Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-01
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A Glance at What is Happening in
Many Places.

cover. The fire was situated in such 3
way that 1t was difficult to fight It,
and the smoke from the burning ma
terial was so dence that the fireme1l
could only work a few minutes at a
time.
A dispatch from Lao Yang says that
the Japanese are reported to have re-
tired 10 to 20 miles from the posts
which they recently held. Owing to
the recent heavy rains it is thought
that the operations north Of Port Ar
thur have been indefinitely postponed.
The body of Miss Ruth TeachOut, il
years Of age, of Minneapolis, Mimi.
WAS found floating in the Mississippi
near st. Paul. A silk tie was. knottcd
tightly about the neck of the body in
manner which indicated that the wo-
man had been murdered. Miss Teach
out left her home in Minneapolis, sat
urday, to attend school and had not
been heard from since. Her parasol,
purse and hat were found on the river
bank. The police are convinced that
she was murdered, but have no clue to
the murderer.
The Democratic state convention to
elect sc delegates to the national con-
vention at st. Louis, Tuesday night, in
Joplin, Mo-, selected the following dele
gates at large: United States Senator
William J. Stone, Gov. Alexander NJ.
Dockery, Congressman Champ Clark
and David A. DeArmOnd. Thirty-two
district delegates were also chosen. The
convention endorsed Senator Francis
NJ nd inc rIln f.
ed the delegates to the national con-
vention to support him as long as his
name was before the convention. The
delegates were instructed to vote as a
unit on ell questions in the national
convention.
Broad View, the quarters where the
Yale crew have stayed for several
years during the training for the races
on the Thames, was sold, Tuesday
night, to the Yale authorities by the adj
ministrator of the estate of G. n.
Brown, who owned the place and who
was a great friend of the oarsmen. Ex-
tensive changes will be made by the
new owners and this will set at ease
all fears of the races being held else
where than on the Thames.
The formal commencement exercises
and the annual alumni dinner We're the
chief features of Wednesdays program
at Yale. The usual commencement
procession of candidates for degrees.
members of the corporation, faculty
and graduates was abandoned on ac-
count of the rain. Among the dis
tinguished guests to whom seats We're
assigned on the platform in Woolsey
hall were William M. Taft, secretary
of war; Gen. Stewart L. WoOdford.
Wong Kai Kah, Chinese commissioner
to the st. Louis exposition; Judge Will
liam X. Townsend of the United States
circuit court; Hon. Whitelaw Reid,
Gov. John G.. Brady of Alaska, Presi-
dent Gordon of Tabor College, Iowa,
and members of the Yale corporation
and faculty and candidates for honor
airy degrees.
United States Commissioner Benedict
in Brooklyn, Wednesday, ruled that
there is probable cause for the removal
of George w. Beavers, former superin-
tendent of the salaries and allowances
division of the pOstoffice department to
Washington, D. c., for trial under the
Indictment found there. The case was
then formally presented by Judge
Thomas, who heard arguments on the
motion of Beavers counsel to quash
the Brooklyn indictments and for a
bill of particulars. and announced that
he would give a decision on those mo-
tions at later date.
Col. Jacob Fl. Play, cashier of the
German American National bank of
Aurora. ILL.,, has been arrested charged
with the transportation of 100000 of
the funds of the bank. The pecula-
tions have extended over 4 period of
three years. He was held in $4,000
bonds for the July term of the federal
grand jury.
Services in cOmmemOratiOn of those
who lost their lives in the Slocum dis
aster We're held in Cooper Union, in
New York city, Wednesday night. I'M
der the auspices of the Mayors relief
committee. The big hall was crowded
to the doors. Rev. Dr.. George G. +.
Hass, whose congregation was almost
wiped out by the disaster, occupied a
scat on the platform. After the pre-
limnary exercises Mayor Mcclellan adj
dressed the meeting. Music was rem
dered by an orchestra and n German
choir of 200 voices.
The 135th commencement exercises
of Dartmouth College took place,
Wednesday, and the alumni dinner fol-
lowed in College hall. The salutatory
was by William Aiken Kneeland OF
Roxbury, Mass, and the valedictory by
Jerome Meyers of Albany, N. Y. Among
the honorary degrees conferred were
the following LII. D., Greenleaf Clark,
'55, formerly justice Of the Supreme
court of Minnesota: Frank Nesmith
Parson. IA. chief justice of the Supreme.
court of New Hampshire: NJ. A.. Isaac
Freeman Hall, superintendent of
schools. Greenfield, Mass; Orland
Wales Dimick, '65, inspector of schools,
Boston. DR.. John l.. Mildreth, ga,
president. presided at the dinner and
made the principal address. Other
speakers were Pres. William J. Tucker
and Gov. Nahum j. Bachelor.
Secretary CortelyOu of the depart
ment of commerce and labor sent a
telegram to George Uhler, supervising
inspector general of the steamboat
service, New York. directing him to
begin at once the re-inspection that has
been ordered of the passenger carrying