Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The maritime quarantine against
Havana, announced at New Orleans
Tuesday night, was imposed by tnt
| limited States marine hospital service
and acts uniformly throughout the Gull
states.
In consequence of the increase in the
price of wheat involving an increase OF
| $50 per hundred kilos in the price OF
| -four, Paris bakers threaten to raise the
price Of bread from four to five cents
per pound.
immigration officers Tuesday cap
tured % Japanese 25 miles south OF
Tucson, AriZ. They had been smugglcd
across the border. All were wearing
| medals for service in the Japanese
Russian war.
Two million dollars in bar gold was
engaged in New York Wednesday for
export to Paris. Iazard FrereS have
| taken 100000, the Russo-Chinese
Bank $J00,D00 and Heidelbach, Ickel-
heimer & Co, $1,000
The journeymen bakers at Berlin
struck Tuesday night. About $500 bak-
cries are affected and over 5000 men are
out. They demand a minimum of 1913
per week, 10 to II hours for a day
work and one days rest each week.
"A Sixth ayeruc Elevated train, load
ed with passengers, struck and killed
Thomas Gallagher, q track walker near
the Blcecker street curve at New York
Wednesday derailing the front trucks
Of the first car and tying up the line
for an hour or more.
L (.rrS
hich went aground on the west edge
of the main channel in the lower New
York bay Tuesday night, was floated
Wednesday without assistance other
than that given by her own engines.
The steamer apparently sustained no
damage.
Surgeon General Rixcy is endcavor-
ing to have the hospital ship Relief
put in commission for the care of the
sick Of the navy. She is urgently need
ed at present at Norfolk. where the
naval hospital is to be rebuilt, its pres
ent condition being such as to unfit it
for the care of the sick and injured Of
the service.
Within the next few days a COM
mittee of %, comprising the most in
fluential business men, merchants and
manufacturers of San Francisco, will
be created. 1t will form a rallying
point for the conservative element in
the community, which wishes to see
law and order preserved and business
confidence restored.
Under the construction placed on the
new liquor regulation law of Texas.
passed by the recent Legislature. ev-
cry wholesale and retail liquor license
in the state will expire July II, the
date the law is effective, and as it will
require 20 days to have the new license
issued, it is held that every saloon and
wholesale liquor dealer in Texas will
have to close for that time.
A meeting of the board of trustees OF
the Mutual life Insurance Co. was held
at New York Wednesday and William F.
Harrity of Philadelphia, William j. Dean
of st. Paul Robert b. Woodward Of
Brooklyn. Emory w. Clark of Detroit,
James II. Wilson of Wilmington, Del,
and Ralph Peters of New York were
nominated to fill the existing vacancies in
the board. Under the bylaws Of tile COM
pany the election of these trustees cannot
take place until the next regular meeting
Of the hoard. Mr. Harrity was chairman
of the executive committee of the Policy
holders Protective Association. He is a
policyholder in the Mutual Life to the
amount of over $500 600. Mr.. Harrity is a
LAWYER and fnancier with extensive cor
porate connections and for a number of
years was prominent in Democratic pol
| iticS.