Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.
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While the schooner Charles W.
Church Of Taunton, Mass, bound for
Boston with coal for Norfolk. Va, was
anchored in Vineyard Sound, Monday
night. the barge Kingston ran into
her. and her bowsprit and all her head
gear was carried away. The Kingston
was the stern barge of three in tow Of
the tug Walter A. Luckenbach, Nor
folk, for Boston. The Charles W..
Church was towed into Vineyard
Haven, Tuesday. The Kingston was
not damaged.
Seeing flames issuing from the front
of a car in which they were riding, and
believing the car to have caught fire.
the passengers on an EdgewOOd and
Pawtucket car in Providence, r. l., at
tempted to escape from the supposed
threatened danger by jumping while
the car was in motion, and as a result
four persons are seriously injured.
while others sustained minor bruises
and a shaking up Witnesses Of the
accident state that the flames from
the burned out &C n,ro.er shot several
feet above the roof of the car. creating
giIre which brought many residents
of the neighborhood to the scene.
Hiram w. Hayden, member of the
firm of Holmes, Booth & Hayden, man
ufacturers of brass goods, is dead at
his residence at Waterbury, Conn.,,
.,ged S. years. He was one of the
pioneer manufacturers of the city and
had patented mary inventions Of his
OWL.
Fire at Rhinelander, Wis, Tuesday,
caused a total loss Of 100000. Thirty
dwellings, a planning mill and six and
half million feet of lumber were de-
stroyed.
Notices have been posted in all three
Of the cotton mills at Suncook, N. IT,,
announcing cut cf l21. per cent. in
wages Of all operatives to take effect
July 25. The stated cause for the re-
duction in wages is that surplus of
the manufactured product exists and
that the policy of the mill management
is to follow the lead of Fall River.
About 1870 operatives will be affected.
The bail of DR.. Robert j. Thompson
Of Manchester, n. H., who is under
federal Indictment in Boston for al
legged counterfeiting was reduced
Tuesday, from $500 to $4,000 by Judge
Lowell of the United States district
court. This was on condition that
Thompson should report to the United
States marshal every As hours.
The town Of North Andcver, Mass,
voted at Il special meeting, Tuesday
night, not to accept the tender of s12,-
GOO library building from Andrew
Carnegie, in view of the fact that eX-
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known an offer at the meeting to donate
Il building for library purposes to cost
not less than $4,000 and a site for the
same. The offer carries Il provision
that the town shall raise $500 annual
~ for the support of the library and
that the offer shall be accepted by a
two-thir1s vote of those present and
voting at a special meeting called to
consider the matter Should the town
fail to make tire required appropriation,
ne building and site are to revert to
the Stevens heirs.
DR.. Helen w. Webster. q well-known
woman physician and among the first
women in this country to enter the
medical profession died at New Bed
ford, Mass, Tuesday, at the age OF 81
years. She was at one time professor
of anatomy and hygiene at Vassar.
Assistant Secretary Of State Loomis
has accepted the finding of the British
cOroner's jury in the case of F. Kent
Loomis as the correct position to take
at this time. He is, however, employ
ing every agency within his reach,
officially and personally, to get to the
end of the matter and says his sole
purpose is to ascertain the truth.
1t has developed since the arrest of
Thomas Cimmic of Rither Glen. n. B.,
who shot himself, Monday, when the
sheriff appeared to arrest him after
his alleged murder of Willie Doherty,
that there had been an ill feeling be-
tween the two men because Cimmic's
wife by i second marriage. who is
Doherty's sister, had left him and was
living with her brother. 1t also APP
pears that after Cimmic's attack on
William Doherty and his two brothers,
he attacked his wife and beat her
about the head with revolver She
succeeded in escaping from him, how
ever. and went to a neighbours. She
was not seriously injured.
Sheriff Bell Of Cripple Creek, Col,
said, Tuesday. that direct information
charging Pearl SHELTON. the miner who
was arrested in Pueblo, two weeks
ago. with the Independence depot muir
ders, was to be flied. Matthews, Con-
way and Boyd, after examination be-
fore the board of inquiry, Tuesday,
were turned over to the military au-
thorities with a recommendation that
they be deported.