeon, Mimi,
Saturday night, killing four persons
Mary O'Donneil, aged -. the 7-year-
son of Anthony O'DonnelI, and
Frederick Gross and his mother, and
destroying thousands Of acres Of grain
and many barns, houses and sheds
The storm extended over many
counties.
The steamer Monohansctt, which was
Gen. Grants dispatch boat during the
Civil War, ana which was wrecked on
Misery Island during a fog Aug. 4, has
been burned for the junk in her. The
fire made spectacle that was witnessed
by thousands who lined the shores at
Salem Willows. Beverly and Manches-
tcr-by-the Sea.
Becoming violently insane while on
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Long Island Railroad drawbridge over
the inlet at Rightmeyers, New York,
Sunday, opened the draw, threw away
the key that operates the bridge
mechanism and caused an hours
suspension Of traffic on the road. A
train from Long Island City found the
draw signal set and stopped. After a
long wait the conductor and brakeman
Investigated, crossed the inlet in a boat
and finally found Eldridge. When he
saw the uniforms he became violent and
it took the two men and three others
called to their aid to overpower him.
He was finally bound hand and foot.
He could not or would not for a time
tell where the key was. Search was
made but no trace of it could be found.
Finally in his rawlings he told of throw
ing the key into the water and it was
necessary to send to another bridge for
Il key before the draw could be closed
and the road resume operations
Eldridge has been in the employ of the
road for 80 wears.
The two barges wrecked near New
Haven, Conn, last week are going to
pieces fast. and wreckage is strewn all
along the Milford shore. Much anxiety
is felt by shippers and owners in regard
to several other bargcs now at sea.
Co. Il. 9th, Battalion Ohio National
Guard, which left the camp at Athens
Ohio. Sunday. to attend the funeral of
Lieut.. George Waugh in Columbus, was
wrecked in the Chauncey yards by a
yard engine cClliding with the special
train. Private Price was crushed
through the body, receiving internal
injuries which will probably prove
fatal. The slightly injured are: Lieut.
Lester Scott. Capt. Ray Dixon, Private,
John Thomas.
The Che Foo correspondent of the
London Times asserts that China has
yielded to the Russian demands and
will grant compensation for the
Ryeshitclni affair as well as degrade
the local taotai and the Chinese
admiral. The correspondent says that
an American warship is ready to land
marines should trouble arise.
Fire, the result of lightning, caused
loss of $4,000 to the plant of the
Nubian Paint and Varnish Co, 51st
avenue and Moffatt street, Chicago.
Sunday night. Explosions of tanks of
| oil and varnish endangered the lives Of
| firemen, five Of them and a volunteer
being overcome by smoke.