Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-12-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

United States Inspectors of Steam
vessels Whitney and Stewart announced
Friday at New London, Ct, that thew
held Capt. George H. Williamson, mas
| ter of the steamer Commonwealth, of
the New York, New Haven & Hart
| ford Railroad Cos. Sound fleet respon-
sible for the collision with the Norwe-
glan steamer Tolund Sept. 26, which re-
suited in the sinking of the latter. dis
The Round Mountain Banking Cor
rcration OF Round Mountain, a town
6D miles north of Tonopah, New, has
closed its doors. Bad loans are given
as the cause. 1t is announced that
the bank will reopen business. The
bank is capitalized at $4,000 and has
deposits of about 100000
Col. Winthrop M. Merrill, who was
arrested q few days ago charged with
the larceny of 500 from Dominic and
Philip Jarridi, was released for want
of prosecution in the municipal court
in Boston Friday. So quietly were the
proceedings conducted that few In the
court room knew what was transpir-
ing. The Jarridi brothers said that
Col Merrill had made full restitution,
The technical charge against Col. Mer-
r1ll was the larceny of $1,000, but it is
understood that the defendant only
owed the Jarridi brothers 5000. 1t is
SAID Merrill paid them this sum and
also their counsel fees.
Shot four times in evident mistake
for her sister, Mrs l.. Noassy, whom
& hc icif irrr ~, l.os L.
at Hoboken, N. j., Friday, Miss An
ME Turner was removed from her sis
ters home to hospital in dying
condition. Stanislaus Lehman, a
boarder in the house, who had been
requested to leave, was arrested for
the shooting, after chase of several
blocks in which about go school chill
dren, out for recess, took part Leh-
man is said to have been asked to
vacate his room because he had been
acting strangely. He went away to
look for another place but returned
Friday afternoon and Immediately
opened fire on Miss Turner, apparent
ly mistaking her for the proprietor of
the house. Lehman fell asleep in his
cell 10 minutes after he was taken
to headquarters.
The courtmartial of First Lieut.. Ed
ward Gottlieb Of the Coast Artillery.
W hich was adjourned from New York
to Boston, has been conducted there
for two days without the presence of
the accused officer and the war depart
ment was notified Friday of his fail
ure to appear. Lieut.. Gottlieb was
arrested month ago on charges re-
lating to his dealings with business
firms, while acting for the quarter.
masters department. He was releas-
ed upon the personal recognizanee of
his counsel. Albert Cohen of New York.
Cohen told the court Friday that he
talked With Lieut.. Gottlieb on the
telephone, on Wednesday but has not
seen him since leaving New York
Several witnesses were heard Friday
ON transactions in which Lieut. Colt
Heb was involved
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy
was flied Friday in Boston. against the
Wine Cocoa Co. of Boston and accom-
panving the petition was a statement of
Alvin E. Bliss, the treasurer, admitting
that the company could not pay it's debts
and was willing to be adjudged bankrupt
The petitioning creditor, J. H. Jones of
Boston. has claim against the COM
pany for $44,Q7O.
STANDARD Oil Co. prosecutions at Find
lay, Ohio. in Hancock county, came to
sudden termination Friday when, at the
request Of Prosecuting Attorney David.
all the indictments against the company
were nclled. Judge Duncan made the en-
try. Prosecutor David's action resulted
IN. ~
practices that he sought to correct have.
it rs declared, all been eliminated, and
further that suits against the Standard
Co. are now being prosecuted by the at
torney general Of the United States, the |
attorney general of Ohio and the federal
courts of Missouri.
William E. Kibbe. whose automobile
killed Mrs Eliza r. Smith in front of the |
New York, New Haven & Hartford depot |
in Hartford, Ct. Oct. 10, while she was
alighting from a trolley car and vino
pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaugh-
ter, was Friday sentenced to four months |.
in jail. This is the second chauffeur sen-
fenced this week by Judge Case, the 9TH
err w. Fl. Phair. going to state prison
for four years. The court reviewed the
case in detail and said that the extenu-
ating circumstances we're many. Judge
Case Differentiated between Kibbe's case
and that Of Chauffeur Phair. who. he
said. killed a man while running a car
when under the influence of liquor.
Seven frame dwellings and a two
story business building were the toll
axacted Friday at Pine Bluff, Ark, by
The encroaching waters of the swollen
Arkansas river. Friday night the river
was slowing rising and the water is
gradually undermining another dyke.
'urther east, which will probably
rumble before Saturday night.