Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Bits by Wire from North, East, South
and West.

The dead bodies of George F. Abb
bot, an aged junk dealer and his as
sistant, Frederick Won Buskirk, were
found. Tuesday, in Abbott's junk shop
in Chapel alley, Brooklyn, by firemen
called to put out a fire supposed to
have been of incendiary origin. The
men were evidently murdered, each
having a bullet hole in the left tenn
pie. The police have arrested Charles
Victor Johnson, % years old, and Oscar
Dahlgren, % years old, both of Brook
Ign, on suspicion OF having knowledge
of the crime. Abbott had been beat
en- on the head. and he had been tied
hand and foot and around the throat
with rope. In one of Van Buskirk's
hands was a revolver with two empty
chambers, which the police believe was
placed there by the murderer or MUIR
dererS Abbott was accustomed to
carry considerable money about him
and this fact was we'll known in the
condition of the bodies that the men
were killed Monday, and n witness
has been found who heard sounds of n
quarrel in the junk shop early Mon
day morning.
Attorney General Moody has render
ed an opinion tn the secretary of war
in the matter of the recent advance
ment in certain Civil War veterans on
the retired list of the army, in which
he sustains the View taken by the con-
troller of the treasury that these Off
GERS We're not appointed to new Offices
but were merely advanced in grade
and pay and that they will not be en-
titled to receive the pay of their ad-
vanced grade until after that confirma-
ton by the Senate.
The grand jury of Burlington coun-
ty. New Jersey, has returned three in
Gictments against Aaion Timbers, JON
as Sims and William Austin, one for
felonious assault upon Mrs. Elsie Bid
die, one for assault with intent to kill
and one for breaking and entering the
residence of Thomas Stricken For
these three offences the maximum pen
atty is 40 years. Indictments We're al
so found against Joseph and Israel
Timbers, brothers of Aaron and Horace
Robinson of Burlington, as accessories
after the fact and for obstructing the
when they We're searching for the three
prisoners
AS the result Of a disagreement,
chiefly over wages for unskilled labor,
one of the most extensive strikes in
the history of the meat packing indus
try of the United States has begun in |
Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Jo-
seph, Mo-, and other cities where large |
packing plants are located. More than |
$4,000 men are directly involved. In |
Chicago alone $4,000 men are on
strike.
The body Of Patrick Meehan, one of |
the three members of the Allan Line |
steamer Austrian who lost their lives
by jumping overheard the night OF the
elevator fire on Mystic wharf. Boston.
was found, Tuesday afternoon. in the
water near the wharf. The other two
bodies had previously been recovered.
Meehan was a fireman, As years old,
and belonged in Glasgow.
The initial step toward the formation
of an organization to include all the
maritime crafts in the world was
taken, in Milwaukee, Tuesday, by the
convention of Longshoremen, Marine
and Transports Workers Association.
The adoption of resolution declaring
in favor of this world organization and
the appointment of committee to con-
slider ways and means for bringing it
about, is the result of years of labor on
the part of the various leaders.
AS soon as it was learned in New
York City that a strike had been
in the meat packing plants in
the large cities. the retail butchers in
New York advanced the price of meat
from two to three cents pound. III.
l.. Eichmelberger, general organizer of
the Amalgamated Workmen's Union Of !