Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Government receipts Wednesdays:
From internal revenue. SSS7372 Gus
tomas. sl,l1G, 1854; miscellaneous. SALTS.
Expenditures, $1.10O,0OO
The annual conference Of the Meth
odi>t Episcopal church. South, began
Wednesday at Carrollton, Mo, Bishop
s. j. Key of Herman, Tex, who is Is
years old, presiding.
The department of commerce and
Labor Tuesday night instructed the
immigration authorities at New York
to land Miss Sarah Perkman and %
Jewish children who Were brought 10
this country from Russia by the United
Hebrew Societies. There We're 81 or
pEanS in the lot. Two Of them were
detained at Ellis Island for obsrrv;t-
ton. All of the parents of the children
We're killed in the kishineff massacre.
American goods in Spanish ware
houses are to have the benefit of the
favored nation tariff treatment, which
will so into effect between Spain and
the United States, on Sept. /. The
state department received Il dispatch
Wednesday from tn" American minis
ter at Madrid, Mr.. Collier, announcing
this fact. The dispatch also says that
the royal decree putting into effect the
new tariff agreement between Spain
and the United States was to be pub
liShed in that country Wednesday.
President Roosevelt will ISSUE a procla-
nation in Il few days, declaring the
new agreement
A dispatch from Bristol. Tenn, says:
Il ~ Il
Bristol that the Southern Railway has
taken over or is about to secure the
Virginia e Southwestern Railway. The
price paid or to be paid for the proper
ty is not stated. but it is thought to be
i'm the neighborhood of $10,0O0.000. II
is known that H. X. McHark of New
York and Stamford. Conn. owner Of
the controlling stock has asked this
amount for his holding in the road
The Virginia & Southwestern is about
40 miles in length, extending from
Mountain City, Tenn, to Appdlachia,
Va, and has been maintained for Il
number of years by the Virginia Iron
Coal & Coke CO.
TWO bodies, one of a woman, the
other of man, We're found Wedncs-
day in the waters near Boston. The
woman'S body was found in the Charles
river near Craige bridge. The woman
was about 40 years of age and weigh
ed about 200 pounds. She was dressed
in 4 black skirt and shirt waist and
blue jacket. Medical Examiner Swan
arranged to perform an autopsy 1t is
believed that the body had been in TIL
water for about 10 days. The second
body was found in the harbor near The
Leyland Line docks shortly after the
steamer Canadian of the Leyland Line
sailed for Liverpool. 1t is believed
that the man was a member Of tn"
crew of the Canadian and that he ac-
cidentally fell overheard.
Five young men, who were held by
the federal authorities charged with
participating in the recent robbery OF
the Ponkapoag, Mass. postoffice were
released Wednesday by United States
Commissioner Hayes ut Baston, Assn
tant District Attorney Ham stating TIA
he believed the men to be innocent.
The men released We're James Hunter,
Walter Ohland, Adam w. Wilhelm.
George Mclaughlin. and Albert
Abrams. Harry Clark. who was ar
rested in New York several days ago
while trying to sell one of the bonds
stolen from the post office. is being held
by the federal authorities charged with
having taken part III the robbery. The
| post office inspectors in that district
are searching for his alleged confeder-
ates.