Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The offices and draft department
building of the Robb Engineering Co
OF Halifax. \. S., were destroyed by
fire Monday, causing a loss of $4,000
The loss is covered by insurance.
The recently announced 5 per cent.
increase in wages of the employees of
the Berkshire Manufacturing Co. at
Adams, Mass. went into effect Monday.
Twenty-Five hundred operatives arc af-
fected by the increase.
Mayor Eugene +. Schmitz of San
Francisco and Abraham Reuf appeared
i'll court Monday at san Francisco, to
2nSwer charges of extortion containing
in the indictments recently returned
against them. Their arraignmcnt was
continued until Thursday
Settlement OF strike of the section
men of the Dominion and Atlantic
Hallway was in sight Monday night.
and all bands will probably return to
work today. 1t is likely the managc-
m"nt will accede to the mems demands
for an increase in wages.
Coroner Mix Monday III New Haven.
Ct, held Engineer Harry ". Easton
wreck at Yalesville Thursday. in which
Conductor William L"ary of Spring
field lost his life. Easton was arrested
and later released on bonds of $1,000.
The schooner Ralph. Capt. Boudrcau,
from Halifax for Eastern Harbor, G.
b.. is a shore ana a total wreck at
Port Barron, on the Cape Breton coast.
The schooner had a full general cargo.
The Ralph registers 81 tons, was built
in 1885 at Petite River and is owned
at Margaree, n. S.
An autopsy on the body of tn" baby
found at seth street and Third avenue.
Now York, Saturday night, in Il car
riagc. made today showed that the
child had died Of bronchial pneumonia.
Coroner Hamburger said ne believed the
baby died of natural causes and that
the desertiOn was decided on after
death.
Sessions extending through a week
or 10 days were planned for the annual
convention Of the International Sea-
mems Union Of America which was
opened Monday in Stillman hall, B0s-
ton. The convention was opened by
the president. William Jenje of Chi
cagO 1t is announced that many mat
tors of Importance to union seamen of
the country will be taken up.
The dreaded San Jose scale has been
discovered in several fruit orchards
about Lcominster, Mass. by Tree War
den ). K. Walker. This pest does great
damage to fruit trees and shrubbery
and this latest addition TO the forces
of the gypsy and brown-:ail moths is
causing agrculturalists much alarm
One peach orchard in the northern part
of the town has been practically ruin
ed by the scale and several other places
have been affected. 1t is thought that
the insects may have come on nursery
stock from the West.
Aggregate expenditures Of s5,527. 391
in aid of 9275 young men preparing for
the ministry and in assisting SO institu-
tons of learning, were reported at the
Goth anniversary of the Congregational
Education Society, held Monday at
Boston. This amount provided for stu
dents aggregates s1.754.2O9. The 90 in
Stitutions of learning aided were scat
tered through 26 states. Forty colleges
have received an aggregate of 81. 46i 1884,
and Fl academies in Is states have been
assisted to the total amount of S40f,-
$40
Five hundred men, women and chill
dren representing the army OF the I'M
employed, clamoring for first places,
clustered Monday before the doors of
the new state free employment office
at Boston. This was the first days
the officials in charge Of the bureau
were forced to send for a detail Of po-
lice. Superintendent Sears said that
he had number of position at his dis.