Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


geon of the Presbyterian hospital, New
York City, was thrown from carriage
Saturday and sustained fracture. of
| the skull which may result in his death.
A London dispatch to the Paris
| Matin says that Russia and Italy have
| signed secret agreement relative tc
the Balkans, and adds that this only
strengthens the ties binding France. to
| Italy.
1t became known Saturday in st. Paul
| that Thomas w. Lawson of Boston gave
$1,000 to the campaign fund Of Gov. john
son. Before the Denver convention Mr..
| Lawson offered to raise a very big cam
paign fund ir case the ticket should be
Johnson and Bryan.
K J. A. Finch, an attorney, who was
| disbarred Wednesday at Portland, Ore,
| from practicing for one year by the
State Bar Association, Saturday shot
and killed Ralph B. Fisher, young
lawyer, who had been designated as
prosecutor for the association.
| The army transport Dix arrived at Ma
| Mia on the Goth inst. one day ahead OF
schedule time, although Friday the war
department sent a request to Manila to
have vessel hunt her up. The cause for
the false alarm was the failure of the
authorities at Manila to notify the de-
partment of the arrival of the Dix.
| 1t is understood at Berlin that Count
Pallavicini, the Austro- Hungarian am
bassador at Constantinople was about
to proceed shortly to Vienna, to report
orally on the boycott on Austrian
| goods. Some of the reports on the
| matter of this boycott are considered
| greatly exaggerated.
| A dispatch to the London Observer
| from Belgrade quotes Crown Prince
| George as saying that the annexation
of Bosnia and Herzegovina is i'm
possible and unthinka BILE. 1t is as easy
| to imagine Russia without Moscow rs
| Servia without Bosnia. Servia may
easily be the David to tine Austrian
| Goliath
| A Newcastle, N. B.. dispatch says that
sentng the Whitney Law Corporation,
was found dead in bed at hotel in New
castle Saturday afternoon. He had been
| in Newcastle several days and had been
| ill., A sister is supposed to live in Chi
cago.
| Joseph E. Gardner has been held with
| out bail at San Francisco to answer the
charge of murder on the high seas. He is
accused of having killed Joseph Cardos-
| sd last August on the whaler Bowhead,
while in Arctic waters Gardner is a
Kentuckian and says he is the sen OF an
appellate Judge.
| t1,o
| British House of Commons it appears
that the Bank of England is able to
write off annually a considerable sum
representing the value of notes issued
but not presented for payment On Nov.
1 the bank wrote off 914.055 in this
way, and during the last six years the
average amount has been close to G12,-
900.
| On a plea of guilty of accepting re-
| bates from the Pennsylvania railroad
on shipments of coal, the Baker Whit
| lev Coal Co of Baltimore was fined
$500 by Judge Morris in the United
States district court at Baltimore Sat-
urday. The company had accepted re-
bates of II cents ton on coal ship
ments. This is the first prosecution in
| that district for accepting or giving re-
bates.
William Montgomery, former cash
| ier cf the Allegheny National Bank
| which failed for over s1.000.000 some
| time ago, was sentenced to Is years in
| the Western Pennsylvania penitentiary
by Judge James S. Young of the Unit
ed States court at Pittsburg Saturday
| Montgomery was sentenced on two in
dictments, charging him with the en-
bezzlement and abstraction Of over
$500,0
1t is unofficially stated at Manila
that the courtmartial of Lieutenant
Commander Charles T. Sewell of the
battleship Louisiana, who was charged
with personal misconduct during the
fleets visit to Japan, has resulted in
conviction and recommendation by
the court of a minor punishment. IN
cluding reprimand and confinement
to the ship for period. 1t is further
stated that the sentence was entirely
RENTED by Rear Admiral Sperry
Samuel Shepard Rogers, at one time
president Of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association and for many
years business manager of the Chicago
Daily News, died Saturday in Chicago
from paralysis. Mr.. Rogers was born in
Lee. Mass, in 1857. graduated from Will
liams College in 1877, and entered the en-
ploy Of Victor r. Lawson. owner Of the
Chicago Daily News, in 1881.
Every minister in Manhattan and the
Bronx mas been invited by the tubercu-
losis committee Of the Charity Crganiza-
ton Society to preach a special sermon
on Sunday, Dec. 6, on the prevention and
cure of tuberculosis. This proposed pull
pit exposition is a part of the campaign
that the society is conducting in an eff
fort to suppress the disease, and is in
conjunction with the six weeks free tu-
berculosis exhibit which will open Nov.
30 in the Museum of Natural History.
The judge and other guests at the
luncheon which, according to custom,
the high sheriff of the county gives on
the day of opening the Assizes at Lon
don will not have any wine to drink
when they accept the invitation issued
by the high sheriff of Glamorganshire.
A.