Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-02-19

its foundation by the gift of $4,000 OOC
| BY Andrew Carnegie, the Carnegie In
| sttu;e has occupied rented quarters.
! At meeting of 1900 organized long
| shoremen Sunday at Boston it wsS
| voted TO accept the proposition Of the
! steamship agents ana the stevedures
| for an increase i'll wages Of five cents
an hour for handling bulk cargo. max
! ing the price 50 cents an hour for day
| work and - cents for night work. The
| lGnSshoreEIou also accepted the offer
Of I he agents to make 30 cents an hour
the rate fer handling general cargo
| from midnight to ) a. N.
An important step forward has been
made at Algeciras. Spain, i'll tie main
Franco-Gornan controversy over the
question Of the control of the Moroc-
can police. Friday night NJ. Revolt. the
head French delegate. sought Herr Won
RltoWitz the German envoy. and de-
livcred to him Il written response to the
proposition the Germans had previous
ly submitted. Secrecy is guardC"i upon
the contents of the French document.
but it is known to be 4 serious effort
toward Cancellation.
A flood four feet deep in parts did
thousands of dollars damage Satur-
Gay at New York and compelled fire.
men 10 use ladders to rescue fiat dwell
lerS from upper windows. while truck
nCI, went to the aid of passengers ma
rooncd on stalled street cars. It was
caUScd ny TIE bursting of threc-foot
water main at 12Sth street and Con-
vent avenue by an explosion of dyna-
mite i'll an excavation. a horse was
drowned in a lake four feet deep at the
corner of Amsterdam avenue and Law
renee street.
StuyvcSant Fish. who resigned Sat-
urdav from the special committee
which is investigating the affairs of the
Mutual Life Insurance Co. yesterday
made the following statement concern
ing his resignation: ~ am tired of in
surarcc. l have done my share Of work
in that line and do not care to con-
tlnuc. I have simply retired from the
committee without alleging any spc-
cial reasons for so doing" He said in
answer TO n question that he did not
intend to resign from the board of
trustees Of the Mutual Life.
One state prison scandal has been
taken into court and the case OF Lo-
retta J. Burr against Gertrude KIM
ball is now being heard at Windsor,
VT. This suit is brought for alienation
of affections and Mrs. Burr claims $1,000
damages She also has pending a suit
for divorce. +. l. Burr, husband Of the
plaintiff, was employed at the state
prison when Miss Kimball was assist
y,f f,.at, No
Kimhalrs admissions before an inveeti-
eating committee as to her relations
with Burr. while both were employed
at the prison.
Isaac w. Ronnel of Nashua. =. H.,
and his Wiic, Mrs. Nellie Bonnell OF
HaNcrhlli. Mass, were bound over to
the grand jury in $500 bail in the dis
trict court Saturday at Haverhill.
charged With assault with dangerous
weapon. arthur L. Morrill, who also
figured i'll the case and against vhfm
similar charges had been made. was
discharged. Bonnell and his wife en-
gaSeG III revolver shooting affair at
the room of the latter several weeks
ago. at which time Ronnell was shot
through the cheek He has been in the
hospital since. In court Saturday he at
tempted to implicate Morrill, as the ono
VINO fired the shots, while Mrs Bonnell
testified differently.