Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

Arnold ana Hoffman Co. Of Providence,
r. l.. manufacturers Of sizing, was
practically destroyed by fire Tuesday at
loss estimated at from $4,000 to $780,
600. There is a partial Insurance.
The corner stone of the nev. Senate
office building. fronting on the Capitol
plaza at Washington, was laid Tues
day in the presence of Elliott Woods,
supernt endent OF the Capitol, several
Senate employees ana a few newspaper
men.
Secretary Bonaparte resumed his du-
ties at the navy department at Wash
ington Tuesday after 4 vacation of
two weeks at Lenox. Mass. Assistant
Secretary Newberry left Tuesday night
for Watch Hill, Il. l., where he will
remain with his family for two weeks.
Baron Won Sternburg, the German
ambassador, called at the state depart
ment at Washington Tuesday and was
in conference with Acting Secretary
Bacon for some time. The tariff re-
lations between Germany and the Unit
ed States We're mentioned incidental
ly. Baron Sternburg will return to
Beverly Farms. Mass, today.
Floyd Carmichael, a negro about %
years old, who was identified by Miss
Annie Poole, IL years cid of Lakewood,
a suburb of Atlanta. Ga, as the man
who had choked her into unconscious
ness and assaulted her early Tuesday,
was shot in front of the Poole residence
in sight of his victim late Tuesday by
posse which had captured him.
The proposal to extend the advance
of Is per cent. in the rates for fire in
surance recently ordered to take effect
in Boston to the suburban districts was
decisively defeated at the meeting of
the Boston Board of Fire Underwrit-
ers at its meeting Tuesday. The in
crease IL the fire insurance rates for the
city proper was made some time ago
after meeting of the local board of
fire underwriters to discuss the means
of making UP for the losses sustained
in the San Francisco fire.
At special meeting held Monday
evening at Providence. r. l., under the
auspices of the Niagara Movement for
the Uplifting of the American Negro.
the University of Atlanta, all colored
iiitii hSiO III Sou pS tilC SItah'I " uc-
mand n franchise. One speaker said
that the condition of the colored man
in America was growing steadily worse,
while another declared that Prof. Du-
bOis was the greatest man of the ne
gro race.
The Boston & Maine Railroad an
nounced Tuesday that 4 new Office, that
of passenger traffic manager, has been
created and that Dana j. Flanders Of
Maiden, for many years general pas
senger and ticket agent of the road,
will fill the new office. Mr.. Flanders will
be succeeded as general passenger
agent by G. NJ. Burt, now general pas
senger agent for the Central Railroad
of New Jersey. The changes will be-
come effective Sept. l. Mr.. Burt former
ly was connected with the Boston &
Maine in the capacity of assistant pas
serg ger agent.
A scaffold was erected Tuesday at
Halifax, n. s., upon which George
Stanley is to be hanged Wednesday
for the murder OF Freeman Harvie, an
aged farmer, who was killed in his
house between Hartville and Ellers-
house, Feb. last. Stanley was arrest
ed upon the following day and was
sentenced after his conviction on May
81. Harvie's headless body was found
in the cellar Of his house partly hid
den beneath a heap of potatoes. The
purpose of the crime is supposed to
have been to gain possession Of Har-
vie's farm and property.
The Papal encyclical, which it was
expected would be aimed against
Christian Socialists, proves to be di-
rected to the Italian clergy, although
some Of the references have a genral
application. as for instance, the refer
ence to the necessity for the minor
clergy obeying their bishops. The doc
ument deals chiefly with the spirit of
and independence
by the Italian clergy in
certain localities. Although the Able |
Murri is not specifically mentioned, the
effect of the document is to condemn
the organization known as Christian