Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-09-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

All grades of refined sugar declined %
cents Per hundred pounds, FRIDAY, at
New York.
Tie new Franco-Russian commercial
convention was signed IT st. Petersburg,
Friday. 1t will become effective, March
/, 1906
The body OF Count De Brazzy. the cX
por5r, who died. Sept. il. az Drkar. Senc
san. bia arrived at Marsnil!c-. Friday. on
the steamer Alpes and was landed witt
will occur in Paris. Monday.
Tie college wear OF III" University Of
Pennsylvania opened, Friday, IL III de-
paitmcnts. Th" registration lists indicate
that PennSN lVanl;. will have The largest
Incoming class in its history. ana tlat
The enrolment will number nearly i09r
students.
The annual banquet Of til" class Of loo:
of I'll" United States Navd! Acadcmy
Which was to have been held. Friday
night. in Washington, has been postponed
until next Friday night, on account oi
diphthcria At the academy. N"ArlN 5W
cadets are cl route 10 Washington Iront
more than dozen states.
The owners of the schooner Jon T.
Jackson, which was sunk i'll lowol CneS;t-
peakc bay, this week. by The steamer
Bayport, have lib"lled the Bayport il In
fCdt raj court at Norfolk. VT. Tor Sl2,WJ
damages. The Bayport is now in dry.iocY
at Newport News. The Sunken schooner
jackson is to be raised
Delegates representing the organized
fire departments OF most of the cities and
towns of New Hampshire met ut Milford.
Friday. to participate in the annual CON
venticn of the New Hampshire Stat
E'rcnlen's Association. In addition to the
business session, the visitors were enter
taineu by ;!n exhibition by the local de-
partment-
A report has been received at San Fran
cisco that the whaling bark Gay Head
was in BehrinG sea, Aug. Il. with =
whales and rs barrels OF sperm oil
Whales were. reported 1t that TIN" to b.
very scarce. No reports have been re
c.ived from the Alice Knowles on the
ether whalcrs following in the path of th,,
Gay Head.
American Consul Meritowtz 1T Nogalcs
and Sonora. AriZ., Thursday, Received Il
telegram from ChoiN. II town near f'ucr-
ties in Sinaloa, Mex. announcing the az
sassination by a MeNicun OF William v.
O'Daly. y prominent civil and mining en-
Yauui & Pacific Railroad engineers. The
murderer has been captured
George G.. Ward. vice president of the
Commercial Cab. Co, sailed from l-iv-
erpool for New York, Friday. on The Ccd-
ric. having completed arrangements for
extending the Pacific cable to China and
Japan. Clarence II. Mackay. president Of
the Commercial Gable Co. said. Friday.
at New York. that the new cables. boti'
TO CHINA and japan, would be laid and III
oleration on or before April !. l!ht.
On his appearance before Judge DS-
horne in the district court at Plymouth.
Mass. Friday. the case OF Eben Plymp-
ton. the actor, charged with assault wiki
intent 10 kill upon capt Grcrsr Martin,
was continued until Oct. I. Plympton IS
at liberty under bail of $500. Martin IL at
Il Roston hospital and i: Is eXptct'd he
will be able 10 leave the institution some
time Eext week
.mdce Grey. Friday, at Wilmington,
Del. dismissed the petition of j. t.d"ard
| Addicks in which he asked stay of pro
ceedings in the sl5 coo judgment recently
obtained against him by Charles ).
Uinchman of Camden. n. j.. under which
| 1ddicks' personal property on four iarms
In Delcware was levied upon. United
States Marshal Finn thcreupon made ar
| rangements TO hold a sale OF Addicks
personal property. Oct. IL ana IL
| The deputy collector of customs at th'
port of San Francisco has received q
| communication from the special deputN
collector of customs for the Phillpplnt
islands at Manila, stating that tne asSre-
| gate custom collections at that poFt lol
| the fiscal year ended June ~, Io9; W.T.
ScS14.a1O. and for the entire Fniiibpint, .t
islands. including Manila, were SS.-o4' ~ ~
The total collections at Manila ior J."
were S1,iiOSC3, and for 1905 s',G1l,2io'