Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The New York Assembly Thursday
passed the bill forbidding fire insurance
companies from entering into compacts
to control rates.
The 5000 900 in treasury bonds was
oversubscrihed at least 20 times Thurs
day at Berlin. There were many for
cign tenders. but apparently none from
the United States.
Colorado Springs. Col. and vicinity was
visited by light snow and freezing wealth
cr again Wednesday night. The Delta
County Fruit Growers Association an
nounces that all fruit in that section has
been killed.
For the courth time the case of Repre-
sentative LaMoureaux, charged with re-
guessing and accepting 4 gratuity, was
postponed Thursday at Boston. The date
for lie case to open will now be deter
mined by the court and counsel.
The alleged victim Of "Pedlar" Pal
NOR and friends, killed in a train re-
turning from the EPSON, Eng, races
Wednesday were identified Thursday
as Robert Choat, q gas house stokcr at
r"utford, Eng.
\ Parliamentary committee at
stockholm has reported in favor Of
reduction Of the duty on corn from
from about 80 cents to about IS cents
per hundred kilograms. 1t is expected
that this action will greatly increase
tho importation Of American corn.
Tho jail building at Chirlcy. Fla.
was destroyed by fire Thursday and
| on" prisoner, Harry II. Berry, white,
was burned to death. The Jail was
crowded with prisoners ANA it is be-
licvcd they tried to burn their way out,
the flames getting beyond their con
troll
Snow in no1 thern Kansas and northern
Missouri and freezing weather extending
from the Nebraska-Idaho state linee
south into the Panhandle Of Texas. was
reported Thursday with predictions OF
colder weather. At ST. Joseph. Mo. snow
fell for several hours, the latest rrecipi-
taticn in many years.
1t is announced at st. Petersburg
that the wedding % the Grand Duke
Nicholas Nichoaicvitch, second cous-
ii 20 Emperor Nicholas and command
cr-in-Chicf of the St. Petersburg mill
tary district, and Princess Anastasia
Of Montenegro, divorced wife of Grand
Duke George Of Leuchtenberg, will
take place May IL.
Sometime during Wednesday night bur
glars entered the railroad station at Nj
antic, Il. T., and after scattering tickets
and papers all over the floor made their
escape with q small amount of money
from the cash drawer and from two so:
machines which they demolished. Abso-
luteiy no clue to the identity of the bur
glars has been obtained. Luckily there
was no safe in the station for the rob
berS to pilfeT.
Prof. s. J. Hunter of the Kansas
State University. who has taken charge
of the fight against the green bug in
the wheat fields. is sending out q
parasite bee which lays an egg that
causes the bugs death. The bee has
500 ofsrrinEe while the green bug has
only 40. The bees are kept in cold
storage at the university and sent out
when called for. At present about 200
calls are being answered each day.
Alden Sampson. an automobile manu-
faCt'jrcr, Thursday was held for the
grand jury on Il charge of mansiauGhtcr
| by Judge Tucker of the district court at
Iittsfcld, Mass. 1t is alleged that h
caused the death OF Felix Maxwell, an
aged resident of Pittsfield. April 2. when
Maxwell was struck by an automobile
owned and occupied by Sampson. Samp-
son waived q hearing and was held for
the grand jury in $500 bonds, which hc
furnished.
Tho merger Of tho Colonial Trust Go.
with tho Trust Co. of America of New
iI, ..
Thursday by 4 vote Of the Colonial Iii
| rCctors. makes the Trust Company Of
America ore Of the largest if not the
| large st institution Of its kind in the
| city The combined deposits nf tn" two
trust companies according To tn" latest
available report totalled $I39n6. $50.
| OaltlCich Thornc is president 81 the
Trust O.. Of America.
| While on their way to sheep range
| in the county Of Montcrosc, colo. with
q large nerd from Frisco. Utah, three
| hcrdcr&, Grover Cornell, Peter Swan
son and A. Swanson, We're set upon by
seven masked mon "Wednesday night
at Whitewater, Colo, 80 miles west Of
Muntcrosc. Peter Swanson was NOR
| tally wounded and his companions
| bound hand and foot and left helpless
| on the prairie. The shooting has stir
| red the cattlcluen and sheep owners Of
| tho section to a high indignation.
one man was probably nortally in
| jured and q dozen other persons Seri-
| ously injured in q collision between q
| Third avenue car and Il three-horse
| moving van at 2lst street and Sd ave-
nue. New Yurl. Thursday night. John
] Noonan was the most seriously injured
| Of the passengers. lie is at Bellevue
hospital. his skull fractured and his
| body Iacoratcd. Tn" wagon was
| thrown over onto its side ana as ii fell
| it carried away a portion of the roof
| of the car, the remaining section Of the
| roof falling on the heads of the pas
| scngcrs.
| The case nf w. u. Yust. charged with
| contempt Of court for an alleged effort
| 10 influence Il juror on regular panel,
| which viii probably try w. ID. Hay
| wood for alleged completely in the
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