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

All Minneapolis flour mills 81 in
number, are shut down, but millers
say they expect 10 resume operations
in three days. Shortage in the supply
OF wheat is the cause.
An old woman, who for 20 years past
has lived in small room in st. Peters,
burg, has been found dead of privation.
The officials found $4,000 in a cupboard
and further search resulted in the
finding of securities valued at $1,000,-
900. The woman had no heirs.
The Colonial fisheries department re-
ceived advices, Monday, that seven
vessels hailing from American, Cana
dian and Newfoundland ports are
adrift amid the ice foes in the Gulf
of ST. Lawrence. 1t is feared that the
crews of some of these boats may per-
ish.
Funeral services for Miss Mamie
Bryan were held, Monday, at the home
of her sister, Mrs. T. S. Allen, at Lin
coin, Neb. They We're conducted by
Rev. S. z. Batten of the First Baptist
church. Later W. ]. Bryan and other
members of the family left with the
remains for Salem, ILL.,, where inter-
ment will be made in the family lot.
a Tuscon, Arizona, Star special from
Nogales says: John Dysart, presi-
dent. and l.. r. Swain. cashier of the
International Banlk, have been arrest
ed by Sheriff Turner of Santa Clara,
on warrants charging them with en-
bezzling S21,G00 belonging to P. Sand
oval & Co.. bankers, which was on
deposit in the bank at the time OF
their recent failure.
Champagne at the christening of J.
]. Hills steamship Dakota at New
London. Conn.,, Feb. 6, is not wanted
by 5000 women of North Dakota and
South Dakota. who have signed petit
ton to that effect and forwarded it to
Mr.. Hill in New York City. The wo-
men say the boat is named after two
prohibition states and should not be
baptized with champagne.
George ketcham of Toledo, Ohio, the
owner of the trotter Cresceus return
ed, Monday, at New York, from a two
months trip abroad. on the steam
ship Minnahaha. Mr.. Ketcham an
nounced that he had sold to
Louis Weinans of Brighton, Eng
land, The Hangrnan, a full brother
to Cresccus for $4,000. The horse will
Continent. Mr. Weinans is the owner
Of Wig-INag, the champion trotter of
Europe.
Nothing has been heard for weeks
from Col. Leutwein, the governor of
German Southwest Africa, who was
making L long march from the Warm
bad region toward his beleagued forts
northward. The Hererros rose while
Leutwein was still engaged with the
Bondelzwarts, and it is now feared
that Lcutwein may have been unable
to force mis- way through the hostile
tribesnen and that he has been oblig-
ed to entrench himself and wait for
the arrival of a rescuing expedition.
The Cuban department OF state and
justice has ordered the prosecution of
the persons at Cienfuegos suspected Of
responsibility to the defacing OF the
escutcheon at the United States con-
sulate, and has notified Minister
SuuIerS that an investigation and
punishment have been ordered. Gen.
Rodriguez. commander of the rural
guards. left here, this evening, for
Cienfuegos. The only motive assigned
to the mud-throwing incident is a de-
result in the Ousting Of the local Off
Gals.
The Heintzemann Press, a Boston
printing company, was burned out,
Monday night, for the second time
within 81 year. The firm. after its first
loss, moved to a larger building oppo-
site the South Terminal station, occu-
plying the fifth floor, while ON the. floor
below were the storage rooms OF the
American Cotton Mills Co. The fire
originated in the printing office, and
worked down to the floor below occu-
pied by the Cotton Co. The loss to
the HeintZemann Press is estimated at
$4,000. and to the American Cotton
Mills Co. S25,000A The fire was fought
in a gale of wind and freezing weather
and nearly every fireman was coated
with ice from top to toe.