Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-16
NEWSY GLEANlNGS.
A Glance at What is Happening in
Many Places.

| A good sporting crowd attended the
| last day of The Empire City Grand Cir
cult meeting. A trial against time was
made by Maj. Delmar, who was sent to
beat 2.02H without a runner in front
The champion gelding came down to
J the wire ut 40, when a strong breeze
was blowing. With runner at each
/ side of him he went to the quarter in
31s., and shot to the half in 1.00A to the
! thrce-quartcrS in 1904 and came home
in 2.02il, thus equalling the Cresceus
record. 1t was a most wonderful per-
| Torrance, weather conditions consider
ed, ana equals the worlds record, ex-
cert the performance Of Lou Dillon in
1.5Sk and Maj. Delmar's record OF 1888.
with runner in front.
The old British coast defence ship
Hotspur has arrived at Boston in tow
from Bermuda. She was in service un-
til she outlived her usefulness She has
been sold to Boston firm which will
remove her upper works and then sell
the hull for q coal barge. The Hotspur
at the time of her launching in 1870
was one of the most powerful of the
coast defenders on the list of armored
only by the Citation. She was a ram,
23j feet between perpendiculars, so feet
in extreme breadth with a mean draft
of water of 10 feet 10 inches and had d
displacement of 4O1G tons.
Michael Quirk and Robert /. Ross
borough, two farmers of Midway,
Mass, were arraigned before the court,
Saturday, charged with selling milk
which was not up to the standard. The
complainant was Horace l.. Davis of
Needham. inspector for the State Board
of Health. Judge Henry f. Ruggles
found the defendants guilty and i'm
posed the maximum fine of 500 each.
This makes Quirk's second conviction
for the same offence. Both paid.
A telegram from Nemurro, Japan,
states that Russian soldiers at KAN
chatka massacred 81 of the crew Of the
japanese schooner Teichi.
w. S. Purnell of Knoxville, Tenn, a
commercial traveller, WAS killed and 40
other persons injured in a passenger
wreck on the Tennessee Central Rail-
road, 20 miles east of Nashville, Tenn.
While descending a hill, a fangc of a
wheel of the rear coach broke, derailing
the two last cars, both being badly
wrecked.
John ]. Erwin, member of George
II. Thomas Post, st. Louis, who is i'll
Boston to attend the National cncamp-
mcnt states that he has been drugged
and robbed of more than 5000. Erwin |
was formerly a captain in the United
States Navy He claims to be a cousin
of cx-President Benjamin Harrison.
Charles Farthing, an extra drug clerk
employed at Lindell Hotel pharmacy,
st. Louis. has beer arrested on a charge
of having caused the death of Mrs.
New York. Mrs. Helms died Sunday
after suffering great agony after taking
a dose of what she supposed was cream
of tartar. which her husband. it is allcg-
ed purchased from Farthing. Doctors
assert that from the symptoms, the
woman died from the effects of poison.
VIII Cato, arrested as principal i'll
the murder of the entire Hodges family
at Statesboro, Ga, has confessed to the
existence of an organized negro band in
Bullock county. whose object is the
killing and robbing of white people. 1t
is called the Before Day Club" and
holds nightly meetings in isolated
places. Cato names Will Raney as a
member who, he says, assisted in killing
the Hodges and afterwards firing their
house. Other prisoners have given the
names of the ringleader and told where
the records of the club may be found.
Searching parties are now out.