Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The office of the Western Union Tel
egraph Co, at Arkansas City, Kas., to-
gether with all instruments and Office
records, was burned early Wednesday.
The fire is believed to have been of in
ccndiary origin.
The tug Alert, which was being towed
by the Seymour. was swamped near
Cutler, Ont, Wednesday and of the
five men aboard. Capt. Kennedy. En-
eineer Joseph Smith and William Boy
er, were drowned.
Edward F. Bowen Of Taunton, who
has been serving a 20-year sentence IN
Massachusetts state prison for attempt
ed assault on his 9-year-old daughter
was pardoned Wednesday by the gov
ernor. Bowen was sentenced in 1900.
Boston coal dealers advanced the
price of all grades of hard coal Wednes-
day Is cents a ton except furnace and
pea The advance is said to be caused
chiefly by high freights and uncertain
ability to obtain coal at wholesale.
Lord Strathcona, lord high commits
sioner of Canada. sailed from New
York on the steamer Oceanic Wednes-
day on a hurried trip from Montreal to
London. He declined to disclose the rea-
sons for his sudden trip.
The Isthmian Canal Commission has
received n cablegram reporting that
during July there were 1897 cases OF
sickness among $4,000 employees includ-
ing the Panama Railroad employees
The figures show a reduction OF nearly
so per cent. the mortality rate for the
last year.
Four prisoners escaped from Steuber
county Jail at Bath, N. Y. Tuesday night
an dare still at large. The men pried
open a crate covering a drain leading to
the outside of the jail which was opened
on the outside during repairs, through
which they had crawled. The four men
are said to be hardened criminals.
An auto run by DIR. George Waldron
Of Rochester. n. Y, was struck by a
Rochester & Eastern trolley car at the
Freshout crossing, near Canandaigua..
late Wednesday and DR.. Waldron. Mrs.
VIM. $. Gambling and Mrs. Jane Hobs
Of IIopewell and Mrs. Katherine Fanrs-
worth of Rochester were instantly
killed.
After meeting Wednesday Of the
beard of directors of the Interborough-
Metropolitan Co, which controls praC-
tically all of the traction companies en-
Manhattan Island, it was officially an
nounced that the subject CT a receiver
ship for any of the controlled companies
was not even mentioned. Such talk it
was stated Is entirely without founda-
ton.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce
Wednesday adopted resolutions depre-
eating any agitation which might tend
to cause i'll feeling between the United
States and Japan. The chamber declar-
ed itself as opposed to any legislation
intended to discriminate against Japan
or her citizens The resolutions were
adopted in response to an appeal from
the Associated Chambers of Commerce
of Toxic, Osaka, Kyota, Yokohama and
Kobe.
President Samuel Gompers Of the
American Federation of Labor did not
address the meeting of the striking
telegraphers at Boston Wednesday
night as he had planned. but he sent a
message of good cheer to the meeting
before his departure from Boston on the
train. During the evening he
was in conference with Richard Olney,
regarding strictly personal matters. so
1t was announced at the conclusion of
their conference.