Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-14
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Three negroes were lynched Friday
at Tunica Miss, for series OF bur-
glaries. Two were hanged to a tele-
graph pole, and the other was shot to
death.
The Massachusetts Nautical Training
Schoolship Enterprise. which has been
on a 3-months' cruise to the Mediter-
ranean, arrived in the lower harbor of
Boston late Friday night from Ber-
muda.
A sensational stabbing ARRAY oc-
cured in front of the Comfortable worst
ed mill at saltwater. r. l., Friday.
when before a dozen or more OF the
mill hands Joseph Boswell. 10 years DID,
was stabbed twice by Caesar Mollo
aged - years. The mans condition.
E"wevcr. is not considered dangerous.
Nollo was arrested. AS yet no cause
for the ARRAY can be ascertained.
Officials of the Western Union Tele-
graph Co. stated Friday. at New York,
that their force had recently been
largely augmented by personal appli-
cation of strikers to return to work,
and that many had been taken back in
various parts Of the country Compare
lively few vacancies now remain. A re-
port that Col. Clowrey. president and
general manager Of hte Western Union
had resigned was authoritatively de-
MED.
The International missionary con-
vention of the Disciples of Christ
opened Friday at Norfolk. Va. for q
weeks session, with an attendance of
several thousand from all sections of
the United States and many Canadian
delegates. Friday was devoted main
ly to routine work of the Christian
Women's Board of Missions and dis
cussion Of new national and foreign
work.
Mail advices from Batavia report the
ambuscade and massacre of two COM
pancs of Dutch troops by natives in
Celebes. Eleven men sent in to get
a native chief were attacked while lE
camp breakfasting and swimming. and
they were butchered to man. Lieut..
Mates, commanding the force. had
gone with six mon to the chiefs strong
hold Returning he joined forces with
Lieut.. kicS and Il. men. The COM
pany had heard nothing of the slaugh-
ter of the other force. and when they
were shifting camp they were set upon
by IA large force Of blacks. Not one es-
capped
The American fishing schooner Ralph
Rus sell put in at Lockport, n. S.,
Friday leaking badly having struck
at the entrance of LockpOrt harbor.
The bottom is badly damaged and it
is only lV the efforts of the crew keep
ing the pumps going constantly that
she is kept afloat. Capt. Collins I'M
derwriters' agent is expected Saturday
from Boston to look after the vessel.
The Springhill n. s.. miners strike
was settled Friday night and the men
will return to work Monday. At a
meeting of Mechanics Lodge and
Pioneer Lodge representing 1000 men.
it was decided to accept the decision of
the arbitration board. The men were
ont 10 weeks, the longest strike in
the history of the town. 1t is estimated
that they lost during that period $780,,
600 in wages and the business of the
town was seriously affected.
Judge Smith Mcpherson. in the fed
eral court at Kansas City, Friday.
granted temporary injunction re-
straining Secretary Of State John f.
Swanger from attempting to forfeit the
charter Of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
81. Paul Railway. The case grows out
of the law passed by the last Missouri
legislature which forbids railway COM
panieS from transferring to the federal
courts damage suits filed against them
in the state courts