Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-29
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A Summary of Some Of the Most I'm
portant Events of the Day.

w. S. Fielding and L. P. Broduer.
respectively Canadian ministers of
finance and marine, who are negotia-
| ting commercial agreement between
Canada and France, gave brilliant
dinner at Paris Tuesday night in honor
Of Foreign Minister Pichon. NJ. Dale
maGnc, the French consul general to
Canada, and NJ. Fabre, the Canadian
represel tive in Paris, were among
those present.
A Russian Hebrew walked into the
Boston City hospital Tuesday evening
to be treated for n blood disease, which
the physicians were quick to diagnose
as the dreaded leprosy. The mans
name was not given out, but it was
learned that he had come from Lynn
and had been about Boston streets for
the past few days. He will be immedi-
ately turned over to the state authori-
ties for transportation to the leper col
Ony on Pennikese island.
Mechanics building in Boston, was
the gathering place Tuesday Of over
300 photographers, delegates from all
New England and the maritime prov
inces, to the 10th annual convention
ana prize exhibition of the New Eng
land Photographers Association. Speci-
mems of the photographers art from
some of the best studios in the United
States were on exhibition about the
walls Of the building as contestants in
the various classes Of photography,
some of which were open to the world.
At the 18th annual meeting of the
Care Cod Cranberry Growers Associ-
,I,a, pTnnCHaV
George w. Briggs of Plymouth was re-
elected president. Estimates OF this
wears crop presented by the different
bog owners showed that the outcrop
wo;,ld be from $4,000 to $4,000 barrels
less than that of last year when the
cape boys produced about 100000 bar
rels.
Governors day at the Old Home and
Textile Carnival in New Bedford,
Mass, Tuesday. was featured by one
Of the longest and most elaborate pa
radcs ever seen in the city. Military,
civic. fremen's, trades and social or
carnations turned out in large num-
bers. and were reviewed by Governor
Guild and the guests of the day at a
noint about the middle of the process
sion and by the grand marshal. Major
Joseph l.. Gibbs (retired), and his staff
at the finish.
The report comes from Longford, Ire
land that James p. Farrell, Irish Ma
tionalist member of Parliament for
North I.ongford. and 40 others were
arrested early Tuesday morning and
are now being tried by special court,
convened for the purpose, on the
charge OF taking part in IAN unlawful
assembly likely to cause riot" Mr..
Farrell had been holding meetings
throughout his constituency at which
exciting scenes occurred between Na-
tionalists and members Of the Sim
Fein Society. In addition. many cattle
have been driven from the grazing lana
district, which the prosecution alleges
was encouraged by Mr.. Farrell ana
other speakers. Large forces of police
are being dispatched to Longford,
trouble being anticipated.
The ninth convention of the Ameri-
can Association of Workers for the
Blind, which was begun in Boston
Tuesday. had in attendance many per-
sons prominent through their work IN
the interests of the blind, some of them
sightless themselves. The feature OF
the conventions work at the morning
session was a discussion on paper de-
Uyered by DIR. c. F. Fraser. superin-
tendent of the Halifax, n. s., School
for the Blind. Among those who par
ticipatcd in the discussion of DR.. Fra
ser's paper, which was on 1.-THE Needs
of Our Schools for the Blind were
Miss Christine lie Larraque, the flrst
blind woman barrSter in the United
States. and Dr. F. ]. Cambell. the
sightless founder and superintendent
of the Royal Normal College and Acad-
emy of Music for the Blind, of London.
England
The flood caused by torrential rains
is reported to have done several NIL
lion dollars worth Of damage in central
Japan. The pipes furnishing the water
supply of Yokohama were seriously
damaged. entailing a water FAMINE
which continued 10 days. A conflagra-
ton which Monday destroyed 40 per
cent of Hakodate. caused much suffer-
ing among those who resided in the
burned district.
Eugene M. Moriarty. editor and pub
Usher of the Worcester Post and one
of the leading Democrats in western
Massa chusetts. died, presumably from
heart failure while swimming in Lake
Ouinsigamond off the Wachuset Boat
club landing late Tuesday.