Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-31
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The submarine torpedo boat Plunger
was accepted by the government Fri
day.
The Spanish government has received
official dispatches from Bilbao, saying
that tranquility has been completely
restored.
1t was officially announced, Friday,
at London, that the King Of Greece has
been appointed an honorary admiral of
the British fleet.
Oscar Bergstrom, a Sweeda, Vas,
Friday, convicted of murder i'll the first
degree for killing his wife and was sen.
te need to die in the electric chair 1T
Sing Sing in December.
Judge William L. Penfield, solicitor
of the state department at Washing
ton, who has been in Rome for some
time past. has finished the counter case
of Venezuela against the allied powers
and will present it, Wednesday, to The
Hague tribunal.
A telephone message received here
from St. Philemon, Que, Friday, gave
details of the burning of the residence
of Francois Orchard, near that place,
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the flames. Both parents were absent
from home at the time. Neighbors ar
rived in time to save the life of the
youngest child, baby.
The Terra Nova, an auxiliary relief
ship, formerly New Foundland
whaler, has arrived at Hobart, Tas-
mania, after splendid passage. The
Morning. the Royal Geogra phical Soci-
ety's relief ship, is expected daily. Both
vessels will start for the relief of the
Discovery, the British exploring vessel,
the first week in December.
Attorney VIM. M. Julian, one of the
best known lawyers in Kentucky, was
burned to death at midnight in his Of
flee, at Frankfort. KY. 1t is not known
. how the fire originated, but it is pre-
sumed Mr.. Julian stumbled as he en-
tered his room and fell into an open
fireplace. before which the body was
found. He was so years old and I'M
married.
5 Secretary of State Hay has informed
!, Gov. Hunt of Porto Rico that he has
requested the United States minister
at Madrid, Arthur S. Hardy, to present
} to the Spanish government a claim of
; 100000 for Porto Rican school pen
sions seized by Spain in the San Juan
Bank after the American occupation of
Porto Rico and during the armistice
which preceded Spain's final with
drawal from the island.
News from Somaliland, gives assur-
ances that the present prospects Of VIC
tory for the Mad Mullah are bad.
J Great Britain has taken steps looking
to decisive action for the annihilation
of the Mullah's power. Italy. cooper
ating with Great Britain, has ordered
the gunboat Volturno, and the cruiser
Cristo Colombo to reinforce it's squad
ron. At the same time Emperor Meme
lik of Abyssinia, has been urged to en-
rediate the attack of his troops on the
Mullah's forces, thus catching him
between two fires.
The strike of the Erie Railroads
union boilernakers and their helpers
in all of the shops on the system be-
tween New York and Chicago, is row
complete. The officials of the company
refuse to take back the recently dis
charged men and give the entire force
shorter hours, and the prospects are
that there will be a labor fight to the
finish. The machinists of the system
are holding meetings to consider the
existing situation. All of the shops on
the Erie Railroad system were closed
Friday night, until Nov. 4.
The advisory board created at the
convention of farmers societies held in
Chicago in September, 1903, has issued
call for a meeting in Chicago, Dec. r.
The object of the board is to bring
about concert of action among all the
farmers societies and organizations ito
secure equitable prices for all farm
products and to guarantee to consum-
ers of food products at fair price and
not loaded down by trust profits" The
call requests every society to send two
or more delegates. The governors are
to be asked to send delegates to repre-
sent the different states.
Denying that the Chicago Motor We
hicle Co. is insolvent and demanding a
trial by jury to test it's financial con-
dition. attorneys for that company,
Friday, filed an answer in the federal
court at Chicago, in which they make
serious charges against the petitioning
creditors and the attorneys who repre-
sent them. The accused firm of lawyers
are said to have conspired with the al
legged creditors and have sought their
claims for the purpose of wrecking the
business of the corporation. The COM
pany's secretary. A. w. Anger, declar-
es that the assets of the concern are
worth 100000 and the liabilities are not
more than $215,O00.
While dragging the river at Des
Moines, Iowa, for the body of Miss
Lille Cole. who committed suicide by
jumping from the Walnut street bridge,
. last Tuesday, the police not only
, brought up the body Of the girl. but
that of an unknown man. There was
nothing on the body by which it could
be identified and the remains were so
badly decornrosed that recognition was
impossible. The skull was crushed and
the police believe the body may be that
of stockman named Jones, who dis
appeared in Des Moines, sometime ago
and w tN IN