Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Government receipts Wednesday:
From Internal revenue, S137, 1G5: Gus
toms. 1850. POS: miscellaneous, $137, 1874
Expenditures, $1,3.o00o.
The gunboat Princeton left San Die
| go, Cal, Tuesday night for san Saliva
DOR. under hurry orders to join the
Chicago ii Central American waters.
Fire which started in the siX-story
building at S23 ana SD Filbert street,
Philadelphia, Wednesday, spread to
adjoining property, causing damage to
the extent Of 100000. Five firemen
were severely injured by the collapse
Of Il fire escape on which they We're
standing fighting the flames.
Arthur c. Gizer, che of the best
known shoe manufacturers in the
country, died at his home in Wey
mouth, Mass. Wednesday, aged 81
years. Pneumonia was the cause Of
death. Three weeks ago MIR. Gizers
son ANA partner, Silas Gizer, died of
the same disease. y widow, i son and
i daughter survive.
Former Mayor James Z. Lothrop died
at Dover y. H.. Wednesday. following
He was 50 years of age. Mr.. Lothrop
WAS native of Rochester, y. Fl. He
mad represented Dover in the state
Legislature and was mayor in 1883 and
| 1851. He had been identified with varied
business interests. A widow survives.
When the New Jersey Senate con-
vencd Wednesday, Senator Hillery
presented the report of the special
| commission appointed last year to in
vestigate the subject of life insurance
| in New Jersey. AT the same time he
presented seven bills, drafts Of which
| We're embodied in the report, to carry
out the committees recommendations.
Damage from fire at sea, amount
| ing to fully 4 quarter of million dol
lars, was reported by the German
steamer Nandalia, which arrived
Wednesday at New York from China
ana Japan The fire started in the
Vandalia's hold on the afternoon of
Feb. % and was subducd only after the
hold had been completely flooded with
water.
Senator Page and Asscmblyman
Merritt Wednesday 1t Albany, n. s..
INTRODUCED the expected bill SUBSTITUTE
nE two public service commissions
one for greater New York. the other
for the rest Of the State. for the State
Railroad Commission the State Com
mission Of Gas and Ele ~tricity. the New
York City Rapid Transit Commission
and the New York City gas meter de
partn.enu.
Municipal and provincial elections
nrn1ip b1y will he hold iy, ('nho Nk.iti1iy,
few months for the purpose Of testing
the new election law and discovering
the exact temper of the republic before
trying Il national election. This is be-
ms considered at Washington and a
Il, ,!sIor will doubtless be reached soon
after Secretary Taft's trip to Cuba.
Porto Rico and Panama on which he
will start March "a.
i delegation representing the lum-
berinG industry in the West called on
President Roosevelt "Wednesday and
assured him the numbering interests
If Tie West were in accord with his
forest reserve policy. President Ro0se-
Welt assured the delegation that his
sole interest was that the people of the
Rocky Mountain and Pacific coast
states should be looked after in the
handling Of the public domain.
Seven persons We're slightly burned
| ana cut in an explosion of gas in the
| basement of the business block at IA
| Washington street South end. Boston,
! Wednesday. The force Of the conclusion
| demolished the windows of the build
| ing and many windows in other struc-
| lures nearby. Three of the persons in
| jured were pedestrians and others were
ompioyes of a millinery establishment
on the ground floor of the building.
The case Of James and Philip Strother,
| charged with the murder of William F.
| BS7Vatcrs. their brothcr-in-law. will go to
| the Jury Thursday morning at Culpep-
per. Va. After one of the most exciting
| sessions Of the trial the case rested at
10 p. N. Wednesday when Can't. M!cajah
Woods closed the states case against the
| accused with a 5-hour speech. The de-
! fence opened at the morning session with
7. Walton Mocrc's address to further
sus Plea az emotional insanity. John L.
Lee followed his colleague, pleading from
| n purely sentimental standpoint for ac
| o1iittaI. Can't Micajdh Woods for the
| Prose cution did not complete his argu-
ment until every phase of the story of
the killing Of Bywaters had been re-
= viewed.