Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-12
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Experiments will be made in landing
at Holy Head, Wales, the American
mails brought by the Liverpool-bound
steamers. If they prove successful, 1t
is considered possible that Holy Head
may be made a place of call instead OF
Queenstown. for the Liverpool mail
stea mcrs which now touch at the Irish
Iort.
The auction sale Of the machinery
and mechanical equipment of the Allen
Print Works at Providence. r. L., was
held Thursday On the premises. The
highest price paid for any one article
was $500 for a scraper and the other
prices ranged down to 81. The largest
buyers were VIM. J. Dunn Of Fall Riv-
er and the United States Finishing Co.
Empire State day was observed
Thursday at the jamestown EXPOSE
ton. addresses by Gov. Hughes of New
York and President Schurman of Corr
nell University being the features of
the day. The exercises were held at the
Auditorium. Addresses Of welcome by
President Tucker Of the Exposition and
Governor Swanson were followed by
the speech of Governor Hughes.
After having been detained at the
dock yards at Halifax, \. S, since last
winter, the Gloucester fishing schoon-
er Fannie E. Prescott finally was re-
leased Thursday, after payment by her
owners of fine of 5000 and costs for
alleged violation of the fisheries law.
The Prescott was seized by govern
ment cruiser last winter on the charge
Of having been engaged in fishing in
side the emile limit.
A new record for steeplejacking was
made Thursday when Erncs- Cappelie
climbed up the flagstaff OF the Singer
building tower in New York City AMI
clampcd silded globe to the top of the
staff, ,o3 feet above the ground. Thous-
ands Of people along Broadway ard 9TH
err downtown streets stopped to watch the
daring little man as he made the perilous
ascent, while thousands more viewed the
novel sight from the windows of the big
Office buildings in the vicinity.
Charged with the murder Of the s.
year-old boy whose bruised body was
found in suit case in Providence
uCoUdS iiipl NIS sotil I'LL
aid, alias Irene Clark, % years old, was
arrested in Worcester Thursday night
for Providence officers. A Providence
officer who had gone to Worcester on
the case, identified the woman and the
identification was verified later by
messages from Providence The woman
was taken back to Rhode Island
The wife of thc Imperial Adjutant
General Adolf Won Buelow, died
Wednesday night at Berlin under sad
circumstances. The general. who is
sufi ering .from asthma. had a Sc
we're attack and his attendants called
the generals wife. who. seeing his APP
parently suffocation. shrieked: "The
general is diving. So am L." She then
fell dead at her husbands bedside.
The general recovered consciousness
later, but remains in a serious condi-
ton ana has not yet been informed of
his WifeS death.
That the United States authorities
are to take 4 hand in the investigation
of the proposed New York, New Haven
& Hartford and Boston & Maine Rail-
road merger even to the extent of pros
ecutiOn if necessary was definitely
shown Thursday by visit to Boston
of Assistant United States Attorney
General Milton d. Purdy of Washing
ton. who went there for a conference
with United States District Attorney
Asa p. French The two We're in con-
ference for five hours and later Mr..
Purdy gave out a statement.
The first big social gathering of the
IL rf,,,,l of 7
st. Georges church Thursday. when
Miss Anna Breese, daughter Of Mrs
Harry Higgins by her first husband,
the late w. L. Breese, of New York,
became the bride of Lord Alastair
Robert Innesker. brother and heir
presumptive of the Duke of Roxburghe.
Over a thousand invitations were sent
out and the assemblage was repre-
sentative OF the aristocracy Of Great
Britain and included many Americans
residents of London and Ambassador
Writelaw Reid and the staff of the
embassy.