Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Robert Miller. aged 6S, committed sui.
eide By inhaIing Illuminating gas Tues
day at Lawrence, Mass. He was i'll and
respondent.
Government receipts Tuesday: From
internal revenue, $40 400: customs. 81
O91 .9f4; miscellaneous. 1921, go. Expcndi-
lures. $l92O,000.
A strike occurred Tuesday in seven Bos-
I ton cigar factories Of $50 women tobacco
shippers who were refused a new wage
scale calling for an increase averaging
about per cent. in wages.
The bursting OF an air motor at No.
IA collier Of the Pennsylvania Coal Co
al Port Blanchard Pa. late Tuesday
killed two men, fatally injured two 9TH
ers and caused minor injuries to eight
| more.
The condition of Gen. John A. Kas-
son. who was injured by fall from a
street car ut Washington. Monday
night was said Tuesday to be salts
factory. An examination shows that
| his left arm had been broken above
| the elbow.
| William A. Tobin, who was arrested
Monday night on a charge of throwing
| vitrOl on a horse in South Boston dur
| ing disturbance in connection with
| the teamsters' strike, pleaded not guilty
| in the municipal court Tuesday and
was held in $1,000 for a trial.
The directors of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Co. Tuesday voted
an issue of S2,000,O00 of new stock at
par. 800 q share, to stockholders Of
record June 10. The new stock is pay
able $50 a share July % and the second
payment of $50 share on Oct. rs.
The New York grand jury considered
the case OF Theodore d. Hess. the po-
| licerlan who, it is alleged abducted Eliz-
abeth Grady, and found indictments
against him and his mother. The indict-
ments will be handed down to Judge Fos-
ter in the court of general sessions
Wednesday.
Five Russians Tuesday made a des-
rerate attempt to rescue q man named
Ridalitsky. who is in Jail at Zurich.
Switzerland awaiting eXtradition to
Russia. They opened fire on the prison
guards but We're beaten off and es-
capped in the confusion which followed
the attack.
Two automobile accidents in the West
End. Boston. and Charlestown about tie
same time Tuesday resulted in the fatal
injury of Edward w. Gordon. s. years
old, and painful injuries to John Coyle
John G.. Nelson, who was driving the ma
chine which struck Coylc, was arrested
and held III $500 in the Charlestown court
The jury was completed Tuesday at San
Francisco for The trial Of Mayor Eugene
Srhnltz on the first Of five indictments
N which no iS oppilSa5 Jointly wifi,
ham Ruef of having extorted from JOS.
Malafanti SIZE as the first installment of
$1,000 annual bride to secure the French
restaurant keepers of San Francisco their
licenses to sell liquor.
Tie resignation of Judge John w. Nc
Kim of the Suffolk county probate court.
after 80 years of continuous service on the
bench. was received by Gov. Guild Tues
day. Because o. Judge MckinI's desire
for immediate retirement it is expected
that the governor will accept the resigna-
ton at once. Under the retirement act
Judge McKim VIII draw half his present
salary, which is $1,000 a year. Judge Nc
Kim has Just passed his S5th birthday
Compulsory Interconnection Be
tween the Bell and Independent Tele-
phones" will be the principal subject
of discussion in the convention of the
international Independent Telephone
Association which opened Tuesday at
Chicago. Resolutions declaring the
United States government unfair in its
treatment of Independent companies
will be introduced as result of an or
der forbidding postmasters to install
telephones in their offices unless there
is direct connection with Washington.
Government ownership of telephone
lines will be discussed.
AlonZo Brown, gypsy and brown-tall
moth hunter employed by the town OF
Saugus, was electrocuted by an electric
light wire while spraying moth nests III
the top Of a tree of Essex street. Clifton
dale Tuesday. It is believed that Brown
lost his balance and clutched at the wire
| for support. His fellow moth hunters
saw him hanging from the wire and
moment later he fell to the ground, strik-
ing on his head. The medical examiner
said that his death was due to electro
shock. 1t Is estimated that current o.
200 volts intensity passed through ms
body. A widow and five children SURVIVE
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