Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-03
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Viscount

Henry Arthur Cadogan. Viscount
Chelsea, is dead in London.
James Bryce, British ambassador to
the United States. sailed for Europe
from New York Thursday. --..,....,
An American named Harry Carleton
has been summoned to Fee by Mulai
Hafid the insurgent Sultan of Morocco
The st. Petersburg Russ, at one
time the leading Liberal newspapers Of
Russia, Thursday suspended publica-
ton on account of financial difficulties.
DR.. John C. Shaw, one of the best
known Homeopathic physicians in the
state. died at his home in New Bed
ford Thursday. He was 81 years of
age.
William T. Gilbert of New York was
found dead in bathroom of the Savoy
hotel at London Thursday from
apoplexy. Mr.. Gilbert was subject to
these strokes, having suffered one a
year ago.
The new battleship Mississippi ar
rived Thursday at Newport, r. I.
from Philadelphia under command Of
Capt. John G. Fremont After coaling
the Mississippi will prepare for her
trial trip.
General George Sherman Batcheller,
judge of the International tribunal of
Egypt, who has, been seriously Ill In
Paris for week past, of cancer of the
mouth, died Thursday. General Batch
eller was born at charlottesville N,
Y, in 1887.
Charles j. Townsend, formerly
member of the New York Stock En-
change and one of the most prominent
brokers in New York City for years.
died suddenly at his home in Lockport,
N. Y, Thursday of heart failure. He
retired from business eight years ago.
immigration to the port of Boston
has dropped more than 1-3 during the
year ended Tuesday according to a re.
port made Thursday by immigration
Statistician Frank w. Quinn. In
1867, there We're S2.345 immigrants
while in 1907-0S there were only $500.
The coroner's jury in the case of En-
gineer b. M. Stultz of the Seaboard
Air Line, who was killed Wednesday,
night in Raleigh, N. c., acquitted Tur-
ner Smith, the 19-year-old boy, who
admitted shooting Stultz, because he
was peeping at his young sisters while.
they were undressing
Fire that started in the Haney hotel
early Thursday at the village OF
Stamping Ground. near Frankfort, Ky,
was extinguished by volunteer fire
brigade after the hotel and three resi-
dences had been burned Loss $4,000.
For time it was feared that the en-
tire town would be destroyed.
President Roosevelt Thursday an
pointed Colonel William L. Marshall
to be chief of the corps of engineers of
the United States army as the sue
cessor of Brig Gen. Alexander Mac
kenzie. who retired May 25. Colonel
Marshall has been in charge of the riv-
er and harbor works in the New York
district.
Passengers who have just arrived
at San Francisco from Southern ports
tell of the arrest by officials of the
Guatemalan government Of H. Bar
rington, said to be an American citf-
zen. as spy. The passengers say that
they expect to hear that he has been
put to death. The claim Is made that
the evidence against him was plain, he.
having papers in his possession which
proved beyond doubt that he was a
spy from Salvador and that he was in
a conspiracy against President Cab
rera. ...
The adjustment committee of the
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacture
ing Co. announced Thursday that the
subscriptions to the $4,000, 900 Of new
stock offered to refinance that COM
pany amounted to $9,77O,862 The sub
scriptions payable in cash aggregate
$5,634.95O. the remainder being in the
form of surrender of claims against
the company. The committee requests
bank creditors to agree to accept in
exchange for their claims one-haf in
convertible sinking fund bonds and
one-half In per cent. notes and stock.
PostOffice Inspector Stuart of Chica-
go arrived Thursday at Monroe. Mich,
with Inspector Davis of Denver, and
after inspecting the negro taken into
custody at Monroe, Tuesday evening.
on suspicion Of being Charles Savage.
alias Stevenson, wanted for alleged
connection with the $4,000 registered
mail robbery at Kansas City, declared
he is not Savage. There Is q resemb-
lance but Davis. who arrested Savage.
unhesitatingly declared that the local
prisoner Is not the mail robber The
negro says his name Is E. w. Thomas
and that he is solicitor of funds for
a negro home at Macon, Ga.