Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Government receipts, TUESDAY. From
internal revenue. &il4GjG customs. $50,
902; miscellaneous $3.0,2,1. Expenditures
5, 030.OG.
The board of bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal church which has been i'll semi
annual session ut Washington for the
past week. adjourned finally, Tuesday
The President has appointed Chas. A.
Stillngs OF Boston, Mass, as public
printer. to take effect Nov LIST; Mr..
Stillings is manager OF the Printers
Board Of Trade OF New York City.
The Southern Cotton Association at At
lanta. Ga. Tuesday, issued u statement
complied from the reports of 1,.0OO cor
respondents through the cotton belt. es-
The statement estimates that Gl.3 per
cent. of the crop had been picked and
ld.I per cent. ginned, Oct. y.
The United States. Russia, Great Br:-
tain, Italy, Switzerland and Brazil have
already declared their readiness 10 entc.
into official relations with Norway in re-
Lily to Foreign Minister Loevland's Motif
cation sent out to an the powers. after
gan government desired to open the
usual diplomatic relations with them.
James n. Abcel. the young man who
impersOnated j. Ogden Goelet in 1903, ard
forged the name of J. r. Van Every to
a letter, surrendered himself Tuesday,
at the general sessions court at New
FORK and was committed to Elmira re-
formatory to serve out an indeterminate
IL,
1904. Abeel has been in Waco, Texas most
OF the time.
Frank L. Rodgers of Fairfield. Ct and
Dwight Trips OF Now York, beth law
Henry g. Wheeler. IA wealthy man OF
StratfOrd out of large sums OF money
by means of promisory notes, died not APP
pear in city court at Bridgeport, CT,
Tuesday. when their cases We're called.
Bonds of 5000 in Trips case and of. $1,000
in the case of Rodgers We're called by
Judge Nicholson.
Two surface cars on the Boston Ele-
waited Railroad were iT collision on the in
cline leading to the Dudley street ter
minal of the Elevated tracks. Tuesday.
but no one was injured. One car had
been brought to Il stop when Il second
kept in motion by slippery rails satruck
it with force enough to break windows.
All traffic was delayed nalf an hour. This
is the fifth accident on thc Boston Ec-
waited within four days.
The Swedish steamer Jahan. of 1921
tons, and the Rus sian bark ntarcs. of $40
tons. both founCcred recently in the
North sea after Il collision Twenty-SiX
men of the two crews re drowned. The
CAPTAIN and carpenter of the Johan Were
landed ut Helsingborg by German
steamer. while the captain and cook of
the Antares were landed 1T Stromnes by
soon after the collision.
1t was announced. Tuesday, 1T New
York that the Federal Mining and Smelt-
ing GO. has purchased for $5GD1,0oO cash
the Morning and YOulikc group Of silver
lead mines near Mullen in the Couer
D'Alcne district. Idaho. 70 meet these
purchases the company has increased its
common stock issue from $5,uO0.Ut0 TO 81
10000 and its preferred stock from $ld-
ON, 900 to $12.O00,0o0. The new shares Will
be. offered to stockholders on :. basis of
"ne-tfth of their present holdings.
President Lucius futile of the Boston &
Maine Railroad, accompanied by several
Lon in If III. n Ia. ~,
rcctors. left Boston. Tuesday. on Il four
days inspection trip OF the system The
party began the inspection OF the West
era Division from Boston to Portland.
Then then viii proceed to thc Worcester,
Nashua and Portland division. from Port
land to Rochester ana the Eastern Di-
vision from that station to Boston. TIL"
Fitchburg division as far as Aver WAS
next to be visited
Charged with manslaughter as the re
suit OF the death OF Charles O'Rcgdn
during Il Sparring exhibition at the Queen
rink. St. John, n. b. Monday evening.
hition. was arr;iigncd before Acting Mag
lStrate Hcndersor, Tuesday. lie pleaded
not guilty and was reinandcd to Jai! with
out bail for Il hearing, Wednesday. Will
liam O'kcefe and others were arraigned
on charges OF having been seconds ut
the exhibition, and although they wer
not asked to plead. they, too. We're held
| until Wednesday.
town of Pine Grove. in Wetzel county
West Virginia, Tuesday. Starting with a
natural gas explosion in the Pine Grove
Hotel, it swept everything before ii for
several hours and the entire business Dor
ton of the town is in ashes. Dynamitr
was finally used to stop the flames. build
lngs in the path of the fire being blown
up The loss is hard to estimate. but will
reach about sl25.o00 Telephone wires are
down and information received in very
meagre. Samuel Steen. u teamster. who
was sleeping in the Pine Grove Hotel
was burned to death.
At meeting at Edgarton Mass. Tues
day. of the stockholders of the Martha :
Vineyard Bank it was voted to remove
the bank to Vineyard Haven and to sell
the building at present owned and occu-
pied by the institution to the Edgartown
National Bank. The Edgartown Nation
al Bank has been recently chartered with
local business men as its principal stock
holders The new bank will begin bust
: ness, it is expected. Nov. Is. Beriah T
4; Hilman, register of probate Of Duke :
county. is president of the Fdgartown
; National Bank. and Harry L. Winpenney,
I "a. formerly cashier of the old bank, is
| the cashier of the new institution.