Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-21
WIRE GLEANlNcS.
A Glance at What is Happening in the
North, East, South and West,

The Baroness Adolphe De Rotts-
child. widow of Baron Adolphe, died at
Geneva, Switzerland Monday. This
branch of the Rothschild family was
only distantly related to the famous
Rothschiid families of London. Paris.
Vienna ard Frankfort.
The Yale intercollegiate debating
team has beer chosen as follows: Wal.
ter Armstrong. Coffeeville, Miss; Har-
old B. .Iamison. Gloversville, n. V, AMI
William w. Wynkoop, Tacoma. Wash.
The first debate will be with Princeton
in December.
William i#yles Is years old, Mon
day night shot and killed his wife ut
Columbus. Ohio, in the presence of their
three small children as the mother lay
in bed. Bayles then shot himself but
ne will "a.'ov." He declared ii, alouSy
was the cause
The personal conference held at St
Petersburg, Nov. 16. between Foreign
Minister IswOlsky and the ambassadors
OF the sugar producing countries. re-
garding the adherence of Russia to the
International sugar convention, had no
result. Russia is awaiting proposals
fore defining her attitude.
Fire has i;""n burning for three days
| in the main shaft of the Claurlet and
Ari:.Ora end the Copper Queen mines It
Bisbee, .Ariz.. and efforts to put out the
flames have been Ruthless Owing to
the accumulation Of gases under
ground miners are unable to stay in the
shafts for more than a few minutes.
| An expedition Of scientists headed by
Director w. w. Campbell Of Lick On
ser, atory, viii leave San Francisco Fri
day on the liner Mariposa for Flint Is
land. where they hope to observe the
| eclipse of the sun Jan. 3. The cXpedi-
| lior will travel on the Mariposa as far
as Tahiti, where they will be met by
| the United States gunboat Annapolis,
| which will carry them to Flint Island.
Five big steamships have been char
| tered and possibly 10 in all will soon be
Running in a new line Of steamers that
will be operated between the Pacific
coast and Australia and New Zealand.
Mail contracts have been closed guar
anteeing d monthly service from San
Francisco The ships are part of a
fleet owned by the Howard Smith Co.,
Limited, of London.
| Angelo GrOussel, a 12-year-Old girl.
whose assertion that she had been as
saultcd by a strange man in the woods
near her home in Clyde, n. Y. caused
great excitement in the peighhorhood
and led 10 the organization Of posse
to hunt down her assailant, has con-
fessed 20 the sheriff that her story was
/ 6Q6Iard(I
that reading newspaper accounts OF
assaults upon women had led her 10
seek notoriety
| TO stimulate competition among army
commands where none has heretofore
existed is the object of a general order
| issued by Major General J. Franklin
Bell. chief of staff. The system pro-
posed by the order has been to some
extent in vogue among the departments
of the army but the proposition now
Is - make it of more general appEca-
ton. Reports are to be made showing
comparative efficiency of the various
army officers and blank forms are pro-
! vided on which the showings are to be
made.
| I-nprecedented scenes were enacted
in the Senate chamber of the historic
canitoi of Alabama Tuesday when the
statutory prohibition bill was passed.
| The corridors and galleries were
thronged with women and children and
they even usurped the floor itself. push
ing the senators from their seats and
giving vent to their enthusiasm by
shouts and cheers.
Several mayoralty nominations were
made by the Republican party in
Massachusetts cities Tuesday. The
selections were as follows: In Newton
George Hutchinson. in Lynn, Thomas
IF. Porter, in Maiden. G. Louis Richards
in Lowell. Frederick w. Farnham ano
i In Gloucester WeltOn F. FELTON,.