Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-03
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

and crew of the missing SlOOp or war
Condor. All the men Of the navy at
tended.
The masons and bricklayers of Fall
River. Mass, Wednesday night, prac-
tically voted to strike, Monday, if their
demands for an S-hour day are not
granted.
w. j. Furnish, a banker of Pendle-
ton, Ore, was nominated on the first
ballot for Governor, at Portland, Ore,
Wednesday, by the Republican state
convention.
The president of the ]. p. King Mfg.
Co. at Augusta, Ga, has posted no
tice refusing the 10 per cent. advance
in wages. He states that if a strike be
inaugurated the mill will close, April
S, for an indefinite period.
An express train on the Canadian Pa
cific Railway jumped the track at Ar
temesia Lake, Ont, Tuesday, and top
pied over the embankment. Express
Messenger Corrigan and Mail Clerk
Legate were badly injured.
The dock laborers at Flume, Hun
gary, having again gone out on strike
for an increase of wages, work at that
port is practically at standstill. A
number of vessels there are unable to
unload their cargoes.
The disabled Cunard Line steamer
Etruria, which left Fayal, Azores,
March II, in tow of two tugs, arrived,
Wednesday, at Liverpool. The Etruria
sailed from New York, Feb. %, for
Liverpool. She became disabled and
to the Azores, where she arrived,
March ..
A dispatch to the London Morning
Post from Bagdad, Asiatic Turkey
says that an Australian millionaire
named Darcy has secured an important
concession to work an oil belt in south
ern and southwestern Persia. Darcy
proposes to lay pipe line from the
head OF the Kerkha valley to Moham-
mera. These oil beds are believed to
be very valuable and the product pure
oil.
In reply to the representations of the
ambassadors of the powers regarding
the insecurity of Christians in Mace
donia and Albania, Turkey allageS that
the revolutionary activity is due to
the Macedonian committees importa-
tons of arms and dynamite. The porte
has communicated to the diplomats the
instructions it has issued concerning
the protection of the inhabitants of the
distribution districts.
Frank Kathan, who makes the claim
that he is legally entitled to the office
of sheriff of Hamilton county, New
York. obtained possession of the Jail
at Lake Pleasant, N. Y, Tuesday night,
while the guard placed there by Locke,
the other claimant of the sheriff's Of
fee was absent. When Locke's guard
returned to the building Kathan had
all the doors locked and he remained
in possession all night.
Fl. D. Carter, formerly general freight
and passenger agent of the Adirondack
division of the N. Y. Central Railroad,
has been appointed as general freight
agent of New York Central and West
Shore Roads. The position was for
merly held by George e. Terry, who
resigned because of i'll health. A. S.
Gamble will succeed Gen. Carter, gen.
eral freight and passenger agent of the
Adirondack, with headquarters at
Malone, n. Y.
An official note just published at Ber-
lin announces that Emperor William
will be represented at King Edwards
coronation by Admiral Prince Henry
of Prussia, who will be accompanied by
Vice Admiral Baron Won Seckendorff.
Field Marshal Count Won Waldersee
Won Seckendorff, the chamberlain of
| Lot Dr;p
Henry will be accompanied by his wife
on the special invitation of King Ed
ward.
The extensive Isaac Rees Coal Min
ing Co. in western Kentucky, extend
ing into Tennessee, where it owns rail-
roads and steamboat lines with eleva-
tors at Memphis and Paducah, has just
been sold for S50O,000 to a Chicago and
New York syndicate, says the Nash
vile, Tenn. correspondent of the Chi
cage Chronicle. The syndicate will de-
velop the holding, opening trade with
New Orleans and other Gulf points. The
syndicate will make other extensive
purchases in the South.
Information was received at Chicago
from Rome, Wednesday, by the Very
isNN' opiH INlSpi I'M, ploNliiCldl VI
the Resurrectionists congregation of
priests, that the Pope and the propa-
ganda have approved the congregation
for permanent existence. The congre-
CATION of the Resurrectionists, which
was founded by several Polish Roman
Catholic priests, about 60 years ago
extends with it's missions and educa-
tonal institutions throughout the
world, AMI has been on probation 60
years.
Governor Crane gave his third an
nual reception to the members of the
Legislature at Hotel Somerset, Boston.
Wednesday afternoon, and nearly every
senator and representative. many ac-
companied by ladies, were greeted by
the Chief Executive of the state and
partook of a bountiful collation. The
governor was assisted in receiving by
his sister, Miss Crane of Dalton, Lieut..
Governor and Mrs. John l.. Bates,
President of the Senate Rufus Soule
and Miss Soule, and Speaker James J.
Myers.
The Massachusetts House, Wednes-
day. after long but al many times
sharp debate. refused to accept the adj
verse report of the committee on rail-
roads on the bill making the maximum