Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-06

| 1905 concluded the navigation of the
northwest passage, is making prepara-
lions for a Polar expedition. He is
credited with the intention Of using
polar bears in the same manner that
| dogs are used in the frozen North.
According to advice received from
| The Hague, Senior Jose Gil FOrtI,
| Venezuelan minister to Germany and
head OF the Venezuelan delegation to
the peace conference, has been ordered
, by his government to withdraw from
| the conference and return to Berlin.
! AS a result Of a heavy wind and rain
storm which passed over Fort Gaines,
Ga, Tuesday, the crops in that section
J are badly damaged. No loss Of life has
, been reported. All wire communica-
\ ton was cut off.
At the convention Of the National
Letter Carriers in Canton, Ohio,
Wednesday, First Assistant Postmaster
! General Hitchcock was the principal
speaker.
Gen. Pleasant Porter, Chief Of the
! Creek Indian Nation, has just died at
| paralvsis. He was GG years Of age.
i Gen. Porter had had an interesting
! career. He was Il nephew of cx-Gov.
Curtin Of Pennsylvania, the War Gov
/ ernor. He was Il Democrat in politics,
a Confederate captain in the civil war
and a power in Indian politics. He
| was first elected chief in 1899 and was
reelected in 1893 The Creek Nation is
made up Of 1900 Creek Indians and
negro freedmen. Chief Porter was we'll
| "A R1ta
| A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Mrs. Phillips. charging her
with the murder of her husband, John
F. Phillips, coal operator banker and
| clubman, who was shot and mortally
wounded at his home in Cleveland,
Ohio, carly Monday. 1t was at first
| thought that thu shooting had been
done by burglar, but later suspicion
pointed to Mrs. Phillips.
A dispatch from Boise, Idaho, says
that tn. Indictment returned last April
! by the federal grand jury against Sena-
tor WIN. +. Borah and other prominent
| men charging conspiracy to defraul
the United States government was
served on the defendants Wednesday.
Besides Borah the Indictment includes
Frank Martin, attorney general of Ida
no under Gov. Steunenbergs admins
tration; ]. Il. Barber and Sumner G.
Moon, millionaire stockholders of the
Barber Lumber Co., residing in Wis
consin; ]. J. Wells, p. II. Downs, John
Kincaid, l. NJ. Pritchard, VIM. Sweet,
Albert NJ Palmer and II. s. Rand.
The Indictment charges that these
persons entered into = conspiracy in
September. 1901 and at various other
times. to produce by fraudulent entry
tilnberlands in Boise county. Idaho.
Senator Borah has been accorded the
privilege Of q separate trial.
After a sensational chase and des-
perate fight, Wednesday, New York
detectives succeeded in capturing An
tome ForgOne, an Intalian desperado
who had stabbed Mrs. Lorenzo Nicho-
loni, after she had refused to give him
500. After capturing Foregone. the
detectives had hard fight which lasted
about 90 minutes to protect the prison
er from an angry mob of Italian men
and women.
\ special from Berlin says that the
Prussian Railway administration has
the persons who wrecked the St.
Strausberg and Rehfelde. near Berlin,
shortly before midnight, resulting in IL
persons being injured. Presumably it
was the work of Anarchists or Russian
Revolutionists. who hoped to kill a
member of the Russian imperial fam
lily. who is said to have been on board
the train.
With the object of insuring. as far as
possible, the safety of the turret men
and ammunition handlers on Admiral
Evans battleships during the target
practice which will begin off Province
town, Mass, next Monday, the navy
department has called on the board OF
experts known as the "Turret Board"
to submit Immediately q preliminary |
report The board was originally in |
structed to have its report ready by |
Sept. Is. and the members have been |
endeavoring to find out what causes |
flare backs" and how to prevent such |
accidents as that which occurred on |
board the Georgia at the last target |
practice.
The taking of testimony in New York |
City in the suit brought by the federal |
government at st. Louis last December |
to dissolve the Standard Oil Co., under |
the provisions Of the Sherman anti
trust law will begin Thursday before
Former Judge Franklin Ferriss of st. |
Louis. the special examiner appointed |
by the federal court. The case was
called Tuesday and postponed until |
Thursday at the request Of the counsel
for the defendant company.
Simeon w. Jacobs, n former jeweler |
at Worcester who was convicted last |
May in the United States circuit court
of concealing jewelry valued at 3d.
600 from his trustees in bankruptcy. |
was Wednesday at Boston sentenced
to two years in the Greenfield Jail by
Judge Dodge. The sentence is held to |
be one of the longest ever given in a |
case in the state. The at |
torneys for Jacobs will take their case |
to the appellate court.
The homeward rush Of the Ameri- |
cans who have spent the summer in
Europe is now at its height and all |
records for the number Of passengers
carried by the transatlantic steamship