Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

other trustees of the setate of the late
r. G. Dun VS.. the Lunbermen's Cred
| it Association. involving a charge by
Dun Of pirating credit figures from
| the Dun Commercial reports, was de-
cided Monday by the supreme court OF
the United States favorably to the
Lunbermen's Association.
TIE Jacksonville and Chicago Linn
tied. known as train No. II on the
Southern Railway, was derailed Mon
day near Flourilla, Ga. The engine,
| baggage, mail, combination and one
Pullman car went into the ditch. Four
mail clerks were seriously injured.
None of the passengers was hurt. The
cause Of the wreck is not known.
The petitioners for a so-called pub
lie opinion bill, q measure permitting
voters to instruct their senators and
representatives and advocated by the
Massachusetts Public Opinion League,
was returned to the Massachusetts
House Monday with an adverse report
by the committee on election laws
Two members of the committee dis
, sent.
The 18th anniversary of the uprising
that initiated the War of Independence
was celcbra ted Monday at Havana by
total suspension Of business, by fetes
and extensive Examinations at night
A national salute was fired by Ca
banas fortress. after which the queen
of the carnival, crowned by the mayor,
paraded up the Prado in the state
coach with her maids of honor.
niu6
mour. U. S. N, ordnance officer Of the
NorfaIk navy yard. died at Norfolk. Va.
suddenly Monday night in his 18th year
He was born in Nova Scotia and appoint
ed from Maine. He was regarded as one
Of the best ordnance experts in the naval
service. A widow survives. The funeral
will be held Tuesday and the body will
be sent to Annapolis for interment.
An arrest on n charge of an unusually
nature was made Monday night at Prov
idence, p. l., when Leroy B. Staples, IS
years old, was taken into custody. He
is accused Of inserting in the newspapers
fraudulent notice of his own death
1t is understood that the maximum pm
atty for the offence Is fine of 500. Sta
! pies told the police that he put the no.
tees in the papers because he wanted
A., to find out whether his sweetheart loved
| him or not.
Nunzio Nas, Italian ex-minister of
| public instruction, was Monday at
Rome sentenced to II months and 20
| days in prison for continued pecula-
| ton from the state treasury. This SEN
tence was handed down by the Senate
sitting as a high court after 10 hours
| deliberation. Nasi is interdicted from
| holding public Office for 4 years and 2
| months His secretary, Signor Lom-
| bardo was acquitted for lack Of evil
| dencc
Westbound Missouri Pacific pasSen-
ger train No. l, which left St. Louis
Monday morning for Kansas City,
went into the ditch two miles west of
Sedalia. Mo, Monday afternoon. The
engine. mail car ard baggage car left
the tracks and John Groves, St. Louis.
the baggag eman. and Claude Chapel
Sedalia, the engineer, were slightly
| hurt. Tie passenger cars remained on
| the track and none Of the passengers
were hurt.
Counsel for Foster NJ VOORHEES,, for
mer governor of New Jersey, and
Frank Coombes. who We're indicted on
charges of perjury, pleaded not guilty
before Justice Bowling ct New York
Monday. Right to withdraw the plea
or demur to the indictments within
week was reserved. The charges are
based on reports to the state insur-
ance department made by the accused
several years ago while acting as Off
GERS of the Bankers Life Insurance
Co.
DR.. Leon q. Verrill, of Rochester, \.
H., who was arrested Sunday night
on the charge of having caused the
death of Mrs. Arty Miller Of Ports
mouth by an illegal operation, was
taken before Justice l.. V. McC1iil Mon
day and waived the reading of the
warrant On motion of County So
licitor Dwight Hall the case was con-
tinued until next Monday, March 2, at
2P. Nj. Mr.. Hall stated that he needed
more time to secure necessary wilt
nesses. DR.. Verrill was held without
bail and was committed to the county
Jail at Dover.
Mitchell Northrup. an official of the
Grevstone mills at Providence, f. l.. was
arrested by Deputy United States Mar
shall E. C. Newhall Monday charged with
violation of the immigration laws. The
arrest was made at the instance of James
A. Sullivan of Boston. federal inspector
of immigration. 1t was arranged that
Mr. Nortfrup should be taken before
United States Commissioner Cross Tues
day. 1t is expected that the case grew
out of the employment at the Creystone
mills of Benjamin Smith, who is said to
be an alien and who is alleged to have
come to this country recently with his
family under contract to work in these
mills.