Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

. The engagement Of $1,000,000 in gold
by Iazard F'reres for shipment 10
Paris was announced at New YORK
Wednesday.
Giuseppe Ferrars, aged 26 and Victor
Feranosca, 20, were found dead In bed
at their boarding house in Waterbury.
Conn, Wednesday, asphyxiation by
gas being the cause. Death probably
was accidental.
Arthur r. Hammond, aged % who
gave his address as Boston, committed
suicide Wednesday by hanging in
cell in the county prison, at Philadel-
phia. Hammond was awaiting trial on
the charge of holding up man on the
street about six weeks ago.
The so-called Schofield Gratuity bill,
which provides a gratuity of sl35 TO
every soldier or sailor of the Civil war,
who has never received a bounty, was
passed to be enacted without division
or debate in the Massachusetts, Senate
Wednesday. 1t now goes to GOV.
Guild.
The White Star Line steamer Ad-
Ratio which sailed from Southamp-
ton, Eng, Wednesday for Kew YORK
on her first western trip from South
ampton, was given an enthusiastic
send off. She took $50 emigrant5 VINO
were stranded at French ports owing
to the strike Of seamen In France.
Baron Herman De Lagercrantz.
Swedish minister to the United States,
arrived at Providence Wednesday. He
was received by state and city dignl-
taries, by several leading Rhode IS
land educators and prominent citizens.
The baron has been visiting in WICK
ford Wednesday was his official day
and was passed in Providence.
An electric car crashed into train
loaded with Is tons of molten metal at
North Birmingham, Ala, early
Wednesday overturning the pots on the
car, which was entirely consumed,
fatally burning Motorman B. Caldwell
and Deputy Sheriff A. c. GurleY. I.
c. Stiles, another deputy was serious
ly injured by the force Of the collision.
The Red Cross Society of Japan held
a general meeting at Toxic, Wednes-
day at which the Empress was present
Her Majesty made a speech congratu-
lating the society upon its success and
praying for a continuance of its pros
perity. The society which now has
a membership of 100000, is now ac-
lively at work in Korea and Man
churia,
Michel De Raglan, the former at
tache of the Russian consulate at Chi
cago, whose sex had been a matter of
doubt, was Tuesday officially declared
to have been q woman. The order was
entered by Judge Cutting and as re-
suit Mrs. Anna De Raglan. who lived
with De Raglan as his wife, will not
be permitted to share in the estate,
which is valued at about $4,000. The
witnesses were persons who visited
Phoenix, Ariz, where the body was
exhumed.
Fire broke out in the Smith Table
Co. plant at Mohawk, N. Y, We;ines-
day and is estimated to have caused
about 100000 damage before it was
gotten under control. The table fac
tory, the Bclinger box factory and
several smaller concerns and stores
were destroyed. Both telephone sta
tons are burned out, electric car
cables are down and the fire COM
panies secured to assist from other
towns had hard work to save the rail-
road depot and freight house.
With his camp reduced to ashes and
forced to retire with his men from the
plant, David Eason, who operates
logging camp in Knox Bay. Thurlow
islands, arrived at Vancouver, B. G.,
Tuesday and reported the largest fire
ever known up coast. All the valuable
timber on the island is being licked up
by the flames. How the fire started is
not known. Its boundaries are extend
ing rapidly and every hour gives an
impetus. A series Of fires is also re-
ported on Vancouver Island i'll the
vicinity Of Bear lake.
A squadron of six United States bat
tleships and one cruiser under COM
mand of Rear Admiral Evans sailed
from New York Wednesday for
Hampton Roads. where they will par
ticpate in the celebration of Georgia
day at the Jamestown Exposition on
June 10. They were the battleships
Connecticut. Louisiana, Ohio. Iowa,
Rhode Island and Indiana and the
cruiser Washington. They were fol-
lowed within an hour by the Aus
trian cruiser Sankt Georg and Aspcrn,
also bound for Hampton Roads.