Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


committee Monday.
Freighters Monday started moving ~"
gallons Of gasolene from valdez, Alas
ka. to Fairbanks and Gibbons for use
by the automobile parties due from
New York in the spring.
After IL years of Punishment. Vladi-
mir Tchertkoff, a disciple OF Count
Tolstoi, has received PERMISSION to re-
turn to Russia He will leave London
soon for his native land.
The cold weather has strengthened
the coal trade so much that all the
Reading and the Lehish Valley Coal
Co. collieries have been ordered to
work six days a week until further
notice, instead of four.
The withdrawal Of Turkish troops from
the Persian territory to the west of Tab
riz, AS well as the more conciliatoiy spirit
shown at Constantirople. is regarded at
St. Petersburg as making the relation be-
tween Turkey and Russia decidedly better
and more peaceful.
Several titled foreigners who came
to attend the wedding of Miss Theo-
dora ShontS to the Due De Chaulnes
next Saturday, were passengers on the
steamer Kronprincessin Cecile which
arrived at New York Tuesday from
Europe They include the Duchess
D'Czes, sister of the Due.
While crossing the tracks at the
Boston 6. Maine station at Exeter. n.
II, Tuesday Luther burlington was
run down by a locomotive and soon
died Of his injuries. He was a single
man, 45 years old and lived with
sister in Stratham. a brother in New
buryport. Mass, also survives.
The mills of the International Paper
Co at Wilder, VT, the only manufac-
turing industry in that village, have
been shut down for an indefinite period,
throwing out of work about 900 per
sons. The shutdown is believed to be
a part of the general policy of curtail-
ment which the company has placed in
effect in its mills throughout New Eng
land.
1t was learned Monday night from
officers Of the American Car & Foundry
CO. of St. Louis, Mo, that 80 per cent.
of their total shop force have been
let out temporarily, owing to 4 slack
ening in operations. The company rtg-
ularly employs 10000 men in It's plants
in and near St. Louis OF this num-
Der about 5000 are out of work and
about 1900 will be laid off soon.
The Monadnock cotton mills at
CIaremOnt, y. H, which have been
running eight hours daily since Dec.
/, have resumed a full time schedule.
The mills of the Claremont Paper Co.,
which have been operated by the en-
tire working force on full time up to
now, have suspended operations in
definitely. The management states
that the shutdown will be n short
one.
President Patrick II. Mccormick of the
New York City branch of the Typograph-
ical onion known as the Zig Six, and
George W. Jackson and Vincent ]. Cos
tcllo. union organizers, Tuesday were
fined $3.50 each and sentenced to 20 days
imprisonment for disobedicnce OF an in
junction obtained by the 1ypothetae of
New York in 1906. Thomas bennett and
Thomas Sanderson were fined $50 on the
same charge. Sentence was imposed by
Justice Bischoff in the supreme court.
Following the announcement Monday
night at Providence. r. l., that Mars
den J. Perry and Colonel j. Edward
Studley were no longer directors of
the Title Guarantee Co, late Tuesday
afternoon. it became known that at
the annual meeting Of the American
Security Company Tuesday these men
We're not reelected directors of that
corporation. Samuel Pomeroy Colts
place on the directors board of the
Title Guarantee Co. has also been fill
ed
The trial of Raymond Hitchcock. the
comedian. was set Tuesday at New York
for Feb. -. despite the objections of his
counsel and the affidavit of representa-
tive of his theatrical manager that Hitch
cock has been booked to appear in various
parts of the country up to March G, and |
that HIS detention would cause a great f. |
nancial loss to his manager. Justice
bowling ruled that the financial loss to
the manager was an extraordinary rea-
son to advance for delay in the prose-
cuton of criminal case.
A motion to bring to the attention
of the Railroad Commission at a for
NAL hearing to be held as soon as
press from Is to % cents made this
week by the American and National
EXPIRES Cos. was unanimously carried
at meeting of the transportation COM
mittee of the Boston Merchants AS
ISOLATION Tuesday. Secretary Walcott
of the association stated that lie had
visited the express companies. hut
could obtain no concessions.
News has reached Montreal that nine
m"n have been killed by an explosion |
III the Standard Explosive Works at
Naudreuil. a summer resort some -
miles from Montreal. All the particu- !
lars available about the explosion are |
thct the men were thawing out dyna- |
mite and that the explosion was the |
result The Standard Explosive works |
are used for the manufactures OF high |
explosives. The names of the men
killed are: Bernard. burberry. Rosen. |
Rousseau. Cayvan. TANNER. Robillard,
Legault.
The submarines Cuttlefisll, Viper and
which were injured by the
ice in attempting to leave New York
ha rbor several days ago. We're placed
d,I-dncl< az tho RroOlxlyn