Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

/ TIC Towcr Hous" of the PruSsian Dict.
! Tuesday, reelected 10y acclamatiOn li-tr
! kroccil"r to he president and Herrcn
| PoESch ara kr2u.e 10 be vice president
OF the House.
! Commodore L. Warren. awaiting trial
! at Fort Wayne for dCsertion fron Co. G..
| First L. S. Infantry, now stationed at the
| fort, died, Tuesday. from bullet wounds
received. Monday while trying to escape.
! The military force at Telluride is to bc
still further reduced and - men We're
sent to their homes. Tuesday. Only anout
: leo militia men remained in the county
and AFFAIRS are Quiet. SIX more men al
rested. Monday, were depo,ted. Tuesday
| The large dormitory and school build
| ing at PdWncc. okla. composing the gov
crnmcnt schools for tho Pawnee Indians
on the F1wnec reservation in northwest
ern oklahoma. were burned, TUESDAY.
with loss OF nearly $JG,G91 to the United
States government.
Charles Warren Stnddard. the well
known author. who holds the chair Of
English literature in the Catholic Uni
NcfStv at Washington. and who has been
spending some time in literary research n:
Cambridge, Mass, is seriously i'll at the
Cambridge hospital.
The Harvard observatory has recently
been the recipient of two new rejecting
telescopes wEich have been given anony-
mously. One will be set at the Observable
ry- in Cambridge for observation of north
crn stars, while the other will he sent y
atS'lDIIt 1til!, ltI tIyS'lNsttiOI!S VI
stars in the Southern hemisphere.
\ hearing on the petition Of John T.
Lawrence. who holds $,Jtlo Of stock in
John +. Squire {; Co, that a temporary
Injunction be. granted restraining; the
trustees of that company from trans
. ferIinr control to swift " Co.. was given
by Judge Richardson in the supcrior
court at Boston. Tuesday. The court
took the matter under advis2melt.
Fifty non-union bridge workers employ
!
new bridge across the Kansas river and
about 100 members of the Structural iron
Workers Union engaged in a pitched bat
! kansas CITY, kas.. Tuesday Thirty re-
| volN rr shots We're fired. hundreds CT
bricks were thrown and several men Were
| injured, two severely.
! Tho copy Of Iiawthorrc's "fcnshawe,'
valued ut 500. and other valuable books
alleged to have been stolen from the Bos-
! who WIS arrested. Saturday night.
! rived at Boston from New York. Tues
day, in charge Of w. II. Ice Of the E@s-
! ton library. Tho books were recovered
! in an art and book auction room IN New
/ ork.
| The Detroit. Mich. Board of Commerce.
toniEht. adopted resolutions declaring
! I've rCConvcTci for the purp' sc Of no:;ntiat-
| ing a new reciprocity treaty With Can;:
On. ani thar the ar1rcach to its d"iibrT-
I '.titI'' tli TN pa VI va
! tho United States should he i'll such q
| spirit Of litoI"lity and concession as may
lead to agreements satisfactory and benc-
| fetal to both counties "
John Kelley. Il watchTnan. fell from 4
pier onto Il cake of ice in the North river
at New York. Tuesday. ami was being
| carried into tho river ON the drifting ice
| when he was rescued by Henry Ham
mond. an cmployc of the street cleaning
department Kelley had broken the rones
| in his left foot and was helpless. Ham
| E.ond vas unable to procure a rope. He
| reached Kelley however. by jumping
| from one cake of ice to another and drag
ged Kelley to the pier in a fainting COLI
dition.
Arguments in the cases of Representa-
tive Thomas +. Curlcy and Alderman
James M. Curley, recently convicted on
conspiracy to defTaud the United States
in taking civil service examinations.fw ere
made. Tuesday. in the United States cir
cult court OF appeals at Bcstonf- a stay
Of execution in the scntcnce} of two
months in each case was granted pending
the decision of the circuit court as to
whether they defrauded the government
within the meaning Of the statutes. The
arguments Will be continued, "Wednesday.
The Peoples theatre on ahe Bowery,
New York near Rivingtont street. and
two adjoining buildings. wefe, damaged
t1 1,o re- rr-,,ncllx, h,- Ero