Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-23
NEWS NUGGETS.
Items of Interest Cleaned by Wire
From Many Places.

d; WI Ting Fang has been reap
pointed Chinese minister to Washing
4on. cables the Pckin correspondent OF
the London Times.
Lorenzo ID. Perkins, former deputy
master of the House Of Correction at
Deer Island, Boston. was found NOT
guilty Friday on a charge of UUtaliy
assauiting one of the prisoners two
wears ago after three days trial IN
the superior court. As soon as the
verdict was announced Perkins was at
once placed on trial with Orrin Pray, a
night officer of the institution, on a
charge of assaulting another prisoner.
Tho proposition of Rev. DE- Donovan,
rector of St Johns Roman Catholic
church of Middlctown. CT, that his
parish parochial school be accepted for
public school purposes. was rejected by
majority of 291 votes in the speciai
| city election Friday.
| College work began at Williams Coz
| legc Friday. with a total enrolment Of
419 students. ISL Of whom are members
of the Freshman class The entering
| class this year Is smaller by SKI mem
| bcrs than last years.
Miss Helen Fcrenozy. who, it was
| reported to the police, was abducted
| from her boarding place at Detroit.
| Mich. Thursday evening by. two men,
was taken. it developed Friday, to
Roman Catholic institution under. the
authority of her parents,
| Fourteen men were killed outright
| and three fatally injured Friday by
| the falling Of cage in the rolling mill
mine at Ncguanee- Mich. The cage
| was full of men and every one in it
/ was either killed or seriously injured!
| The steel cable broke and the cage
| dropped 700 feet. The mine is che
/ property of the Jones & Laughlin Steel
Co. of Pittsburg.
1t was announced Friday at Pekin
that LANG Ton Yen. who has been se-
lected to succeed Sir Chentung Liaag
Cheng as minister to Washington, had
instead been appointed assistant secre-
tary of the. Way WI Pu, or Chinese
board Of oreign affairs. While ;, 10
official buncement has yet been
made of1lk name Of the new minister
to Washington it is understood that
WI Ting Fang will be sent back 10
that post.
Edward Fowler, carpenter by
trade. of 800 Broadway. Lawrence,
Mass. committed suicide Friday noon
in the vicinity of EmefNss farm on
Lower Hill. by drinking carbolic acid.
He was discovered by a youngst"r,
James Bell, who reported to the police
that an unknown man in somi-con-
| SciouS condition was screaming in
pain, after partly emptying bottle
which was afterwards learned con-
tanned carbolic acid. lie was removed
to the general hospital where he died
soon after arriving. His wifs
identified the body, after reading Z
description of the clothing in the
evening papers.
| An earthquake shock that brought
residents of San Bernardno into thu
streets in alarm was experienced Fri
day evening The shock was from
southeast to northwest and wa:
preceded by a rumbling noise. There
seemed to be a succession Of shock!
terminating with a snap that caused
: fear and trembling among those Wh'
suffered in the San Francisco disaster
In the mountains the shock was mos
| severe. causing great trees to sway a
if whipped by a mighty tempest. NJ
serious damage was reported in tn
| valley.
The storage houses of the Crysta
Lake Ice Co, situated just outsid
North Chelmsford, Mass, were destroy
ed by fire Friday, with n loss to build
incs and contents of about so, 900. Tn
fire is believed to have been of incen
diary origin.
The Baptist church in Brookline
, Mass. voted Friday night to send ;
call to Rev. o. p. Clifford, ID. d., Q
the Lake avenue Baptist church il
Buffalo to become its pastor. DR.. Gif
ford is one of the most prominent cler
gymen Of the denomination.
: Forty persons were killed and 8
We're injured, about Il of the latter ia
tally. in the railroad wreck Thursda.
at Encarnacion. near the city o
Aguas Calientes. on the Mexican Cen
trail Railroad, between a passenge
train, the FL Paso Express. which lef
Aguas Calientes Thursday, and
, , freight train. No Americans wcr
killed. but an engineer, who is a
American, and an American passenGe
named McFarlare, sustained fatal in
juries.
Colonel William Goddard, charcel
: lor of Brown University, Civil Wa
veteran and member of the Ives an
, Goddard family of Rhode Island, die
at MS home shortly after noon today
aged s. years. Colonel Goddard ha
hCcn in failing health for some tim
land had been confined to his houS