Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-22
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

At a meeting of 1000 boiler makers
employed Ly II large concerns i'll Bos-
ton il was voted Sunday to demand a
dcuction Of from nine to eight hours
q day and 4 wage increase of - cents
4 day.
The Boston team drivers now on
strike to the number of $50 were given
the assurance Sunday at Il meeting of
the local unions of 4 defence fund
through an assessment of 81 q week of
the 400 members of the union. The
union voted to order no general strike.
NJ. De Lagercrantz, the first Swedish
minister to Washington. since the sep
aration of Norway and Sweden. ar
rived at New York Sunday. accompa-
MED ty his wife. on the Hamburg
American Liner AmerIka. He will re
main in this city for q few days and
then so TO Washington.
Edgar J.. SonerS, freight traffic man
ager, Of The New York. New Haven 4
Hartford Railroad since 1868, died al his,
homo at New Haven, Conn, late Sat
urday night of neuralgia OF the heart.
A widow Il son, Paul. and q daughter,
Harriet. survive. Interment Will be Ut
Oak Wood cemetery, Chicago
Released on bonds. the mother and
son for $500 and the two daughters fer
$1,000 each and after having waived eX-
animation under Il plea of not guilty
made before Justice Holderman at
Dayton, o., the members Of the Gilman
family, charged with procuring the
ueatii Of bona Gilman. await the ac-
E l,n inv i,l,
be impanelled next September.
l. County Physician Andrew Mills COM
mitted suicide i'll his Office at Newark,
y. j., Sunday. lie cut his throat with
a Scalpel a teN minutes after leaving
the dining room where he had had
luncheon with his mother and sister
He had been in poor health and his re-
cent actions and conversations suggest
ed marked respondency. DR.. Mills was
IS years of age and unmarried.
w. o. Douglas. loan clerk of the
Trust Co. of America. was arraiSned
in the West Side police court at New
York Sunday and remanded without
bail on the charge of taking from the
company $4,000 in bonds. He was ar
rested Saturday on the complaint Of
Oaklcigh Tkorne. president of the Trust
Co. who discovered the loss of the
bonds and personally traced Douglas to
q hotel in 41th street
An explosion which IS attributed to IL
lighted cigarette stub carclcSSly thfuWn
aside, destroyed La Sultana, an extern
Sive fireworks factory al Chihuahua,
Mexico. causing q property loss of $780,
0G0 and fatally injured two of the en-
ploycs OF the plant. The explosion
shook the buildings of the city to their
foundations and spread terror among
the people who fell to their knees ut
terinS prayers to be saved from what
they thought was an earthquake.
A decomposcd body supposed to be
that Of Peter j. Kennedy. a we'll known
theatrical manager. who disappeared
Dec. %. was found in the water Sunday
night at the foot of Van Brunt street,
South Brooklyn. The body was 50 badly
decomposed that identification was di1Ti-
cult. Mrs. Kennedy. however, made 4
positive identification at the nlorgue.
In one pocket WAS found business cards
bearing the name #. j. Kennedy and
d Masonic identification card bore the
Same name.
y faction opposing their pastor. Rev
Freeman Chase, Sunday. made an at
tempt to deposc him and hold services
with another preacher and caused q
riot in the Free Will Baptist church at
Portsmouth, Ohio. The followers of the
different factions came to blows, We
men tainted and others fled screaming
into the streets. The police refused to
interfere. Order was finally restored by
the withdrawal of the new minister
and the elders. A ma iorty of the
church officials are opposed to Chase
who withdrew from the conference and
conducted the church independently.
William T. Stead in discussing the
Armenian question at Il rarlor meeting
Sunday night at the home Of his host
i'll Boston. ii. II. Gulcsian, suggested
that a league be formed of Armenians
outside Turkey and Russia for the pur-
pose of forming some definite plan of