Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-20
BITS BY WIRE.
A Glance at What is Happening Here,
There and Everywhere,

Attorney General Bonaparte is now
getting his. The crank army has
turned loose its batteries upon him.
and for his plain speaking he is being
flooded with all sorts of letters from
| folks with a surplus of wheels. Most
| of the correspondents suggest that Mr..
| Bonaparte is trying to depress the
| market for his own purposes. Some
| suggest he has made big fortune py
| being short" Wire me when you
1 cover your secret short interests" is
| one dispatch sent by some one signing
himself "A Rocker"
A collision was reported Sunday to
have taken place Saturday in Vineyard
| sound between the British steamer
| Sylvia, Halifax for New York, and the
| steamer Herman Winter. New York
| for Boston. The latter vessel arrived
| in Boston Sunday night but Captain
| CrowelI declined to give the details of
| the accident. About % feet Of the
| Winters bow plates were torn away
but il Is understood that the Sylvia
was not damaged.
On a pilgrimage that will encircle
the globe and in fulfillment of
promise to the F'ilipinos to return to
Manila to attend the opening of their
first Legislative Assembly. Secretary
Of War William II. Taft left Washing
ton Sunday night an the first stage CT
his journey. w. w. Michler of Mr..
Taft's office and an attendant accom-
panied the secretary. Mrs. Taft and
son Charles will join the secretary in
the Yellowstone Park for the re-
maindcr of the trip and Fred w.
Carpenter. secretary to Mr.. Taft, will
join the party in Seattle.
Rear Admiral Joseph Adams Smith,
of the United States Navy. retire1,
died at Philadelphia Sunday, aged 10
years. Admiral Smith was graduated
from Harvard Law School. He was
appointed an assistant paymaster in
the navy from Maine in 1861 and
served on the old Kearsarge as COM
mander of the powder division in the
memorable fight with the Alabama
He was made paymaster general Of the
navy in 1862 and pay director in 1891,
and was retired in 1899.
A five-story house was burned at
East, 33rd street, New York, Sunday.
The heroic fircmen carried so persons,
half suffOcated by smoke, from the
front fire escape but one woman, Mrs.
Mary Mcmahon, so years old, fell,
overcome by the smoke, while escaping
from her rooms on the fourth floor,
and was burned to death.
A violent distant earthquake was re-
corded in the observatory at Laibach.
Saturday night, beginning at 6.3S and
lasting so minutes. 1t is calculated
that the earthquake was distant $500
miles from Laibach.
The final trial run of the battleship
Vermont has been fixed for Sept. 8.
Oct. 5 has been fixed as the date of
the commencement Of the final trial Of
| the Kansas.
Wung Cheung, the fourth victim of
the Hep Sing Tong massacre of rival
longs in Boston's Chinatown three
| weeks ago, was buried Sunday follow
! ing unusually elaborate funeral
services, attended by upwards Of 5000
Cinnamon and as many more white
people. The services were held in the
| open street of the Oriental district
The deceased was a 33d degree men,
Der of the Chinese Masonic order.
Old Home Sunday was very
generally observed in New Hampshire
Sunday with union services in most
places addressed by former pastors or
by sons of the town who have Won
distinction in tho ministry. Specially
fine services were held ut Somcrs-
worth. WoodSville and Littlcton.