Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-05-08

| Monday. President Young. in his annual
address, recommended that the members
| endorse a bill introduced in the Senate b!
| Senator Frye for the establishment or d
| department of commerce and industries
and providing for the creation of 4 bu-
reau Of manufacturers.
Judge Foster at New York, Monday
Francis H. Weeks. the lawyer who has
! just finished serving Il sentence Of II
| years in prison, having been convicted OF
numerous estates of which he was the
manager Weeks actually served about
| ~ years the balance of his term having
been committed for good behavior
John Garrabrandt, the 19-yearold boy
who killed his playmate. Henry Mas,
was examined in the police court in Jer-
sey City. Monday. Police Captain Kelly
testified that Cara brandt had made 4
youth saw Mas body he identified it by
saying: Yes. this is the boy | killed.
Garrabrandt was not represented by
counsel He was held without bail for the
grand jury.
y dispatch from Grand Mere, Que,
says the pulp mill, mill and pump
room Of the Laurentidc Cos pulp and
paper plant have been destroyed by fire.
100 tons per day, was not burned. but will
be crippled by the burning of the pulp
mill. Gen. Russell y. Alser is promi-
nently interested with Canadian capital
The loss will be very heavy.
The factory of the Ware Furniture Co.
one of the largest manufacturing plants
of its kind in the South, located outside
the Atlanta, GA, city limits, was burned,
Monday. Forty cottages occupied by peo-
pie employed in the factory We're de-
stroyed. many of the families losing all
their effects. \ fireman was badly burned
and a man was carried from one of the
burning cottages unconscious. Total loss,
$500 600; insurance. about one-half.
Susie Morris. the 1i-year-old girl who
was arrested at Providence, X. l.. Satur-
day and confessed that she had made
six attempts to burn the house Of her
aunt, Ann McCaffery. was arraiSned be
fore the Juvenile court. Monday: by al
vice of her counsel. James n. Pierce. she
pleaded not guilty to the charge of arson;
was reduired. Judge Sweetland placing
the girl in charge of Miss Donehy, a pro
baton officer. who will provide her with a
good home.
Judge Dunno of the circuit court at
Chicago Monday. ordered the final decree
in the suit of the Iutcr-Ocean Publishing
co against The Associated Press. 1he
court grants to the complainant the res
toratfon of the service of Tho Associated
Press ana removes the ban of suspension
undrr the bylaws of The Associated Press
which prohibited subscribers IN the a<Sp-
citation from receiving news from Or lur-
nshing news to any person NJ coI ~"
ton declared antagOnistIc to Inc Assoc
ciatcd Press.
The directors of the American Steel ana
Wire co. met. Monday. at New YORK
John ". Gates. the chairman 81 IN
board did not resign as had been predlct-
a. but the directors who have chiefly op-
posed him Henry Scligman and frcdcf-
lex Strauss. did. Mcssrs. ScliSman anu
Strauss left the meeting before us cloSc,
and about half an hour later gave out
copies Of a letter addressed Dy them "
the board of directors i'll which they *
nIaincd that they were getting out De
cause Mr.. Gates stayed in.
The city council of Atlanta, I'D,
Monday night, adopted q resolution
calling on Mayor James q. Woodward
to resign his office. The resolution was
the elimination of a sermon. SUNDAY
night. by Rev. l.. G. Brou&hton, N
which the minister made q violent az
tack on the mayors personal habits.
The resolution calls upon the mayor TO
resign before the next meeting OF the
council. May 81 The leader Of the OPP
position to Mr.. Woodward says the
MAYOR is in honor bound under the
terms of a statement made, last sum
mer. to resign. The mayor declined T.
say what his action would be.