Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-24
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Receiver JudsOn c. Harmon of the
Ptre Marquette Railway gave orders
Monday at Detroit, Mich, that all the
victims of Saturdays wreck near
Ionia, be settled with the same as
paying passengers. Most of them were
employees.
Augustus Rodney McDonough, son
Of the late Commodore Thomas Mac
Donough of the United States navy,
who was in charge of the United
State fleet in the battle of Lake Cham
plain, Sept. II. 1914, is dead at his
home in New York.
Senator William P. Dillingham;, Of
Vermont. and William r. Wheeler. of
Oakland, Cal, members of the Ameri-
can immigration commission, have ar
rived at st. Petersburg. They intend
to make an exhaustive study of the
emigrant question in Russia.
Several thousand Elks from the
| Grand Lodge meeting, just adjourned
at Philadelphia. headed by Exalted
| Ruler Tener. passed Monday seeing the
| sights of the jamestown Exposition.
| The weather was clear and bright and
| suspicious for "Elks" day, as it was
| officially known.
Good crops throughout the Delaware
| and Maryland peninsula is having the
| effect of raising the salaries OF preach
| ers generally. Several clergymen have
already had their pay increased and il
is said that the movement will become
general. The farmer parishioners have
| received high prices for fruit yields
and have prospects Of getting 81 q
bushel for wheat.
The Knox Automobile Co Of Spring
field, Mass. Monday made voluntary
| assignment for the benefit of creditors
| to A. N. Mayo. as trustee. The as.
s1gnment includes all the real estate
factories. and machinery of the com.
pany. Lack of immediate capital i:
1 said to be the cause Of the assignment
The company's assets are double it.
liabilities and plans are on foot to Sc
cure the needed capital. The factory
which employs 400 men will not b,
shut down.
In an improvised court room at the
summer residence at Gates Ferry
IConn.. Of Coroner Brown, Frank l.
Morgan. an 11-year-Old boy, Monday
was held for the shooting of Irving L.
Rogers. playmate of like age, in Led
yard, three miles east of here, July
last Young Morgan was ordered con.
fined in the county Jail until the Sep.
TENDER term Of the superior court
when the grand jury will be asked BY
the state attorneys to find a true bill
OF murder against the boy.
1 Tho Cchnnnnr d. ,
was at the time Of her construction
IN ls'1. one OF the largest and hand
soonest yachts in this country, ha
been purchased for use as trade
and passenger vessel for service be
tween New Bedford and the Cap
Verde Islands. She was formerly tn
Resolute and was built at City Island
~ Y. She made many cruises to tn
West Indies and other ports OF tn
Globe and despite almost 40 years %
continuous service, is still in good con
Edition.
Advices received in New York stat
that "Shang" Draper, at one time
| leading light of New York's unde
world. is dying at a health resort nea
Hot Springs. Ark. Draper is best re
memhered through his connection wit
the big Northampton and Manhattan
Bank robberies made by Red" Lear,
Jimmy" Hope. Jimmy" Irving an
others. He had gambling place i
West 2Sth street, New York, where h
made fortune which he afterwar
d1ssipated largely in helping broke
gamblers and crooks in trouble.
The bodies of Charles L. Parritt an
! Walter Sampson. both IS years old an
of Dorchester, were found on the fiat
|. of Two Rock channel, Duxbury, Mass
at low tide late Monday. Following til
!, discovery of an overturned dory i
which it was known that the youn
men had been sailing Sunday, fiv
launches and two dory parties includ
ing the fathers of the boys. set out i
search for the bodies and at low It'd
they found them near together on tn
fiats Of the channel. The two youn