Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-31
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Receivers of the Arnold Print Works of
North Adams, Mass, have beer author
iyet. by the United States circuit court
to borrow another 100000 on receivers
certificates making $iG0eG authorized al
gether. All of the $@0000 formerly au-
thorized have been issued.
John Brooks, the Wellesley High
school student who attempted self
destruction by shooting at the Adams
house. Boston, Wednesday night, was
declared at the Relief hospital Thurs
day to have a slight chance of re-
! covery.
| Sir Henry w. Tyler. chairman of the
Westinghouse Brake c., and deputy
chairman of the Great Eastern Railway
Co. did Thursday at London. He was
born in 1927. From 1877 to 1895 he was
president of the Grand Trunk Railway OF
Canada.
The biennial meeting Of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firenen and
Enginenen convened at San Antonio,
Texas, Wednesday with Grand Master
John ]. Hannahan of Chicago presid~
| iElS- me lGtlGS Slu-Allolf VI NAiS IA
mems organization is also in session
here.
4 GILL providing for the regulation
! of automobile speed in country dis
! tricts in Rhode Island to 70 miles an
hour was introduced in the Rhode Is
land House of Representatives, Thurs
day by Olney Arnold of Providence.
| The bill was referred to the committee
on judiciary.
Sir Birrell Barnes, president of the
! divorce court at London, ThurSda!
! fixed the hearing of the suit brought
! BY the Countess Of Yarmouth, who
was Alice Thaw of Pittsburg, against
her husband for the annulment of her
marriage for next Wednesday after
noon. The attorney for the countess
said the case would be short.
The first murder of white man for
nearly 80 years on the Mescalero Apache
Indian reservation in New Mexico has
been reported to Commissioner OF Indian
Affairs Lcupp A cowboy was the VIC
time. An Indian named Da-Ga-In-ka,
who was charged with the crime, was
riddlcd with bullets by his own people,
who pursued him.
Kings Court. one of the show places
of Lakewood, N j., residence built
some wears ago by George Gould for his
son Kingdom. was destroyed by fir
Thursday night. The building was valued
at 100000. Since It's erection 1t had been
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Lloyd
Herbert. Neither Mr.. Gould nor Mr..
Herbert carried any insur$; nee
Najeeb Birbarie, Syrian peddler.
charged with numbering his wife, was
acquitted by a jury in the superior
court Thursday at Willimantic, ct.
The state tried to show that he gave
hAr carbolic acid but the defence
claimed that the woman tok the acid
with suicidal intent This was Birba-
ries second trial. the jury in the first
| having disagreed.
George B. Nudge was held in $4,000
bonds for the grand jury by Judge
Lummus at Lynn. Mass, for assault
ing his wife by throwing vitriol in her
eyes and upon her neck and shoulders.
a private court hearing was held at a
i local hospital, when Mrs. Nudge, prop
ped up in bed, testified against ner
husband. whom she said deliberately
threw the acid upon her in their home,
Jan. s.
The announcement is made at Pitts
burg, Pa, that Calvin 8. Wells of Pitts
burg has rellnquished control of the Phil
adelphia Press to his son, Benjamin G..
Wells, who has been secretary and treas
urer Of the company. and John r. Town
send, who has been business manager OF
the paper for some time. Calvin Wells
was president of the New York Press
Co for many years. He is president OF
the Pittsburg Forge & Iron Co. and in
terested in various other enterprises In
Pittsburg.
The jewcled insignia of an Officer
D'Acadenlie, the honor recently onferr-
ed uron Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy
fourder and head OF the Christian Sci nee
church. by the French government. was
presented to Mrs. Eddy at her home in
Newton. Mass, Thursday by DR.. John H
Worthen, president Of the First Church
of Christ, Scientist, Concord. n. H. The
Jewel Is the gift of the members Of the
Concord church who secured in France
and presented it as a mark Of esteem
on her departure from that CITY.
| One hundred employees of the Drape,
Cos. plant at Hopedala, Mass, who live
in houses owned by the company were
notified Thursday night that their rent
would be reduced 80 per cent. the reduc
ton to continue until further notice. The