Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Col. Obreucheff. commander of tho
S1st Infantry at LukOw, Poland, has
been killed on his estate near here
by an unknown man.
Apparently the strike Of the fircmer
on the Southern Pacific is but slight,
felt in North Texas The Houston and
Texas Central is not seriously affected
but the Texas & New Orleans Railroad
has but few men located in Dallas.
The American consul general at Shang-
hal cables the state department that til.
ment at once of -four and cornmcaI in s.
pound sacks. Fifty Thousand bushels Of
wheat for planting FIN the spring also re
earnestly desired.
Not guilty by reason of insanity"
was the verdict returned Moaday by
the jury in the case of Sydney Sloane,
the lS-year-old boy charged With the
murder Of his father. James F.. Sloane,
pioneer merchant of Spokane Wash.
Robbery was the motive for the crime.
The College of Physicians in Thiiadel-
phia Monday received 4 Christmas pres
ert from Andrew Carnegie Of 800. 900
donation to help build home AMI libra
ry. The offer is contingent upon ale col
lege being able to raise n like SIM, OF
which &0.0J has already been subscribed.
Al the Fort hospital at FL Reno,
Okla, Monday it was stated tina Capt.
Edgar Matklin. who was shot at his
home there Friday night by a negro.
had passed good night. The physi-
clans reported him slightly improved.
Capt. Macklin's assailant has ipt yet
been approhended although officers are
following up a number of clues.
Three persons We're overcome by
smoke but all recovered in a fir, with
a damage of $4,000 to a Lorraine. an
apartment house at Worcester, about
noon Monday. The injured were Mrs
Eva Stanton, a cripple living on the
fourth floor. Mrs. Ella L. Livingstone,
who was on the first floor, and a fire.
man named Lundgren.
Three persons were overcome by smoke
but all subsequently, recovered in fire
which ca,sed 'pnai,e of $4,000 T. the
Lorraine. Il a,-':.mtn: house at Wuccs-
ter. Mass. about noon Monday. Tie in
jure1 We're Mrs. Eva Stanton. : crippl"
living on the fourth floor: Mrs. Ella T..
Livingstone. who was on the first toor.
and fireman named Lundgren.
About so firemen on the Atlantic d.
vision of the Southern Pacific gre
striking at Ell Paso. Tex. for five Gems
an hour increase in wages and for con
troll of the switch engines. The eng
neers are fighting the latter contention
and it is said other railroad unions are
with the engineers. There has been
no delay to the trains The engineers
are breaking in new ftrenen.
Henry Green. a Boston real estate deaf
or, filed n voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy Monday with liabilities amounting
ito sis2.3eo. Of which Sept is unsecured.
and assets of $685.. principally a piece of
land in Florida. The International Trust
Co. of Boston is the largest of the linsc-
cured creditors. holding notes for $1,000.
while among the secured claims are the
Whitman Savings Bank. s9O60 Beverly
Savings Bank. 5000; Arlington Savings
Bank, $1,000: East Bridgcwater Savings
Bank. $4,000. and the Lowell Central
Savings Bank 1890 There are III unsc-
cured creditors in the petitioners list
The British steamship Albiana, Capt.
lrinnick, with cattle for Liverpool.
was in double collision Sunday after
noon. from which the vessel narrowly
escaped sinking. just as she was leav-
ing the Laniberts Point coal piers at
Norfolk. Va. \ railroad transfer barge
struck the Albiana on the'port quarter
ouckling II Of the steamships plates
md tug which was fifth the barge
then came on cutting 2 7-feet cash in
The Fort side of the Afbiana. which but
or the fact that she was listed to the
port when the impact came. would have
,aused her to sink fwhen she righted.
me Albiana was flowed to Newport
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