Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-16
NEWS IN BRIEF
Brief Items Of Interest Condensed For
Our Busy Readers.

The flags on all government buildings
in Pretoria Transvaal, South Africa,
are at half mast, on account of the
death of Paul Kruger, former presi-
dent Of the TransvaaL Mr.. Kruger
will be buried beside former presidents
of the Transvaal unless his will has
provided otherwise. Memorial services
will be held, July II, in all Dutch
churches. General BOtha has ordered
that all Beers shall wear mourning un-
til after the funeral, which it is ex-
pected will be attended by representa-
tives of every district of the Trans
vaal.
]. C. Henry, grand keeper of records
and seals, Knights of Pythias, of the
maritime provinces, died in st.
Stephen, n. B., Thursday, aged so
years. He was an alderman of st.
Stephen and county secretary of the
Orange Order. A widow and nine chill
dren survive him.
Between 100 and 200 men We're
struggled into Swift Cos. plant at
South st. Paul, Mimi. before day
break. Thursday morning, and, Thurs
day. 500 hogs and IS cattle were slaugh-
tered. being about 10 per cent of an
ordinary days kill. The company is
hiring all available men to take the
places of the strikers.
William H. Ellis, Charles B. Stiller,
Harry Miller and Edward Kiely, all of
st. Louis employees of the admissions
department Of the Worlds Fair, have
been arrested and held pending an in
vestigation into what is said to be a
gigantic conspiracy to rob the expo
stion by ticket irregularities. The Of
ficials of the department decline to talk
on the subject. In the carrying out of
the conspiracy the men at the gates are
supposed to have had the cooperation
of others I'm the ticket booths and of
certain employees in the offices of the
admission department i'm the admins
tration as well as inspectors stationed
at the entrances. Norris B. Gregg, di-
rector of the division of admissions and
concessions, said that only two of the
men under arrest, Ellis and Stiller
were employed by the Exposition Co,
and that the shortage was about $3.50
or 5000.
Funeral services over the remains Of
Right Rev. Frederic d. Huntington, D.
D.. LII. D.. LII D., Episcopal bishop of
Central New York, who died at the
family homestead, I'm Hadley, Mass
Monday and Rev. DR.. George 2. Hunt
ingtOn, his son. a member of the fac
ulty of Dartmouth College, who died
the same day at Hanover, n. H., were
held in Hadley. Mass, Thursday. The
interment was made in the Hadley
cemetery. During the obseques, the
bells on churches in Hadley. North
Hadley. Northampton, and Amherst
tolled a solemn requiem.
Twenty cars of stock were received
at the South Omaha, Neb., yards
Thursday. mostly hogs. All the pack
ing houses We're Strengthening cattle
and two of them killed hogs. While
the packers are hiring all men who
apply for work, they are making no
particular effort to bring men in from
the outside. Pickets at every entrance
turn back men who want work
Edward Miles Abbott, president Of
the Abbott agency, and reputed a
wealthy real estate operator of Brook
line. Mass, committed suicide, Thurs
day night. by shooting through the left
temple. Business reverses evidently
prompted his act, as only a few hours
earlier he had made an assignment for
the benefit of his creditors Mr.. Abb
bolt was 80 years old and a widow and
one son survive.