Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

burglars carly Friday entered the post
| office at Randolph. Mass. and escaped
W!th S1N n cash and 50 in stamps. En-
franc" was gained through side window
but there is no clcw To the culprts.
The American consul general at Hong
Kong has sent dispatch to the viccroy
/, ct Canton requesting him to suppress the
Boycott Association FOR tie H1ndrance OF
American Commerce. The association re
Gently held several monster meetings.
Without deciding the place for the next
annual convention the American Veter-
mary Medical Association ended its ses-
sions at New Haven, Ct The executive
committee will call the next gathering for
either Kansas City, Louisville, Ky, Ha-
wai or Denver.
The federal grand jury for the western
district of New York Mt Jamcstowr re-
| turned indictments Friday against the
Standard Oil Co. and the New York Cen
tral Railroad Co, charging violations Of
the interstate commerce law in giving
and accepting special rates IN the ship
ment of oil.
While an examination was being made
Friday into the cause of the sudden death
of Nicholas Martin. aged Is years who
for the past - years had made living
doing odd Jobs around Lancaster Y. H..
the sum of S1i00 was found in his clothes
Death was duo to natural causes. A
brother survives.
1t is feared that George Dewitt the
broker, Of New York CITY, his wife, and
r. w. Wcnhorn of Cane Vincent. wera
drowned during a squat on Lake Ontario
Thursday night. They were fishing in a
20 foot launch six miles from shore.
Neither boat nor occupants have been
seen since the squat.
NJ Driscoll Sweeney. aged 30. ,of the
insurance firm Of Mclean & Sweeney. st.
john n. B., was drowned there Friday
while swimming. being seized with
cramp. The Only man near could NOT
swim end there was no boat. The body
was recovered. A widowed mother at
home, and one brother. Thomas, in Ros-
ton. survive. He was a leading figure
in Catholic societies
Handwriting experts were called bv tha
United States district attorneys office al
Boston Friday in connection with the IN
vestiGations into naturalization frauds It
80 '-''ii'tOu 'iI'lt llllt0 states District
Attorney Asa II. French has discovered
recently that the naturalization p3per
found N the possession Of John Morgan
bartender, had beer furnished bv a
politician and was forgery II Is ex-
pectcd TINT there will be wholesale dis
closures Of naturalization frauds impli-
eating many Boston politicians
tn" New York police asccrt,ined
that tho $1,000 United States gold bond
Whlch was found in the possession of
Harry Clark. who was arrested in tbo
BoWery Thursday on suspicion vas
S'oien from Leon A. Billings. postmas-
YER OF Canton. Mass. Billings Informed
.'e New York police that on August II
~ was robbed Of 20 such bonds yaIuod
AT more than 100000. The robbers no
Saih' br"k" into his rooms over tbc
poStoifico. bound ana gagged him ,nd
"yhamlted his safe, securing tho bond,
ana ABOUT $500 in money and stamns
hhHhes reported his loss to the troas-
'i department at washington which,
stopper payment on the bonds cI,,l,
'"ri II" round the bonds in the street
".'i tha' n" was in New York IN ,ba
hlsht or the robbery.