Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


estimated at $500
! It is now said that more than 800
rairters are on strike in Greater New
York. Work was stopped Friday on u
| number of schoolhouses in Manhattan,
as well as on other buildings. over 1000
Stopping work.
Sir Robert Ball. director Of the Cam
bridge observatory, Prof John s. Reyes
Of oxford and James Curric Macbeth,
who are to attend the dedication Of Car
ncgie University at Pittsburg, arrived at
New York Friday on the steamer Baltic
Harry Hillman of the New York
Athletic Club broke the 220-yard
American indoor low hurdles record
Friday night at the Military Athletic
League games in Brooklyn. His mark
was 2G Is seconds. q fifth below the
, former record which he also held.
Out of the 100000 issue Of . per
cent barge canal Improvement bonds
advertised for sale Friday by the Me-:
York state compt. oller, only $500
| were taken by pirate prescription, the
| state purchasing the remaining S4.1o0.-
200 from the money OF the sinking
fund.
William Adair. master mechanic o.
| tthc Louisville & Nashville Railroad
| was found guilty OF discriminating
against 4 member Of labor union
Thursday by a jury in the United
| States court in Convington, o. He was
fined 500 by Judge \. H. ]. Cochran.
The case will be carried to the Sd
preme court of the United States.
Sixty families were made Temporal
lilly homeless 500 Persons were thrown
| mt of employment and properly
| valued at $50 900 vas burned al 18th
| street AID Ninth avenue, Brooklyn,
| friday. The principal loss was
sustained by several manufacture g
companies which occupied the build
ngs at 4SG and Az Eighteenth street
According to a report issued by the
bureau Of statistics of tie department.
of commerce. cocoa importations into
| the United states are now averaging
| more than Sl.0O0,000 a month, a2ai;.+:
an average Of $250o00 per month de-
cade ago. Meantime importations 81
both coffee and tea show a decline
especially during the last two years
The new treaty between the United
| states and Santo Domingo. intended to
replace the dominican treaty which
las been pending before the United
| States Senate for the last two years.
| was presented to thu Sdnto Domingon
| Congress Friday ana referred to q
| committee for examination and report.
| Quiet prevails throughout the republic.
The artillery district of San hi, go.
which was discontinued in May. !:wi has
been re-cstabhshcd by special orGrr is
sued from the war department ard will
now comprise Fort Eosecrans Cal. New
| artillery districts hay. bc"n created a.
| follows: Artillery district Of Cape Fca~
| including fort Caswell, y. G.; artillery
district Of Tampa. Including Fort Dadc,
| Fla. and Fort DcSoto. Fla.
| McrccS Flores, VINO arrived at New
| York from San Antonio, Texas was
arrested Friday on charge of writing
| letters to the United States pension
| department threatening to Deal With
| President Roosevelt" unless action was
taken Oh a certain pension application.
| After an examination before the mag
] istrato. Flores was committed to Belle
| vi" for an examination as to his
| sanity.
An engine and tender were dcraiied.
| the roadbcd damaged for 100 feet and
| the outer track tied up for four hours
| Friday, as the result of the breaking Of
| the rear axle on the tender of 4 Boston.
| Revere beach & Lynn railroad train
| between Winthrop Center and Thorn
| ION. The train Was going only at .
| moderate speed and no one was hurt
| although a number Of the passengers
| W., oh Iynr fritz !,
On the fruit ship Dictator. which ar
| rived Friday at New Orleans, from
| Ceiba, Honduras, were two officers
| and eight or nine mon late of the Hon
| duran army. The officers are General
| Alfonso Gallardo and Col. G. G. Padil-
| In. the latter late commandment of the
Port Of Ceiba. Upon being pressed
| for the reason that prompted him to
leave Honduras the general said it was
| very hot there and he had come to
New Orleans to cool off. The general
| expects to make his headquarters in
New Orleans for several weeks.
| \ new trial was asked for Green and
| C1aynor Friday at New Orleans By p.
". Mridrim. who made the closing ar
| gument for the defendants in their APP
PEAL to the United States circuit court
| of appeals. Mr.. Meldrim claimed that
| it was a violation of the national hon
or 10 cXtraditc prisoners. as he said
had been done in the Greene and Gay
nor case, for an eXtraditable offence.
and then to take advantage of the jul
| risdiCtion thus gained to try them on
indictments for different offences. An
swering the charges of fraud in secIr-
| ing contracts for Savannah harbor
" ork. counsel declared that both ad-
vertisements and specifications were
corrected and revised by the war DE-