Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

eral Wednesday at The Hague APP
proved the treaty Of commerce with
the United States.
George G. Phelps, 80 years DID, while
temporarily insane from effects of heat
and nervous prOstration, killed himself
at his farm in West Andover, Mass,
| Wednesday, by shooting himself in the
head with Il shotgun. He had been in
poor health for six months. A mother
and two sisters survive.
The two-masted schooner Acatia Of
Kingston, Ont, Capt. William Simmons,
| bound from Oswego for Kingston and
| laden with coal, was driven on shoal
near Sackets Harbor during the gale on
Lake Ontario Tuesday night. The crew
of five men was rescued by Sackcts Har-
Dor boatmen before the life saving crew
4 reached the scene.
4 The, swift Cunard liner, Lusitania has
| broken another speed record by logging
4 CAB nautical miles a day. according to
| information received Wednesday by the
| Cunard Line officials in New York. The
4 I.usitania previously held the speed rec
1 ord at GIL miles per day. The new fast
I run was made on the first day out from
| Queenstown, whence she sailed for New
| York on July 5.
Rear Admiral James IT. Dayton, COM
mander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet ac-
corGing to orders issued by the navy de-
partment Wednesday will be relieved OF
duty on the 31st inst and ordered home
to await his retirement on Oct e5 Rear
| Admiral William +. Swinburne. COM
manding the second squadron, succeeds
| him in chief command.
A call was issued at Pittsfield
| Wednesday for an Eastern interstate
negro press convention, OF be held in
Pittsfeld curing the. first three days of
September. The call states in part:
1--WE believe the political situation, so
far as the negro is concerned, is in a
critical state, andas that sometime
must and Tcan be- done. by the united
effort of the negro Apress.'"
Russia's first ambassador to Japan
M. Malevsky Maleritch, arrived at
| Toxic Wednesday to relieve Minister
I3akhmetieff from duty at the legation
| NJ Bakhmetieff ana his wife, an
| American, We're granted an audience
with the Emperor and afterwards en-
tertained at Tiffln by the Emperor and
| Empress.
| Emil SandeZa, a well-known stock
man on Pine Creek, several miles
northeast of Alliance. Neb.. was killed
| Tuesday by F. f. Newman, q hired
man on a neighboring ranch. The kill
ing is declared: to have been. the result
of scandal in (which Newman figured
and which he accused Sandeza of cir
culating.
| Advices from Seoul state that the gov
| eminent troops continue their activity
| against the insurgents and many engage
ments are reported throughout the dis
| turbed area. Within range of eight
miles the daily losses of the insurgents
average 10 killed. Altogether 1895 insur
gents have surrendered up TO the present
| time.
| During the present week between 1Sl
| and 200 Americans will leave Panama city
for all parts of the republic to watch the
| casting of, votes in the elections next Sun
| day of Presidential electors. In spite Of
| the fact that Senior Arias has Withdrawn
from the Presidential contest the support
| ers of Senor Obaldia. the other candidate,
are continuing his campaign. Quiet pre-
walls throughout the republic.
| To control absolutely. if possible, the
| sale and use of narcotic drugs and es-
| pecialy of preparations which term
ed "harmess headache powders" the
| Connecticut state dairy commissioner 3
| office, acting upon reports of analysis of
such drugs and preparations given by
| the state chemist, has notified state at
torneys to bring proceedings against a
| lar ,1a,. nf lr,,cr erfc CT Foc NJ
| legged violation of the pure drug law The
| druggists have been granted the right to
submit evidence bearing upon the inter-
probation of both the federal and state
drug acts before prosecutions are begun.
The state department Wednesday an
nounced the appointment of William
| HanGlcy of New York as consult general
| at Bona, Congo Free States: also these
| consuls: Arthur Garrels of Missouri, at
| Zanzibar: Samuel c. Reat of Illinois, at
| Port Louis. Mauritiur; Douglas Jenkins
of South Carolina. at st. Pierre, st. Pierre
| Island Adam Lieberknecht of Illinois, at
Alden, Arabia: Frederick y. Cloud Of To-
| wa. at Antung, China: Edgar D. Turner
of Pennsylvania, at Maskat, Oman;
| Thomas w. Hastings of California. at
Swallow, China.
| 1t is now six days since the gas explo-
sion in the coal mine at Yusovo. Russia,
| that resulted in over 200 miners losing
their lives. and it IS believed there are
still so men down in the mine. "A man
was rescued Wednesday from the eastern
side of the shaft. He reported the pres
ence of a squad of men in the eastern
| section of the mine at the time of the
explosion. and said he had heard contin-
ual groans from his imprisoned comrades
This story is corroborated by the fact
| that over so men are still unaccounted
| for. .:. ...,...-.
The suit of the distillers to enjoin the
internal revenue officials from enforcing
the rev branding and marking rules met
with defeat late Tuesday at Cincinnati.
when United States Circuit Judge Lur-
ton declined to grant a rehearing to the
| local whiskey interests in their injnnc-
ton case against the commissioner Of in
ternal revenue to prevent the enforcement