Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-09-12
BITS BY WIRE.
A Glance at What is Happening in
Many Places.

| W.
Southern Railway between Dogwood
and Wilton, Ala. on the birmingham
and Selma division, Friday, two men
were killed and one seriously injured.
| The train was running at the rate OF
| 80 miles an hour when the engine
| jumped the track and struck the cross
ties. turning completely over crushing
! w. II. Cherry, the engineer. beneath it.
George Williams, a negro, who way
laid and criminally assaulted Laura
knade. near Harper's Ferry, Va, sew
| cral weeks ago was hanged at the state
prison in MoundsviIle, Friday.
The keel Of new North German
Lloyd Line steamer has already been
, laid at Stcttin, according to the Lon
don Shipping Gazette, which in size
and speed is designed to surpass the
new turbincstcamcrs of the Cunard
line.
William Collins, n rich banker and
bIoker of Telluride, Colo dressed as a
laborer and aimlrssly asking the pass
ersby who he was, WAS taken in charge
by the police in New York, Friday
night, ana removed to a hospital Col
Inns is said to have gone to New York
to consult an alicnist. At the hospital
he complained that some one had taken
his good clothes and $4,000 in money,
but he could not remember the circum-
stances.
Much damage is being done by forest
fires in many sections of California.
In Alameda and COntastra counties
thousands of acres have been swept by
flames and many houses destroyed the
loss being estimated at 100000 In
Monterey and San Luis counties thou
sands of acres of pastures have been
burned and the stock driven from the
ranges. Hundreds Of men are fighting
the fires.
Jost rh Polk, negro, aged 10 years
WAS shot and killed, Thursday night in
Bridgeville Del, by Delany Maddox
another negro, because he objected to
MaddoX's attention to his daughter
The murderer escaped, but Sheriff
steele and an armed posse are in pur-
suit
John Case, Walter Bettys and man
named sullivan, three prisoners. walked
ont Of thc Warren county Jail at Glen
Falls, n. T.. Thursday night the outer
door having been left open by the un-
dor sheriff when he went to supper.
Case was one of the trio who dug
through the Jail last week, but after 10
days wandering gave himself up. The
three men We're all awaiting indictment
by the grand jury for burglary
Tho United States steamship Hist is
reported in tow of the United States
battleship Kearsarge returning to New
port, K. l.. with her rudder post broken.
A fine of $4,000 was imposed on the
Royal Assurance CO., of London, Eng,
by the Massachusetts supreme court
for violating the state law in trans
acting business in the commonwealth.
and a fine of 5000 was levied on Herbert
G. Fairfield, the Massachusetts agent
IF the company. The company'S
license was revoked several weeks ago
on account of the alleged violations
Before the office of the state treasurer
was closed for the day. Friday. the
officials of the company paid the fine of
$4,000 also that of 5000 imposed on their
agent, Fairfield. The company was
then reinstated and permitted to re-
sumo business i'll the state of Massa-
chusetts.
The strike of the coal miners in the
Snb-diStrict No. 6, at GAINESVILLE. O..
has been declared off. The strike was
declared six months ago because of
request that they accept a greater re-
duction than that contained in the
indianapolis convention agreement
The miners now agree to accept a wage
reduction of 10 percent. less than that
received for two years prior to April /.
1904. The miners have lost s320OO0 in
wages and the operators about $1,000
900 Income since the suspension of
work. The miners will resume work
Monday
Work on the Simplon tunnel, near
Rome. Italy. which it was expected
would be completed at the beginning Of
next month. has been suddenly stopped,
owing to the exposure of Il hot spring
flowing 1900 gallons per minute, while
the temperature in the tunnel reached
112 degrees. Refrigerators will be in
stalled and the work resumed a month
from date. The Simplon tunnel which !
is being cut through Simplon mountain, |
will be 21.SH yards long. and it has al
ready been pierced for distance of
u 142 yards.