Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Eight miners were buried alive in an
avalanche Of snow at the Brittania
mine on Howe sound, 40 miles north of
Vancouver. Saturday. Four were taken
our dead and four were rescued.
In his will Father Daily set aside $685.
600 for charity. The brothers, sisters,
half brothers and half sisters, of whom
there are II, seek to have partial dis
tibution of the estate made at once.
Heinrich Won Korn. proprietor of the
Schiesische Zeitung of Breslau, Prussia.
is dead. He was IS years of age, and
left a fortune of about 22,000,00O. Tho
paper has been in the family for 1.5
years.
The high sheriff of London has fixed
April 9 for the execution of Horace
George Rayner. who was sentenced to
death Friday for the murder OF Will
liam Whitesley, the dry goods merchant
on Jan. "a.
Some of the newspapers OF Sofia,
Bulgaria, which usually are considered
to be well Informed. say that the police
have discovered evidence Of 4 plot
against Prince Ferdinand. Slight cred
ence, however, is given the story.
The Conservative cabinet at Bucha-
rest has resigned and Liberal minis
try has been formed under the presi-
Gcncy of NJ. Sturdza, who was premier
i'll a former cabinet. 1t is hoped that
the disorders in the country will soon
be ended.
The officials of the Pennsylvania
Railroad are satisfied robbery was the
motive for the wrecking Of the Chicago
Limited Friday, near Stewart. Pa.
The work, it is said, was done by two
men who were seen by the colored por-
ter Of the rear Pullman car.
The 47th anniversary of the founding
of the University of California was OBJ
served Saturday at Berkeley, Cal. A
great crowd thronged Harmony gym
nasium where the charter day address
was delivered by Nicholas Murray But
Ter, president of Columbia university.
A special dispatch from Vancouver,
b. c., says that the Pinkerton detec-
tives working in that section are cor
WINGED that William F. Walker, the alb
sconding treasurer of the New Britain
CT, Savings bank. was passenger on
the steamer Empress Of India sailing
from that port to Yokohama.
Joseph Pettus, president Of the PeO-
pies bank, a negro institution of Hat
tiesburg Miss. was Saturday arrested
and charged with the cashier of the
bank, who was shot March 49, Afte!
the murder, the vault was opened and
several notes Pettus owed the bank
and S2190 in cash We're taken out.
Samuel II. Turner, superintendent of
| the meter division of the Boston Water
Department. died Sunday at Medford
| of pneumonia, aged 6S years. He was
prominent in Grand Army circles and
| served as an aide on the staffS of Ma
tional COMMUNICATIVE Chiefs Alger
and NeaZy. A widow and one son sur
! vive.
Eleven race horses We're burned to
| death in a fire which destroyed three
| buildings at the Sheepshead Bay race
| track Sunday. Among the horses de-
stroyed were Fine Cloth, Lady Pru-
| dence, Sit William Johnson and Star
| of the Ocean. These horses We're all in
the stable of Thomas Watt. Loss, $780,
| 900.
| Joseph s. Hunt of Boston, who was
arrested at Worcester, Friday charged
L
the Henry Clay Barnabec testimonial
fund, pleaded not guilty Saturday when
brought before Judge Utley. After
| hearing the testimony Judge Ctley
| fined him 500. In default of bail Hunt
was committed.
| Major C. w. Penrose of the 9th In
| fantry, was acquitted Saturday at San
| Antonio. Tex, of the charge Of neglect
of duty preferred against him at the in
stance Of President Roosevelt for al
legged misconduct in connection with
the shooting up of the town Of Browns
willie. Tex. by negro soldiers of the eth
Infantry last August.
Securely ScWed in n linen sack, the
hcadless body of a man was found Sat
| urday floating in the SusQuehanna riv-
er about - miles south of Sunbury. Pa
There are 10 bullet and five knife
wounds on the corpse and the head had
been severed close to the shoulders
There are no marks on the body tc
identify it.
The Tribune OF Rome publishes a
note evidently inspired by the Vatican,
saying that the creation Of foreign car
dinals has been postponed to the con-
| SlSlOly loIlONlnS the one 10 ne lieu
April IS, which is to be for the purpose
of giving the red hat to Mgr. Rinaldl-
ma in order that he may be able to as
sist as a cardinal at the baptism of
the child of King Alofnso.
President Mellen of the New York
| New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.
authorizes the statement that projected
improvements to the amount of $780,
OGO000 upon the system have been cur
tailed and probably other orders fol
improvements will be rescinded. The
revoked plans, however, will not apply
to any existing contracts, but the ac-
ton does include a postponement of the
double tracking of the Highland divi-
sion.
August Lindblad, AZ years old. shot
and killed his wife. Lena, 40 years old
and then killed himself. Sunday night
at their home in Jersey City. The bod
les were discovered by Ellen Sherman
a niece of the couple, who reached
home late in the evening. She found
the house dark and stumbled over the