Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-12-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Archbishop w. Ii. OConuell Thursday
received a gold watch as a Christmas
gift from Pope Plus. 1t came by special
messo niger and was enclosed in a case
masnificently carved.
A Detroit Free Press special f"om An
COLA Ind, says: "a south bound Lake
Shore train on the branch between jack
son, Mich, and Fort Wayne Ind. was
wrecked Thursday night a mile and a
half north of Pleasant Lake. Ind. sixteen
people were injured, five seriously. The
wreck is attributed to a broken nanSe."
A Christmas gift of $4,000 by Mrs. Eliz-
abeth +. Stevens, Il wealthy philanthropy
list of Swansea, to Union hospital OF Fall
River was announced Thursday. Another
gift announced is from the heirs OF the
estate of the late Miss Elizabeth NJ. Ror-
den. providing for fund of $4,000 to en-
dow five beds for crippled children
Because she diluted milk with water
and sold it to her customers, Mrs. Nellie
Burns of Saugus, who conducts large
dairy farm, was fined $500 in the East
Cambridge superior court by Judge Bond
Thursday. The fine is one of the heaviest
ever imposed by the state courts for the
| offence.
james Corrigan 70 years old, who had
| a bitter financial struggle with John D.
| Rockefeller about Is years ago and who
| afterward made millions in ore coal, YES
| sci and furnace industries, died Thurs
day at Cleveland Ohio, from the effects
| of an operation for appendicitis recently
! performed.
| Emperor Francis Joseph leading the
| two Youngest of his grandchildren and
| followed Ly all the members of the roy al
family. at > o'clock Thursday evening en-
| tered the great saloon of the palace at
Vienna. where a huge Christmas tree has
| beer set up. The Emperor himself pre-
| scented the iunperal children with gifts
| and examined the presents which the
family had prepared for him.
| Henry ENWarner will receive $4,000 for
| his services as receiver of the Arnold
| Print Wolks>$10,O00 of this amount being
| II compensation as receiver of the allied
concerns OF the Williamstown Manufac-
| turing Co and Gallup & Houghton Co,
according to a decree issued Thursday by
| Judge Lowell in tie United States circuit
court at Boston, A detailed report of the
money spent and received by the receiv-
ers was filed with the court
The King and Queen and the Prince and
Princess of Wales are celebrating Christ
mas at Sandringham with the customary
festivities. Tie King is taking an ac-
tive share. hut is exercising caution in
order to avoid necdlessly exposing himself
TO the weather which has become sud-
denly cold. Sandringham house is cIab-
ri, Tod Il ,Yi ont; f,,,
laden with gifts stands in the ballroom
The King will preside at the family
Christmas dinner at noon Christmas day.
The steamer Ravens Craig, from New
port News to Providence, returned to
Hampton Roads Thursday. bringing the
body of one man, Andrew Georges a
Norwegian seaman, the latter the lone
survivor of the schooner Jeanie Litchet
supposed to be the JEANNE Lippitb
which he said foundered off Winter
Quarter lghtship off the coast in the re-
cert storm while bound from Jackson
willie TO New York, lumber laden.
Georges ard the other man. who died
socn,:,fter being taken aboard the Ravens
Craig. were picked up from wreckaSc
upon which they had floated for % hours.
Georges. who cannot remember how
many were aboard his schooner, believes
all the others were lost.
The state won a double victory in
the Minnesota supreme court Thurs
day when that court rendered deci-
sions in it's favor in both the Chicago
Great Western and Great Northern
Railways tax cases. The court upholdS
the validity of the increasing of the
railroad gross earnings tax from to
per cent. which the roads had at
tackled as unconstitutional as their
territorial charters provided for a tax
of per cent. on gross earnings. The
Great Northern case norninally involves
$120,T3S for 1905 taxes; the Great
Western case about $4,000. The amount
at stake to the treasury. however, is
really more than $15O,0OO a year. The
cases undoubtedly will be appealed to
the supreme court of the United !
States.
The Inauguration Thursday of a new |
system of examinations at the Medical |
School of the Sorbcnne in France,
which is Objectionable to the students,
was the occasion of serious nanifes
tations. Two thousand students pa
raded the streets voicing their dis
pleasure. They broke windows in the
school with stones and showered the :,
police with eggs, stones and sticks
Several persons. including some in
nocent hy-standers. received injuries.
The Republican Guard was summoned
and cleared the street. The students
resumed their demonstrations for a
short while. but they We're finally con-
clusively dispersed with the aid OF the
police. The Medical School has been
closed by the authorities. :,