Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-04

- raco tracks, received favorable re-
mort Ont of 80 members present, Il de-
clared themselves in favor OF the meas
ure. The bill IL passed Will IN erect
abolish the long racing season which mas
marked the winter in New Orleans for
many years.
Receiving knife thrust that was IN
tended for her son, Mrs. Carollhe
Campbell, aged 80, wife OF Cornelius
Campbell, a bricklayer, was Wednes-
day night stabbed to death at their
home on East Goth street, New YORK.
The elder Campbell is under arrest
charged with the killing. Campbell II
is said, uuarrelled with his son George,
20 years old, when the latter chided
him for making no apparent effort to
obtain work.
The protracted contest in the do
cesar convention of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of Delaware over
the election of a bishop to succeed the
late Bishop Leighton Coleman came to
an end at a session of the convention
Wednesday at Wilmington, Del. The
clergy nominated Rev. Frederick Jo-
scph Kinsman, professor of history In
the Central Theological Seminary in
New York and the lay delegates
promptly confirmed the nomination.
United States Senator Thomas c. Platt
will be compelled to pay to the law firm
Of Marah, Winslow & Weyer $lf1 eN-
penses which they paid for Mrs Lillian
Janeway Plat, the senator's wife, DUR
ing the tendency of her suit for separa-
ton from tie senator. This was the
verdict of a jury in the New York SUI
preme court which heard the testimony
in the case Wednesday. The Jury was
unable to agree Tuesday night and the
cour. directed that they hand in sealed
verdict Wednesday.
'"rhe New York Iron Age" will say
Thursday: The full significance of the
concerted reduction in the price of steel
bars and small shapes cannot yet be
measured. 1t will probably lead to re-
adjustments of such collateral lines as
bands and merchant steel Many in the
trace regard it as the fore-rumer of
lower prices along the whole line Of
finished products. The fact that the
large steel interests are still in confer
ence in New York City is worthy of
mention in this connection.
Questioned by the banks officers
Wednesday about an apparent dis
crcpanCy in his accounts, Charles 7.
Muir, paying teller of the 42d street
branch of the Corn Exchange Bank at
New York asked to be excused until he
could obtain a deposit ticket to explain
the matter, went to the basement, and
after writing a brief confession that
oh hot al
in the head He died within an hour at
the hospital. Vice President Frew of
the Corn Exchange Bank stated to-
night that Muirs shortage WAS $G0GS |
George P. Billiard. president and |
treasurer of the Eastern Expanded |
Metal Co, of 1o1 fremont street, Bos- |
ton, was arrested late Wednesday up
on arriving from a fishing trip in
Maine by Inspector Armstrong on a |
lower court warrant, charging conspi- |
racy to defraud the city. 1t is the last |
arrest of those concerned in the So
called "Boston agreement" by which
it is claimed, the city was defrauded
in its contracts by the combination or
iron, steel and other firms. President
Billiard was released on $4,000 bail and
will appear in court Thursday.
Wednesdays features of the convcn
ion of the International Association
IF Police Chiefs at Detroit. Mich. were
IN eXtemporancous talk at the morn
ng session by Chief Shippy of Chica-
TO- who secuted the golden rule theory |
If dealing with offenders and a review
If the Detroit police in the afternoon.
Captain Henry Curran of Nashville.
Tenn, one of the veterans of the chiefs
attending the convention. Wednesday
,jccted negro from Il restaurant. The
'hcf was just about to order his
breakfast when the negro entered and
'at down on the stool next to the
southern police officer.
A Fredericton dispatch says that
here from the hcadwaters of the st
Iohn. says that at Edmundston, N. b,
Tuesday there was a report that eight
ncn employed by w. j. Noble on the
Cushing Cos. lumber drive We're like
V Dir JWned some days ago The story
vas that when the drive reached the
,ead of the corporation limits they
rear Edmundston, and have not been
loard of since. 1t was reported that
heir batcau was broken in two while
n the rapids at the mouth OF Big
Slack river and all were drowned. En-
,uiry ut F.dmundSton by telephone
allied to bring confirmation of the re-
BORT.