Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-03
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| more, that the people are to be taught
| the principles Of constitutional govern
ment in order that they may be better
fitted to elect representatives when Il
parliament is created.
The American auxiliary schooner
yacht John r. Bradley, which left
! North sydney early in July for the
Arctic regions, returned to port Tues
| day and anchored in the stream. Brad
| ley landed DR.. F. H. Cook, who is in
| command of an exploring expedition
| at Smiths Sound, Lat. ~ y. The eX-
| petition expects to cross Ellsmcre Land
early in the spring and will attempt
| to reach the pole by way of the Polar
| sea. The expedition is provisiOned for
| two years and fully equipped with dogs
and sledges for the trip. The party
| consists of DR.. Cook, another white
| man and a number of Esquimaux. 1t
| is winterng 30 miles further north
than did Peary two years ago.
Two boys We're drowned while fish
ing in Crystal lake, Newton Center,
Mass. Tuesday night One Of the boys
lost HIS balance and fell into the lake,
| pulling his companion after him. The
Lane. and Clayton Davis. son Of Irv-
ing Davis. aged S and 10 years respec-
! lively and both residents OF Newton.
When thet fishing schooner Annie
NJ. Perry came up to T wharf Boston,
, Tuesday, Size reported the loss of two
! of her crew, Frank Rail and John G.
| Ferlol who were washed from the
! a1tcThouse on Sunday and sank with Il
! dory within ten feet of them.
The master of a fruit steamer arriv-
| ing ut Mobile. Ala, Tuesday, reports
| that on Wednesday last a cOnfagration
| destroyed four blocks in the business
| section of Port Lion entailing q loss
| OF $500. 900 and resulted in the death Of
several persons.
The state trophy and championship
| ci the corps of Coast Artillery was won
| by the 4th Co. of New Bedford at
! the annual fall rifle competition at
Wakefield. Mass. Tuesday. the COM
| pany getting an aggregate score Of 515
James A. Moffett. president Of the
Standard Oil Co. Of Indiana, went be-
| fore the federal grand jury Tuesday at
Chlcag" to explain his public statement
that other concerns besides the Stand
ara OH Co. had been guilty of rebating
with the railroads at Whiting, Ind
The secret police Tuesday night dis
| covered 200 pounds of dynamite at a
| railroad station in Havana The OK
| plosive was labelled Hardware" and
was being shipped to the interior The
police are inclined to believe that it was
being forwarded by persons connected
| with the recent conspiracy.
Before leaving Washington Tuesday
for Richmond. Va, to participate in the
triennial convention Of the Episcopal
church, bishop of London admitted for
the first time who won a tennis match
ut the White House Friday between
himself and President Roosevelt. Il
SUPPOSE you will not tell who won that
tennis match" he was asked. Certain
~, | will" he answered, Il did,
Seventeen indictments have been
found at Havana by the special Judge
IN conspiracy cases, and the men in
dicted are being held in default of s1O,-
900 bail each. The Indictment accuses
the conspiratOrs of having agreed upon
plan to overthrow the provisional
government Of the United States as
quickly as possible by dynamiting
bridges, burning the properties of all
foreigners excepting Spaniards, killing
Americans and doing everything pos
sible to prevent the realization of the
coming sugar crop.
The Baptist Sunday-schooI Society
Tuesday at keenc. n. H., elected the
following officers: President. Rev. w
j. Cloues. Warner; vice-president. O.
a. Towne. Franklin; Sec-Treas.. Rev.
j. III. Blackburn, Newport The Mis-
Slonary Societies did not elect officers
Inc 6lst annual meeting of the New
hampshire Baptist convention opened
Tuesday evening. Rev. ]. II. Robbins of
concord. state president. presided The
annual sermon was preached by Rev
| \. Il. Woodsum. Officers will be chosen
| Wednesday,
With 80 pounds Of stone tied firmly
about his body. and suffering the hor-
r'TS III strstnGlllatiCl. BENJAMIN n
| Hudson. an aged Grand Army veteran.
was drowned early Tuesday in y dnrl,
| well 1T East Irn.-i,itnce. r. |. He tied
| the stones, both iar-c and small. ,bnut
his body ana then he coiled over 20
1tct of clothes line about his neck. Af-
ter attaching one end of the line TO the
ilmD of an apple tree, which overhangs
| me wei. he jumped in. Merical Ex-
aminer George F. Allison. who viewed
1t. pronounced death due to drowning
| The cord about the neck had not been
drawn tight enough to cause instant
| stranGulation. but the distorted face of
| the ed man showed plainly the pain he
mad endured before death came to him.
Secretary Root was received by
| f'rcSl!ent DiaZ of Mexico Tuesday. in
| the Hall of Ambassadors in the ma
| tl"nal palace at Mexico CITY All the
members Of the Mexican cabinet were
present.
The body Of woman. believed to be
That of Nellie Quinn. a nurse was
found in furnished room lodging house
| III New York Tuesday. The woman
had apparently been killed by q blow
on the head. and following death the
same weapon. Il beer bottle. had beer,
uSedto cover the disrobed body with
frightful bruises. The face had been
pounded until the features were fairly
obliteratnd. Tie treatment of the
body generally was such as to suggest
the work Of mailman. George