Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-10
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Mrs. r. III. Ismay, widow OF the
founder of the White Star line, and
mother of Joseph Isnay, president OF
the International Mercantile Marine
Co., died Tuesday in London.
The six-story brick building at ESQ
2GO Market street, Chicago, was de-
stroyed by fire Tuesday night. Loss
S25O,OOO. The principal losses are Hoi-
lister Bros, printers and engravers' A.
]. Carbon & CO., manufacturers OF tail
ors' supplies, and E. r. Lovett & Son.
dealers in printers supplies.
Francisco D. Rojas, a Guatemalan,
who claims to have been exiled from
his country because he printed a con-
gressional message of President Es-
trada Cabrera, on the last page OF a
newspaper, which he edited, arrived at
New Orleans, Monday. He said that
before being exiled he was imprisoned
for month and beaten with raw
hide whip.
Street car men employed on the
South Side lines of Chicago are re-
ceiving the increase in wages promised
them before election, in case the trac-
ton ordinance were carried. The in
a.
to men of less than one years service,
ard two cents an hour to the older
men. 1t is understood that the en-
ployes of the North and Northeast
lines will receive notice of a like in
crease in few days.
Plans for settlement by arbitration
of the strike of the employees of the
American Shipbuilding Co. at Cleve-
land, o., was abandoned Tuesday when
Joseph Bishop. secretary of the State
Board of Arbitration, withdrew from
the negotiations and returned to Co
lumbus. Secretary Bishop declared be-
fore his departure that he had given UP
hopes of an immediate peaceable settle
ment of the strike. He was in confer
ence Tuesday with officials of the uni
on. who demanded that they be treated
with by the employers as union
President Wallace Of the American
Shipbuilding Co, told Mr.. Bishop he
would not accede to this.
George S. Atwood. secretary Of the
American Association of Commerce OF
Berlin. arrived at New York Tuesday
on the steamer Kaiserin Auguste Vic
toria and will visit Chicago. Philadel-
phia, Boston and other cities, to bring
| his association into closer relations
with the chambers of commerce Of
American cities. Frederick A. Archen.
hold, director of the Treptow Univer-
sity, also came over to attend the ma
tinnal arbitration and peace congress
| in New York and the dedication of the
Carnegie Institute in Pittsburg, Pa
Moberly Bell, manager Of the London
Times, who will attend the peace con-
gress. was also a passenger on the
steamer.
Thaddeaus Johnson, negro maniac
| in the insane department of the Phiia-
delphia hospital was kicked and tram
pied to death Tuesday by Patrick Muir
ray, another insane inmate. johnson
suffered from religious mania and was
| imbued with the idea that the other pa
tents were wicked and should be dis
ciplined. Selling chair Johnson pro-
ceeded to correct the other inmates Of
the insane ward in his own forcefu
manner. Murray objected to having re-
ligion beaten into him and furious
fight ensued. Murray knocked the col
ored man down, kicked him in the head
until his skull was fractured and ther
jumped upon his PROSTATE form, break
ing every rib in his body. Johnson's
body was crushed almost to a pulp be-
| fore the attendants could subdue Muir.
| ray.