Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The French foreign office announced
Friday that Great Britain had accepted
fully and without reserve the Franco
Spanish note on the Moroccan situation.
The steamship Colon, half masted and
showing other evidences of disasters.
limping into port at Colon early Friday
morning. She had been badly battered
by the hurricane encountered Sunday
Three members of her crew lost their
lives while engaged in the hold repairing
water tank.
Thomas Conley, aged Is, and Clyde
Stokes, aged 16, We're instantly killed and
the other members of a football team
narrowly escaped death when they be-
came confused in crossing railroad tracks
adjoining the gridiron where they We're
to play practice game Friday evening
at Pittsburg, Pa.
Creditors whose claims against A.
Booth & Co, which recently failed, ag-
gregate less than $1,000 Friday filed with
the clerk of the United States district
court at Chicago a petition asking that
the firm be declared bankrupt The
case will be fought by w. j. Cha liners,
the receiver appointed by the United
states circuit court. when it comes up
before Judge Sanborn Monday. Re
ceiver Chalmers estimates the .iabili-
ties of the firm at close to $4,000, 800,
and the assets at $S.0o0,000
The body Of Major General Charles
Edward Luard was found Friday close
to railroad crossing near Watering
bury. Eng. He was crossing the track
when he was run down by q train
General LuarG'S wife was mysteriousiy
murdered the afternoon of Aug "a in
q desolate wood near Seven Oaks, a
short distance outside of London. No
trace of the murderer ever was found,
but the motive apparently was rob-
bery. valuable rings having been talk
en- from Mrs. Luard's fingers Major
General Luard was a retired officer of
the Royal Engineers. He entered the
army in 1857.
One machine in paper mill of the In
tcrnationai Paper Co. at Franklin, n. H..
was started Friday and it was announced
that pulp mill h would start late in the
afternoon. The entire plant has been
closed since Aug. l owing to the strike of
the members of the Papermakers Urion
The differences seem as far as ever from
settlement, but the partial running of
the mills will be attempted by superin-
tendents. overseers and such non-union
men as can be secured in the city. The
pulp workers, who belong to a different
union, are not on strike and are ready to
work at airy time. About 60 men will go
to work
Two young men who described them
selves as Andrew Sellon, Is years old,
OF BrOokllne. Mass, a Harvard stu
dent. and Patrick DOnohue. 49, of
bridgeport, a Yale student were ar
rested Friday at the 125th street rail-
road station in New York City, after
they had taken perilous ride from
Stamford, ct. When the train. a fast
express, drew into the station, the two
boys We're clinging to the steps urlver
the vestibule of one of the cars They
We're covered with dust and grease and
were almost completely exhausted
from the effort of clingng to their in
secure places under the flying train. |
The Sc miles from Stamford was made
in as minutes.
Considerable mystery at present sur
rounds the fate of woman named
Harriet Newton, 80 years of age, who
was found dead Friday in her apart |
ments at 81 Carpenter street. Provi- !
dence. r. I. Bruises about her eyes and
chin and the left side of her body APP
pcared to the police to denote death by |
other than natural causes and they are
awaiting the autopsy to determine |
their future course. In the meantime |
Raymond Hanks, who told the police |
that he had worked as a bartender and |
machinist and who it is alleged occu- !
pied the apartments with the woman |
is being held as witness. as are two |
women who also lived in the same
house.