Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-29
Thirty-hve Injured in
Wreck in Mississippi.
Catholic University Receives
Contributions Of $4,000.
News in . Nutshell for Our BUSY
Readers.

I'i'lco otdeos army prisoners, escaped
from Governors island, New York,
Sunday night. by jumping from the
parapet OF Castle William to the
ground, 80 feet below. They made
their way unobserved to the water
'front.' where they swan to a small dory
anchored near. They hailed ferry
boat which picked them up believing
them to be shipwrecked sailors, and
landed them in Brooklyn Dunning
and Doyle were transferred to Cover
nor's island about eight months ago
from Western posts. from which they
had deserted. On being captured
they were tried by court martial and
both received sentences Of imprison-
ment at hard labor for terms of one
and half years. Dunning still had
seven months to serve and Doyle five
months.
The demonstrations by students and
school boys. in honor of Joan of Arc,
were continued in Paris, Sunday.
Francois GOpee leading one band. The
police finally dispersed the groups
amid some disorder. Numerous ar
rests We're made. but those arrested
We're subsequently released.
In the Superior criminal court in
Boston. Friday. William Phillips.
coored. pleaded guilty to an indict-
ment charging murder in the second
degree and was committed TO state
prison for life by Judge Holmes.
Phillips struck Edward Murray, also
colored. on the head with an AK on
board the schooner Eleanor A. Percy
of Tlafh which n,nnr11 "a Stla
Island. and the victim of the assault
expired the day following at the relief
station The trouble between the men
grew out of a game of dice.
The paint and carpenter shop of r.
W. Neal, at Brookline, Mass. was
burned, Sunday night, causing Il loss
of $4,000
The body of Mrs. Mary Warner, aged
40 years, wife of Jacob Warner, n la
borer was found, Sunday, in u clump
of bushes on a vacant lot, two blocks
from her home in Scranton, Pa. Her
skull was fractured as if by the blow
of a heavy instrument and there was
evidence of criminal assault. There
is no clue to the wOman'S assailant.
A dispatch from Albuquerque. N.
NJ, says that news reached there. sun
day, Of the assassination of Col. K.
Francisco Chaves. probably one OF the
best known Republican politicians IN
New Mexico, at Pinos Wells, Terrence
county, Col. Colonel Chaves was the
guest of a friend, and while they were
eating supper, a shot was hred
through the window and Chaves fell
from his chair dead. No clue TO his
ASSASSIN has yet been found. Colonei
Chaves WAS born in New Mexico IN
1888. He served as a soldier under
Kit Carson in many Indian wars OF
New Mexico, and in 1861 was COM
rnissioned major of the First New
Mexico infantry by President Lincoln,
nd afterwards promoted colonel. In
1885 he was elected delegate to con-
gre IS and served three terms. lie mas
been in the territorial legislative couh-
ell continuously since 1876: two years
ago he was appointed superintendent
of instruction and was named by the
legislature of 1893, the historian for
Mexico.
The Dowager Duchess of Manches-
ter (Consuelo YZanga) had narro"
escape from asphyxiation, SUNDAY
morning, at London. She woke up III
her house in Portman square to nno
her bedroom filled with smoke. She ran
out and aroused the servants, VINO
called the fire brigade. After some
Difficulty the fire was located on the
floor beneath the duchess bedroom
and was found to be due to the over
heating of a beam. and was ouich.S
mt out. The duchess was none TIE
worse for her experience.
In response to a pastoral issued by
Archbishop Williams. in common with
the other prelates of the United states
at the instance Of Cardinal Gibbons
the Catholic University Of America
was the beneficiary of a special coilec-
ton in all the churches of the boston
archdiocese and New England, Sunday.
1t was estimated that the contrip"-
tons of the parishes of Greater Boston
alone would aggregate nearly $lo'oeo.
Stephen Ashe. former pitcher Of the
New Haven, Conn.,, baseball team, at
tempted TO cut his throat. early sat
urday morning. Mrs. Ashe had been
nursing her husband all night, ana
thinking he was asleep had lain down
for a few moments rest. She was
awakened by hearing him roll of the
couch and rushing to him found MIN
in a pool Of blood. He had made ms
way to a closet and seizing razor
had gashed his throat, inf1icting
wound 10 inches long. Ashe was tax
en- to the hospital where he is in
critical condition. 1t is thought that
dependency caused by i'll health ana
no work was the motive for his deed.
Thirty-five persons were injured,
Sunday. by the derailment Of pas
senger train, No. 4, on the Mobile 6
Ohio railway. near Columbus, Miss. II
il thought that the injuries Of nine
will prove fatal. The cause Of the ac-
cident has not as yet been ascertained'
Sig. Augusta Rotoli, the well-known
composer and teacher in the New Eng
land Conservatory of Music, died at
his home in Boston, Saturday, OF
| diabetic gangrene.
John Kelly. a fireman in Thomson
vile, Conn.,, Saturday morning. saved
| Mr., and Mrs. Feeley from being
| b,,rpod RI death nv climbing in the