Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Senator E. I. Stoddard of Portsmouth
introduced in the Rhode Island State
Senate Thursday a bill providing for a
tax of per cent on all inheritances in
.fat state amounting in value to more
than $500.
Governor Hughes left Albany, n. Y,
for Chicago Thursday night to speal,
n the meeting Of the Union League
Club of that city Saturday mornine
and TO attend the banquet of the club
in the evening.
Mrs. Gertrude Hull of Cincinnati won
he title of champion lady bowler Of
tho world Thursday night at Cincin-
mt ~ bowling 532 in the ladies in
.livi7Uals in the American Bowling
Congress tournament.
~rar'cs r Chichester. treasurer d
c Century Co. and a director and
trustee Of several New York banking
institutions, died Thursday from
"0mplication of diseases. He was
born in Troy N. Y, in 1S4S.
A small frame structure at Fairview
n. j., occupied rs an Italian boarding
house was blown to pieces Thursday
night by an explosive which had been
placed against the outside of the build
time was killed The landlady and her
thrao children escaped with slight in
juries
An adverse report upon the bill re-
moving the death penalty for murder
In the first degree was made in thc
Massachusetts Senate Thursday by the
committee on judiciary with a larg'
minority Of the committee as dissent.
erS, The measure is expected to de-
yelop the first noteworthy contest Of
the session.
The body Of a woman who drifted
ashore at Mattituck. l. l.. Wednesday,
after drowning in Long Island sound,
was Identified Thursday as that of
Her husband who made the identified
ton said that his wife disappeared
Nov. Is. that she had been nervous and
Respondent and that she must have
committed suicide.
Temporary receivers for the Mutual
Reserve Life Insurance Co We're ap-
pointed by Justice Platzek in the New
York state supreme court Thursday on
application of Attorney General Jack
son. The company now is in the hands
of receivers. appointed by the Federal
court The receivers appointed by
Judge Platzek are Joseph O'Donohue
and Joseph F. Hay.
BY the will of the late Mrs. Amy
Sheldon filed Thursday at Newport,
r. l., a bequest Of 100000 to Harvard
University is made in the codicil 1t is
requested that the money be used for
the rebuilding or enlargement of the
library building known as Gcre hall,
but if the corporation does not desire
to use the money in this way, it may
do otherwise.
Wireless messages from Magdalena
Bay say the cruiser Charleston, flag
ship of Admiral Swinburne's squadron.
has broken records previously made at
target practice. Last year at target
practice there the Charleston's crew
broke all previous target records and
this year they have beaten their own
record. 1t is understood that without
figures being given for sub-calibre rec
ords the Charleston set a new standard
for the navy.
A move which may result in placing
the Third Avenue Railroad Co, which
operates IA miles of street surface
railroads in Westchester county and
the Borough of the Bronx, in the hands
of receivers. was begun Thursday. The
Central Trust Co. gave notice that it
has begun a suit to foreclose a mort
gage of $4,000, 900, which the road gave
to the Morton Trust Co in 1900. The
Third Avenue road is leased for 999
years TO the Metropolitan Street Rail-
way Co., which is now in the hands of
receivers. 1t is controlled by the In
teroorough Metropolitan Co. The last
quarterly dividend on Third Avenue
stock was omitted on Nov. l last by
order of the United States circuit court.
Whitelaw Reid. American ambassador
to Great Britain. said Thursday from
New York for Europe on the steam