Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-02

that these were at once lSOidltu. II ~
believed that all danger Of the con-
tagiOn spreading has been checked.
John Adrian Louis Hope, marquis OF
Linlithgow. died Sunday at Pau, France.
The Marquis of Linithgow was born in
1850. He was governor of Victoria frGn
1885, paymaster general from lSt-9S,
and was governor general Of Australia
from 19OG-02. In 1905 he held the office of
secretary for Scotland.
The body of George w. White, be
lieved to be a travelling salesman, was
found in the lodging house, - Elliott
street, Lowell, Mass. Saturday. Mr..
White had been a lodger there two
weeks One of his brothers, ]. W.
White, lives in Winthrop. \. s., and
another brother, r. w. White, is resi-
dent of Littleton. ]. F. O'Donnell took
charge of the body.
Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman, the
British prime minister, has suffered a
| relapse as q result of seeing people and
| transacting business on Saturday. The
| attending physicians consider that the
weakness of the heart is the most Sc
riou, factor in the premier's illness. He
will go to the continent as soon as he
is strong enough and it is unlikely that
| he will re-appear in Parliament this
session. All excitement particularly is
! forbidden.
| Harry Y. Butler. manager of a laun-
dry in a dormtory of Columbia Univer-
| sity. shot himself in the temple. then
undressed and went to sleep in coal bin
in the basement of the apartment house
| at 1881 Amsterdam avenue. New York,
| where he lived. When the janitor awak-
ened him he got up, put on part Of ms
clothing and walked to the I'D street
police station with Il gaming wound in
his head. He was taken to the Wash
ingtcn Heights hospital. where it is said
| his condition is critical.
aIrs. Walter p Nickerson, wife of a
mechanic of the Merrimac mills in Lo-
we'll, with her two children, Bertha,
aged ,. and Mary. aged 9, is missing
from her husbands little farm at ORA
cut, Mass. The house has been ran
sacked, a large sum of money ard the
i clothing Of the entire family taken. AZ
so missing from home is Henry La
porte, a Lowell man who completed a
iail sentence 10 days ago and since then
|
farm without charge till he could OBJ
tain work This was done out OF Il
boyhood friendship Nickerson had for
Laporte.
Andrew Hamilton. formerly counsel
to the New York Life and other in
surance companies and in charge for
many years of insurance litigation and
legislative r,atters in all parts Of this
country and Canada, was found Il
in bed Sunday morning at IL" l. n" =
| Albany. n. Y. de was ai',;;:' nj
normal health Saturday, although ~
had been failing TO Some extent ever
since the death of Mrs. Hamilton last
July. An autopsy disclosed an acute
| diIation Of the heart, which must have
caused practically instant death dur
ing the night.
| Important changes are to be made this
years in the Yale Divinity School COM
mencemcnt exercises. The baccalaureate
| sermon is to be dropped and changes
made in the times of the prize contests
The orator at the alumni meeting will be
the Rev. Charles f. jefferson of New
York City. a member of the Yale Cor
poration. The topic for the alumni dis
Now Placed on Future Rewards and Pun
| ishments in the Presentation of tie Cos
pei Message" The speakers will be the
| Rev. c. A. Dinsmore of Waterbury, CT.
the Rev Alexander Milne of Duluth
Mimi, and the Rev. f.. S. Bromer of
| GreenSburg, Pa.
| The seven Terrorists who We're con-
| demned to death in a court martial for
| completely in n plot against the lives of
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch and
| NJ Chtchegivotoff, minister of justice
| and whose sentence was confirmed Sat
| urday by Gen. GaZenkampf, chief of the
| general staff, were hanged at daybreak
Sunday at Lissy Moss pennsular, oppo.
site Kronstadt. Among those who suf-
fered death We're Calvino, the supposed
Italian. who had in his possession when
| arrested a passport issued to the real
Calvino. the st. Petersburg correspon-
dent of the Italian papers. and three wo-
men. two of whom were IS and Is years
of age, respectively.
! The st. Petersburg Novoe Vremya
Saturday discussed the American plans
| for the fertilization of anila, which it
believes will convert Cavite into the
most powerful naval base on the Pa
cific and enable the United States to
| insist upon an actual as we'll as Il
theoretical Relation of the open door
in China. The paper says the denial
of the report that it is the present in
| teEtion of President Roosevelt to raise
this question merely exemplifies is con-
viction that soft words are IL corol-
| larry TO the policy of the big stick.
When the Manila works are completed
the doors of Manchuria will fly open to
Americas "cpen sesame.