Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Glance at What'is Happening Here,
There and Everywhere.

The Minnetonka bn' board which
Mark Twain IS a passenger. sailed July
IL from London for New York.
Abner X Pratt of Boston was
Wednesday at St. Paul. Mimi, elected
treasurer Of the National Association
Of Stationers and Manufacturers.
Vice Admiral Doubassoff was to
leave Cronstadt Wednesday night On a
cruiser for trip Of six weeks in the
Arctic ocean in order to select a new
naval harbOr on the Murmanian coast.
A threatening fire in Charlestown,
Mass, early Thursday caused SIC, 1000
damage to the George L. Raymond
skate factory. Three firemen were In
jured in the collision of hose wagon
with one of the uprights of the Ele-
waited Railroad structure.
The briny waters of Great Salt Lake
have been tried by tine Oregon Short
Line fol novel purpose and with re-
markable success. Stored in tanks the
fluid has teen hauled over the line by
water trains and sprinkled upon the
right of way. Under this treatment the
wiers. the bane Of the section hands,
have withercd to rise no more. Sixteen
months have elapsed since the first ex-
periments of this sort and the scheme
has now been permanently adopted.
, Cloudbursts and heavy rains Wednes-
day caused much damage along the
Western Maryland Railroad between
Thomas and Elkins. w. Va. Two hun
dred and fifty feet Of the track was
washed over the banks Of Tub run be-
tween HamsletOn and Hendricks and
at the same point there was a land
slide.
President Roosevelt has sent gift
to the University Of Berlin. consist
Ing of his works in nine volumes, beau
tifully bound and bearing his auto
graph. They have been added to the
division known as the Roosevelt Lii
brary." which was founded by Prof
William Burgess. This gift is referred
to Wednesday by the Berlin press as
an indication of the good will of the
American President towards Germany.
Ihe continued case Of Solomon
Robitscheck OF Lowell. the second
hand clothing dealer who was arrested
IN that city last week by the Federal
officers for an alleged fraudulent use
OF the mails. came before United
States Commissioner Hayes at Boston
Wednesday. A further continuance UNI
til next Saturday was ordered, at
which time Robitscheck will appear
before the commissioner with Bennett
Silverblatt. who was arrested in con-
nection with the same case. 1t Is
charged that Robitscheck and Silver
blatt attempted to obtain $4,000 from
the Salvation Army, threatening to
publish matter derogatory to the army
unless their alleged demands were
granted.
movement is on foot among the
alumni of Brown. Dartmouth. Amherst.
Williams and Wesleyan colleges and
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
noiogy to erect large union club
house for the graduates Of these col
leSes. in New York The plan is to
raise a fund Of s5On0O0 among the
alumni of the colleges and TO build a
club house Of eight or nine stories, the
lower floors to be for general use, and
one floor to be devoted to the exclusive
use of each college.
Members of an employees benefit as
ISOLATION engaged w. A. Meeker to
make an ascent and parachute drop at
Harlem river, New York. Wednesday
evening and got their moneys worth.