Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-24
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Anthony Clough. member of tn
New York Consolidated Stock En-
change, Friday made an assignment
for the benefit Of his creditors t
George E. Alexander. Mr.. Clough wa
not an important trader.
1t was announced Friday at st. Pc
tershurg that the Shah Of Persia hav
ing failed to notify the Royalist com
mander at Tabriz that an armistice ha
been granted, Russia has ordered tn
viceroy Of the Caucasus to dispatcl
troopssto that point by forced marches
After Sept..1 next, kidnapping in New
York state will be punishable by i'm
prisonment for not less than five years
more than rs years as provided in thu
present statutes. Governor Hughes Fri
day signed a bill providing for the in
creased penalty.
six Black Diamond Line steamers
and the steamer Bonavista Ocean, al
loaded with coal and bound from
Louisburg, n. S., for Montreal are i'm.
prisoned in the ice in the Gulf of st
Lawrence. The fleet of Black Diamond
liners left Louisburg April S and have
ever since been fighting their way
through the ice foes in an endeavor tt
reach their destination. The ice is very
heavy, but SO far no word has been re
ceived of any damage to the steamers
The course in general agriculture
which is being given at the New
Hampshire. College at Durham. for thu
beneflt Of the farmers of the state, wa:
continued Friday with the usual larg'
attendance. Prof. Fred w. Taylor O
the department. of agriculture and hi:
staff of assistants gave a number o.
lectures during the day at the two sec
stional meetings, taking up practica
farming as it is conducted under
modern methods.
Z Capt. James r, Reams of the S0tl
Infantry, will be tried by genera
courtmartial at Manila, of which Col
Granger Adams is president, on ;
charge of having failed to pay his per
sonal Indebtedness. Major General Viii
liam P. Duvall has arrived at Manil;
and assumed command of the division
Brigadier General Arthur Murray
chief of the Coast Artillery, also ar
rived and proceeded to inspect the de
fences on Coregidor island in Manila
bay and at Subig, at the head of Subis
bay.
Stefan Dubrewsky, naturalize'
American citizen, was arrested Frlda,
at ST. Petersburg charged with com
plicity in a plot to incite mutiny il
one of the local garrisons. Incrimi
mating literature was found in hi
lodgings but the man explained tina
he was keeping this for friend. Du
browsky was> arrested sometime ag
on similar charge and spent fou
months in prison. Dubrowsky was borl
in Warsaw When in America he live
at Newark, N. j., but he has been il
Europe since 1900.
Extraordinary precautionary meas
ures in connection with the strike o
members of the United Mine Worker
of America which it is feared is i'm
minent at the mines of the Dominion
Coal Co. at Sydney, B. c., were takel
Friday by the Cape Breton council
when CPS special police officers were ap
property at the company's plantj il
case the strike should occur. Genera
Manager Dugan of the Coal Co. re
quested This action and after consider
able discussion among the councillors
it was voted to grant his request.
Word was received Friday at Gin
cinnati, Ohio, that Leo Mulhern, tn
12-year- boy who disappeared iron
MS home in that city last Wednesda!
following the receipt by his mother Q
two letters demanding ransom money
had arrived at the home of his grand
father, Policeman Edward Rafferty,. il
Ironton, Ohio. The boy told his grand
father that he was stolen by two me
and taken to some town in West Vir
ginia. He said he escaped and came t
Ironton on Il Chesapeake & Ohio trair
1t is believed that the boy ran ava
from home.
Being unable to agree upon the gull
or innocence of Leo 4. Mccullough
former president of the Boston com
mon council, and his attorney, jaime
T. Cassidy. both charged with conspi
racy against the city in the purchas
of a set of lew books for the counc
chamber. the jury in the case after 2
hours Of deliberation was discharge
in the superior court Friday by Judg
DeCourcey. The council appropriate
5000 for the purchase of the books an
the finance committee in a report to tie
mayor, claimed that the books wer
never delivered and implicated Nc
Cullough and Cassidy. The defence a
the trial was that the books were pur
| chased and We're being temperate
| held by Mccullough at his home.