Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Hicks. the entombed miner at Bakers
helc Cal. is still imprisoned. The res
cuers are now working on a new level
and expected to reach hirl by " p. NJ.
Thursday. Hicks is in good condition ana
cheerful.
The shipment Of coffee from Rio De
Janeiro is at a standstill. owing to the
fact that the stcvedorcs have gone out
on strike.
The largest quantity of mail matter
ever brought from a foreign country
to New York arrived Thursday on the
steamer Majestic from Liverpool and
Queenstown. 1t consisted of 1910 sacks
Of mail and $50 packages. The Majes-
tic also brought 500, zoo in specie.
Agent r. f. Vosburgh OF the West
Haven. Ct. station of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad wa,
beaten over the head by two thugs at
the depot late Wednesday night and
robbed of about $3.50 in checks and
cash, the latter amounting TO $50 There
Is no trace of the robbers.
J. :. Elliot. Il school director. created
a sensation at the Washington county,
Pa, school directors annual convention
Wednesday night by advocating in a
public speech and appealing 70 a mcm-
Der of the Legislature present. for leg
islatior taxing bachelors to secure Il
school pension fund.
A merger of the leading wooden mills
Of the South involving Il capitalization
Of $3.50 600 has been effected. The con-
bine will be known as the Amcrit An
Ion. f,,,c.
will be in Chattanooga. Tenn. and it
is understood that ". w. Nixon OF At
lanta will be pre- sident of the concern.
Secretly indicted on the charge o:
murder by the Suffolk grand jury.
Francisco Cefala of BrocktOn Was
Thursday taken into the superior Grim
inal court at Boston and arraigncd be
fore Judge Sherman. The indictment
against Cefala charges that on tn"
night of Dec. s. he shot and killed his
aunt, Anna Nota.
A. Charles Dean, the Buffalo sales
man. who was burned in the fire at
the Zenobia apartment house at Buffa-
10. Wednesday night, died Thursday
from his injuries. making the number
of dead five. Nothing further as to
of one Of the women burned to death.
has been learned He is said to have
been in the theatrical business in New
York.
Charles Bishop. the young half-wit-
ted farm hand who has been on trial in
the superior court at Rockville. CT, for
several days on the charge of murder
ing Mrs. Caroline Williams, the wife of
his employer. in Stafford Springs on
Nov. 4, Thursday changed his plea of
not guilty. to guilty of murder in the
second degree. He was sentenced to life
imprisonment Thursday afternoon by
Judge Robinson. Bishops motive for
killing Mrs Williams was robbery.
AT meeting in New York Thursday of
the board Of directors Of the New York
New IL x Hartford Railroad Co.
annourc' bclt was made of the compile
ton of the purchase of the New Haven
road from the Rhode Island Securities
Co and the Rhode Island Co. operating
system of trolley lines in the state. The
New Haven directors also announced thu
taking of lease practically in perpetui-
~ or the properties of the Connecticut
Railway & Lighting Co. in Connecticut
A purchase has also been made of the
United Gas Improvement Co. interests in
several Connecticut power companies AMI
these plants will be turned over to the
Consolidated Railway Co.
In the probate court at Cambridge.
Mass. Thursday Judge Lawton gave a
decision declaring that Mrs Louisa P.
barnes, an aged Newton woman. was
not OF sound mind when she made a
VIII leaving all her property. about
t1Z,ooo. to her nieces The will is there
Tore void. Mrs. Barnes created a sem
sauon two or three years ago nv mar.
rSlns young physician to whom She
turned over her bank account Tbe
woman was taken to California by he,
husband, where friends had the mar.
aas' annuiled. Suit was brough,
against the bank which transferred he,
account, and much of the money we
recovered. The will of Mrs. Barnes va.
p'u by creditors, as under it the,
would have received nothing.