Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The steamer Celtic which will sail
from Liverpool. Eng, May for New
York. will take among her passengers
the Mapratta Chief Gaikwar Of Baro-
d. his wife and daughter.
The Allen Line Steamship Co. has
placed an order with a Glasgow firm
for the construction of a 10,000-ton pas
senger steamer for the company's SER
vice between Liverpool and Canada.
The quarantine season for vessels ar
irving at New York from coastwise
ports begins May 1. Thereafter until
Nov. 1, all vessels from ports south of
Cape Henlopen, Del, will be inspected
at quarantine.
Henry c. Rouse, chairman Of the
board of directors of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas Railway. and presi-
dent of a number of other Western
railways. died at Cleveland Monday of
pneumonia. Mr.. Rouse was SIS years of
age He had been i'll for about two
weeks.
The First National Bank of Free
land. Pa, which was declared inSolveDt
and placed in the hands of receiver
on March II, 1905, having complied with
the conditions imposed by the comp
troller of the currency precedent to re-
sumption and it's capital now being I'M
impaired, was permitted to resume
business Monday as an active national
barking association
A lumber train of Al cars was
wrecked Sunday near Reid. Mont Sew
eral men were on the train which
caught fire. Three bodies were recov-
cred Engineer Stern and Fireman Ed
ward Julettc are thought to have been
incinerated. brakeman G. A. Murphy
was probably fatally hurt. According
to Conductor CARRIER there were II
tramps On board the train. three of
whom have been found alive.
A Guernsey, Channel Island, dispatch
saws "Thc passenger steamer Courier,
with crew of nine men and carrying
about 90 excursionists, foundered Mon
day off Sark. soon after leaving the is
land and sank Immediately. Three
members of the crew and one passen-
ger were drowned, all the others being
rescued. The steamer struck sub
merged rock two miles from Sark. Be
-jdcs these known to be drowned sever
al arc missing. 1t is believed that all
together eight or 10 were drowned. n
folio of war in the new Servian cabf-
net ana NJ. NelimirOnes. who it was re-
ported Sunday had accepted the post
Of minister Of public works. has after
reconsideration decided not to take Of
flee. NJ. Pasics therefore will take the
portfolio Of public works in addition to
the premiership and ministry of foreign
affairs The change Of cabinet in Ser
brought to bear upon King Peter by
several European powers. especially
Great Britain and Russia. who de-
manded the dismissal from office Of the
murlerers OF King Alexander and
Queen Draga.
Peter Rumbos. the Greek proprietor Of
n Harvard square fruit store at Cam
bridge, Mass. was probably fatally stab
bed Monday at his place of business BY
unknown man who was thought by
the police to be n fellow countryman OF
Rumbos. The crime was committed with
a huge banana knife. two inches Of which
entered the mans head. The wounded
Greek was removed to the Cambridge
hospital in a serious condition. Consider
able mystery surrounds the stabbing.
Rumbos was a successful business man
and is said to have large amount of
money. There were no witnesses to the
stabbing so far as known. but strange
man was seen hurrying away from tho
place shortly after the probable time of
the assault. general notice sent out to
apprehend the assailant Of Rumbos re-
suited later in the arrest of n Greek
named Antonios Pekelippakopolis in Bos-
ton The man walked into the Back Bay
police station to have n cut in his right
! hand dressed. saying that he had had
some trouble with a man In Cambridge
after he. himself. had been hit. 1t is al
legged that the stabbing was result OF
an alteration over a debt.
Sir Cha rIns Of fa ha ctfItinr