Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-01
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Two Men Killed In Coal
Mine Accident.
Chicago Suffers From Effects
Of 100000 Fire.
Other Items Of Interest from Here,
There and Everywhere.

Queen Wilhelmina has conferred up
on Andrew Carnegie the order o1
Orange Nassau.
Harry ]. Lucas, colored, serving
sentence of eight to ten years In the
state prison at Charlestown. Mass, 1or
giving straw bail, was pardoned Tues
dav by Gov. Guild, after having COM
pleted but little over three years of his
sentence.
Steven Adams, who was expected to
be an important witness in the trial of
| VIM. d. Haywood. but who was not
called by either side, was taken back
| to Wallace Tuesday night from Boise,
Idaho, to await a second trial on the
| charge of murder. His first trial result
ed in a disagreement.
| Gerard A. Lewther, the British min
lister at Tangier, has received letter
from Said Sir Harry MacLawe, stat
| ing that Raisuli. who holds him pris-
oner, threatens to put him to death
unless Mohammed FL Torres. the sui
| tan's representative for foreign affairs
ut Tangicr. withdraws the troops from
| the FlkmeS territory.
The plant of the Chicago, New York
& Boston Refrigerator Go. at 81 State
street and Central Park avenue
Chicago, was damaged by fire Tues
day to the extent of $500, 900 The
I.famcs. which for Il time threatened to
destroy the entire esta blishment, origi-
mated by the bursting of an oil pipe in
the steel shop. a number OF cot
tases adjoining the refrigerator plant
| We're saved after 4 hard fight.
John II. Jones of Pittsburg, general
manag of the United Coal Co, and
| Joseph Graham. fire boss. We're killed
Tuesday night in Edna mine No. l. at
Irwin, Pa, by fall of slate. The Off
Gals were inspecting the mine when
caught by the sudden cavc-in and
killed.
| Five we'll filed ice houses on the
shore of Massapoag pond. Sharon
| Mass, belonging to the Boston Ice Co..
| were destroyed by fire Tuesday with a
loss of 100000. The cause of the fire is
being investigated by representatives
of the state police.
The threatened strike in the hat
trade was averted Tuesday when
representatives of the National Fur
Felt Hat Manufacturers Association
and of the United Hattcrs of North
America met at New York, and finally
adjusted their differences. Some a.
600 matters in Danbury and South Nor
| walk, Conn. Orange and Newark. n
j.. Brooklyn. Philadelphia and Boston
were involved in the dispute, the set
Element of which is based on a series
of articles adopted.
At the resumption Tuesday Of the
grand jury inquiry into the circum-
stances surrounding the death of Mrs.
Pet Magill, for which her husband and
his second wife are being held at Gin
ton, Ill, c. G.. Oakman. the undertaken
who embamed Mrs. Pet Magill's body.
testified that the fluid used by him
contained arsenic. He explained to the
jury that since the new coroncr's law.
which prohibits the use Of arsenical
embalming fluids in cases Of sudden
death. went into effect July l. he had
not used it, but May 81. when Mrs
Magill died. the law was not in force.
The grand jury will probably not con-
clude its examination until Friday.
There We're two fatalities due to falls
in Boston Tuesday. Mrs. jennie Erie
lander, aged 50 years married. of II
| Elder street, Dorchester while dement,
ed. jumped from the roof Of a four
story block at 40 Oneida street and
died soon after at the City hospital.
John O'Neil. aged -. Of SO Chelsea
street. Charlcstown, fell down flight
of stairs at his home and was instant
| ly killed.
john Lynx. Pole, killed his wife
Tuesday by slashing her six times with
a carving knife and then committed
suicide by stabbing himself at his
home in Ord street. Brooklyn. The wo-
| man fell dead in the doorway as she
was trying to escape Lynx some time
ago left the city, laboring under the
impression that he was to be deported.
| Recently he returned and his fears that
he would be sent back to Europe,
where it is said. he was wanted for an
'fcnse. are thought to have unbal-
ancod his mind
Amos r. Rumbaugh of Washington,
d. c.. the witness who it was be-
leved could shed light upon the death
of Miss Laura Matthews. whose body
was found in lane on the outskirts
of Colorado Springs with a bullet hole
in the head, shot himself Tuesday eve
ming while the coroner's jury was
awaiting his appearance to testify. He
is not expected to recover.
San Francisco's mayor Eugene
Schmitz Tuesday. made appointments
to fill the vacancies created by the
forced resignation of IA members of
the board of supervisors Schmitz
claimed the right Of appointment on
the ground that he is the rightful
mayor of San Francisco and acting