Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-20
NEWS NUGGETS.
Items of Interest Cleaned by Wire
from Various Places.

zen persons were injured seriously
and 20 others narrowly escaped We'd
nesday night when $50 feet OF the
Twelfth street bridge over the river at
Chicago collapsed. No one was killed,
so far as known.
General Booth of the Salvation Army
is suffering from spetic poisoning of
the eye, condition that has necessi-
lated the abandoning of his religious
crusade in the provinces and his re-
turn to London.
With but four precincts to be heard
from. the nomination of Francis j..
Heney, special prosecutor in the graft
cases, as Democratic candidate for dis
trict attorney was virtually conceded
Wednesday night at San Francisco.
The General Society OF Mayflower
Descendants will hold it's fifth trien-
NAL congress in Plymouth, Mass, on
Sept. and {. In addition 10 the bust
hess sessions there will be receptions,
avn parties, BANQUET Monday even
ng and sightseeing trips.
Madden Pierson, the missing from
the wrecked schooner Arlington, was
licked up at sea and brought into New
York safe and sound "Wednesday on the
schooner Irene May. The Irene May
picked him up early Wednesday off At
antic Highlands.
The bye election in the Fourth dis
trict of Prince county, P. E. l., We'd
nesday by the Legislature resulted in
he return of Michael Delaney, the Con-
sentative, by a majority OF three over
Hon. Joseph Read, Liberal. The House
now stands: Liberals 1G, Conserva-
tives IA.
Mrs. Shelby M. Cullom, wife of the
United States senator, died Wednesday
n Washington. Mrs. Cullm had suf-
cred from heart trouble for long
time. She was taken i'll last spring
and went to Atlantic City but expert
,nced no marked improvement. She
returned last Saturday to Washington
Charging her husband, Major i.
Fletcher Hanson, president of the Cen
trail Georgia Railroad, with cruelty
md with infatuation with Mrs. Hor-
ner, Mrs. Cora L. Hanson of Macon.
Ga, Wednesday filed suit for divorce
in the superior court in Atlanta. Mrs.
Hanson declares she was SO in fear of
Ter husband that she often slept in
he bathroom.
Detroit was selected as next years
meeting place of the National Fratern-
II Congress. Officers were elected as
follows: President, Thomas H. Can
non of Chicago; vice president, John j.
Hynes of Buffalo; secretary and treas
1rer, G. A. Cover of Columbus, Ohio.
rhe medical section of the congress
elected DR.. w. K. Harrison Of Chica
90 president, George G. OConnell of
Chicago, secretary, and DR.. Elizabeth
W. Hooper, treasurer.
1T was announced Wednesday in Bos-
ron that counsel for A. d. F. Adams.
he Boston broker under Indictment in
New YORK. had arranged with District
Attorney Jerome that Adams should
surrender himself to the authorities in
New York Thursday morning. Adams
therefore, will not be placed under ar
'est in Boston. The Indictment against
Adams followed the disclosures regard
ng alleged hypothecation of stock Ger
ificates which followed the arrest in
Jew York of Donald l.. Persch.
Judge Sherman of the superior court
Boston Tuesday sent from his sum-
Ger home in Vermont an overruling of
he motion of Former Judge Henry s.
Dewey for new trial of his suit
gainst the members of the Good Gov
rnment Association for statements
,ilegcd to be derogatory to him which
we're made during the mayoralty cam
)aign in 1905. Judge, Dewey sought t.,
l ecover damages, which he finally
| placed at s76.45O,000. The case when
tried resulted in verdict for the de-
! 'endants.
A dispatch from New York states
/ hat Spectators on the curb market
| With a fondness for instructive stats.
| tics figured at the close of trading to-
l lay that John D. Rockefeller was
| HS, 1874 richer than he was two years
tgo. and by no effort of his own
Standard Oil stock. of which Mr.
Rockefeller owns $25000.O0O par value
ouched 712 today-a rise of 322 point.
from the low price of 1907, during tn,
panic. Standard Oil stock pays 40 pc
cent. year, and since 1882, when tn,
company was formed, has distribute.
in dividends nearly $500. ooO. 900. of wllicl
Mr.. Rockefeller is estimated to hav
received one-fourth. or s165,00o, 600.