Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
The United States battleship Ohio
of the North Atlantic fleet arrived at
New York Wednesday from Hampton
| Roads. Va.
National bank notes received Wednes-
day for redemption: $912.S4S; govern
| ment receipts from internal revenue.
sG95.s21; customs. $1,371.094: miscella-
neous. $174.15S. Expenditures. $2.TO0oo.
A young merchant has been arrested
at Constantinople in connection with
the bomb explosion Sunday night In
front Of the summer quarters Of the
American embassy at Theropia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth
arrived at Portland. Ore. from
Yellowstone Park Wednesday and left
later for San Francisco. where they
will take the steamer Siberia for Homo
lulu.
| -Theohald Chartran. the painter, Is
dead at Paris. He was born in 1S49.
Among the portraits that he painted
were those of President and Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Pope Plus and Cardi-
nal Gibbons.
The alleged detention Of a Mussul-
| man woman in the Ghetto at Tcheran.
| nearly led to a massacre. The authori-
ties interviewed opporturely. Twenty
Jews were injured in the fighting. The
| Ghetto is guarded.
Gen. Mortema. the Persian minister
| to the United States Wednesday per-
formed the duties for which he had
| been made a special ambassador by
personally notifying President Roose-
| welt Of the accession to the Persian
| throne of Mohammed Ali, Shah.
Secretary Taft has finally arranged
| to make his political speech at OKLA
homa City, Okla. Aug. "a, three weeks
| before election. He will stop there ell
route from the East to the Pacific
| coast, whence he sails from Seattle
WASH, Sept. 10 for the Philippines.
The 18th biennial convention Of the
Army and Navy Union was opened
Wednesday at Washington with an ad
| dress Of welcome by Commissioner Nc
Farland of the District of Columbia
and response by National Command
er j. Edwin Browne of Baltimore, Md
The Catholic bishop of Beuvren,
France. has been fined SO by a local
court for violation of the penal code.
The charge against the bishop was that
nc had performed a religious mar
rage ceremony before the proof of the
performance of the civil ceremony had
| been laid before him.
John d. Kelley, who was arrested
| tuesday for shooting and wounding
Mrs. Mary Mcbride at her store in
| Lowell, Mass. was arraigned in po-
lice court Wednesday. He pleaded not
guilty and was held lin $4,000 for a hear
ing on July "a. Att the hospital it was
stated that Mrs. Mcbride will recover.
The doctors were obliged to remove her
left eye. :,
AT the court of Saxe-Coburg there is
| talk of the probability of a divorce he
tween Grand Duke Cyril. eldest son of
Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia and
ms Duchess, who, was divorced from
| Ernst Ludwig. Grand Duke of Hesse
| SIX years ago. The couple have been
married less than two years and have
one daughter. 1t is said their differ.
ences began almost Immediately afte,
| the wedding.
william P. Ward. a wealthy mine
owner of New York and n nrom;non.
c"ttaser at Narragansett Pier. and his
o,e" OF SIX men had a narrow escape
AueSoay night when his big steam
yacht the NADIA, during a dense fog
rahnlhed into the outer western arm
Oh the Polnt Judith breakwater. uuicl,-
~ sprank leak and was ranidIv eu-
ing when she was beached at Sand Hi,
Cove.
| Suit for $4,000 has been entered in
the superior court at De,lham. Mass
arising out of the setting off of Plains
Vi'le as a separate town in 1905. The
SUIT Is brought by the town of Wren
| IMAM or which Plainsville was former
| ~ part. to determine what amor
tl"nnent between the towns shall he
maze OF certain monies paid in 1905
ana l9ob Tor county and state taxes.
excise and franchise taxes, for school
| 1und and to adjust the expenses of
town boundary surveys.
| The ore dock laborers at Two Har-
bors. Mich. went out on a strike al
| midnight Tuesday. The dock Iaborers
at Duluth, numbering $50, have beer
out two days and no ore has beer
| shipped from Duluth since Saturday
| night. Unless a settlement is reached
with the striking ore men very soor
| the iron ore traffic on the Great Lakes
| VIII probably be tied up. half of the
| mines on the Mesaba range closed
down and thousands of train and yes.
sci men and mine workers thrown ou
| OF employment. The men ask an in
crease of 25 cents day.
H. j. Heinz. who has made a forum,
| Of $40, O00, 900, started on he road 7,