Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-04-23

of Capt c. DeForest Chandler and had
as passengers Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.,
Capt. Fitz Hugh Lee and Capt. Robert
Q. Van Horn. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.,
sent several messages from Wilmington
before leaving. One of these was to his
father and the other to his sister. Miss
Ethel. They announced his safe landing.
The distance traversed by the balloon is
1856 miles.
Frederick w. Jenkins, aged IS years,
who was assaulted on Fruit Hill ave-
nue., North Providence. r. l., Jan. II,
is dead from cerebral hemorrhages
and the police of North Providence
have had the case reported to them as
murder. Jenkins worked on the farm
of Mrs. Elisha Dyer wife of the late
Governor OF Rhode Island. He was re-
turning home early in the morning
when two robbers stepped into the
roadway and demanded his money
They beat him terribly and when he
was found later he had to be taken to
his home.
Judge kohlsaat in the United States
circuit court at Chicago Wednesday
issued an injunction against five ex-
press companies, restrai lining them from
issuing franks and from transporting
property i'll interstate commerce in ex-
change for franks. The companies en-
joined are the National, American
Wells Fargo, United States and
Adams. Judge Kohlsaat's decision.
which is the outcome of suits filed sew
eral months ago by District Attorney
Sims. declares that the issuance Of
franks by the companies is a violation
of the interstate commerce law.
In an opinion sent to the Rhode Island
Senate Wednesday the supreme court de-
clares the appointment law constitution
al. Governor James H. Higgins. who has
refused to commission Il state officers
until the opinion had been rendered, will
now furnish the officers with their creden-
tials According to the law, which has
attracted general interest, the governors
appointments are referred to the Senate
who may lay them on the table for three
days and then appoint whoever they will.
This year Governor Higgins declared the
law unconstitutional and it was referred
to the supreme court. Thirteen officers
were appointed by the Senate this year.
Brigadier General Lawrence N.
Duchesney, one of the best known mill
tary men in Massachusetts,, died at his
home in East Boston Wednesday after
long illness, aged SO years. He was
native of Ontario but came to Massa-
chusetts when boy. He served
throughout the Civil War in various
regiments and had been connected with
the Massachusetts militia for many
years. He was former commander of
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company. He had also held various
positions in the Boston custom house
and was prominent in fraternal circles.
A son and a daughter survive.
While fire apparatus from Boston
was responding to a call from Somer-
cille to assist the Somerville depart
ment at a fire in the East Somerville
round house of the Boston & Maine
Railroad Wednesday night several ac-
cidents occurred. District Chief Fox
and his driver, Thomas Callahan, were
thrown out of their wagon on Bulfinch
street and badly shaken up. The horse
ran away and collided with a cab driv-
en- by Charles s. Hurley. Hurley was
thrown to the pavement and slightly
injured about the head. In Charlestown
one of the light wagons running to
the fire struck John ReinolGs. aged As,
and fractured his collar bone. He was
sent to the hospital.
The case of IS Cinnamon who were
arrested in Nova Scotia last year on
the charge of entering Canada without
payment of the head tax on Chinese
immigrants and who were fined $10O
each in thp local NJ made
the subject of an International inquiry.
After the Cinnamon had paid the fines
imposed on them. their counsel carried
the case to the supreme court of Nova
Scotia which ordered the return of the
fines on the ground that under the
Dominion laws, while the Cinnamon
could he sued to recover the head tax,
they could not legally be arrested and
imprisoned. The amount of the fines.
however, has not yet been repaid to
the Cinnamon and their counsel have
applied to the Chinese government to
have the matter taken up with the
British government. No response 10
their application has yet been received.
Mulai Hafid, the newly acclaimed
Sultan of Morocco is half-brother to
Abd-el-AZiz, the legitimate ruler. He
Is about thirty years old. a year or
two older than the other, who was
the son of a more favored wife. Mulai
Hafid is an intelligent man, possessing
great legal and religious learning. and
is a strictly orthodox Mohammedan.
He is foe to European extravaganza
and tries in vain to restrain his broth
er, from listening to the commercial
agents who were always persuading
him to buy bicycles, gramophones and
other modern inconvenience.
At a meeting of the Young Mems