Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-13
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Two slight shocks, believed to have
been earth tremors. were felt Thursday
morning at Sedalia, Mo Windows and
doors We're violently shaken but no
damage was done.
John Endini. the italian held on the
charge of numbering John Mckay at
Mimic, was Thursday at St John.
n. E., committed for trial before the
circuit court.
An epidemic of diphtheria is report
ed i'll Carauuet, n. B.. on the north
shore of the province. There have been
several deaths-one report says 40 fa-
tai cases. The Provincial Board of
Health Thursday took charge and sent
an official to the place
Further news was received by the
Shanino Maru at Victoria, B. c..
Thursday regarding the recent seal
raiding tragedy at Copper island Ac-
cording to later advices. the Russian
gunners shot six men of the rading
schooner Boso Maru and three Others
previously reported shot We're drowned
when attempting to escape.
The death of John Watson, the fa-
nous polo player at Navan. County
Meath, Ireland, is announced He won
the championship cup of England
three times, and was captain of the
British polo team that went to the
United States in 1856 and that brought
back the American cup to England.
He had been master of the Meath
Hounds since 1891.
After several witnesses had testified
Thursday, OF ~, -,
agents of the Florida East Soast Rail-
road, charged with keeping employees of
the company in peonage. Judge Hough
in the United States court brought the
proceedings to an abrupt close by refus-
ing to hear further testimony until the
government had established the Conspir-
acy charge against the defendants.
pair of ice tongs were used with dead
!y effect Thursday to settle a icud that
has existed for several years between two
East Side, New York City, ice men, Louis
Schneider ana Harry Feurerstein. -Four
erstein attacked Schneider with a knife.
Schneider. according to several witnesses.
grabbed q pair of ice tongs and struck at
the head of his rival The tongs opened
and one of the prorgs buried itself in the
brain of r'uererstein, killing him almost
instantly. Schneider was arrested.
Mrs. Alice Johnson said to be d Boston
woman. is being detained by the police
at Providence pending an investigations
The police seized trunk full of furs
which had been checked by Mrs. John-
son at the Union station 2nd ere en-
deavorinS to ascertain if the furs are
the property Of the woman. The furs are
not part of those stolen from u Prov-
dence dealer. The Portland. Me. police
will be asked to see if they can ''ientify
them, several robberies having occurred
recently in that city.
The students of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology were advised
to go West by President Benjamin
Ide Wheeler of the University of Cal
ifornia in an address before several
hundred of the students late Thursday.
Previous to the address President
Wheeler. who had been offered the
of Technology. the an
was made to the students
for the first time of the appointment
of Prof. Richard c. MacLaurin as pres
ident of the institute. The announce
ment was received with cheers
Two more bodies of the victims of the
fire which consumed the grain elevator
at Richford, VT, five weeks ago were dis
covered Thursday by the men engaged IN
overhauing the ruins. One of the bodies
Is believed to be that of James Cottle OF
East Haverhill. n. H., who had removed
here with his family only a short time
before the fire. The other body is thought
20 be that of Harris Joubel of Sutton. "a
There are believed to be four more bod
es in the ruins as the fire is still smouid-
tring in the great heaps of grain, 1t mas
,een impossible as yet to make a complete
search