Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Mrs. Andrew Van Vranken Raymond,
wife of the president of Union College
at Schenectady, n. Y, died Tuesday
| morning in the midst of Commence
ment festivities.
The British royal mail steamer Or
tega, which went aground on the
TretOn bank, straits of Magellan, Mon
day, was f1Oated ut the next tide I'M
assisted and proceeded apparently
without having sustained any damage.
The body of youth found Tuesday
in the wood in a suburb of st. Peters
burg with his throat cut and face I'M
recogniZably mutilated has led to the
discovery of an open-air bomb factory
with Il large quantity of explosives
near by. 1t is supposed that the young
man was executed by fellow Terrorists
as spy.
The victim Of the motor car accident
at Banbury. England. it was learned
Tuesday, is IT. c. Johnson, an attorney
of Berkeley, Cal Johnson's companion,
Mr.. Flake of Philadelphia. who with
his wife were seriously injured in the
accident, was still alive Tuesday, but
he passed a bad night. Mrs. Blake's
1t is reported at Rome that NJ. Kogo-
70 Takahira, eX-Japancse minister to
the United States. who it is announced,
is to be appointed Japanese ambassador
to Italy, is charged to negotiate an
agreement between Japan and Italy,
connecting Italy with the chain of en-
tentes which Japan is making with Eu-
ropean powers regarding the Far East.
AT a mass meeting of the 2300 mem
bers of the Detroit Street Railway
mems Union early Tuesday the men
voted 10 give the Detroit United Rail
way As hours in which to either grant
their recent demand for % cents per
hour or submit the question to arbitra-
ton. Failure to meet this demand by
the company, it is said by the leaders
among the men will probably result in
a strike.
Governor Gcild Tuesday signed the re-
solve providing for Il commission OF COM
nerce and industry. The commission will
consist of five persons appointed ~ the
governor and representing the law, trans
portation, manufacturing capital and la
Dor interests of the state, to investigate
the future possibilities of the different
Industries and suggest to the next Legis-
lature any measures that may increase
the prosperity Of Massachusetts.
In the French Chamber of Deputies
Tuesday, Finance Minister Caillaux, in
behalf of the government, announced
the governments determination 10 en-
ergetically suppress the wine frauds
and held out the olive branch to the
growers by saying that the govern
ment was prepared as an induccmcnt
to abandon grape growing in favor Of
other crops and to remit the land taxes
in such cases for five years.
The physicians at the Massachu-
sets Homeopathic hospital at Boston
have under observation, Miss Anna G..
Witherill Of South Braintree, who was
taken to the institution with her head
partially blown off through the dis
charge, accidentally, it is said, of a
gun which was knocked down by a
uog. The Braintree police state that
they feel satisfied that the gun went
off accidentally while Miss Witherill
was sitting in a chair at the home of
her sister. 1t is believed that the
young woman cannot recover.
Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., issued n
call Tuesday inviting the sons and
daughters of Massachusetts to return
to the confines of the commonwealth
for the Old Home week festivities JuIv
20 to August 3. In the call the governor
says that arrangements have been
made this year to make the home COM
ing more enjoyable than usual. "Mav
all be made to fell" reads the call
that the old commonwealth is indeed
a good home, happy place in which
70 spend life, fortunate place in
which to seek a living. a place of on
porturity and resourcefulness. a field
ior investment and for enterprise"