Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

vessel on the Pacific coast, was launched
Thursday from the yards of the Fore
River Shirbuilding Co. at Quincy, Mass
The vessel will 80 to San Francisco I'M
der her own power.
The employees Of the Dominion Cot
ton Co. at its mills in Halifax, n. s.,
and elsewhere have been notified that
a reduction in WaGts of 10 per cent
will be put in effect May 4. During last
year the company granted two in
cleases in wages, each of 10 per cent.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. wife of the
American ambassador, accompanied
by her daughter, Miss Jean Reid,
whose engagement to the Hon. John
Ward was announced Wednesday at
London, left there Thursday for Paris
to purchase a trousseau for Miss Reid.
The directors of the Bank of St.
Johns. Que, have decided to close the
institution and place it's affairs in
liquidation. The bank has a capital
stock of $4,000, but owing to COM
petition from other banks its deposits
have fallen to 1851 900. Depositors viii
be paid in full.
President J. Fl. Main of Iowa College
at Grinnell, Iowa, Thursday at Detroit
was elected the first president of the Con-
gregational Brotherhood of America,
which is holding it's first convention
there. The board of directors includes
Victor I.oring of Massachusetts and W.
A. Kirkpatrick of Maine.
The sessions of the annual conference
of the Advent churches Of Massaacnu-
sets, which has been meeting at Brock
ton during the past three days, were con-
cludcd Thursday. Most of the delegates
time during the day was occupied in bus
mess sessions, although several minor
meetings had also been arranged.
George o. Hoyt of Stamford, Ct,
Thursday at New York was SEN
fenced to serve Is years in state pris-
on on a plea of guilty to charge of
kidnapping. Hoyt pleaded guilty to
having enticed the 13-year-old son
of Michael Larkin of New York City
, to Stamford, where he kept the lad
five months.
Petitions for the approval of the
bond and stock increase by several
street railway companies were filed
Thursday with the railroad commits
sioners at Boston. Among them were
the Boston & Northern Street Rail-
way Co., s1,250,O0O preferred stock,
and the Old Colony Street Railway Co,
$4,000 preferred stock.
A bulletin issued by the Venezuelan
government Tuesday declares there
have been no new cases of the disease
at Id Guaira supposed to be the bu-
hn,ic v,1a hn ocf four
days. The first relief train carrying
provisions was sent down to La
Guaira Tuesday citizens commit
tee has been formed in Caracas to
purchase rats at five cents head.
This is done because rats convey the
plague.
1t was announced Wednesday that
beginning today the United Express
Co. will withdraw from the Chicago d
Alton Railroad. Hereafter the Amer
lean Express Co. will operate on the
Chicago 6, Alton from Chicago to Kan
sas and the National Express Co. from
Chicago to st. Paul. Failure to per-
petuate satisfactory business relations
between the railroad and the United
States Express Co. is understood to be
the cause of the change.
The body of Max Bousky, a Hebrew
butcher. of 10 Hargrave street, Fall
River, Mass, was found late Thursday
lying on large meat table in his shop
on Quarry street. with a gas tube in
his mouth and all the doors and win
dows closed and barricaded. Near the
body was a note explaining that he had
committed suicide on account of lack
of business saying that he was penni-
less and asking his friends to take care
of his family. He was az years old
and a widow and six children sur
vive
The home of j. G. Wyckland, fore
man of the quarries of the Washoe
Smelling Co., near Anaconda. Mont,
was demolished by charge of giant
powder Wednesday night at midnight
His wife ard baby escaped. Mr.. Wyck-
land was injured but not seriously.
Several hundred Austrans and ItaI-
ians, who had been employed at the
quarries before the panic, were not re-
employed when the Amalgamated Cop
per Co. resumed and Wyckland had
frequently received letters threatening
his life.
Patrick Lennon of Lynn was adjudged
Thursday by reference to member of
the firm of p. r. LennoX G. Co., morocco
manufacturers of Lynn. which made an
assignment on Sept. 5, 1907, with liabili-
ties of S1,550,O0O and nominal assets. At
the time of the assignment Patrick Len
nox claimed that he retired from the
firm several years ago and that his son,
James T. Lennox was responsible for the
debts. The referee. William Berry, holds
that Patrick Lennox never completely
severed his connection with the firm and
is jointly with his son liable for it's debts.
That the imperial government must Dor
row $3.50 0OG, 900 during the next five years
was the substance of an admission made
by Secretary of Treasury Sidow to the
appropriations committee of the German
Reichstag Thursday. These borrowings
will be necessary even though the APP
preparations of the current year are not
increased before 1912. The financial situa-
ton of the German empire is Likely to be-
come an increasingly important issue be-
cause tied up with it are such prospects