Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

! George Won l.. Meyer, the American
| ambassador. gave a dinner Monday night
| at st. Petersburg in honor OF \. y. Is
| Uulskv, Russian minister Of foreign af-
fairs. Prince Won Fuerstcnbcrg. the Aus
tro-IEungalian charge daffa:rcs, and
number of other diplomats were present.
4 s,,ark from a candle carried by
laburcr, dropped into a can Of giant
powder ana caused an explosion among
| u gang of Workmen in the Pcnnsylva-
min Railroad tunnel under The East
river 1t New York Monday. Three men
were killed outright and a fourth is dy-
ing. OF l. others less seriously hurt.
tNo required hospital treatment. The
,thers suffered chiefly from burns.
John ]. O'COnnor, aged So years. is
dead at The Cambridge Relief hospital,
as the result Of q fractured skull ami
other injuries and his wife, Annie
O'Cunnor. aged ~. is under arrest.
pending the clearing Of the mystery
which surf ounds the case. O'ConnOr was
taken 10 the police station at midnight
sunday. having been unconscious since
sunday afternoon Mrs. O'Connr
claims that her husband fell down
stairs.
one hundred and twenty-four horses
from Thomas w. Lawson's Drcamwcld
stud farm We're placed on sale i'll Nadi-
son Square Garden at New York Mon
DAY. Daredevil. a splendid trotting
stallion. WAS the first put under The
hammer and he brought the highest
III ices ~ any horse sold during the few
Of II, 10 10
". II. Reid Of New York for $1,000.
Lady Wilton. a trotter with a record
| of I'll y, brought 500.
| The train hauling John II. Sparks
circus WAS wrecked Monday at R"beF-
| Gel, "a small station 20 miles below Troy,
n. c.. ana one Snowman was killed ana
two others badly injured. The cause q
| the Wreeys lis unknown. Immediately
after the wreck several Of the show
men, ,in4riated by the death Of their
companienss turned upon Conductor
Slack and bert sa1im into insensibility'
Ther2 theXHAeAfcd into the surround
| ing woods .iff have not been ISL"
since The sheriff n High Point with
posse has started III pursuit Of the nien'
! When tnc English House Of Lords'rose
Monday night. after having concluded 'ns
debate IN the report stage "i the 'duc"
| ton hill. all hopes IF compromise XXI
| reared to he lost and III" OPINION pr
| vailed. Ut least among the members q
th. oprosition, that the governments
| vn1IIl drop the present bill ard ih''"'
duca another At the ncXt session 81 TAT
1ia;ncnt. No important concessions nav"
hen made IN the opposition peers pu"
on the contrary, an amcndhoh' ~
Clause 4. which provides that tho i'ca'
education authority may) afford eNtei'u'
cd facilities for special religious ins'ruc'
ton. was carried by 13l votes 70 y VI
motion made by Lord LansdoTne'
Meberic Morbcau. AZ years OF age
lprintcr III Lowell, committed sulcluo :"
tho home Of his sister. Mrs. !. f. th",
Iron IS Park street, Worcester MASS
Monday ~ drinking two ounces Y Ill,
holic acid. Dependency over ms W. -
Hi health IL ascribed as the cause y
his act. Two previous attempts
iuaCc nv him to end his life. nc plo
lcurcd Hi ounce If carbolio acla T."
lday. b,it Was discovered in the a. w.
drinking il. He made sillildi
ltempt Monday morning with II.
suIts In the absence of MIS- ..'a.
ron Monday afternoon he stepped ~,
the house. purchased the carpoho 81 a5
and upon her return nc was 1ou''u u''
in his room.