Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Patterson d Co., asking that a receiver
be appointed to take charge of the as
sets of the Boston Club, one Of the old :
est social clubs in the city. The claims
of the two firms amount to over $4,000.
while the bill alleges that the club owes
over 100000. In it's history the club
has had enrolled upon it's books the
names of scores Of famous men.
Richard Gordon. a negro porter at
the branch Office Of the United States
Express Co. at New York, from which
! package containing $4,000 worth OF
diamonds disappeared last Saturday
night, was arrested Wednesday night
on 4 charge of being a suspicious per-
son. The agent Of the company states
that the negro was in the room when
the packages containing the diamonds
was called off and that Gordon rode
on the wagon from which the diamonds
disappeared Gordon denies the charge.
NO trace of the diamonds has been
discovered.
Inc directors Of the PENNSYLVANIA
Coz which operates Pennsylvania rail-
ROAD lines west Of Plttsburg, Tednes-
day raised the dividend on the stock OF
the company from a to Z per cent.
basis They declared q semi-annual
dividend Of per cent. The last semi
annual dividend in June was per cert.
At Wednesdays session of the tria;
OIL George A PettibOne at Boise, Idaho.
lor the murder nf Former Gov. Frank
Steunchb"rG, Of Idaho, the prosecution
lntl oGuced articles from the 3Iiners
Magazine, the official organ vi the
Western Federation Of Mines, TO show
tine bitter feeling that existed against
Steunenberg in the Western Fedora
ton. The testimony at the HAYWOOD
trial on the Bradley affair at San Fran
cisco was then read 70 the Jury. ac-
cording 10 the stipulation entered into
by attorneys Tor the state and the d.
fence.
The shoe factory Of a. ]. Bates & Co.
at Webster, Mass, which has been r,ln-
ming on short time. has resumed operc-
tons in full. The firm has COO hands
on the pay roll. The Merritt mills have
resumed work on a short time schedule
and the Perry wooden mills, which were
shut down four weeks are again run..
ming. The Slater cotton mills continue
on snort time basis.
Bertha a. Goodwin was placed on
trial Wednesday at Pittsburg, charged
with cmbeZZling money she had col-
lected for the Pittsburg hospital. When
charges We're preferred against MISC
Goodwin she left the city and was lats
er arrested az Newburyport, Mass, in
male attire. The trial was brief, Miss
Goodwin being acquitted She asserted
she had turned the money over 70 the
collecting agency by which she was
employed.
The four-masted Boston Schooner AM
gustus Welt. C3ptain Marshall, was
TueSd2" found abandoned nj SEA and
towed into harbor at Cape lookout on
tho lower North Carolina coast: by the
Cape Lookout lightship which subsy-
qnently returned 10 her station. A
telegra nhic report. TO Norfolk wrpclers
Wednesday from Cape Lookou; gave 10
details al. the Welt's condition or cargo
The Welt sailed from Carteret, y. j.
Dsc. .. Cor savannah. Ga.
John Ojala. when he destroyed and nu-
tilated monuments and gravestones in the
cemetery at Quincy, Mass. recently. was
governed L. an insane belief that he
must obey implicitly the commands OF
spirits which visited him at night This
was the'report rendered in the Norfolk
county superior court Wednesday by Drs
Francis L. Babeock and John w Pratt.
after they had m5te thorough examina-
ton of Ojalas Mental condition. Judge
Sherman announced that he would COM
nit Qlafn 10 one OF the state insane hos
pitfalls.
Two hundred persons have just been
formed into n class in New York City TO
serve as subjects for the greatest inves-
tiGatior into the mysteries Of hypnotis,n
ever projected. The experiments will be
made under the auspices OF the Society
for Physical Research. and will be con
Quoted by DIR. Gustav A. Gayer. 1t is
said that President Roosevelt is taking a
deep interest in the work. The results Of
this inquiry into the sub-conscious minds
of an army of mental monStrosities are.
it is designed. to form the basis for cur
ing disease and preventin>; crime in the
generations TO come. II is planned to es-
tablsh in New York City a philanthropic
institution which shall have for its OBJ
ject the curing of the 'insarity" which
causes poverty and the mama which is
held to be alone responsible for crime.
Following several conferences at
Pittsburg between the receivers and
creditors OF the Westinghouse con-
Germs with Il view of giving the affairs
Of the companies back to the stock
holders George Westinghouse, said:
Everything connected with the affairs
of the corporation shows a most hope
full situation. A detailed report on all
these matters may be made public
soon" From another source came
that plans had been practi-
callE completed by which the Westing-
house corporations would be put in
such shape that the receivers could be |
within 10 days.
Miss Maud McCrumb. % years old, !
a school teacher Of jamestown, Pa, is |
in serious condition from an attack |
alleged TO have been made late Tues
day by Charles Summers. SO years old.
4 wealthy farmer of Turnersville. Pa. |
Summers who later was captured by n |
posi- was taken to Greenville, Pa, to
prevent mob violence threatened by I