Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-16
NEWSY BITS.
A Glance At What is Happening in
Many Places.

A Glance At What is Happening in
Many Places.
With view of placing all diplomatic
and consular matters relating to Japan
and China in the hands Of officials ia
miliar with conditions in the Orient,
the state department has perfected the
organization of a Far Eastern bureau
which will have charge Of all the cor
respondence and preliminary negotia-
tions with the Oriental governments.
Huntington Wilson, the third assistant
secretary of state, who for a number of
wears served as secretary to the
American legation and embassy at
Toxic, is chief of the new bureau.
The bodies of two persons who had
killed themselves during the day by
inhaling Illuminating gas. were found
Saturday at New Haven. Ct. Frank P.
Pfegahr, Jr.. who was associated with
his father in tool making. killed HIM
| self in spare room at his home on
/ Dwight street. Depression over sick
ness and business affairs IS given as
the cause. In her apartment in Will
liams street, Mrs. Winsor Of whom lit
| tie is known, killed herself dressed in
her best clothes. To make death GER
tain she had covered her head with a
cardboard box. Mrs. Harvey Barnes.
aged &c, was burned to death while
filling a lighted oil stove.
The Russian steamer Sartov arrived
in New York harbor Saturday carrying
| the crew of the schooner Shepherd
King which was run down and sunk
off the Georges shoal Friday. The
Sartov struck the schooner Friday
morning off the George shoals in a
dense fog. The crew of the schooner
reached the steamer in a dory.
| A dispatch from Johnson City, Tenn,
says that six persons met instant death
and 90 were wounded when the east
bound vestibule No. AZ. on the South
ern Railway, collided with a switch
engine one mile west of johnson City,
| Sunday night.
The charred remains Of Melton Rich
ardson were found in the ruins of his
| house which was burned Saturday
morning. Richardson was a Civil War
veteran and lived alone. He was in
the habit Of entertaining friends tho
night after receiving his pension and
people who had occasion to pass the
house late Friday night heard shouting
and singing. 1t is believed that Rich
ardson was murdered and robbed and
! the house burned to conceal the crime.
| Louis Perleutter, 10 years old, was
drowned in the Merrimac river Sunday
at Lawrence Mass. while bathing.
The body was recovered.
A dispatch from Odessa says that
seven persons were killed and many
| injured by an explosion in secre.
| bomb factory in that place Saturday.
Over 300 Elks Of Boston. lodges head
| ed by band, marched through the
streets of Boston Sunday and later
embarked at the South station on trains
for Philadelphia to attend the nation
| al convention Of the order. The Boston
( members were Joined by several hun
dreds of others representing lodges in
Winthrop. Newburyport, Haverhill,
Maiden and other New England cities.
Announcement was made at a meet
ing Of the Central Labor Unoin at Phil
adelphia Sunday that all firemen in the
employ of the Standard Oil Co.
throughout the country would go out
on strike Tuesday. Several thousand
men will be affected. The trouble, it is
said has been brewing for some
months. the company demanding that
the men leave the union or quit their
employ.
What is reported to be a new worlds
record in coast gunnery according to
the officials having in charge the prac-
tice at Fort Heath, Winthrop, Mass.
last week. has been made by the 18th
Co, United States Coast Artillery,
Captain Hase commanding. The gum
ners made six hits in minutes and 40
seconds on target 5000 yards away
which was being towed at the rate Of
five miles an hour.
Mrs. Martha Maguier of New Glou-
cester, Mass, who at 80 is surprisingly
active. rescued her great-grandson. an
lntant, from a savage bull Thursday.
She was in the house and the child
was IN a go-cart in the yard. She
looked out and saw the animal about
to make rush for the cart and child.
rushed out. caught the child and reach
ed the house just as the bull tossed
the go-cart on his horns. Mrs. Ma
guier was none the worse for her ex-
citing experience.
The small village, Hahnville, La,
consisting Of Jail. a court house, one
store. river landing and a few farm
houses. will Monday become the scene
Of the most important criminal trial in
Louisiana in a decade. Although the
indictments. which charge ten Italians
with murder call only for ferreting out
who kidnapped and strangled Walter
Lamen, an 8-year-old New Orleans
boy, month ago, the real aim is the
suppression Of the Italian violence in
this state. Owing to the state of pub
lie feeling special session of the court
mas been secured and the state militia
placed at the disposal of the sheriff al
though it is very unlikely 1t will be
needed.
Ihere are at present about 1900