Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

Three hundred miners went on strike
Tuesday in the Nipissing mines at CO.
bait. Ont. About 50 men remained at
work. The trouble arose over a matter
uf wages.
President Roosevelt Tuesday appoint
ed General James B. Aleshire to be
quartcrmaStrr general of the army
with the rank of Lrigadier general to
succeed James F. Humphreys. who
will retire.
Thomas Rrel,cr &C Years old, Of En-
field, y. Y, was frustrated in an at
tempt to hang himself Tuesday by his
heavy beard which acted as a cushion.
His wife. found him. hanging in the
barn uncomfortable but safe.
Hiram }. Ayers, the inventor of giant
powder, died Tuesday at Akron, o.,
aged 81 years. He manufactured giant
powder here in the 40's. drying it on
the. roof of his workshop. Death was
due to the iffrniities of old age.
The court at Montpelier, France Tues
day denied the petition for the tenn
porary release of Marcelin A Ebert,
and others, of the wine growers COM
iilttcC vi ScllItlS, tilIfsolcl DIS Il IT,
suit of the recent disorders in the South
of France.
The First National Bank of Hicks
vile, o., has been closed by direction
of the comptroller Of the currency, up
on the report Of an examiner showing
the bank to be insOlvent. National
Bank Examiner r. c. Thomas has been
appointed receiver.
The option of the city of Philadelphia
to take back it's gas works from the
United Gas Improvement Co. to which
| it was leased for 30 years. expired at
midnight and for the next 20 years the
| gas company is secure in its possession
Of the great plant.
A sensation occurred at Cettinje,
Montenegro, Tuesday by the arrest of
| Il officers of the MOntenegran army
! on charges of high treason. 1t is de-
| clared in explanation that the authori-
| ties have discovered a military plot
| against the TOmanavice government.
At Tuesday evenings session of the
| National Institute of Instructions at
| Montreal, the feature was an address
| by owen II. LOvejOy, secretary of the
| National Child Labor Committee OF
New York on Child Labor and the Re-
! lations of Premature Employment to
| Education"
The epidemic of typhoid fever in
Pittsburg is gradually assuming seri-
Gus proportions. In June there were 49S
new cases. DIR. James +. Edwards, sup
erintendent of the bureau of health.
said Tuesday that he believed the in
crease to be due to the poor water sup
ply.
1t was announced Tuesday that as a
result Of recent adverse legislation by
the Massachusetts Legislature, the di-
rectors of the United Shoe Machinery
Co has drawn a new form of lease for
the rental of its machines. Tn" new
leases conform to the provisions of the
act passed this year.
Commander Robert G.. Denig. U. S.
~. was relieved Tuesday of the COM
mand Of the department of steam en-
eineering at the navy yard at League
| Island by Commander ]. X. Barton.
Commander Dcnig will become a gen.
eral inspector, with his principal Of
flee at the Midvale steel works.
Herr Grlber. Elictor of the Mum
chancr Post. of Muniach, Bavaria, who
was sued by DIR. Peters, the African
explorer for caltlmny in accuing him
Of cruelty to the natives when he was
German imperial commissioner foI
East Africa in 1891 was Tuesday sen.
fenced to pay q fine of $125 and costs.
Fire in the mail car Of the Illinois
Central Chicago Flyer, leaving Sioux
City at l.. NJ. Tuesday destroyed
practically the entire contents, two
miles west of Cherokee. Nearly 30'
pounds of letter mail and 1900 pounds
| of newspapers We're burned. The fire
was supposed to have been caused by
sparks from the engine.
Justice blanchard Tuesday at New
York granted an application Of Brain
bridge Colsy for an injunction pending
the trial of suit restraining the Equi
table Trust Co. and the Mercantile
Trust Co. two subsidiary banking insti
buttons of the Equitable Life Assur
ancc Society. from taking any furthe
steps towards completing a PROPOSED
merger between the two trust conpa
\ MES.
Published reports that 16 battleship
j of the Atlantic fleet of the Unite
states navy are to be transferred t
the Pacific coast because of anti-Amer
lean feeling in Japan were denie
Tuesday by William Loeb, Presiden
Roosevclt's secretary. Mr.. Loeb say
that the report is without foundation
in fact such move has never bee
considered by the President and is nc
contemplated.
Judge Edgar Aldrich, of the Unite,
States district court at Boston state'
Tuesday that he had not yet decided
whether to accept the appointment t
act as a master to inquire into tn
mental condition Of Mrs. Mary Bake
G.. Eddy Judge Aldrich was requeste
To act by Judge Robert n. Chamberlai
of The superior court. Of New Hamp
shire last Friday. He said Tuesday tina
| he was still considering the matter an
would not announce his decision unit
he had seen Judge Chamberlain.
Two carloads of giant powder on
side track of the Oregon Shore Line. a
Be,ll's Hot Springs. five miles fror
# Salt Lake CITY caught fire from burn