Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-21

| during the tight the cause OF Wnlcn IS
| unknown. another man is believed TO
have been shot. but he, with four
| others, escaped.
Henry Meldrum, former United
States surveyor has been found guilty
| OF forgery ON y counts by jury in the
| United States District court at Port
| land. Ore This is the first conviction
in the so-called land fraud cases now
! pending.
Harry Thompson, employed as
whitewashrr on the kitson Machine
CO.'S property at Lowell. Mass. was
| caught in Il whring shaft While at
work on a ceiling, Friday and every
| bone in mis- body was broken before ne
could be released. while every shred OF
clothing even to his shoes was TORN
from him. He died at the hospital
At the White House, Friday night.
President Roosevelt entertained "t
dinner the special ambassador Oh Ehl-
pcror William at the unVeilihs oi ,ne
statue of Frederick the Great III thlS
city, tomorrow. Lieut.. Gen. LoeWeh-
field and Mai. Count SchmettoW.
Rev. w. p. Squires, pastor of the
First Bartist church, East Brookfield,
Mass. was sentenced to pay fine OF
$50 or serve 50 days in Jail, by Judge
William Forbes in the probate court III
Brookfield, Friday. MIR. Squlres' III ms
defence said he had no intentions or
committing contempt and said he couid
not plv the fine. He was removed TO
the Worcester county Jail in Worcester.
The trouble arose over suit in equity
Of the First Baptist church, against ".
+. HAYWARD and others. to determine
what should be done with the Harring-
ton fund. for which Mr.. Squires was
trustee. Mr.. Squires wrote IL letter t"
the Judge in which he tried to show
that three of the witnesses had per-
jured themselves. The summons de-
ciared that the writer Of this letter had
used undue and improper influence
with the court while the case was pend
ing.
Charles Forbes, who was arrested in
Buenos Ayres and brought to New
York to answer Il charge of forging the
name of his employer to checks to the
amount of $4,000. WAS, Friday. SEN
fenced to 10 years Imprisonment.
A series Of gas explosions destroyed
the plant Of the Pyle Electric Head
Eight 90. in South Chicago Friday.
and resulted III the death Of four per-
sons. and the injury Of score Of
others. The shocks of the explosions
We're so severe that buildings near the
demolished plant We're badly dam
aged. Windows We're shattered. and
people walking in the streets for sew
eral blocks were thrown from their
feet. Over-pressure on tanks contain
ing gas is believed 10 have caused the
| accident. The dead are Ralph Wells.
superintendent for the Pyle National
| Electric Headlight Co; Amos Wat
| kins. assistant superintendent for the
sane company. George Muehl, drafts
man, employed by the Peoples Gas
| Light and coke Co: Thomas Jennings,
employed by the Pyle National Elec
| tric Headlight 20. The fatally in
| jurcd ait William NJ. Maloney, blown
| from third floor Of building, body
crushed, and Alfred cox, internally in
] jured.
Emperor William has directed the
| troops at Lipre. Germany, to take the
| oath OF allegiance to Count Leopold.
! son of the late regent, Count Ernst.
! ptltl0g Il Stltltliltll Vi tiit
! of an arbitration court which the i'm
i pcrial chancellor is authorized by the
| federal council to form.
| A memorial to the President of the
3! United States and to the people has
been issued by the Polish Roman
catholic Federation of the United
| States Of America, from the Federal
| tons headquarters i'll Chicago. pro
| testing against the acceptance OF the
| statue Of Frederick the Great. given
| to the United States by Emperor VIII
| liam Of Germany. and to be unveiled
| in Washington. saturday.
| a dispatch from Upington on the
Orange river. Africa, says that two
| women. who have arrived there give
details of a Hottentot uprising in Ger
| man territory Their husbands ana
a number of Dutch farmers were brut-
| ally murdered but % women and
children escaned and reached Reitfon-
J trin in destitute circumstances.
| The two-nastcd fishing schooner
| Arthur ID. Shorey. arrived in Glouces-
ter. Mass. Friday night. from Georges
Banks. and Capt. William Sloan re-
| nor.ted the loss of one man, Henry
Morton, and the injury Of two others
during the gale. Monday, November
IA hon Gcor,;es. Captain Sloan sara
| that never before in all his seataring
career had he experienced such weatp-
or IS prevailed the early part OF last
! week.
| The government of the MEMBRANES
/ has officially advised Secretary hay
that it gladly accepts the suggestion
| that the peace conference be recon
| yencd at The Hague.
| John q. Heckscher. secretary OF 'iie
! National Horse Show Association ana
| fathcr-in-Iaw of Mayor McCleliah' WHO
was trampled under foot by team eA-
hihi:cd in the ring by Mrs. Edward d.
| L.anew. Thursday night. in Ma"iSoii
Square Garden. did not sustain serious
| niuv. He was somewhat cut, one
hand hcing lacerated and his shoui-
| ders bruised. but fears that ms spine
WAS Injured proved unfounded.
The steamer Mohawk of the oeh''ai
| Vermont Railroads fleet. was purlieo
to the waters edge off Horton Point
Long Island sound, early friuaS