Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Baron Yanosuke Iwasaki died
| Wednesday at Toxic.
The Southern Pacific and the Hous-
ton Central shops at Houston, Tex,
| shut down Wednesday afternoon. Over
| 1000 men We're thrown out of employ
ment.
The New York Senate Wednesday
made the two Agnew anti-race track
gambling bills a special order for dis
cussion in the committee of the whole
| next week.
| The University of Chicago defeated
the University of Pennsylvania at bas-
ketbail Wednesday by the score of Il
to Is. This gives Chicago the college
championship.
The New Hampshire Grand Lodge of
the New England Order of Protection
had its l4th annual meeting Wednes-
day at Manchester and was presided
over by Grand Warden John H Gill
more of Exeter. Reports presenter
showed the organization to be in the
most favorable position in its history.
Re-. Chas. E. Bowles, irremovable
rector Of All Saints Episcopal church,
Chicago, resigned last Tuesday night
to enter the Roman Catholic church.
He IS member of the association
known as the Companions of the Holy
Savior. composed of about 40 Episco-
pal ministers throughout the United
States.
Frank Frorer, president of a Lincoln,
Ills, hank, and OF the Lincoln Mining
Co. was held up by three highwaymen
a1D 6nx. ,ftn IL
the public square of Lincoln. and
robbed of the $4,000 monthly payroll of
the mining company. Two of the rob-
bers were caught by the police. but
the third escaped with the money.
John Hits. philanthropist. educator,
scientist and superintendent Of the
Volta bureau, wounded at Washington
by Prof. Alexander NJ. Bell, for the
diffusion of knowledge regarding the
deaf, was stricken with heart disease
at the Union station in that city
Wednesday and died while being re-
moved to a hospital. He was about
IS years old and was a native of Switz-
erland.
At meeting of the voting trustees
OF the Seabuard Air Line Railway
Wednesday resolutions Were adopted
looking to the dissolution of the exist
ing voting trust of May Is. 1908. In ac-
cordance with the resolutions notices
will be sent to all holders Of voting
trust certificates advising them that
upon surrender of their certificates
they will be given in exchange actual
stock of the railway Co.
The Standard Oil Co. of Indiana.
through it's attorney. John S. Miller,
wednesday filed in the United States
circuit court of appeals at Chicago the
prief OF the company in it's appeal from
the fife of s29, 24O,00O imposed by Judge
H. Nj. Lands. The brief presents moth
ing new in the legal proceedings re-
suitlng from the governments charges
tnat the Oil Co. accepted rebates on
shipments of oil from Whiting. Ind.
to East st. Louis.
Inc cottage of c.. H. McKenney of
I3oston. and the stables Of Jacob p
f'ates OF Cobb, Bates and Yerxa Boston
a''u baInon Brothers, on Atlantic Hill.
tNahtasket ceach, We're burned Wednes-
udy night, causing loss of $4,000. Th..
Atftntic blouse, large wooden summer
MOTEL caught fire several times but was
saved pS the Hull steam engine The
IRE threatened to sweep the entire hill
at ore time but the fire department.
aided by an absence of wind was able
to control the blaze
me hrst debate in either house of
the Legislature at Albany, N. Y, on
the bills designed to abolish gambling
at race tracks, is expected to take
place today in the Assembly, where
both of the bills are on the calendar
OF the day in the order OF final pas
sage. In the form in which they will
come before the Assembly they are
supposed to be acceptable to their in
PRODUCERS and to Gov. Hughes. There
seems to be no doubt that both bills
vii! pass the Assembly.