Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-11
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

All grades of refined sugar were adj
vanced 10 cents hundred pounds Friday
at New York.
Announcement was made Friday of the
election of Senator Rathbone Gardner OF
Providence. r. l., as president of the re-
organized Union Trust Co.
John William Strut. Lord Reyleigh,
was Friday elected lord chancellor of
Cambridge University in succession to the
late Duke of Devonshire.
Sheip & Vandergrift's cigar box fac
tory, and the plant of the Philadelphia
Veneer & Lumber Co. in the northern
central part of Philadelphia, were total
ly destroyed by fire Friday. A number
of small dwellings adjacent were also
damaged. The loss is estimated as $780,
co.,
In order to fulfill one OF the aualifca-
tons of sky-pilots required by the Aero
Club of America, A. Holland Forbes of
New York and Mason II. Arnold OF North
Adams, Mass, made an ascension at 3
o'clock Friday morning and four hours
later landed safely half a mile outside
of Athol. A distance of e. miles was COW
cred.
Miss Mary Robinson, one of the wit
nesses in the bruce case. was Friday
sentenced at the Old Bailey in London
to four years penal servitude for will
full perjury. The passing of sentence
upon Mrs. Margaret Hamilton. another
bruce witness, who Thursday was
found guilty of wilful perjury and con-
spiracy, has been postponed pending
an appeal on points of law.
The proceedings at Fridays sessions
of the annual conference of the presi-
dents and officers of the College Young
Mems Christian Associations of the
East at New Haven. CT, included adj
dresses by Z. c. Jenkins of New York;
George M. Duff of Princeton; Harry
T. Maker of Columbia; d. L. Kelsey of
Cornell; c. S. Campbell of Yale: f. c.
Wood Of the University of Penusylva-
MIA and c. s. Cooper of New York.
The police of Paris have taken into
custody three well-known Anarchists
named Kuhn, ROuX and Roussel. They
also captured a cart loaded with dy-
Mantle which the prisoners had in
their possession. 1t is believed that
the men are connected in some way
with plot directed against the men
who have taken a prominent part in
supporting the gigantic lockout which
went into effect in Paris April 4, af-
fecting 100000 workmen in the building
trades.
Fire in the big Franklin building in
New York Friday caused a loss of at
least $4,000. and thousands of gallons
of water which was poured on the
flames soaked dozens of offices on the
five lower floors of the building. So
serious was the damage by water in
addition to that caused by the fire
that none of the firms below the sew
enth floor were able to open for bus
mess. The offices of Hauchy & Co Ad-
vertising Agency on the sixth floor
were swept clean by the flames. All
their records and files were lost.
Fire, said to be incendiary, burned
two three story, three tenement houses
owned by George A Flagg, in Boylston
Center, Mass, Saturday morning and
threatened several others which were
saved by apparatus from Clinton and
Worcester. In the first that caught,
the three families, Mrs. George A.
Flagg and five children, Gustave
Peterson, wife and three children,
George H. Bruso, wife and child, es-
capped scantily clad, saving none of
their property. The second house was
occupied on the third floor by the
family of. Edward Warren, wife and
child. Property loss is estimated at
$4,000.