Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-12
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The plant of the Essex Dye Works
in Lawrence. Mass, was burned, Sun
day morning. The loss is estimated at
from 100000 to $4,000, insured. The
cause of the fire is supposed to be
spontaneous combustion.
y special from Che Foo states that
Chinese junkmen who have arrived at
that place say that on Tuesday, July 5,
Chinese carriers brought into town
over 500 Russians dead, two of whom
We're Eigh officers. They also state
that 4 part of the Japanese advancing
to within six miles of the besicgcd town
took another eastern fort.
AS n demonstration of gratitude re-
Garding his conduct at Santiago and
his care of American sailors, Admiral
Ccrvera has been presented with an en-
crossed message bearing the signatures
of Il number of well-konwn Americans
besides letters from subscribers bound
in II volume. The presentation was
made by Mr.. Bird of Vienna in behalf
of his fellow Americans. The admiral
in returning thanks for this manifesto
ton of American good will said that
his conduct towards Lieutenant Hob
son and the American sailors after the
sinking of the Merrimac had been in
spired by superior orders.
An engine drawing an castbound ex-
cursion train on the Missouri Pacific
road jumped a switch near La Radie.
As miles west Of st. Louis Mo, Sunday
night, while running at a high rate of
speed, dcrailing four coaches. The
coaches were thrown down an en-
bankmcnt and IS passengers were in
iurctl. three seriously. Fortunately no
one was killed..
Canpello. Mass. tram yards, between
an empty passenger train which was
crossing over Il switch onto another
track and fast express freight train.
six men We're injured slightly, two
locomotives were demolished and two
freight cars and one passenger car
caught fire ana burned. The signai
man ut Campcllo said, Sunday night.
that his signals were set properly and
that the engineer Of the freight evident
ly disregardcd them.
Miss Bertha Dolliber. % years old. of
San Francisco. said to have been the
daughter of the late $. +. Dolliber, a
millionaire of that city, committed
| suicide, Sunday, by jumping from the
| ninth floor window of the WaldOrf-As-
toria hotel in New York. Nearly every
| bone in her body was broken and death
was instantaneous. Miss Dolliber and
her cousin, Miss Marion Warren, also
| of San Francisco, had been at Waldorf
| Astoria since June 80, when they re-
turned from 4 trip to Europe, taken for
Miss Dolliber's health. 1t is said that
Miss DolIibcr has suffered with melan-
chOlia and needed constant attention,
since the death of her father a year
| ago.
Seventeen persons were killed and
| about 50 were injured in collision
which occurred in Midvale. N. j., at
| noon, Sunday, between n regular pas
scnger train on the Greenwood Lake
branch of the Erie Railroad and an ex-
| cUrsion train, carrying members of
the First Platt-deutcher Association of
| HoboSen on their annual outing. The
| train consisted of Il cars and two en-
gines and carried 500 passengers The
| accident is believed to have resulted
from a tower operator having lowered
his signal too soon, and this was adj
mittcd by D. w. Cooke, general pas
| senger agent of the Erie Railroad, who
gave out n statement in which he said
THE operator in the tower failed to set
the block signal against the train fol-
lowing" Those who were injured We're
taken either to their home or to hos
pitfalls, and the bodies of those killed
were taken TO Little Falls where AS
sistant Prosecutor Ralph Shaw of
Passaic rendered the use of building
as a morgue.
More than 200 delegates, representing
upwards of 10000 members Of the Mas
sachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters,
met in Boston, Sunday night, to formu-
late plans for the celebration of the
orders silver jubilee on September 15
The exercises will take place in Me-
chanics building, concluding with ball
in the evening.