Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-24
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Inc water mas Deen entirely pumped
out of the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm ii,
that listed Saturday night at her dock
ut Rremerhaven during Coaling opera
tons, and became partially filed. She
will be ready for service in five days.
The court of appeals at Paris Tues
day reversed the decision of the lower
court in the Spencer will case. thereby
setting aside the judgment of the low
or court, granting the Princess De vi
covaro possession of the estate in
France.
The Khedive of Egypt. Abbas Hilm,
spent two days in Paris in such strict
incognito that his presence did not be-
come known until after his departure
for Switzerland Monday night. He will
visit England before returning to
Egypt. i = -
Fire, attributed to a carefessly
thrown cigarette stub, destroyed stable
ID. d. and partially destroyed stable, +
at the Crosse Potato race track Tues
day. The loss will probably not ex-
coed $1,000. There were no horses in
the stables at the time.
The Pope has decreed the canoniZa-
tion oe4Joseph Oriol. a pious priest,
who liHd his life in Barcelona. He
has also sanctioned the miracles at
tributcu to Marie Madeleine Postel, the
founder of a religious order for wo-
men who recently was canoniZed.
The department of justice has re-
ceived from the Washington Typo
graphical Union a series of resolutions
recently adopted by that body con-
demning the action of Public Printer
Stllings in filming proof readers for err
| rOrs. The union asks the attorney gen.
eral to advise ii as to the legality of
this action. The resolutions, with the
request, will be forwarded to the at
torney general, who is now at Lenox.
Mass.
Nine to II years in state prison with
one day solitary confinement was the
sentence imposed Tuesday by Justices
Fessenden and White in the s,1perior
criminal court at Boston, on Robert
McGraw. the cOlored Waterman at the
factory of the American Steam Guape
Valve Co, who was convicted last
week of manslaughter in killing Ben
Jalnn +. Farwell. The shooting occur
red in April. 1904. McGraw saw Far
Wen pr"wling about the factory at
night and shot him.
The foreign office at Berlin has in
formed Ambassador Tower that His
Majesty. the Emperor, will be happy
to have Brig. Gen. Winfield S. Edger-
ly, Major Cornelius Dew. Wilcox.
Capt. Robert f. l.. Michis and Cant.
George H. Shelton assigned to attend
the German maneuvers next Septem-
ber, as his personal guests The man.
euvers this year will be on less mag
nificent scale than usual because the
army administration has determined
it will ecOnOmiZe financially.
Baron Marschan Won Biebirstein
one of the German delegates to the
peace conference at The Hague, has
received instructions from Berlin to OPP
pose the wording of the British propo-
Sition regarding the limitation of ar
maments. Germany does not admit
that this question is more urgent to-
day than it was in 1899 and she con-
tends that it is impossible to acknowl-
edge the urgency of disarmament when
no practical scheme yet has been de-
vised for the reduction of military bur-
dens.
Capt. I. n. Crowley of Harold s
Vanderbi1t'S sloOp yacht Trivia, which
sailed from New London, Conn, July
~ with her owner aboard for the
jamestown Exposition, said Tuesday
ut Norfolk, Va, that he has telegraph
ed several points on the route which
the yacht was to have taken through
the Raritan and Chesapeake canals but
thus Tar has failed to reach anyone
VINO has seen or heard of the Trivia
Capt. Crowley says he feels no anxiety
for the vessel or Mr.. Vanderbilt and
he expects the boat to show up shortly
Because of the activity of the five
express companies doing business in
-'eDraSka. in opposing the Sibley law,
which reduced rates % per cent, the
state railroad commission held an open
hearing Tuesday at Lincoln, Neb, with
the avowcd intention of itself reducing
the rates. The Siblcy law became eff
fectlve July 4, according to the attnr-
ney general. but the attorneys for the
express companies assert they have
until August before putting the new
rates into effect. Attorney General
thompson asked the supreme court fpr
an injunction to keep the companies
from di'regardiag the law but the at
torneys for the companies removed the
case to the federal court asking for an
injunction against the state which was
denied.
A collision of minor proportiOnS blIt