Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
According to the latest statistics, 50
persons lost their lives as a result of
Sundays storm in the eastern provinces
of Germany.
The first Chamber of the States Gen
eral at The Hague, Friday, adopted the
treaty of arbitration between Holland
and Venezuela.
The late Herr Krupp's various works
have been organized into a joint stock
company with $40,0OO,00O capital, under
the designation of the "Friedrick
krupp Co." The stock, which is not
listed on the Berlin Boerse, remains in
| the hands of the Krupp family.
Mrs. Jennie Flood of Grand Rapids.
Mich. was arrested, Friday, for the al
legged murder of John London, who was
shot to death in Grafton township, last
Tuesday. An accident insurance policy
of $1,000 was recently taken out on Lon
dor's person with Mrs. Flood as the
beneficiary.
| Capt. Joseph Eaton, Friday was de-
tached from duty as a member of the
naval examining and retiring boards
and ordered to assume command of the
battleship Massachusetts, now on her
way from Pensacola to Boston. He
will relieve Capt. Henry H. Manney,
who will be placed on waiting orders.
| A Rembrant picture sent to Russia
| by the director of The Hague picture
gallery, has been stolen, says the New
York Herald's correspondent at The
| Hague. Some time ago the picture was
sent to Nj. p. DeLarof at st. Peters
burg. but Germany railroad officials
claim the picture never reached the
German frontier.
| Anthony ]. Thomas. vice president of
the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville
Railroad. formerly with the banking
firm of DreXel, Morgan & Co., New
York. and for many years prominent in
railroad circles. died suddenly, Friday,
in physicians office at New York Mr..
Thomas. who was II years of age, had
been in failing health for some time.
Frances De Rosa, 8 years of age, was
fatally burned, Friday, at New York,
by her clothes catching fire from the
stove in the kitchen of her home. Her
father and a neighbor We're severely
| burned in an attempt to save her. Mrs.
Marie De Rosa, the mother of the girl,
in a frenzy at her daughters plight,
tore the flesh on her face with her fin
gernails until the blood ran down her
cheeks.
The Amalgamated Association of
| Street Railway Employees, made up of
a number of Boston unions, has been
| officially recognized by the Boston &
| Northern, Old Colony and other sys-
| TENS of the MaSSac huSettS Electric Co.,
and the sliding scale of wages has been
leXtended to include the men of the
| Danyers and Middleton system, who
| will receive back pay from March l,
when the scale went into effect on the
| other systems.
| The physicians in attendance on
Jimmie Michael, the bicycle rider,
| who sustained a severe fall from his
wheel, Thursday, While training at the
suburb of Friedman, Germany, for the
international races next month, said
that he was progressing favorably to-
wards recovery. Michael was thrown
30 feet and when picked UP he was
senseless and blood was flowing from
his ears. The accident was caused by
the bursting of tire.
| The governments of Prussia and of
the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg have
decided to expel the Mormon mission
aries, of whom there are 145 in Ger
many and 80 in Prussia, on the ground
that they are propagating a form of
religious belief incompatible with the
laws of the state and public morals.
and because polygamy is not excluded
from their doctrines. The missionaries,
who are all Americans, will be allowed
sufficient time to settle up their per-
| sonal affairs.
Dispatches from Helsingfors, Fin
land announce that further explosions
have been ordered until the decree pub
lished. April 16, prescribing measures
for the maintenance of order in Fin
land. The persons who have been in
struoted to leave the country include
ex-senator Mechelin, two editors, for
mer British consul. Eugne Wolff, and
several leaders of the young Finnish
party. They have received notices to
leave Finland within week, otherwise
they will be deported.
| William Roscoe Thayer. the author,
of Boston, Mass, was received in pri-
vate audience, Friday. at Rome, by
King Victor Emanuel. Mr.. Thayer
| thanked His Majesty for bestowing up
on him the decoration of Knight of the
Crown of Italy. The King spoke cor
daily and lengthily of Mr.. Thayer's lit
erary works, especially of those on
America, showing a thorough knowl-
edge of the situation in the United
States and of the principal questions
agitating the American people.
The case of the soldier leper recently
referred to in dispatches from Wash
ington is the first ever known in the
Iarmy. When the disease first developed
the man could have been discharged
for disability, but 1t was decided to
Keep him in the service in order to
give the surgeons an opportunity to
lstudy the disease. A special house was
built for him near Fort Screven, Ga,
and he has been living there nearly
three months. An army surgeon has