Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| JoHleu ny the TdllIOdus itti q
Former Governor William L. Doug
las Wednesday announced a gift of
$4,000 to provide land, building and
endowment for new day nursery in
BrocktCn, Mass.
The new battleship Mississippi sail
ed from the Philadelphia navy yard
Wednesday for Newport, to make a
final official trial trip. known as IAN
| acceptance run"
| Twenty-Five members of the Manila
and Fibre Paper Manufacturing As
sociato who were fined $1,000 each
recently for operating a combine in re-
straint of trade, paid their fines to
the United States circuit cour at New
| York Wednesday.
| Oxford University Wednesday conferred
a number of degrees upon prominent &c;
clesastics. Two Americans thus honcred
are Frederic Rogers Graves. Protestant
| Episcopal bishop of Shanghai. and John
Mckim, Protestant Episcopal bishop of
Toxic, who were given honorary degrees
OF doctor of divinity. The archbishop of
Toronto was also given this degree.
| Mr. and Mrs. George Gould are
about to set out from Paris on a brief
tour by automobile. 1t is understood
that they will finish their vacation in
Europe so as to arrive in the United
States before August l, if not earlier.
| 1t is probable that the automoblling
will not interfere with their presence
at the marriage of Mr. Gould's sister,
in London.
| A duel with swords was fought in
Paris Wednesday between M. Jouve-
net, a brother of the present editor of
| the Matin, and a lawyer named Bau-
delOt. Nj. Baudelot was wounded in the
right arm The quarrel between the
two men is an outcome of the libel suit
| brought by Senator Humbert against
the Matin for involving him in the
swintlles recently conducted in Paris
| by Henri Rochelle.
| The body of a woman about So years
of age, the hands and feet tied with
ropes. was found Wednesday in a
rooming house at 1912 Michigan ave-
| nue., Chicago. Finger marks on the
| throat indicated that the woman had
been choked to death. The woman
| went to the place last Saturday night
| in company with man who has since
disappeared. Mrs. Harry Morton, who
was in charge of the rooming house,
also has disappeared
| Sixty-two persons were killed by auto
mobiles in Massachusetts during the year
ending July l. according to the first annu-
al report issued Wednesday by the Safe
| Roads Automobile Association, an organ.
ization formed in June 1907. for the pur-
| of r. k
lessness attendant upon automobilng. OF
the number killed during the year u were
in automobiles and Al were not. Several
persons who were injured later died as a
result of their injuries. In addition Gao
persons were seriously injured CT whom
240 were in automobiles.
Walter J. Bartnett, former vice pres
ident and general counsel of the WeSterl
| Pacific Railway and vice president and
| general counsel of the California Safe
| Deposit and Trust Co., which failed in
San Francisco last November for about
s9.onO.0C0. was Wednesday sentenced to the
San Quentin penitentiary for 10 years by
Superior Judge Conley Bartnatt was
convicted of having hypothecated bonds
and securities to the amount of sos. 00t
belonging to the estate of Ellen NJ. Col
ton. of which he special administered
or. Bartnett's counsel Immediately took
an appeal after sentence was passed.
Two women were shot during an at
tack made on the boarding house at
II Winter street, Providence, shortly
after 1 P. M. Wednesday,, by Henry
Roberts, coored porter, who after
wards committed suicide. Mrs. Edna
Edmonds, keeper of the lodging house,
was shot in the left arm and right hip
and Mrs. Carrie Lloyd who was in the
room with her at the time received a
bullet in the body. The condition of
Mrs. Lloyd is serious Roberts sud
denly entered the house with a revol-
yer in either hand and commenced fir
ing at the women. No reason is yet
known for the attack
Seventy five thousand dollars in pub
lie requests is contained in the will OF
the late Mrs, Jerome Jones of Brook
line, Mass, which was allowed in the
Norfolk county probate court at Ded-
ham Wednesday. Requests of $4,000
each were made to the following in
i situations and organizations: Ameri-
can Unitarian Association. Transcript
Mutual Aid Society, Industrial Hon.
for Crippled and Deformed Children
Kindergarten School for the Blind
Boston Young Mems Christian Union
Children's hospital and the Brookline
Free hospital for women. The Home
for Aged Couples received bequest
of $4,000.
The story of a tiny girl burglar was
revealed in police court in New York
Wednesday when Annie Wilson, aged
nine years, was arraigned on a charge
of grand larceny. Apparently unaware
OF the seriousness of the crimes the
child told of how she successful-
ly committed over so burglaries and
identified every article of the stoler
goods which filled two boxes. She said
she was taught to steal by her elders
The child said she had learned how
to climb through rear windows and
rals1ct homes and that she carried
a1~a- hsr *i,oils in 4 little go-cart in
which she placed TEDDY bear tc
conceal the stolen property