Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-22
One Killed and Five In
jured Boiler Explosion.
Bestoa Man Pays $4,000, hr
Steep|echase Horse.
Items Cleaned BY Wire from Here,
There and Everywhere,

l of the death of I'ope Leo XIII. A Fu-
neral Mass was read at the Sacred Col,
lege at Rome in the presence OF Pope
Plus and the high dignitaries of the
| church. '"%N
The boiler of the tourist steamer Gut
tenburg blew up Monday near Roland
seek, Il resort on the Rhine. One stok-
| err was killed and five members of the
crew hurt. Several passengers were in
jured but hone of them. SO far as
known, was an American. 49,
Arrangements for the funeral of Gen
eral Don Carlos of Boubon, the preten-
der to the Spanish throne. who died at
Varese, Lomhardy. last Sunday. have
been delayed as the permission of EN-
peror Francis Joseph to bury the body
at Trieste has not been received.
Without firing shot, mob took Al
bert Lawson. a negro. who on Sun
day shot Sheriff p. NJ. Compton, from
the Paris, Ky, tail Tuesday night and
hanged him to mulberry tree a few
yards from the prison. About 80 min
utes later the dead body was cut down.
Harvey Persault, aged z. of Methuen,
Mass. was drowned in Harris pond,
three miles northwest of Methuen, late
summer camps on the pond and had
gone out in boat with other boys and
in playing about in the boat acciden-
tally fell overheard.
The Corean employees of the electrical
street railway system in Seoul went on
strike Tuesday. The property was re-
Gently transferred by the American,
company which built the lines to Jap
anese syndicate. The strikers threaten
to storm the offices of the syndicate
and are only held back by strong
force of gendarmes. w..
Sir Worster, held to be one of the
greatest steeple chase horses in this
country and winner of the Grand Ma
tional, the Whitney Memorial and the
Consolation stakes, was purchased by
A. Henry Higginson of Boston from
Col. Robert Neville of Virginia. The.
price stated to have been paid was
$4,000.
The success of several suffragettes In
obtaining their release from prison in
London Monday by carrying out 3
hunger strike has caused all the suf-
fragettes in Holloway Jail to adopt this
method for securing their freedom.
Miss Elsie Mackenzie was discharged.
from prison Tuesday in a critical con-
dition, having gone ISL hours without
tasting food.
A F. BENTLEY Opposition and Liber-
all was elected to the Provincial Legis-
lature Tuesday in st. John, N. r., In /,
succession to Hon. H. A. McKeown re-
Gently appointed a supreme court
judge. Mr.. Bentley received 1918 votes.
his opponent. ]. p. Mosher. the Hazen
government candidate and ConservA-
tive. who received 1926. 1t was one OF
the most spirited campaigns ever
fought in Canadian by-election.
The Maya Indians in the province Of
Quintana Roo, Yucatan peninsula, am
pushed the 18th Infantry at Ocum last
Thursday. killing six troopers and NOR
tally wounding seven others. The in
fantrymcn retreated but returned to
the attack in the evening. when they
were again repulsed. The Indian losses
are not known. The soldiers are now
pursuing the Mayas, whose depreda-
lions have alarmed the whole territory.
+ A dispatch from Washington says
that the urgent deficiency bill was
passed by the House Tuesday after
four days of tempestuous debate The
amount carried by it is s454.oO9. CT $2o,-
tOS more than the original sum and m
cludes the $4,000. travelling expenses
for the President. .s.
It was officially confirmed Tuesday
that the rupture between Bolivia and
the Argentine Republic Is complete.
diplomatic relations having been brok-
en- off.
Stricken with heart trouble, Daniel J.
Mclaughlin, aged 70. ex-president Of
the St John Board of Trade. died sud-
denly Tuesday at st, Andrews, where
he was visiting his daughter. A Wild
ow ard five children survive. Besides
four times Board of Trade president, he
has filed the position Of Exhibition As
ISOLATION president, and in 1895 was
Hon. William Pugsley's colleague in an
Independent ticket, in St. John In the
Dominion elections. but the ticket was
iefeated
William Hampton, formerly os Ish-
peming. Mich, was hanged at the Bod
min. England. jail Tuesday Tor the
murder of his sweetheart. Emily TIE
1res. at st. Firth, on May last. MfsS
TreGres had refused to have anything
more to do with Hampton, whefedpon
he caught the girl around the neck and
suffocated her. Hampton submitted
quietly to being bound and walked
firmly to the scaNfold.H He ana not Ut
ter word after leaving his cell. Death
was instantaneous '- '~'iH - hfefts'
Contempt proceedings were insti-
tuted by the United States District At
torney Asa F.. French Tuesday against
Elisha Greenwood. well-known Bos-
ton attorney. as result of remarks
made In court by Greenhoot while act
ire MS counsel for Lewis Gamer
Greenwood was served today with ~
writ calling for hfs appearance before
United States Commissioner Hayes IN
the United States district court FRI
day next to show cause why he should
not Re prosecuted for his alleged con-
tempt.
1t became known Tuesday that Kuhn,
Leob a Co of New YORK had bought
from the Union Pacific Railroad Co. all
or practically all Of the $12,O0o,000 At
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe preferred
stock which the Union Pacific had
purchased in 1906. Part of the stock,