Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-02-11
NEWS NUGGETS.
Two Big Universities Ex-
change Professors.
Mrs. ChadWick's Trial will Be-
gin Next Monday.
Clergymen to Start a Crusade in Great
err New York.

| j. Frederick Schenck, a retired mil
| lionaire merchant of New York. died
| at his country home in LenOX. Mass,
| Thursday evening. Mr.. Schenck was o6
years of age.
The trial of Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick
| in the United States district court has
been set for Monday. March 6. She
will be tried before Judge f. w. Taylor
and District Attorney sullivan, In
| Cleveland Ohio.
| In a rear-end collision between two
trains on the Third avenue Elevated
railroad at the 249th street station in
The Bronx district of New York City.
10 persons We're injured, one of whom
| it is thought viii not recover. The two
rear cars of the first train and the
motor car of the second We're COM
pletely wrecked.
| Fifteen women and four children
were rescued from a burning tenement
house at No. 10 Lowell street. Boston,
early Friday morning. At the time the
fire broke out everyone in the building
vas asleep and were aroused by the
firemen and patrolmcn. The fire was
| eNtinguished before much damage was
| done.
A westbount passenger train on the
Erie road struck a broken rail between
| Union City and Concord. Pa. Thursday
| afternoon. ami enc emigrant car was
| thrown INTO a ditch, turning completely
over. Six of the enigrants We're in
| iured, but it is thought they will re-
| cover. A dining car and express car
v as also partially deraied, but none Of
| the passengers were injured.
| Bishop W. f. McLaren. of the diocese
OF Chicago is seriously i'll in New York,
and it is feared he will not recover.
bishop McLaren IS 13 years of age and
| was obliged II relinquiSh active super
vision Of his diocese two years ago. He
went 70 New York about six weeks ago
| where he was taken i'll with bronchitis.
AS the result of broken rail on the
Chicago. Milwaukee * st. Paul rail
road. near Melbourne. Iowa, Thursday,
two men We're killed. II persons in.
| iured. eight cars and al engine piled
ito a ditch arh % foot bridge wreck
cd. The killed are Fl. NJ Marsh, con-
Idctor; G. A. Morris. brakeman. None
"f the injuries are reported as likely to
| be fatal.
Anthony Fortuna, % years old, and
Bucorontoma Maratto, aged %. have
| been arrested in Boston. charged with
robbery Of the store of the Gamer
| Furniture 60. According to the police,
the two men entered The store and find
ing Louis Goldman, a clerk, was alone,
they set upon him and beat him until
ne was unconscious. They then
searched his pockets. secured $50 and
made thSr escape. Goldman was not
seriously injured.
AS result of the recent ice storm
Atlanta. Ca. is At present cut off from
all communication by wire with other
places. both telegraph companies being
without operating wires. Several
thousand telegraph poles are down
around Atlanta. and besides the dam
Il age to wire, the loss of shade trees is
said TO be enormous. The ice-laden
branches have broken, thus delaying
street car traffic lighting and tele-
phone communications. Six thousand
telephones are reported out of use.
A dispatch from Las Pamas, Canary
islands, says that the Italian bark San
Giuseppe, Captain Cafiero. which left
St John, n. B., December 4, for Bor-
doaux and RocnrfOrt, has been reported
at sea in distress. The British steamer
Birmingham, from Barry. which has
just arrived at Las Palmas. reported
that the San Giuseppe had jettisoned
her deckIoad. and her provisions had
run short She was furnished with
supplies by the Birmingham and con-
tinued on her voyage.
The negotiations between Harvard
University and the Prussian ministry
! If education for the int rchange of
professors as suggested by Emperor
, Williams. have been practically COM
, pleted. Professor Francis G. Peabody
Plummer. professor of Christion morals
, and chairman of the board of preachers
| Of Harvard, has been designated as the
Harvard lecturer at the University of
Berlin during the first hale Of the next
academic year.
A conference. attended by 100 clergy
men. was held, recently, in Calvary
Baptist church, New York. for the pur-
pose of deviSing ways and means of
purifying the city and reviving the
| moral sense of Greater New York. The
: ministers. who represented nearly all
, denominations. decided that the stu
duon calls fOT the united action of
every agency, regardless Of denomi-
nation, and It was determined to insti-
gate n crusade Of great magnitude.
Besides stirring the church people it
was determined to hold mass meeting
ings in Madison Square Garden and
| elsewhere.
George Pellerin, a weaver at No. II
Amnskeag mill. in Manchester n. H..
vas taken from the sidewalk. Thursday
afternoon, in q dying condition. and
vas carried to the Office of a physician
where he expired within five minutes.
According to the police three witnesses
have reported that Pellerin was as
, caulted by two unknown men, who fled
after knocking him down and kicking
nm. No motive can be assigned for
the alleged assault. The police have
instituted search for the two men.
Pellerin was - years old and lived with
his wife in Manchester
Mrs Kate Edwards, Oho is under
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