Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-23
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Wednesday issued call for state
ment Of the condition Of national
| banks at the close of business on Mon
| day May 20.
| Col. Robert Hale Ives Goddard was
| nominated as the candidate of the
| Democratic ana Independent parties
| for United States senator at the con-
| vention Of the fusion forces Of the
state in Rhode Island at Providence
| Wednesday.
Delegates from all parts of the
world arc at Denver, COL. for the gen
| cral assembly III the United Pfesbyter-
| ian church, which was opened Wcdncs-
day with Il sermon hy Rev. j. z. Me
Clurln. oc Pittshurg, Pa, the retiring
! moderator.
The lighthouse on POinte De La
Cnubrc. at the entrance of GIronne.
Franco. which was $50 feet high and
had 4 light which was among the most
powerful in France, was so undermined
by the sea that it fell Tuesday No one
was injured.
Cheerful news for the employees of
the Hamilton mills at North Kings
town, +. l., was conveyed to them
Wednesday by the management of, the
Hamilton Web 60. Commencing next
Monday Il 10 per cent. increase in the
wages Of the 80 or 100 weavcrs in the
mill will so into effect
Lorctto Di Gravio was Wednesday in
the Lynn police court and again re-
manded to June 3 for hearing on
charge of murder of Valentine Di Pie
fro, noted as an Anarchist from Barre,
Vt. to Paterson, n. J.. May 16 at their
Lynn home. Olympic Di Gravio was al
50 again remanded for trial as an ac-
ccSSOry.
John r. Hcgeman. president Of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Wednesday at New York appeared be-
fore Justice Grecnbaum and pleaded
not guilty to the 10 indictments re-
turned against linn Tuesday charg-
ing perjury ana forgery. Bail was fixed
ut $4,000 on one of the indictments of
perjury. 1t was furnished by John Il.
Mcdonald, the subway builder.
Announcement was made at New
York Wednesday that William Ellis
Corey, president OF. the United States
steel Corporation. who is now abroad
on MS hone ymOon, has purchased the
steam yacht PantOoset from Albert s
BlSelOW. The PantOOset will sail i'm
mcfliHtcly for Europe, where Mr.. and
Mrs. Corey will cruise in European
waters. Mr.. Corey is said to have paid
$4,000 for the PantoOset, which was
built ut Bath in 1902. The Pantooset is
211 feet long.
Slovenly methods Of packing and
shipping cotton We're criticised by Ben
jamin Richards in an address before
the National Fire Protective Associa-
ton Wednesday at New York Mir.
Richards said that the packing of cot
ton in loosely woven jute bags is Il
frequent cause OF fire. n. l.. Hiscock
said that in nine years 100 season
hotels have been burned in New Eng
land causing a loss of $1,4S1,11S. more
thaa 26 per cent. Of which resulted
from defective chimncys.
Roy. Earl NJ Wilbur Of Berkeley,
Cal. conducted the usual Kings chapel
service that opened Wednesday. the
third day of the Unitarian anniversary
week at Boston. The service was large
~ attended as it was but a few steps
to fremont Temple, whore an hour lat
reconvcned for further business Presi- |
dent samuel A. Eliot presided and
spoke for 4 short time upon the sue
cess of tn" various meetings that have
been held during the past two days.
\ Hindu revolutionist. who aroused
the fanatics Of the Punjab into state
Of great. excitement by circulating the
fantastic statement that the alleged cp-
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that the 100000 deaths weekly attrbut- |
ed to it We're really caused by the pois- |
oainG Of drinking wells by government |
emiSSHrcS was sentenced Wednes- |
day at Lahore, British India, to two |
years rigorous imprisonment. An ac-
complice who dropped harmless balls |
into the wells, alleging that he did 50 |
by order Of the government was con- |
domncd to IS months imprisonment.
Walter r Angel of Providence. r. l.. |
has been elected president of the Prov
idencc & Worcester Railroad Co, to |
succeed the late Moses b. I. Goddard. |
who lied May a. Mr.. Angel was for
mcr!y 4 director Of the company. The
Providence & Worcester Co. owns the
line between the two cities whose
name is borne by the company. 81 miles
in all. five miles of which it owns joint
~ with the Boston & Providence Rail-
road co. The road was leased in 1889 to
the New York, Providence & Boston
and that road was leased in 1892 to the
New York. New Haven e Hartford for
90 years with a guarantee of 10 per
cent. on the stock.