Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-25
UNCLE SAWS TERRITORY
Furnishes a Variety Of News Of Inter-
est To Each and Everyone.

| Lewis w. Lyons, was hanged In New
Orleans. Friday for the murder OF
former District Attorney J. Ward
Gurley, in 1908.
VIM. Forbes, 'O6, one of the most
promising candidates for the Cornell
| Varsity crew, has peen obliged to
leave college. ~ 81
Hugh O'Brien, who will succeed Her
bert-G. DeRing as second SECRETARY of
| the British embassy at Washington, ar
rived in New York Friday.
The Southern Pacific Cos. steamer
Ell PasO. from Galveston, went aground
while passing in through Cedney Cham
nel entering New York Friday. -
The Chicago Bureau of Modification
has adopted the thumb print method of
| identifying criminals IS an adjunct to
the Bertillon measurement system.
Stirling Stuart, aged %, son of Ruth
McEnery Stuart. the author, was taken
to the Flushing Hospital in New York,
early Friday, with a fractured spine.
| Joseph Cohon. of Pittsburg, was Fri
day, in New Orleans, elected chief jus
tice of the court of appeals of the con-
stitutional grand lodge of the B'Nai
Birth.
Many thousands of letters, all of the
second class mail matter and all reg
istered mail matter, were destroyed by
fire and water i'm the Great Northern
train wreck, in Idaho, Thursday.
The cabinet Friday. in Washington.
discussed the situation in Santo Do
mingo and it was the general opinion
that nothing there warrants any change
in the present method Of procedure
A benefit Friday afternoon at the
Metropolitan Opera house. New YORK.
for Joseph Holland, the actor, who, on
account of illness. PROBABLY will never
be able to appear again, reted S23,Ooo.
The chief subject discussed at FRI
days session of the annual conven-
ton of the National Metal Trades
! Association in Chicago. was progress
made in opposing evils of trades ul..on-
ism.
Nine. Kirby Lunn who was to have
lappeared in st. Paul. Mimi. last night
as Hundry in a performance of 'Parsi
fal' in English. is ill at Minneapolis
hotel. Her physicians fear she may
have diphtheria.
The Manhattan Trust Co., of Prem
ton. n. j., Friday hled a bill in the
court of chencery to fCIeclOse a mort
gage Of S3,000,0OO on the property Of the
Standard Rope and Irvine Co., which
is now in the hands of receivers.
DIR. Leroy S. Chadwick, Friday re-
newed his bond of $4,000, Virgil p.
Kline his attorney being his security.
DR.. Chadwick was jointly charged with
his wife, Mrs. Case L. Chadwick, with
the forgery of the s5,000,0O0 Carnegie"
note.
It developed in Topeka. Wash, Fri
day, that the Standard Oil Co., against
which the attorney general has COM
menced suit to GUST it from the state
on the ground that it has no license
to do business here, has had such a Ii
cense since 1893.
! The appointment Of A. F. Duffy of
Binghamton. N. Y, to the position of
inspector of safety appliances, in the
Interstate Commerce Commission, it is
said. has done much to adjust griev-
ances between the Lackawanna Rail-
road and it's brakemen.
The trial of Gessler Rtsseau, charged
with having placed an internal machine
on the dock Of the steamship Umbria
in New York on May g. 1903, was con-
tinued Friday before Recorder Golf.
with inspector George E Murray. of
the bureau of combustibles, as the chief
| witness.
Senior Dom Manuel lie AZpiroZ. Mexi-
cos first ambassador to the United
States. died Friday afternoon at the
Mexican embassy at ten minutes to five
o'clock. Although a sick man since last
fall. the ambassadors death was due
to relapse caused by exposure on in
auguration day.
An appeal from the order of Justice
George F. Lyon. compelling attorney
A. D. Wales. to file bill Of particulars
in his action against John Mitchell for
fs20000O for settling the anthracite coal
strike, was argued before the appellate
division of the supreme court in Bing-
hampton, N. r., Friday.
Nearly 10000 tons of ice and two
buildings have been lost by fire at
134th street and Lake Calumet, Chica-
go. Before the first fire company ar
rived the buildings were destroyed and
, most of the contents valued at $780,
900 had slid back into the lake from
which it was taken during the winter.
According to the statement of w. B.
S. Whaley. a Boston engineer, who ar
rived in st. Louis. Friday, after trip
of inspection near Lake Tebo. in Pettis
county, 10 miles from Sedalia, the in
complete skeleton of a huge pre-his-
toric animal, possibly a dinosaur, has
been discovered by an inspection par
ty.
The first important result in the cru
] SADIE planned by the New York State
department of agriculture against yio-
lations of the pure food laws came
Friday. when Andrew Walsh, Of New
, ark, n. j., in the court of Special SEES
sion, in Brooklyn, was sent to Jail for
three months for selling oleomargarine
for butter.
The miners convention in Altoona
Pa. adjourned at noon Friday until
next Wednesday when the joint seal
committee will resume its sessions to
consider the wage scale. The United