Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-25
NEWS IN Brief.
A Glance at What is HAPPENING ir
Many Places.

Two more incen diary fires. set at
about the same time. startled the resi-
dents of the North End at Boston. ar
l.30 A. NJ, Sunday. Only one alarm wa :
sounded, box II being turned in but
the arriving firemen found two fires To
contend with instead Of one. This is
the second time within a few weeks
that the same thing has happened ana
the firemen and police have come to the
conclusion that the fires are the work
of some pyromaniac. The last fires
threatened the lives Of nearly 100 per-
sons, but fortunately both blazes were
discovered in time to prevent serious
damage or loss Of life. The fires wera
within 300 feet of each other, being al
most at the end of the narrow portion
of Stilllnan street between North
Margin and Salem streets.
The jury in the action of Mrs. Mary
z. Thomas of Haverhill, Mass, VS.. the
Exeter. Hampton & Amesbury Street
Railroad. Saturday. returned a verdict
of $3.50 for the plaintiff. The action
was brought TO recover damages for the
loss of hand, Mrs. Thomas having her
hand caught and crushed in a many-
ling machine while employed in the
laundry at the Casino, Hampton Beach
during the summer of 1902. The case
was tried at the April term of court
nut the jury disagreed.
William A. Parker, co,ored. aged y
pleaded guilty to murder in the second
degree in the superior crminal court
at Boston, Saturday, before Judge
Sherman. Sentence for life inlprison-
lnent will be imposed. Thursday. Thu
defendant shot Eleanora COBB at her
home, 80 Newcomb street.
The war department. will shin free of
charge from San Francisco to Manila
such Christmas packages as reach the
superintendent of tn" army transport
service in San Francisco by d. celnber
lSt. Packages intended for soldiers and
n" delivery of which is desired before
christmas should reach San Francisco
by November l. They must be plainly
marked to insure delivery, with such
different initials as will identify the
owner. Packages will be forwarded
from Manila to points in the islands
without charge, SO far as they may be
shipped by the inter-island transport
system.
The first big Republican mass meet
ing Of the campaign was held in Con-
rcntion hall. Buffalo. N. Y, Saturday
night. The speakers were Lieutenant
Governor Higgins the Republican
no. in"o for governor; Hon. Elihu
Roof. former secretary of war, and J.
T. Griffith of indianapolis. General
Franc is V. Green presided. Lieutenant
Governor Higgins was given a great
ovation.
Three men We're killed and two more
severely hurt in a head-On collision be-
tween north-bound passenger and a
s"uth-bnCnd freight train on the
Natchaz-JacksOn branch of the Yazoo
& Mississippi Valley Railroad, Sunday.
One man is dead and another fatally
stabbed. in Huntington, w. Va, as the
result of Il political argument. in which
half a dozen members of the church
near Mill Creek. engaged at the close
Of the services, Sunday night. The
argument grew bitter and after blows
had been struck, Ralph Wellman is
alleged to have drawn revolver AMI
shot William Kennedy. who died with
III a Ie" minutes, anu Il IIloIleIll utter
Henry Wellman was stabbed
Kennedy was one of the wealthiest
residents of the community, and all
those who took part in the fight are
well-kn0wn and respected. Ralph
Wellman. Foster Wright and John
Shrewsbury have been arrested.
A dispatch from Hardin says that
more than 10000 wounded soldiers have
arrived there, and are being tended
with the greatest care. Every avail
able hand has been set to work to make
shirts for the wounded.
DR.. Samuel w. Abbott. secretary of
the MASSACHUSETTS state Board Of
Health, was found dead in bed at his
home in Newton. Saturday morning.
A telegram from Bialystok. govern
ment of GrOdno. Germany, Oct. 10,
says: This evening, man about 20
years of age and attired as a workman,
entered the office of the project of
police and threw a bomb. The terrific
explosion which followed killed the
miscreant and injured some policemen
and civilians
Lieut. Gen. Prince Fushimi, special
Imperial envoy 10 tne St. LOUIS SNpOSl-
ton, sailed from Yokohama, Sunday,
with his suite on the steamer Man.
churia for San Francisco, amid great
enthusiasm. Prince Fushimi was at
tended from Toxic by officials of the
imperial household. the American min
lister Lloyd G. Griscom. and the entire
American legation staff in uniform.
Arriving at Yokohama, the prince and
his party proceeded to an imperial pal
ace. escorted by the governor of the
province. the mayor of Yokohama and
city officials and by the American con-
sular officials.
kyriakos Chondreas. Greek, was
stabbed and MORALLY wounded during
a quarrel ut a boarding house on Main
street, Woburn, Mass. Sunday morn
ing. He was removed to the Massa-
chusetts hospital in Boston, where he
died later. John Pappas, another
Greek. was involved in the quarrel,
and it is alleged that he did the stab
hing. He has disappeared and the
police are looking for him.
Fire, Sunday morning, at Girard, O..
DESTROYED tho fannarv of r IyrobI q