Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-10
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

H. IL i@'tIlf VI NS'so,
Monday, at Washington, appointed as
sistant secretary of the isthmian canal
commission. Mr.. Lane will discharge
the duties of secretary to the commits
sion until that office is filled.
Mayor Croilus and four other de-
PENDANTS. indicted for conspiracy and
intimidation of voters, were arraign-
ed i'll court ut Joliet, Ills, Monday
All the defendants gave bail. The cases
| may be called for trial next week.
Rev. Joseph Brouillet. pastor of
Notrc Dame church died at st. Vim
cents hospital at Worcester, Mass,
Monday. following an operation for APP
pcndicitis. He was Sc years old and had
been pastor of Notre Dame church q
years.
Labor Day and the speedway course
OH the Harlem river was decided on,
Monday night, at the annual meeting
Of the Middle States Regatta AsSocia-
ton at New York, as the time and
place for the annual regatta. John
German of the Harlem Boat Club was
elected president.
In accordance with the decision of a
committee appointed by the officers of
the merchant marine now on strike at
1Iavrc, the officers of the French Line
steamer st. Simon, Labrador, Canada,
L'Aquitaine, and Ferdinand De Les
scps, have left those vessels. The Off
GERS of the La Savoie will leave that
vessel. Tuesday. but the French Line
is confident that ii viii be able to make
.lrJ II g-CT W VIII hn shin will
sail as usual next Saturday.
The conference called at Barbados,
i. W. L., for the purpose of discussing
and arranging for uniform quarantine
regulations applicable to all the Brit
ISL West Indies, which began, April %,
under the presidency of Governor Sir
Frederic Mitchell Hodgson, was ended,
Monday. The sittings of the conference
We're secret. 1t is reported that an
agreement has been reached establish
ing q quarantine system based upon the
regulations which obtain in New York.
Having become convinced through
many months of porting over literature
On the subj nct of attaining perfect
thought through abStaining from food
and ignoring all things material, Mrs.
Bessie Nun2insky OF New York City,
resolved Il week ago to eat no more.
She is now in the psychopathic ward of
Bellevue hospital and the doctors fear
she will die unless they can prevail
upon her to take food. After fasting
seven days Mrs. Nunznsky declared
that her husband and three children
should have nothing more to eat she
i..fin hppcoIf .of
a fallacy. Convinced that his wife had
lost her mind, Nunznsky had her re-
moved to the hospital, where she still
refuses to eat.
The New York World says: "Charles
w. Morse. cX-preSidcnt Of the Ameri-
can Ice 60. will not be required to sub
NIT to- an examination before trial in
the suit brought against him by John
=. Mcdonald to recover 100000. JUS
ticc MaCLoan of the supreme court, de-
Cidcd so. yesterday. Mcdonald alleges
that ii" invested large sums Of money
in stock of the American Ice Co. on
The understanding that Morse would
not unload his holdings in the market
without first notifying him in order
that the latter might also be enabled
to realize n good price for his stock.
Mcdonald claims that Morse disre-
gardod this agreement. Mcdonald also
alleges that Morse mismanaged the
finances of the company. Justice Mac
Lean i'll vacatng the order says that
such an examination as is asked may
ct be had to learn before trial whether
Morse Will contradict discriminating
statements alleged by plaintiff"