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

j. flcrpOnt Morgan mas acquired q
most valuable 10th century manuscript,
comprising stories of Queen Margaret
of Navarro.
The First National Bank Of PrOvi-
dence, II. l., went into liquida ton
Wednesday. the business having been
absorbed by the United National Eanl.
Director Barrett of the Bureau of
Amer lean Republics Wednesday issued
call for a third international sanitary
convention in the city of Mexico Dec
l to {, 1907.
The first Jail sentence ever imposed
by 4 Rhode Island court for over
speeding an automobile has been given
Charles Timberlake. n chauffeur of
Providence. r. l., who Wednesday be-
gan serving ten days i'm Jail for fast
driving Sunday. His trip ended in a
smashup in which no one was hurt
Two workmen We're fatally burned
and four others injured by an cxplo-
sion of 10000 pound ingot at the
McstaV Machine Works. West Home
stead. Pa, Wednesday, The men were
3 pouring hot metal into n large mold
shnd the molten liquid was scattered in
all directions.
s 1t was the United States lighthouse
. tender Magnolia upon which President
T. Roosevelt was n passenger and not the
fruit ship Esparta which was at fault
in the collision between these boats
in the mississippi river Oct. &c. 1905,
: according 10 q decision made by United
/. States Judge f.. ID. Saunders Wednes-
day at New Orleans. ..s-
A deal was completed at Pittsburg
Tuesday night between Klaw e Err
Hanger ami X. NJ Gnlick and p. J. Nc
.SNulty, theatrical propriptors, whereby
the Bl j0u theater is taken over by
klawfs q ErlanEcr. The consideration
+ Is about S1,350.000. 1t is said that the
deal in which The th"atcr.; all over the
world VIII figure is part of general
one now I'm progress by Klaw & Err
LANCER. an organization having Il CAPT
falizatioa Of $100000,000.
Cooperation between national, state
ana municipal authorities in methods
for the prevention of adultcration of
foods and the general enforcement of
pure food laws continued the keynote
in Wednesdays session of the State
and National Food and Dairy de-
partments meeting in annual session
mt the jamestown Exposition. The ses-
sion was devoted almost exclusively to
the reading Of addresses and discus
siors on various subjects.
Fourteen persons were injured. sew
en- seriously. in Il street car collision
Wednesday on the lines of the Butler
passenger railway, at the Standard
Steel Car Works terminal in Lyndora.
/. a suburb of Butler, Pa. All the injured
y but one were employees of the Standard
Company. c. w. Baxter had his leg
severed below the knee and the other
E leg badly crushed. He is not expected
3 10 recover. Carl Krepps. both of whose
] legs We're cut off below the knees, also
is expected to die.
Fearing that the failure of one of
their Mexican correspondents would
financially cmbarraSs them, the firm of
Thebaud Bros. commission merchants.
New York City, made an assignment
Wednesday. Ernest L. Hoes. counsel,
assignee, said that no figures regard
ing the assets or liabilities were avail
able as yet but that the creditors
would doubtless be paid in full The
firm and is rated at $1,0O0,O0O by mer-
camille agency.
No trace of William F. Walker the
defanlting treasurer of the Savings
Bank of New Britain. CT. has been
obtained. nor have any of the $5S5, 900
worth Of securities taken by him, been
recovered according to report made
l" the -lncorporators at the annual
meeting nf the institution held Wedncs-
oay. The annual report of the insti-
tn'ion showed gain of deposits of
sla29o4 in spite of $1.62..177 with
Drawn and the bank has declared . Der
cent for depositors out of the last six
months earnings.
William II. Smith of Detroit, Mich.
was discharged from custody by Judge
Sears in the district court at Salem.
MASS, Wednesday. after a hearing on
'he charge of manslaughter for having
struck with an automobile jeremiah
havanagh at Wenham on July 10, re-
suiting in Kavanagh's DEATH A num-
ner OF witnesses were heard and at
.''e conclusion of their testimony Judge
SEARS said that there appeared to have
oeeh no carelessness or reckless driy-
ing on Smiths part. Smith was a
enauHeur for party of Detroit peo-
pic ana his car struck Kavanagh who
Mas riding bicycle. Kavanagh was 70
years old.