Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-26
BITS BY WIRE.
Submarine Boat to Be
Launched October 27.
Missouri Doctor Scatters Gold
Coin to Pedestrians.
Albany Woman Receivers Her Jewels
Valued at $25, 900.

A fire which started in the Geo. Ma
lone Implement co.'s shops and which
destroyed that and adjoining strlic-
lures at Marion, Ohio. Sunday night
caused Il loss of $4,000 to SCI, 900 di-
Viied among a half dozen concerns.
fire in the factory Of the New
Home Sewing Machine co., at Orange,
Mass, Monday evening, resulted in Il
loss ii 100000, covered. by Insurance.
The Lake Torpe 10 Boat Co. an
n"uncrd, Monday, that the launching
OF IN" submarine boat Captain Simon
Lake, would take place at Newport
News, Va. at noon, Thursday. October
-. Captain Lake, the inventor of this
type Of submarine is ut present in
I-ibau, Russia, but will return in time
to conduct the competitive test which
will be conducted by the United States
naval board, under the submarine act
Of 1904.
Word was received in Nashua, n. H,
Monday. that 4 train from that city on
the Worcester. Nashua & Portland
division of the Boston q Maine Rail-
field, about d miles from Nashua, and
crashed into the rear of a string of
several milk ears which had Eeen left
OH a siding. James Hamel. brakeman
on the work train. had his left leg
broken. and an unknown labOrer had
his collar bone broken. The engine of
the work train was badly damaged
and one of the milk cars was consider
ably injured.
The Chamber of Deputies at Rio
JancirO has adopted bill authorizing
the government to place contracts
abroad for the building of IS warshps.
a man registering as John Walsh.
but believed to be William Morrisse.
aged about 80 years, was found dead
in bed in a local lodging house a.
Providence. r. l., Monday, with "a bull
let hole in his head and a revolver
clutched IN his hand. He is believed to
be Il local cigar salesman. A verdict of
suicide was given by the medical ex-
amincr
The jewels, valued ut $4,000, which
We're left on a seat in the Grand Cen
trail station. in New York, by Mrs e
cred in New Haven. Conn, according
to q dispatch received at detective
headquarters from Anthony Brady
Mrs. Ga"ItS father. MIR. Brady said
that the bag had been found by a fire
man Of the New York. New Haven <
Hartford railroad who took it to New
Haven with him. When he learned the
value of the contents he took it to .
trust company. and a clerk of the trust
company. who had read of the loss.
notified Mr. Brady by telephone.
Apple shipments from Boston for the
week ending October =, were ~, Cos bar
refs.
The steamship Esperanzas which is
due to sail from Barry, England. with
provisions for the Russian Baltic fleet.
was found. Monday, to be in a sinking
condition, her hull having been pierced
below the Waterline. The injury is not
explained. but it is thought that it
must have been Monday, and it is sug-
gested that it is the act of some man
employed about the ship, in resentment
OF the North Sea incident
Lady. Dixie, wife of Right Hon. Sir
Charles Wentworth Dixie. died sudden
". Monday morning, at her residence
il Working. She was born September
2, 1S4O.
senator w. A. Clark has sold the
Helena Independent mine to John $.
NJ. Ncill of Helena. Mont. and the
formal transfer has already taken
place. Senator Clark bought the In
dependent from Neill two years ago.
Prince AZzissance. a nephew of the
Sultan of Turkey, and IA cousin by
marriage to the Khedive Of Egypt, has
arrived in San Francisco. He is maxi
ing tour of the country, and will sail
from san Francisco to the Orient.
Frederick Schorn. IS years old, and
his daughter. Cecilia, 80 years old.
have been found dead at their home at
Chicago from gas asphyxiation. A
rubber tube connected with gas stove
was detached. 1t is thought the
deaths were accidental.
A disptach from st. John. N. F., says
that the British cruiser Charybdls, |
Commodore Paget, has received orders !
to be in readiness to proceed to Eng |
land at moments notice. The train |
ing ship Calypso mas also been ordered
to arrange for the mobilization OF men
of the Newfoundland Naval Reserve.
The Russian ice breaker Ermak ar
rived in Copenhagen, Monday, with her
stern tube damaged.
DR.. M. E. Weyman, for years prOmi-
nent in professional and business cir
cles in st. Joseph, Mo-, was committed
tn the state hospital for the insane.
Monday, after he had driven rapidly
down South Sixth street scattering !