Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Dispatches from Copenhagen an
nounce that Henrik 1bsen, the Nor
! WeRian draTnatisI, is pronounced to be
| suffering from arterial sclerosis He
is unabl" to move, but is mentally
brought.
The national memorial to William F.
Gladstone, erected By public subscrip-
| ton in st. Clement Danes church, in
the Strand, London, was unveiled. Sat
urday, by the late statesman's lifelong
friend, John Morley, in the presence of
! a great concourse.
| Albert HultQuist, stOnecutter en-
| ployed by the Webb Granite & Con-
struction Co. and living at 10 Whittier
street. Worcester, was killed, Saturday,
by rock weighing upward of a ton
| falling ON his back. crushing out his
| life instantly.
| A special dispatch to the Seattle
| WASH, Post Intelligencer from Nome
| says the whaling fleet is frozen in near
| the mouth of the Mackenzie OF the II
| vessels, only about four are provisioned
| for the winter. Capt. A. ]. Stone, who
| passed the winter of 1878 in the vi
cinity OF the Mackenzie stated that
| there was no danger Of the whalers
| starving.
BrOokline, Mass, will celebrate the
Tooth anniversary of her incorporation
inns week. n the same time comment
Grating the 275th anniversary of her
| settlement Arrangements have been
made to have the celebration as digni-
fed as possible, with no show of OSten-
tatlon other than 4 short display of
| fireworks, which. owing TO the season
| OF the year, will be much less elaborate
| than those of the usual Fourth of July
| cele bration
| AT the age of 1O2. Captain Thomas f.
Hauls of Webb City, Mo-, has joined the
| church. and as preliminary to his ad-
| mission TO the Baptist faith he was i'm
| mersed in the waters Of Center Creek.
1t was a cold day and to the onlookers
| the ceremony seemed unnecessarily
| long, yet the old man went through it
bravely and has been none the worse
| for it. physically. since. The captain
Was born in North Carolina four wears
after Westinghouse death.
Mae Wood, an ex-employee Of the
post office department at Washington
Friday, at Omaha, Neb., filed another
of the numerous suits in which Sena-
| tor Plat of New York figures. The
| amount sued for is $4,000 and Sena-
| tor Plat. +. IL. Plat. Robert J. Wynne
William Loeb and J. Martin Miller are
| the defendants. The suit is brought
| because of alleged wrongs done Miss
Wood by the defendants while she was
| in New York city in October, 1903
The tide was rising and falling, Sat
urday, in the schooner Ruth Robinson,
ashore on Half-Tide Rock, Salem har-
bor her decks We're bullying and her
sides were opening. Heavy seas were
running and no attempt was made at
high water, Sunday morning, to pull
her OFF, as it was evident that she
would go to pieces i'm a short time The
schooner, which was bound from Bos-
ton for st. John. N. b.. light. struck
the partly submerged Half-Tide Rock.
A prince of Servia lies dead in New
York. Although royal blood coursed
in his veins, he will be buried in the
manner Of an American citizen. On
the black covered coffin that lies in the
parlor at No. 200 East SD street is a
large silver escutcheon engraved with
the royal arms of Servia. TO his neigh
bors and friends Prince John had been
known for many years as Mr.. John
MerkoWitsch." Mr.. Merkowitsch was
first cousin of Peter Karageorgevitch,
who reisns in Servia as His Majesty
Peter l. His mother was Princess
Helena.
Completing her maiden trip to the
Far East, the British steamship Koron-
ma, Capt. Rennicke, arrived at uuaran-
tile at Boston at IL A. NJ, Saturday,
ana at O'Clock locked at the old Cum
ard pier, East Boston. The vessel has
stored beneath her matches 1850 tons Of
East Indian cargo valued at $1,50O, 00O
rms Is the second cargo in two days to
arrive in port from Calcutta and CO.
lombo. the German steamship Trifels
arriving, Saturday, with a rich cargo.
making fully $2.5O0,OOO worth of goods
from the Far East to be landed in Bos-
ton within 4S hours.
loss aggregating SOS, 900 was caused
by stubborn two-alarm fire in the
Clark block. at the corner of Main and
Center streets, Brockton, early Satur-
day morning. Two firemen were slight
ly injured. The heaviest damage was
from water. and the principal losers