Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-13
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

gaZetted BRUSH consul general u
New York.
Carl Hedfeldt and Earl Gustavson.
cousins. each II years old. were suffocat-
ed by the eaving in of a dug-out in which
they We're playing Friday at Chicago. The
bodies were recovered by members OF a
fire engine company.
The Nebraska supreme court Friday
granted restraining order against the
express companies doing business in the
state forbidding them to charge latea in
excess OF the schedules prescribed by the
Sibley act. The order goes into effect
April Is. The Sibley act reduces express
rates % per cent.
A special to the Montgomery Adver-
tiser from Pensacola says: '"The arriv-
al OF strike breakers at Pensacola
Friday to end the street railway strike
brought out serious rioting. There
We're several pitched battles and a
number of persons were hurt"
Daniel J. Donovan, charged with
completely in the burglary of the
home Of Mrs. Julia Fenton was held
in $4,000 bonds Friday at Lynn for a
hearing Saturday. Charles E. Mcintyre
was unable to leave the hospital Fri
day, hut it is expected he will appear
in court.
The monument erected by the state of
Minnesota in the National park at Shiloh
to the memory of the Minnesota soldiers
who fell on that battlefield was dedicat-
ed there Friday. Governor Johnson and
his staff, accompanied by a party of so
prominent men of Minnesota, were pres
emit.
Announcement is made of the team
which is to represent Yale University in
the debate with Harvard on May 1. 1t is
as follows: Howard Francis Bishop, 1910,
L. S., of Chicago; Edward Otis Proctor
1909. of Wakefield. Mass. and William
Milford Wynkoop, 1865 of Tacoma,
Wash.
One man killed, railroad traffic impeded
by !andsides on the Missouri Pacific and
the st. Louis & San Francisco lines near
koplir, and mines inundated near Badger
and Peacock Field, are some of the feat
ures of food that is sweeping south
western: Missouri. Lcvie Sewer, miner
was drowned in the Iroquois mine Fri
day.
Judge Pollock in the United States
circuit court at Oklahoma City Friday
night sentenced C. r. Billingsley, for
merly president of the Capitol Nation
al Bank to serve Z years and months
in the federal prison at Levingsworth
Billlngsley was convicted on a charge
of Incorporating bank funds.
Rev. Father Joseph A. Graham, aged
As. rector of the Roman Catholic church
of the Blessed Sacrament in Albany, N.
Y, twice shot himself in the heart Fri
day afternoon while in his study. He
died almost instantly. In the opinion of
Bishop Budke, who was called soon after
the suicide was discovered, Father Ora
ham was not in his right mind. He was
native of Albany and brother of Ma
tional Bank Examiner Edward J. Ora
ham.
The Consolidated Gas Co. of New
York through it's counsel Friday ask
ed Judge Hough in the United States
circuit court for an order directing the
return to the company OF $4,823, 900,
which is claimed as it's part of the ST.
oOOOOO paid into the court by the gas
companies of the city since the pas
sage of the 80 cent gas law in 1906. The
application for the return of the money
is based upon Judge Hough's recent
decision that the so cent gas law is un-
constitutional
Many distinguished guests attended
the annual banquet of the Board of
Trade at the Algonquin Club at
Bridgeport. Conn, Friday night and
heard much praise given to the city
of Bridgeport and it's varied industries.
The chief guest was Senator Robert
l.. Owen Of Oklahoma, and his adj
dress was greeted with great applause
His toast was Peoples Rule in Okla
homa"
1t was announced Friday night that
the Smith & Anthony stove foundry in
Wakefield, Mass, which has been shut
down for the past 16 weeks, would
strt up on full time beginning Mon
day next. Two hundred hands are en-
ployed. At the factory of the Haywood
Brothers and Wakefield Rattan Co..
where all departments have been run
ming on short time for several weeks,
about half Of the departments will go
on full time next week. This will affect
500 hands.
The American schooner H. e.
Thompson. bound from Baltimore,
March rs, for Port Royal, Jamaica,
has been wrecked. Capt Hardy, his
wife and child. and crew. who were
saved, arrived Friday at ST Thomas,
D. w. I. The Thompson sank off the
island of Anegada, on the British West
Indies, after striking reef The
schooner H. e. Thompson was built in
Machias. Nc. in 1889 and her home
port is Boston. She had a gross tom
mage of 6SS and net tonnage of SO9
Her length was 1884, breadth 34.5 and
depth 1871. Ordinarily she carried
crew of eight men,
The greater part of the fifth day of
the New England conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Wor-
cester. Mass, was devoted Friday to
the election of ministerial and Law
delegates to the general, conference at
Baltimore in May and to the voting
upon candidates for deacons and
elder honors and the admission to full
connection as preachers Of those who
had completed the full course of pre-