Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The national Assembly of Persia
Tuesday accepted the revised consti-
tuition which was submitted by the
grand vizier.
Lowell, Mass, coal dealers. follow
ing the lead of Boston, raised the prices
of coal so cents ton Tuesday. making
the price on ordinary quality S.
1t is reported that revolutionary
outbreak occurred in Honduras last
week but that it was crushed imme-
dlately by the government forces.
The bulletin issued Tuesday morning
by the physicians in attendance upon
king Oscar of Sweden said that he
| was able to leave his bed for some
time Monday.
The first division Of the armored
cruiser squadron under Rear Admiral
Neville has been selected to repre-
sent Great Britain at the jamestown
| Exposition.
Wages of coal miners in southern
Colorado districts were advanced 10
per cent. Monday. Over GOoO men are
benefited. The increase amounts TO
| 100000 Il year.
Sir William Peace Rowland, former
! ly postniaster-general and finance
| minister under the Upper and Lower
Canadian Union and later lieutenant
governor OF Ontario, died Tuesday,
| aged Sc.
| Mrs. Catherine Neil. VINO is charged
| with the murder of her husband, Jo-
| seph Neil. was held without bail for
trial at the next term of the superior
|
court at GrcenW ich, Conn. Tuesday
Th" buildings of the Diamond Dis
| tlllerles Co at tincinnati.O O., were gut
ted by fire Tuesday. The flames prob
| ably started from the communication
OF fumes Of spirits of high wines with
lire in the engine room. The loss *
100000.
Arthur Mills. vice president and gen.
| eral manager of the Merchants Dis
patch and Transportation Co, died
suddenly while walking in Fifth ave-
nue.. New York. Tuesday. My. Mills
was graduated from Harvard UNIVERSE
! ty in the class Of "A.
| The grand executive board of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Firenen
and Engineers held an all-day session
tuesday with Grand Master John r
Mammalian at Peoria. ILL.,. and matters
pertaining to the strike on the South
ern Pacific system We're considered
| Nothing was made public.
| The deadlock in the Delaware House
| Republican caucus Monday night over
| me election Of a candidate for speaker
was broken early Tuesday. Richard
H"dgson, former United States Sena-
toir Higgins candidate. was elected for
speaker over the candidate favored nv
United States Senator Alice.
| Judge Mccall of the federal court NJ
Memphis. Tenn, Tuesday declared the
Lat'ollette fellow servants act uncon.
stltutional. The action was that Of
Damzel!e Howard against the Illinois
central Railroad Co. A special repre.
sentative of the department of iustice
at washington. argued the case Cor tho
| government.
Fire Tuesday destroyed the boot and
shoe store room of w. A. Marsh, Do
ihlnion sf"e factory. Miller & Lock-
wen cigar factory and three private
residences at Quebec. The total los,
Was sioo''"o. The shoe factory of
Iourisny and Merois. on the ornos;te
slde OF AraJo street. was damaged to
the extent of $4,000.
| William Foulds and Peter Mist were
killed and two others were fatally in
Jured Tuesday by the bursting or q
steam pipe at the Pressed Steel Car r.
plant at Schoenville. a suburb of pitts-
burg. The four men were repairing a
Finch steam pipe which bore a meg
sure of lao pounds direct from is largo
boilers, when, without warning, the