Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Earl of Dudley has been APP
pointed governor general of the COM
mohvealth Of Australia in succession
to Sir Henry Stafford Northcote,
whose term is about to expire.
1t is reported at ST. Petersburg that
ALE Marie Spiridonovo. who was ex-
lied tn Siberia two years ago for the
murder of the chief of police Of Tam
boy, has escaped and is now in either
Australia or New Zealand.
The New York Republican county
committee adopted resolution Thurs
day night in defence of the colored
troopers who were discharged from
the army by President Roosevelt as a
result of the Brownsville, Texas, affair.
The Carnegie Steel Co. took on a
new Industrial role Wednesday night
at Mingo Junction, Ohio. when the
plant there secured from the village
council a $4,000 trunk sewer contract
The company will use the contract to
give employment to its idle workmer
The new Norwegian cabinet has been
definitely approved by King Haakon
It is headed by Gunner Knudsen as
premier and minister of finance. The
late ministry resigned last week be-
cause a vote in Parliament showed it
could retain office only by favor of the
coalition parties, which it was not
willing to do.
CAPTAIN Cave and five of the crew of
the brigantine Gratia of st. Johns. n.
F., which was abandoned at sea in a
sinking condition Feb. IS. arrived
Wednesday night at Halifax, n. S.
from Barba does. They were taken off
by passing schooner. The captain
and three Of the crew will proceed at
once to New foundland.
Two men were killed and eight other
persons were injured Thursday when
an excursion train on the Internation-
al a. Great Northern Railroad bearing
a party of home seekers from Kansas
and Oklahoma. en- route to Las Palte-
mas, Mex. vas wrecked at Pearsall. Sc
miles south of San Antonio. Tex. The
derailment was caused by a broken
rail.
Twelve persons lost their lives and
about twice as many we're injured by
railroad accidents in the province of
Nova Scotia during the past year. ac-
cCrding to the annual report of the
provincial engineer. There We're but
two serious railroad wrecks in the
province during the year. these two
being responsible for half the number
of deaths.
The federal grand jury at San Juan,
p. r., Thursday returned an indict-
ment of nlanslaughter against Alex
ander Dickson. the carpenter of the
United States collier Abarenda, who,
Feb. 20. killed Chief Officer Weichert
o. the vessel in San Juan. Other ar
rests will follow. for several Of the
crew of the Abarenda are said to be
implicated.
A total of AZ arrests were made in
Berlin Wednesday in connection with
the suffrage demonstrations Nine po-
licemen sustained injuries in the en-
counters with the people. 1t is esti-
mated that so of the manifestants were
wounded. but it is probable that many
Others were hurt as the authorities
have no record of those who went
home and dressed their own injuries.
Herbert Kremer. son of President
William y. Kremer of the German
American Insurance Co. shot and kill
ed himself Thursday night in New
York, in the apartment of Mrs. Lafay-
cite B. Gleason, who was formerly the
wife of the clerk of the state Senate
and secretary to the Republican state
committee Mrs. Gleason said later
that Krener was Respondent because
of the termination by her of their we'd
ding engagement. Kremer was 80
years of age.
The firm of W. & A. Fletcher & Co
of Hobcken, n. j., was given perm;s-