Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-02

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Makers which had been in session at
| Northampton, Mass, throughout the
week came to an end Saturday night.
The election of officers resulted as fol-
lows: President, j. F. Carey, Palmer.
N. Y; first vice president, A. j. Burns.
| Ticonderoga: second vice president. Nj.
Sayle. South Brewer, Me-: third vice
president, Agnus McIntire. Ottawa;
secretary and treasurer. ]. J. O'Connor.
Millers Falls, VT; auditor. Benjamin
Eddy, Turner'S Falls, Mass.
Representative w. ii. 7. Hayes died
at his home in Lowell Sunday. aged 50
years. Death was the result Of heart
troubles and the illness had been of
several months duration. A widow and
one daughter, Mrs. A. NJ. Potter of
Lowell survive.
-Four distressed seamen of the Brit
ish schooner Brooklyn, of Liverpool.
N. S. which was wrecked off Surinam,
April &c, while on the voyage from
PascagOula, Miss, for Cayenne, ar
rived Sunday at New York on board
the Dutch steamer Prinse Willem II
from West India ports.
Representatives of the B'nai BIRTH
Order from Cleveland, o.. and other
American cities, raid tribute to the
memory of the late Sec. of State John
Hay Sunday by placing a wreath upon
the grave. Il was a recognition Of Mr..
Hays services to The Jews at the time
of the Russian massacres.
The French minister of Marine NJ.
Thompson Sunday at Paris received
| a dispatch from Vice Admiral
Terchuard, commander n-c chief of the
| Mediterranean squadron, emphatically
denying the reported collision between
| the battleship Jaureguiberry and a tor
| pedo boat destroyer Saturday.
| A bicycle meet including several
events for the championship of the
world was held at Cierque D'Hiver,
near Paris. Sunday. The 1000 entries
was won by the Frenchman Devoissoux
| in 1 minute and AZ seconds. Marshall.
also of France. won the five kilomcters
event for points, he winning seven
points. No AMERICANS competed.
The Rev. John Keller. the bachelor
rector of Trinity Episcopal church at
| Arlington. n. j., who was shot by
Thomas G. Barker. six years ago af-
ter stormy interview with his beau
tiful wife. has left Arlington. and so
has Miss Anicartha Hagy. the organ
list of his church. and their friends
there do not know where they have
gone.
Corcan Geputation has arrived at The
Hague to make n formal protest
against Corea not being invited tc
send delegates to the peace conference
and against the alleged violation Of
Corean sovereignty by Japan The dep
utation applied to President Nelidof1
for an audience, but he said the matter
did not come within his province. tho
government of the Netherlands having
issued the invitation.
The situation at Bitlis. Asiatic Tur-
key, is engaging the particular atten'
ton of the Russian foreign office
which is preparing to increase it's rep
reservations at Constantinople through
Ambassador Zinovieff, and if they arc
ineffective Russia will adopt further
measures to enforce a restoration o1
order and the prevention of Armenian
massacres. The diplomats at st. Pc.
tersburg are talking Of the possibility
of international action.
| The longshoremen on the docks of
the Cunard Line at New York struck
Sunday when the steamer Umbria from
Liverpool locked. The men demanded
60 cents an hour for Sunday work. This
was refused. Stewards of the vessel
with the help OF non-union men remov-
ed the baggage of the passengers at
ter considerable delay. 1t is expected
that the strikers will work as usual, II
permitted, Monday, as the question of
week day wages is not involved.
Fire that broke out early Saturday
at Bisbee. Ariz., was brought under
| control shortly before noon by blowing
up some buildings with dynamite. Ar
| area of 10 acres was burned over. Over
200 houses in the section known as
| Chihauhau Hill were burned. Part OF
the business portion was also de-
| stroyed. The fire started from gaso-
line explosion i'm the Colorado Hotel
Risbee has about 10000 inhabitants and
| is Headquarters of the Phelps-DOdge
and other large mining companies.
The question of the future of the
| Ute Indians. who loft their reservation
Hast winter and have been held by The
military at Fort Meade. S. d., has been
settled as far as the war department
/ is concerned, according to Sec. Taft.
He found that the army officers had
adjusted the matter for themselves by
| giving the Indians enough food sup
plies to last them to the end of the
ascal year. placing them on the Chey-
enne river. Sioux reservation and in
forming the Indian bureau that they
would return to it's charge after June
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Thousands Of strikers will return to
| work this week and once more there
is harmony and quiet in labor circles
| as result of a mass meeting of strik-
| crs held Sunday at Cleveland, Ohio
The agreement affects all trades where
craftsmen have stopped work to- OBJ
tain fewer hours work and more pay
but affects the striking shipbuildcrs
most. The strikers made concessions
In general the working hours OF a week
are cut from 60 to 81 with a slight in
crease in wages. During the past II
\ weeks nearly 10000 craftsmen have
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