Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

| TIE Will Of Thomas Bailey hldrirh tro
! pct, which was fled for probate Fridny
at Boston, contains no public bequcsis
Its provisions are not made public
| Fir Friday destroyed the plant Of tn,
Magnolia stove Works and damaged thai
| Of the Memphis 1IYGIaulic Brick CO. ut
Memphis, Tenn. Loss $500; partially in
| surcl.
| The steamer Bluecher with Speaker
| Cannon and his congressional party on
| board arrived Friday at Havana from
Colon. The visitors received Gov. Ma
COON at the palace.
The woman's and minors overtime
| bill was passed to be engrossed in the
Massachusetts Senate Friday Only one
member voted in the negative. The
| rules were Immediately suspended that
| the bill could be returned to the House
| for enactment.
Former Representative James +. Ne
Cleary of Minnesota was Friday sworn
| in as Second assistant postmaster general
! i'm succession to William S. Shauenber-
| ger, resigned. The office was held by
! General Shallenberger for 10 years and
he vacated it in order to engage in pr-
vato business.
Fire Friday night destroyed the "Wet
milr' or grinding department of the
Castatia Portland Cement Co, at Cas-
| tatia, Ohio. One hundred men are tenn
pOrarily thrown out Of work a strong
| wind was blowing and for time many
residences in that section of the village
| We're threatened.
The Stock Exchange at Brussels,
Belgium, was closed Friday Gu ac-
count Of holidays, hut the street oper-
ations in stocks We're dull. No failures
have been announced since the settle
rlert when the suspension of four firms
| resulted, according to report, in a to-
| tai loss of about 100000.
Abraham 3. Kaufman. secretary and
treasurer Of 4 Detroit, Mich, Wine COM
pany. was arrested Friday at the in
stance of the federal authorities in Mo
| bile, Ala, who charge him with trans-
| hitting tickets of the Honduras Lo.-
| terry Co. through express companies. lie
gave bail OF $12,5C0 for his appearance
| April 4.
Hes all right. He is about as good
a Democrat as there is This reference
was made of the President by James
| Watson Gerard, the chairman of the
Tammany Hall Democratic campaign
| committee, as he came from the White
| House offices Friday. after a brief call
On Mr.. Roosevelt. Mr.. Gerard's visit
| was personal one.
| Cardinal Luigi Macchi. secretary of
| apostolic briefs, died at Rome Friday.
after a sickness of only II hours. He
| celebrated mass Thursday morning,
| ~, l,@ &c
| and died Friday as the result of an
| apoploctic stroke. The deceased cardinal
was born in Brazil in 1892 and was ele-
waited to the Sacred College in 1889.
Four boys were run down and in
| stantly killed by il light engine on the
| Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at Indian
| Church Road, near the eastern city line
Of Buffalo, Y. Y, Friday night. They
| were returning from hunting trip and
were walking along the tracks. A pass
| ing freight drowned the noise of the
| approaching engine, which ran them
| down. The dead are Anthony Phillips,
| 10 years; Frederick Phillips, Is years.
a brother of Anthony; Otto Mertz, II
years: Hugh Reavy. IA years.
| Fifteen years in state prison at hard
| labor is the sentence passed Friday at
| Salt Lake City upon Michael McCabe
and w. J. Oleary. United States SOL
Ialiers. who We're convicted of attacking
and robbing Harold Berrum of s15 a
month ago. In passing sentence Judge
| Armstrong Of the district court. severe
| ly scored the men for violating the oath
| they had taken to protect citizens. Up
on orders from Washington the men
were deprived Of their uniforms before
being brought into court to receive
| sentence.
Jennie Burch, the 15-ycar-old girl
| who Thursday at Carmel. N. Y, was
declared not guilty of murder by reason
of insanity will be taken to the asylum
for the criminal insane at Mattewan
Saturday. Now that the strain of the
trial is past ard her fate certain, a
marked improvement is shown in the
condition of the girl. In a talk Friday
she declared that she intended to study
and work hard to prove to the doctors
at Mattewan that she is now well. She
still holds, to her ambition to become a
school teacher. All the doctors connect