Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-07

Co at SIS per ton. Early delivery is to be
made on this contract. which Is the larg-
est since the open market for steed was
begun several months ago.
The vessels of the Atlantic battle
snip fleet will begin their record tar
get practice Aug. Is off the Chesapeake
bay. When the ships have completed
this record practice. they will take up
the hattie target practice. This will
be the first time that the battleships
have done this target shooting on the
high seas, having heretofore always
utilized some protected bay.
The first appreciate monument to his
labors, and that secured within 10 months
Of taking Office. by which President John
NJ Thomas will be remembered by well
wishers of AIiddlebury, VT, College, has
heen completed in the form of 100000
furd. OF this amount $4,000 was raised
entirely by popular subscription. the re-
naming $25. 900 being gift of DR.. d. X.
Pearson of Chicago.
The first material fruit of the Ma
tional Conference. is a fund of $4,000
donated to Northwestern University
by John r. Lindgren, Swedish consul
at Chicago. The fund is to be utilized
for the purpose of founding of a per
manrnt series of lectures and to Sc
cure the annual payment of prizes for
essays upon the questions of interna-
tional peace and INSTRUMENTATION
religious harmony.
1t was voted Thursday night at a meet
ing of the board of deacons and executive
committee of fremont Temple. Boston,
to extend a call to DR.. Cortland Myers,
for l6 years pastor of the Baptist Temple
church of Brooklyn, N. Y, to succeed
DR.. P. II. Henson. who resigned last De-
cember. The vote does not finally settle
the matter. as the selection by the dea-
cons must lay over one week and then be
presented to the members of the church
for their action.
The city of Boston will receive 81, OO0.0 900
from the commonwealth in remuneration
for the Pierce and Austin farms, which
were taken over by the state to form
the Boston Insane hospital. Under an act
passed by the last Legislature the state
assumed the care of the insane and subse-
quently took possession of the property
| used by the city for that purpose. a
commission was appointed to assess the
coSl VI TIE piOpeity dtiu tiio eaiiouhe SN
er below is the result of it's finding.
In /; sealed verdict rendered in the
United states circuit court at New
ark, \. j.. Thursday, Maurice Bornier,
| second captain of the French liner La
Savoit was found guilty OF smuggling
$4,000 worth Of laces and diamonds into
tie country. The jury filed recon-
mendatiOn to mercy. Judge HOuShtOI
|, remanded Bornier for sentence. Bor.
nier was arrested April II, when par
of the struggled goods were found Vii
| his cabin aboard ship.
Remorse and troubled conscience
| following his act of setting fire to the
| Second Congregational church at West
| Newbury. Mass, April "a, led Charles
Marshall. "a years old, of that town
| to surrender himself Thursday to the
| pclicu at Newburyport with the state
mant that he had set the fire. Just to
see it burn" was his explanation for
| the reason prompting his act, The po-
| lice stated that they believed Mar
shall's mind to be affected.
\ finely wrought sword with a hilt
of solid gold, alleged to have beer
President Taft, was one of several
hundred Oriental art objects seized
Thursday night by special treasury
agents at New York City. The articles
We're found in the possession of two
Russians, who are said to have come
to the United States last week as
steerage passengers of the Kaiser
Wilhelm TT.