Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The strike of omnibus drivers and,
conductors which began at Berlin, Sept.
"a, involving about 100 men, who de-
manded Il hours work Gnstead of L.
to IL hours and time for lunch, ended
Tuesday, the men giving up condition
ally.
The upper court at Eberfield, Rim
ish Prussia, has rejected the appeal for
Il new trial in the case of Herr Dutt-
mann, editor of the Workers Voice,
who was fined $3.50 for an insult to
United States Consul Landger of Sol
linden, asserting that he had not paid
his bills.
In the belief that he can give some
important information regarding the
cause of the riot in Middleboro, Mass,
July 4, when one policeman was shot
Thomas McGanuS has been summoned
TO appear before the grand jury at
plymouth to tell his version of the af-
fair. The riot occurred as the result
of dissatisfaction on the part of some
of the townspeople with the recently
appointed police force.
On q complaint charging them with
disturbing a meeting in the Columbus
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church, Boston, at which Booker r.
Washington spoke the evening of July
80, William NJ. Trotter, editor of Guar
dian, a negro weekly newspaper and
Granville Martin, were found guilty by
a jury in the superior court at Boston,
Tuesday, Bernard Charles, who was be-
fore the court on the same charge, was
acquitted.
Moody Merrill, who was arrested in
New York, lact May, on an indictment
warrant issued from Massachusetts, 10
years ago. and who is now under &c.,
600 bonds to answer to the charges, has
again been indicted by a Suffolk eouaty
grand jury The new indictment, which
was made known for the first time,
Tuesday, contains all the counts in the
old one and has several new counts.
Merrill is at present in New Mexico,
where he is very prominent.
Discussion Of public ownership of
the street railways of Chicago, was
held by the city council, Monday night
The petition from the city council
ownership delegate. said to contain
G00,0C3 names and favoring an ordi-
nance providing for rcsubmission of
the Mueller act to popular vote, was
presented and referred to the commit
toe on local transportation. The alder-
men We're urged not to pass street rail-
way franchises until the Mueller act
had been submitted to the people,
The Yellow Aster mine at Randsburg,
Cal, is now running with ITS employees,
almost the full complement of men
needed in the mine and mill. At the
other mines in the vicinity of Rands-
burg, all are in operation excepting
only the Butte which, it is said, will
open again within q few weeks. The
former members of the Miners union
have for the most part found employ
ment for themselves somewhere III the
district or have left the camp for other
parts. The new miners are for the most
part inexperienced men from the mid
die west and many of them are men of
families.
The Hon. Thomas Collier Platt, senior
United States senator for the State OF
New York, has made the formal an
nounccment that he is to be married,
Oct. 16, to Mrs Lillian r. Janewsy of
Washington. Senator Plat has been a
widower since Feb 10, 1901, when his
first wife, who was his cousin, ellen
Lucy Rarstow, died at the Fifth Ave-
nue. hotel. Mrs. Janeway's first husband,
DIR. Theodore Janeway, died six years
ago. She has one daughter, and Sena-
tor Platt has three SONS. They will go
to Washington, almost Immediately
after the ceremony and will reside at
the Arlington. The senator was 70
years old In July.