Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| State Bank at Port Byron, Ill, early
| Tuesday and escaped on handcar
with nearly $4,000 in money.
The German imperial estimates for
| 1909 balance ut SIS, 250,000, Of which
$50, 100000 must be borrowed. This lat
ter sum is s1G25o,O0O less than the
| amount borrowed in 1908.
a Federal grand jury at Chicago be
gan investigation of rebate charges
made against the Chicago. .Milwatikee
| and st. Paul Railroad co. by an agent
| Of the Interstate Commerce Commits
| sion. -....
John e. Madden of Lexington, KY
Tuesday shipped % of the choicest
brood mares at his Hamburg place
there to New York and from there they
viii go to France, where Madden will
establish a breeding plant for thor
oushbreds.
The extraordinary meeting Of the
English committee of shareholders of
the Pilsbury- Washburn Flour Mills
| Co Of Minneapolis adjourned from last
Thursday, was held Tuesday in London
and the proposal of reorganization
was agreed to. This was done through
lily il'tiilil VI 'l'Ci tltiiiS toiIESliy
to be formed at Minneapolis
John Hicks, American minister to
Chilli, returned Tuesday to Nalpara so
from the provinces of Tacna and africa.
He secured at africa relics of the
American cruiser NVatcree, which was
driven ashore there during the fatal
earthquake of August, 1868. which he
will forward to the navy department
at Washington.
In the italian Chamber of Deputies
TUESDAY Signor Fusinato presented a
motion for complete confidence in the
cabinet and it's course in the preseI.t
Balkans difficulty. He said that con-
stitutional reform in Turkey was a
guarantee of peace in the Near East.
On Friday the vote on Signor
Fusinatos motion will be taken.
Bids We're opened by the navy de-
partment Tuesday for the dredging of
5.017 500 yards of material from the
channel leading into a naval station
at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Ha-
waiian Dredging Co, Limited, of Hon
olulu, was the lowest bidder, at $3,56G,-
O00
Royalty was represented for the
first time i'll the United States courts
in Boston when the receiver for f. H.
Gay & Co., appeared in the district
court and obtained permission to re-
turn to Prince Henri De Croy and
Princess De Croy of Hainaut, Belgium.
stocks and bonds belonging to them
stating that the securities did not belong
10 Gay & Co.. but were only in the
vault for safe keeping.
IT is held at Vienna that the pros
poets of an agreement between Russia
and Austria Hungary in the matter of
an international congress to settle the
Balkan difficulty are more favorable
1t is declared that Count Pallavicini
the Austro Hungarian ambassador to
Turkey viii not leave ConStantinople
AS a result of the favorable new
prospect prices on the Vienna Bourse
We're firmer. ,.
Alderman George l.. Allen of Salem,
Mass, one of the Republican members
of the present board and a candidate
for reelection, was arrested Tuesday
on a charge Of larceny of 800 from
Jones & Fairfield, coal dealers. The
firm allege that Allen acted as agent
and failed to return the sum in the
charge. He was held in $500 for
hearing tomorrow.
Tapestries, paintings and bric-a-brac
valued at $4,000. belonging to Mrs
Jack Gardner of Boston, which have
been locked up in vault in the office
of Collector of Customs John c. Ames
at Chicago since Mrs. Emily Chad
bourne Crane is alleged to have tried to
smuggle them through the Chicago
port without paying the dues. We're
formally seized Tuesday by the depart
ment of justice. The seizure was a le-
gal formality resulting from the gov
ernment's recent action in filing suit
for the confiscation of the property.
An extraordinary shooting affray
took place Tuesday at Simcoe, Ont, |
as result Of which Police Constable
Wilkins is probably dying with four
bullets in his body and Chief of Po-
lice Malone is in custody charged with
attempted murder. The wounded man
says that Monday night the chief ask
ed him to meet him Tuesday in the
park and he did SO. They had not ex-
changed a word when the chief began
shooting. Wilkins dropped .unconsci- |
ors. He was found shortly afterward
and taken to the hospital. 1t is said
to be case Of professional jealousy.
The body of Thomas J.. Royce of
Rutland, VT, was found in the woods
of West Rutland Tuesday with a gun
shot wound behind the ear, caused, it |
was thought by the accidental dis |
charge of his gun. Royce went hunt
ing Monday and when he did not re-
turn a search was begun. Tuesday the !
body was found in the woods and the |
ground about it indicated that the gun
had been dragged along and that the
trigger had caught in some under
brush. Royce was the son of the late |
Senator Z. Royce, a marble dealer Of