Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-09
NEWS NUGGETS.
Items Of Interest Cleaned by Wire
From Many Places.

| John d. Rockefeller. Jr., son of the
! president Of the Standard OIL Co, was
sworn in Monday as a member Of one
| Of the TWO grand jurios Of the court of
! general sessions. District Attorney Je
| rome takes his criminal cases before
| these Jurics for indictment.
| An express train over the Western
| division of the Boston & Maine Rail-
road bound from Portland to Boston
! and due there at II o'clock was tagged
and stopped at Newmarket, n. H.,
Monday, only a few minutes after
| dirt train had gone off the track on
| the other side Of 2 curve about half
mile from the station. The express
passes Newmarket usually at q speed
of about 20 miles an hour and would
probably have plunged into the de-
rallied dirt train had not some of the
lattcr's train crew gone back to the
station, reaching there as the express
appeared. The local passengers were
held at Newmarket and the express
sent to Boston by the way of Dover,
Portsmouth and the Eastern division.
United States Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge has been summoned to appear
before the grand jury and tell what &c
knows of the affairs at City hall, Bos-
ton. This comes as a result Of state
mcnts made by him at the Republican
state convention Saturday concerning
the corruption alleged to exist in the
city government. The Senator was di-
rected to appear at the court house
next Monday.
Outragcs upon the Jews at Odessa
w"re continued Monday. The Union
lists began by surrounding a Hebrew
cemetery where q funeral service was
going on. First they stoned and then
they fired a volley of revolver shots ct
the mourning Jews who fled in 4 panic.
Many of them were wounded. Later
in the day members of the Black
Hundred divided themselves into small
groups and ransacked several Jewish
shops
All the officers of the International
Conference of Cotton Growers and
Manufacturers We're reelected Monday
at Atlanta, Ga.
Joseph Wood, aged 16 years, who was
arrested on suspicion in connection
with the murder of 9-year-olG Ethel
rtNeVjps, whose body was found in a
thickstanot far from her home in East
Camden, n. j., Saturday, made a con-
fessipn Monday night, according to an
official statement issued at late hour
by Prosecutor Scovel. in which he ad-
mitS having murdered the child.
A Boston report that Booker r.
Washington. Jr., son of the head of
the Tuskegee Institute had disappeared
mysteriously from school in Boston is
said to be without foundation. His
father said Monday at Montgomery,
Ala. that he was in New York on a
business trip with mis- consent and
would be back at his beeks within
couple Of days.
Sir Anthony Patrick MacDonnell, I'M
dcr-ScCrctary to the lord lieutenant Of
Ireland, has arranged to leave Dublin
oct. le on his visit to the United States.
where lie will spend in all about one
month. Sir Anthony will land at New
York and then travel through the New
England states. after which he will Wis
it James Bryce, the British ambassad dor
at Washington. The visit of the under
secretary to the United States is nom
political. but he will be accessible to
men of influence Interested in Ireland
At the request of Prof Willis l..
Moore chief of the United States
weather bureau. Secretary Wilson Of
the department Of agriculture Monday
authorized Major Henry b. Hersey.
chlct inspector Of the government me-
tc"floSlcai service, to represent the
government in the international Aero
nautir cup race from st. Louis Oct ~
Major HerScy has just returned to this
country from SpitZbcrgcn. where he as
sisted Walter Wellman in his effort to
reach the North pole with an airship
Major l1crSey Will use tho same balloon
in which Lieut.. Lain won the intcrna-
flonal arconaut race held in Europe
last year.
C"rriliio Grolcau Of West Derry, n.
H.. is under arrest charged with the
Shooting Of his son, Fred Grolcau. aged
- years. The son is not expected to
i've, The father claims the son had
been drinking and Threatened him and
ordered him OUT of the house He
claims that in Self-dcfcnce he shot at
nm. The charge of shot took effect i'll
the abdomen. Fred Groleau is married
nut has no children. The assailant and
Edmund Cote 4 witness. were held
awaiting the arrival Tuesday of Coun-
ty Solicitor Batchelder.
\ new telegraph convention between
Russia and China was signed Monday
at pekin. Under it China RECEIVERS all
her previous telegraph rights in Rus
STA. ManchUria and 1000 miles of lines
and connections arc formally turned
back t. h,r. Russia surrenders the
privileges she has exercised since the
Boxer outbreak and in the future will
pay telegraph royalties to China. This
rs quite different from the Japanese
procedure in Manchrria. Japan in
creased her claims for telegraph and
telephone privileges and extended both
methods of communication in defiance
of the sovereignty of China.