Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-08

tically reorganizing the New York poss
lice department. came up for final pas
sage. Assemblyma9 Voss. who has led
the opposition to the measure, de-
nounced the action Of Police Commits
sioner Bingham Of New York for crit
icizing the presence here OF three OF his
inspectors In opposition to the bill. Mr..
Hoey attacked Commissioner. BINGHAM
and certain New York City newspapers. :
That Binger Hermann, former CON- s.
missioner OF the general land Office,
and the late Senator Mitchell, Of Ore
gon, would have to be taken care Of"
out of the profits OF the land specula-
tons depending on the creation OF the
Blue Mountain forest reserve in east
ern Oregon, was testified to Thursday
at Washington In the trial Of Mr.. Her !.
mann. George Soresen, a lumberman
and land broker Of Portland, Ore, who
recently was convicted Of conspiracy in
land frauds in that state was the wit
ness. - o. - =
Speaker Cannon and the other mem.
becs CT the Congressional party, who
sailed south few days ago on the
Hamburg-American steamer Butcher.
may not be permitted to visit Colon,
according to information received
Thursday at New York. The news
came that the Panama government has
established quarantine against Vene-
zuela ports because Of reported out
break Of yellow fever at La Guaira. The
Butcher is scheduled to call at La
Guaira and also at Puerto Cabello be-
fore she reaches the isthmus.
Euecn Kupke, a chorus singer OF the
Royal Opera house at Berlin. became
suddenly demented at a concert given in
the palace Wednesday night and at
which all the ambassadors and many dis
tinguished persons We're present. During
q pause, while refreshments were being
served, drum was beaten, giving the
nT.itary signal to assemble The
guests hurried to their seats and the En-
peror, who was most astonished, asked
the conductor, Richard Strauss, why the
signal was given. Strauss explained that
it was the act of an insane person, who
was forcibly removed.
When he returned from this office
Thursday night at st. Louis, Mo, Her
man w. Quernhei.n, president of the
Quernheim Hardware 60, stumbled
over the lifeless form of his wife in
the front hall of his residence, 1920
Vesta avenue. one of the fashionable
residence streets. Mrs. Quernheim's
throat had been cut and she had been
shot once and her body had been
brutally torn and bruised. The only,
thing that was missing was a pair Of
diamond earrings which had been
torn from the dead woman's ears
Nothing has been learned as to the
identity Of her assailants.
AS result of the reported purchase
of the Merchants & Miners Transporter
ton Co. by the New York, New Haven
K Hartford Railroad Co, which pur-
chase is emphatically denied by the Of
ficials of the Steamship Co, it devel-
oped Thursday at Baltimore that on the
contrary the Merchants & Miners Co.
is a purchaser, the property acquired
being the Boston & Philadelphia Steam
ship Co. sometimes called the Windsor
Line. The announcement was made by
Michael Jenkins, chairman Of tho board
of directors of the Merchant & Miners
Co The deal is said to have been closed
Thursday and the consideration is un-
derstood to have been in the neighbour
hood of S., 900 600