Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-01-31
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

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| had cantured 1000 camelS, were SUR
prised by Il party of French frontier
guards south Of Mezied. A fierce fight
followed in which II of the raiders
were killed. The camels were recap
tured.
| Just after having been released from
state prison where he had served
| sentence of seven years Tor larceny,
| Thomas Moore was arrested tuesday
night at Boston for breaking and en-
tering an Eliot street jewelry store
and stealing diamond rings to the
value of $500
| An unusual tribute was paid Tues
day to the memory of Ellery II. Will
son. eX-speaker of the Rhode Island
| House. who died Monday. when both
branches of the legislative body. after
| transacting their business adjourned
over Wednesday until Thursday as
mark of respect.
A threc-story paint shop owned by
s. X. Pierce Il Co.. chair manufacture
ers, at Gardner, Mass. was burned
| Tuesday night with it's contents. 1t
was large three-story building close
| to the immense main factory of the
company, which was saved with diff
Guilty. The loss is set at $4,000 to
100000; insured.
y resolution for an investigation of
the merger by which the elevated. sur
face and subway traffic in Manhattan
| and the Bronx was recently placed un-
der the control of the Interborough-
| Metropolitan Co. was introduced in the
board of aldermen of New York City
Tuesday by Borough President Bird S.
Coler of Brooklyn.
Mrs. Daniel T. Hagerty died at
hospital at Salem. Mass, Tuesday as
the result of injuries received in the
collision between train and car
riage at the Marblehead crossing of the
Boston & Maine Monday, when her sis
| ter-in-law, Mrs Dennis j. Hagerty,
vas killed. She was % years old and
| her husband is a hotel proprietor in
| Rhode Island.
| Frederick D. Blakesley. 16-year-old.
| son Of merchant of Waterbury,
Conn.,, was found dead Tuesday in his
| room at a school for boys at Fishkill
Landing. N. Y. The gas was turned on
and the boy evidently had planned his
| death with much deliberation. He had
been a student at the school for year
and a half. The body will be taken to
Waterbury Wednesday.
Mrs. Nina May Dupre. 20 years old.
who lives at the home of w. II. Gorgan.
a prosperous farmer, about six miles
| from Atlanta, Ca, was assaulted Tues
day by negro. who cut her throat
and left her in dying condition. The
| no A nf than 100
citizens with hounds is after the negro
and if he is caught he will in all prob
ability be summarily lynched.
! Capt. William Wyndham. the British
consul at Boston Tuesday presented to
Capt. Parkham Hodgdon a gold watch
on behalf of his government for gal
lantry in saving the lives of the crew
of the schooner Ayr at sea on Jan. 25.
1905. The vessel. lumber laden, was
water logged and her crew so badly
| frost bitten when saved that they were
forced to remain in the hospital two
months after being landed.
| The New York Assembly Tuesday
passed by q unanimous vote the con-
| current resolution of the standing COM
mittee on banks, reported by the COM
| mttee on ways and means and provid-
| iEg for the appointment of {; joint eX
| ecutive committee to investigate the
| state banking department of which +.
| ID. kilburne is superintendent. The res
| olution went Immediately to the Senate
| and was referred to the committee on
| finance.
! AT meeting Tuesday of the Boston
| fire underwriters, resolutions were pre-
sented favOrinE the amendment and
modification of the So-called "Semi-co-
Ion law" so that license innholdcrS
may legally supply liquor to guests up
/ to twelve o'clock. 1t was also resolved
! that the provisions of the screen law
should be modified as not to apply to
such licensed innholders except in any
room in which the principal business
carried on is the sale of liquors.
1t was announced Tuesday night at
Marlboro. Mass. that the Marlboro &
Westboro Street Railway had been
| sold. The name of the purchaser is
not given, but it is said that the road
| has been acquired by the Worcester
| Consolidated Street Railway. The
Marlboro and Westboro line runs to
Westboro and North Grafton connect
ing with the Worcester company line
at the latter place. The road is 13
miles in length and is capitalized at
$16O.00O.