Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Canadian Commons at Ottawa
Tuesday night adopted the resolution
| ratifying the Franco Canadian trade
treaty Qualifications will be exchanged
and the treaty will become effective
about the first of the year.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Tues
day issued warrants for the new $780,
900, 900 of common stock authorized at a
shareholders meeting Oct Z. The stock
is offered to shareholders at s125 per
share, a premium of $25 The right to
subscribe expires jan 5, 1910.
Fire Tuesday on Mechanic street, in
the business center of Aver, Mass, de-
etroyed the cider and vinegar making
olant of the HaynesPiper Co. and
threatened for time to spread through
the town. The Haynes Piper plant was
large wooden factory. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
Eight men We're imprisoned in a
cavern and fire Tuesday in one of the
several copper mines of the Tennes-
see Copper Co, AT Copper Hill, Tenn.
Four oxygen helmets, two tanks of oxy-
sen and other mine rescue parapherna-
liza were sent from Knoxville to the
mine by special train. The fire IS un-
der control and the imprisoned men
are thought to be alive.
The proposed merger Of the large
copper producing companies is still IN
process of formation. according 10 a
statement made Tuesday at the New
York office OF j. p. Morgan Il Co. ~
is believed that the Standard OIL de-
cision. however, has altered the plans
for the copper combination and that
those having the matter in hand VIII
bring about the coalition of the copper
interests in such form as not to be at
tected by the present federal statutes
The recruits on board the battleshlp
Wisconsin. which arrived IuesGay at
Newport. r. l., suffered from seaslck-
ress Monday during the voyage from
the Kittery. Me-, navy yard. The bat
.leshiD ran into a northwest gale Off
Newport early Monday and was fore
cd to reduce her speed, but not go be-
low II knots an hour Additional re-
o-r,lits will be taken on board from the
naval training station. after which the
Wisconsin will sail to join the Atian-
tic fleet at Hampton Roads.
With her head filling with water
through 'loles Dunctured in the bottom
nv the severe pounding on the rocks
Monday night the German steamer
Brewster. which stranded on inc
,reqchercus Diamond Shoals Oft cape
f,atteras Sunday night. and whose
crew was rescued by life savers, was
at noon Tuesday given up by the req
cuers rs hopeless wreck. The bow cf
the vessel was then beginning to SINK
into the waves. Her cargo of bananas
and cocoanuts is also total loss. az
salvage steamers could not approach
near enough to lighter the fruit.
Charles s. Smith. one Of the last Of
the Old line merchant princes, who laid
The foundations of their fortunes before
the Civil War; died of pleurisy Tuesday
at his home in New York City. He was
II years old. Mr.. Smith was born IN
Exeter, N. H., and began business as 9
BOY of Is in a Wholesale dry goods
house. He retired from active business
in 1887 but remained director of the
Fifth Avenue Bank of New York, OF
which he was one of the founders. the
Fourth National Bank, the Merchants
National Eank and the Greenwic.
Savings Band and member of the
executive committee of the Chamber of
Commerce.