Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-28

upon Dec. as the date for the cerelno-
MES attending Pu Yi's ascension to the
throne. On this day the officials of Pekin
and all the members of the imperial clan
will acknowledge fealty to the infant
Emperor of China. A reward of 2GG0 taeis
has been offered for the apprehension of
the leader of the recent revolutionary
outbreak a. Nanking.
John c. Shaffer Of Chicago said Fri
Gay at indianapolis that he had pur-
CHASED Daniel r. Reid's interests in
the Star Publishing Co. which in
c!udes the Indianapolis, Star, Muncies
Star and Terre Haute Star. Argument
in the federal court to dismiss the re-
ceivership of the properties was heard
Friday. No decision has yet been
made.
While the 40 girls pupils of st. Chris
tinas school at Saratoga y. Y, were
at breakfast Friday fire broken out
in the laundry and spread SO rapidly
that all were forced to flee to save
their lives. Practically all Of the be-
lcngings of the students We're destroy
ed and the building is damaged to the
extent of $4,000 No one was injured.
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palian diocese of Albany from Spencer
Trask of New York.
The American Newfoundland Lum-
Der Co. was organized Friday at Grand
Rapids, Mich. with a capital of $780,
600 of which $450,000 has been sub
scribed to conduct a numbering busi-
ness on the West shore of Newfound-
land where the company owns 265.000
acres of land. Later paper and pulp
mill with a 300-ton daily capacity will
be erected there The company ex-
poets to market in Europe. The officers
will be here.
Formal announcement was made Fri
day night by the Boston Elevated
Railway Co. that the new Washington
street tunnel is expected to open for
public service Monday, Nov. 80. The
rev tunnel is expected to relieve con-
gestion in the most crowded portion
of the city in the heart of the shop
ping district. Elevated trains will be
taken out of the old subway and there
will be Encouragement of some of
the surface lines.
After pleading guilty to charge of
shoplifting, Mrs Milo w. Barney, wife.
of Representative Barney of Swanton,
VT. paid a fine of $40. imposed by
Judge Murray in the Boston municipal
court Friday. Representative Barney
was in court with his wife and the
woman was represented by Assistant
District Attorney McGettrick, who for
| merly resided in Swanton. But for
these facts, announced Judge Murray,
he would have imposed a prison SEN
tence. Mrs. Barney left for home with
her husband at the close of the court
proceedings.
Mrs. Barbara Billik, mother of Her
man Billik, who is under sentence OF
| death at Chicago died Friday at her
home in Cleveland. Ohio She had suf-
| fered from heart trouble for several
| months. On Wednesday last Mrs. Bill
| lik received a letter from her son.
| While reading this she fell into faint
and was only revived after several
hours of unconsciousness. Since then
| her death had been expected al any
| moment. Several months ago Mrs
Billik arranged with an undertaken to
| bury the bodies of herself and son
| side by side in a Cleveland cemetery
word was received at Halifax, N. S.
| Friday of a fatal explosion on board
| the West India Line steamer Sobo
from Halifax while at anchor in An
tigua harbor. A keg Of powder ex-
| ploded in the powder magazine. killing
| three men and seriously injuring six
others. The victims were all West In
| dians and were discharging the cargo
into lighters when the explosion oc-
CURED. None Of the crew were in the
vicinity at the time and the ship out