Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The American minister, Mr. Hicks, the
foreign minister and the members of the
reception committee, started Tuesday
from Santiago, Chile, for Lota. by the
land route, to receive Secretary Root,
who is due to arrive there Wednesday.
The party will return to Santiago by the
same way.
Edwin ]. Everett of ST. John was Tues
day night reelected grand master OF the
Masonic Grand Lodge Of New Brunswick
at the annual meeting held at St. John.
N. B. There is a large gathering of dele
gates and business will be continued
Wednesday. A net increase OF 100 mem
bers was shown in the grand secretary's
report.
Some go Knights of Pythias are gath
cred at st. John, N. B., for the annual
meeting Of the Grand Lodge of the Mari
time Provinces. Supreme Chancellor
Charles Z. Shiveley of Richmond, Ind,
is there and was accorded n warm recep-
ton A sail on the st. .iohn river Tues
day afternoon and 4 banquet in the York
theatre at night were the social functions
of Tuesday
Miss Emma Van Norden, daughter of
Warner Van Norden of New York who
was thrown from IL carriage near Blair
Gowrie, Scotland. Aug. II. while driving
with a party of friends and who sustain
ed fracture of the skull. died Tuesday.
1t was announced from Blair-Gowrie
Monday night that the other members
of Miss Van Norden's party who were
injured at the same time are doing well
DR.. c. f. Bigelow of Evanston and
c. Z. Lawrence of Chicago. who at
tempted to make a trip from SaugG-
tuck, Mich. to Chicago in a launch and
were supposed to have been lost in q
storm. are safe in Michigan, City, Ind
Word was received Tuesday at Chicago
stating that they had succeeded in
making a landing after a day and
night buffeting the waves.
DR.. William r. Brooks secured an
observation early Tuesday at the Smith
observatory at Geneva, N. ". of the
new comet recently described by kopft
at Heidelberg. 1t is in the constella-
ton Pegasus. and about S degrees
southwest of the star Markab The
comet is extremely faint and only visi-
BILE in telescopes Of considerable power
The motion is slowly northwest.
Robert H. Long of Chelsea. Mass,
Il
charge Of attempting to kill his wife,
Jennie II. Long. a cashier al a Revere
Beach resort. Mrs. Long was shot four
times and is in a serious condition at
Frost hospital in Chelsea. Long at
tempted to shoot himself, but the re-
volver had been emptied in his attack
on his wife. 1t is said that the couple
had quarrelled and separated.
The South Carolina primary election
held Tuesday attracted unusual inter-
est and the vote was large. The state
dispensary was the issue in most of the
counties, there being two sets of can
didates, one favorable and the other
opposed to the dispensary. The proba- |
bility is that a majority Of the dis
rensary adherants have been chosen, |
although returns are incomplete. In the |
state election interest centered in the |
governorship and the contest for at |
torney general. Senator Tillman made |
more than 20 speeches in favor of the |
dispensary. He supported Richard L. |
Manning for governor ard was opposed |
to NJ. F. Ansel. who stands on a 10
cal option platform. He also opposed |
J. EnriZer Lyon for attorney general |
Lyon is against the dispensary.