Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Someone whose name is withheld, IL
10 announced. added SIS, 900 to the Bar
nard College dOrnitory fund, thus en-
abling the trustees to proceed with the
construction of the new building.
Tn. Associated Press has investigat-
"a the report published In the United
States Tuesday under Berlin date
that Prince Ethel Frederick. second
con of Emperor William, was dead. and
Learns that the rumor is without fOun-
aation. The prince is in perfect health.
The Russian steamer, Leo, collided
Tuesday in the estuary OF the Gironde,
near Pauillac, q miles from bordeaux,
France. with the Italian bark Teresina
MignarO, Capt. Quart0 from Martin
iuue. March ~. for this port. The bark
sank aud eight of her crew and two pi-
lots were drowned.
Gov. Guilds veto of the bill permit
ting restricted boating and fishing on
certain ponds Of the Metropolitan wat
err system was upheld in the Massachu-
setts House Tuesday. only 10 members
voting to override the veto. The bodies
of water affected are at Sterling, Ash
land and Cochituatc.
A despatch from KarnlOops to Van
cOuver h. c., says that the train rob-
bers who held up the Canadian Pacific
train last week We're captured Monday
night. One man was wounded in a
fight with the mounted police. The
latter surrounded the bandits and COM
PEELED their surrender.
The local executive committee having
in charge the 18th International Sunday
School convention Monday night, fix
ed the dates for holding the convention
in Louisville as June 1923, 1903. Pres
ent at the convention and concurring in
the decision We're General Sec. Marion
Lawrence of Toledo, Ohio, and w. n.
HarshOn of Boston, chairman of the In
ternational committee.
A dispatch from Crawford. Neb., says
that four are now dead in the riots be
tween white men and negro soldiers from
Fort Robinson. William Murphy, white,
vas killed at midnight Monday by a
squad of soldiers guarding the Jail at
Crawford. Murphy and others tried to
form a lynchng party TO gain posses
sion of the negro soldier who killed Ar
| thur Moss, the night Waterman
The body of Sergeant Guy r. Taylor of
the 9Th Regiment, Massachusetts, Volun-
teer Militia, who mysteriously disappear
ed on the evening Of May 5, was found
floating in Fort Meadow pond at MARI
boro. Mass, Tuesday. Medical Examiner
Hoitt after an examination decided that
the young man had met his death by &C
cidental drowning. Taylor leaves a wild
Statements that the Rev. DR.. Rufus
p. Johnston, pastor Of the Fifth ave-
| nue. Baptist church. New York, has
been offered the presidency OF the Uni
Versity of Chicago to succeed The late
DR.. w. r. Harper. were declared by Dr.
Johnston Tuesday to be absolutely I'M
true. DR.. Johnston. of whose church
the family of John d. Rockefeller are
members. has resigned his pastorate to
go abroad
The annual session of the grand
body of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows of Vermont was opened in
Burlington, VT, Tuesday with a de-
partmental council of the Patrarchs
Militant. \ parade through the prin-
cipal streets of the city was planned
as a feature of the afternoon. In the
evening grand ball was held in the
armOry. The convention will continue
until Friday.
The Ward Line steamer Vigilancia
which was reported from Cape Look
out May L. to be on fire and which was
due Monday at Havana. arrived there
from New York Tuesday The delay
was caused by the precaution in keep
ing her near the shore during the fire
which was under control on Saturday
evening and which it appears was
chiefly confined tn the ships stores in
the forward part of the vessel all of
which We're practically consumed. Her
cargo also was badly damaged by flood
Ing the holds with water The loss
will not be ascertained until the report
of the board of survey appointed by
! the American vice consul is made pub
lie.