Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-10
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Fire in the brush factory of Jordan 6:
Christey at Mapewood, Maiden, Mess.
| Thursday night, caused a loss of $1,000.
| SevefaiAnremen were overcome by smoke
| but recovered.
| The Virginian House of Delegates
| Thursday, voted to remove from the
| bench Judge Clarence ]. Campbell who
coWdded the Rev. DIR. Crawford of the
Stakf Anti-Saloon League.
sHhe court at vladivostock. Russia. has
| cMyicted three American sailors, George
EyQ kon, Karl Kruege and MekaIisch, and
tvH Japanese sailors of attempting seal
lzpQA&lHng and sentenced them 10 six
En4 LBS Imprisonment. The United States
M mercial agent, X. 7. Greener, dcfend-
ed ne prisoners.
8 Vhe referee in the contest over the es-
"a fe&of the late Charles l.. Fair. Thurs
Naxat New York. denied motion OF
COUNSEL for Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs
Oelfichs to take the evidence of Alfred
Moranne, Frenchman, said to have wit
messed the accident. The examination
will be resumed, Monday.
Daniel ]. Kelly. who was arrested. Tues
day, at New York, on Geographic dis
patch from Attorney General Crow of JEFF
ferson City. Mo-, failed to appear ut the
Tombs police court, Thursday. When
B Reily ,T was brought before Magistrate
his promise that he would be in court,
Thursday
Henry Perry, employe of the Airing
ton mills at Lawrence, Mass was caught
between an electric car in the mill yard
and platform. shortly after the mills
opened. Thursday, and was 50 badly
sistant Medical Examiner Reed viewed
the remains and pronounced death due to
accidental injuries.
The body of Mrs. Ellen p. Franklin.
aged 70, who had been missing from her
home at North Attleboro. Mass, oince
early Wednesday. was found. Thursday,
in the swamp short distance from her
house For some time she had suffered
with mental trouble and is supposed to
have unwittingly wandered into the
swamp where she was found.
James r. Keene, it is reported in Wall
Street. New York. has covered his short
contracts in the market, got rid of his
odds and ends, closed his speculative Sc
curities and Is preparing for q vacation
that Mr.. Keene has leased an estate In
England where he will live for several
Inod and will hit It Is said sail for Eng
VIM Smith. an American. and Otto
Monsoon and Gustav Rau, Germans. sea
men of the British British bark Veronica Of st
which was burned at sea. Dee. =. were
formally committed for trial, Thursday,
at Liverpool, charged with numbering
Capt. Shaw of that vessel. and six other
members of the crew. Ludwig Flohr "A
German, turned Kings evidence and was
discharged.
The appellate division of the New York
supreme court Thursday, handed down
decision reversing the Judgment OF the
lower court in the case of Christine II.
Hinsdale. as eNecutrix of the mill of Ed
Central & Hudson River Railroad. Tlm
plaintiff obtained a verdict for $4,000
against the railroad for the death Of nv
Hinsdale in the collision In the Park ave
nue. tunnel, Jan. 8, 1902.
The fight of the bakers and confection-
ers of the country against the National
Biscuit Co. which has been in progress
for the last three years, will be con
tinued. At meeting of the delegates
of the Bakers and Confectioners Assucia-
ton in convention at Buffalo, resolution
will be entered into by the union and
the National Biscuit Co. until that com
pany has adopted the union label and
entirely reorganiZed its plants through
out the county with union labor.
A movement was started In the Rhode
Island General Assembly at Providence.
r. l., Thursday. through a resolution in
troduced by Samuel IL. Groves of PrOvi-
dence, intended to produce an investign-
ton into the case of William Stevens
Morse, who shot and killed Julia p
Toombs In Providence. March Ii. IL is
charged that the navy department disre-
garded a promise to look after Morse and
not allow him to escape. Mr.. Groves RES
olution includes. request 20 the navy
officials at Washington that the matter be
investigated.
Discovered in the act of burglarizing the
house of his parents in williamsburg, ~.
and probably fatally wounded his
brother Adolph. During the night Adolph
found man crouching in the corner of
his room. He grappled with the intruder.
who, armed with a knife. siashed him
until he was forced to give up the fight.
AS Arthur was leaving the house by q
window his father and mother entered:
Mr.. Heller knocked Arthur senseless and
then found that the intruder was his son:
Arthur was arrested and il was discovered
that before disturbing his brother he had
riiied his clothes for money.
The Western Union Telegraph Co. has
entered suit in the United States circuit
court at Philadelphia against the Phila-
delphia, Baltimore a. Washington and the
Philadelphia & Baltimore Central Rail
roads, both controlled by the Fennsyl-
vania Railroad, in which the same points
are involved as in the suits against the
Railroad. The plainti9
seeks to have the railroad companies re-
strained from interfering with it's poles
and wires and asks the court to assess
the amount of rental that should be paid
to the railroads for the continued use
IF their right of way. The plaintiff con-
tends that the contract entered into.
March /. 1863, is still in force. The rail-
roads hold that the time limit specified
in the agreement has expired.
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