Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| The man who was found i'm st
Petersburg Wednesday supposedly il
OF the cholera, has been subjected tC
an examination and the microscope
has shown his nalady is not cholera.
Three German military bailoonists
who landed Wednesday in aballoon q
short distance south of Warsaw, Rus
sian Poland, were taken in custody
Their balloon was seized by the
Sendarmes.
The Frigate Hartford, cruisers Chi
caso and Olympia and Monitors Neva-
CO and Arkansas, comprising the sum-
mer practice squadron of the United
States Naval Academy, arrived in
Boston har5or Thursday and anchored
near the navy yard The squadron is
expected to remain in port about Il
week.
kamil Pasha Thursday at Constan-
tinople formed new cabinet. The
principal ministers are as follows:
Jcmalledin Effendi, the Shick- El-Islam
and the minister of foreign affairs re-
tain their portfolios; Rcshcd Akif
Pasha, Vail of Sivas, becomes minister
of the interior; Redjeb Pasha. Vail of
Tripoli, minister of war; ARR Paslla,
minister Of marine; Zia Pasha, minis
ter of finance, and HaShan Hchmi
Pasha, minister of justice.
Frank Smith. aged 80, of Philadcl-
phia. was accidentally shot and killed
on the farm of F. w. Blanchard at
Ascuntnevile, VT, Thursday. Mr..
Blanchard has been losing large
Of l., fol
DAY night he set trap-gun for
thieves on the barn door which would
explode when the door was opened.
Early Thursday morning Smith went
to the barn and forgetting about the
gun opened the door and received the
full charge of shot in the face. He
died halt an hour later.
Two men are dead and one fatally
injured as a result of series of eX-
blossoms Thursday in the plant of the
Auto Cos Co., situated in the north
end of Albany, n. Y. The plant of the
Auto Gas Co. and an adjoining build
ing were completely wrecked. About
20 buildings in the immediate vicinity
were damaged by the force of the eX-
plosion. The estimated damage to the
buildings is about $4,000.
Mabel McCauslan. principal witness
against Mrs. Ben Teal, wife of the the
atrical manager; Harry S. Mouslcy. a pri-
waite detective, and Miss Julia Flening>
all of whom are under arrest charged
with attempted subornation of perjury in
connection with the suit of Mrs. Frank
j. Could against Mr.. Gould for divorce
were taken before the grand jury at New
York Thursday. Blanche Hale, a hair
dresser at the Hotel Lincoln. and Miss
Mamie Falk, dresSmakcr. also were
called before the grand jury and ques-
toned.
Daniel J. Tobn of Cambridge Mass.
was Thursday reelected president OF
the International brotherhood Of
Teanlstcrs now in convention at De
troit Other officers elected included
Peter Burke, Boston, and Lawrence ).
Grau, Providence, r. l., vice pres'-
cents: Thomas l.. Hughes, secretary
treasurer: George w. Briggs. Chicago,
general auditor: Michael j. Shehan
Boston. o trustee, and Patrick d. Da-
lev, Boston, delegate to the American
Federation Of Labor. Peoria, ILL.,, was
selected for the next convention in
1910.
Archbishop Keane of Dubuque. Iowa,
will preside when the National con-
ye,ition of the Catholic Total Basil
nence Union is opened in New Haven,
Ct. Aug. II. and the welcome to the
delegates who are expected to NUMBER
$500, will be made by Governor Wood
ruff. The delegates will then march to
St. Johns church where Pontiflcal
High Mass will be celebrated by Arch
bishop Keane with other offices filled
By Right Rev. Michael Tierney, Dish
of of Connecticut and Right Rev. j.
F. r. Canvin, bishop of Pittsburg. Inc
list of speakers includes many OF the
most prominent Catholic temperance
workers in the country and a long list
OF churchmen of wide, reputation as
preachers.