Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Several tobacco beds on the farm of
Joseph Ware in Boyle county. Ken
lucky, were blown up by Might Rid
ers" Monday night
The sessions of the National Confer
ence Of St. Vincent De Paul ct Rich
nond, Va, Tuesday were devoted to
the reading and discussion of papers
bearing on the work of the organize
ton.
BY tile explosion of charge of
dynamite in the gangway of the Draper
colliery at Pottsvlle. Pa, Tuesday, one
man was killed and three others were
so badly injured that they are not eX-
pected to recover.
Two thousand employees of the ST.
Louis and san Francisco railroad
shops at Springfield Mo, were laid
off Tuesday for an indefinite period.
The reason assigned by the company
is financial depression.
A dispatch received at ST Peters,
burg from TabriZ Persia, says that
there was fighting all day Monday on
the streets of the city between the in
habitants and the newly appointed
governor and his followers.
1t is reported at Tangier from Fee,
that the people of that city have is
sued a proclamation declaring the
downfall OF Muai Hafid. the usurping
sultan Of the South and the restoration
to authority of Add FL Aziz. the sui
tan of record.
The annual convention of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers opened Tuesday at Youngstown,
Ohio. Tie convention will be in session
for two or three weeks and will fix the
scale of wages for union workers for the
v"ay beginning July !. 1905.
The eastbouud train on the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad ran into washout near
Srarksvile, near seymour. Ind. Tuesday,
the engine. mail. express and bagga ge
cars going down an embankment. The
engineer and fireman We're BADLY hurt.
None of the passengers was injured.
Governor Guild had his second outing
Tuesday since his sickness, his carriage
taking him through the Back Bay F'ens
for about an hour The governor will go
to his summer residence at Nahant on
Tuesday next If the weather permits and
his condition continues to improve.
Annie Seagrens. aged 6 years. of Ray
street, RoXbury. was instantly killed by
being run over by an express co;npany's
wagon in front of her home late Tuesday
jeremiah f. Driscoll of 80 Boston street
South Boston. the driver of the team, was
placed under arrest. pending investisa-
ton
Charles Kuppe. &C. years of age. a music
teacher at Cleveland. Ohio Tuesday end
ed the life Of his invalid daughter Mollie
aged y, with chloroform and then COM
mitted suicide by hanging. The father
had brooded over his daughters suffer-
ings and had frequently declared it would
be better if she were dead.
1t was announced Tuesday from the
headquarters at indianapolis, Ind. of
tho United Mine Workers of America
that the two-years wage contract en-
tered into at Toledo last month by
miners and operators of western Penn
sylvania. Ohio and Indiana had been
ratified by referendum vote of the
locals by 1900 to 1000.
The Duchess De Chaulnes. who was
Miss Theodore ShOnts of New York
and whose husband died suddenly in
Paris, April 23. will not return to
Amer lea with her father. Theodore p.
ShOntS, who went to Paris upon learn
ing of the death of his son-in-law. A
posthumous child is expected and it is
not considered safe for the duchess to
make the long journey to New York.
She will remain with her sister in law,
the Duchess DUzes. until after her
accouchment.
Rumors have reached Lima OF a rev.
dictionary uprising in the department
of Cuzco. The insurgents are said 20
hold the city of Cuzco, capital of the
province. The government will turn
over the political prisoners gathe red in
during the last few days to a military
court for trial. Ii has also confiscated
the arms in the possession of the shoot
ing clubs of Lima. The government
forces still occupy Mamucana. purand.
the man who started the revolutionary
movement near Lima last week. is
thought to be in the vicinity of Oroya.
At the annual meeting held at Birm-
inGham. Ala. Tuesday of representa-
tives of the Birmingham gun trade the
chairman announced that he had Just
received an intimation that the Aus
italian government had placed an eX-
ira duty of E5 per barrel on imported
guns not bearing authorized proof
marks. This. the chairman declared.
would put a stop to the Importation
OF improved ,arms from America. a
trade which Had grown to such proper
tions as to seriously injure the British
trade,
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