Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-26
NEWS NUGGETS
-Four Men Killed In Ex-
p|osion In Wisconsin.
IS Tons Molten Metal Falls
on Man In Nova Scotia.
4 Summary Of What Is Happening
In This and Other Countries.

Clark Williams. the new superint"nd-
ent of the New York State i.anking
Department, took the oath OF office
Thursday at Albany.
Four men were killed Thursday by the
bluwin,, up OF No : mixius mill vi the
Atlantic dynamite cos factory near
Ashland Wis Two hundred pounds Of
nitro glyCcrinc exploded.
Mrs. Anna Reed. who WAS arrested
AT huston Wednesday evening charged
with the larceny of several thousand
dollars in cash, lark books. irwelry
and some household furniture. alleged
To be the property Of her son-in-lLw
DR. J. +. kimball, appeared in tin nu-
nicipal court Thursday and was held
for II hearing Oct. 80 amt required To
furnish $4,000 in bail. Family troubles
are said to have caused the arrest
Fifteen tons of molten metal fell or
AEosto MARITIME. an Italian, w"rilin.
Mt the Dominion Iron Steel plant at Sid
bui ned To a crisp, another workman
James Fuinn WAS badly burned. The
accident occurred at the Bcsscmcr la
dlr. where the man in chan ac of the
machinery for moving the iaile lost
the accident MARITIME Was working right
underneath the ladle and he received
the whole weight Of IL: metal Only
hEes Of the man are lett and they are
burned to crisp.
Ten of her crew lest in a squat OF
Monday on the Georges was the report
which the schooner Clara G. Silva oi
Gloucester brought in as she worked her
NaE up to + wharf at Boston late Thurs
day. her colors haif-Ilasted. Captain,
Mtnuel j. Silva and men were exhausted
as the result of their experience in the
terrible seas which had robbed the YES
sal of more than half its crew.
Losing her bearings in a heavy foe
Thursday while proceeding up the ilar-
ho. at sydney, {. B.. TIE Dominion
Coal Co.'S steamer Cacorni struck a
wharf and rloushed into it for 20 feet
The steamers how was badly DANA ged
The total damage to tie steamer and the
wharf is estimated at about $500 The
steamer CcndIctor which was lying at the
wharf at the time WAS damaged to tn.
extent OF about Sl0on. The racouna
which registered 9l3 tons net. was in.
ward bound from Montreal.
Col. George Ripley. pron,ren: in Ros.
ton banking circles, died at his hume OF
CcNtla street nj Andover, Mass Thurs
da" morning. He was BON in Green.
field, Mass. Jan. 20. 1880 and entered M.
on a banking career in the Greented
Sank. In 1879 he went to Hartford rs
caShi.r OF the Hartford B:,nk. In the ear.
~ 'os ne was national bank examiner
and in ISIS was elected president Of N,
National Hide and Leather Bank OF
Boston, serving until the institution was
ynerEcd with tho. State National Bank ir
1871 Wieh ne rrtireu from active bG mess
a widow and five children survive
The crew of TIE British schooner E,
r. Wood at Stoningham. Conn Wit!
Gambler from 81. John. n. Il. l.avp re-
Used to dischnree the cargo. OWN.
- the refusal of Captain RiShor to Ills
cnarGe them. The men claim that on tn
voyage down the vessel strained hccam
leak" and on this account they do no
want To- continue because of alleged I'm
seaworthiness.
Secretary Taft and party including tn
pnlapn,ne commissioners. Generals Woe
and E!iss ard Rear Admiral Yo~rL;,
Thursday visited subis bay, insrec,in,