Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

a report of an explosion on the war
ship Mississippi is false. Messages from
the naval station at Guantanamo re-
port that the Mississippi is lying at
anchor with all of the other men-of-
war, and that there is no indication
whatever of any disturbance in the
fleet.
The building containing the clothing
store Of Morris & Bonner and the fruit
store of German Giocca, at North Ben
nington, VT, was burned Saturday ana
the adjoining building occupied by the
general store of A. S. Hathaway &
Co. was damaged. The total loss is
about $4,000, with insurance of $4,000.
With a bottle labelled "carbolic acid
at his side George Otis Pickering, one
of the weathiest citizens of Everett and
for many years wholesale produce mer-
chant in Boston, was found dead in bed
at his Everett home late Sunday. MI
Pickering was 20 years of age. A widow
and two children survive.
The extensive plant of the Carr
Leather Co., situated on Pope street,
Salem, Mass, and giving employment
to nearly 200 hands, was swept away
by fire Saturday, with loss to the
company of 100000. The property was
fully covered by insurance and may be
rebuilt.
A naval court martial at Kiel, Germany
has acquitted Capt Mass commander of
the German cruiser Frcya. on the charge
of unskilful navigation. The Freya Aug. s
last ran down and sank the American
fishing schooner Maggie and May about
GO miles off Halifax harbor. Nine men of
the schooner We're drowned, Capt Nc
Cathern being among them.
Tine revenue cutter Gresham, after
considerable hard work by her officers
and crew, succeeded in hauling the
schooner William "A. Morse off Long
Point near Provincetown, Saturday
and towed her into the harbor The
Morse was driven on the Point during
tie heavy southeast gale of Thursday
last. and it was feared would become a
total wreck.
Phillip Sheridan Finn of Pittsburg,
who two and a half years ago laid out
the automobile route for the Glidden tour
and who for two successive years fin
ished the Glidden tours with perfect
scores, died Sunday night at Atlantic
City, N. j., of an affection of the heart.
1t is believed his devotion to fast driving
with his automobile was instrumental in
causing his heart trouble. Mr. Finn was
A years old and a prominent business
man.
Valuable documents were de-
stroyed by the recent fire that spread
from the Assembly room of the Cham
Der of Deputies at Mexico City to the
vaults nearby. Investigation shows the
original construction of 1911 signed at
ChlllancingO, the act of independence
of 1921, when Iturbide entered Mexico.
and the constitutions of 1924 and 1857
were burned. The latter constitution is
the one upon which the latter-day re-
forms instituted by Benito Juarez are
based.
II am going to take long Sleep" said
William Curtiss, a dealer in electrical
supplies on 22d street, New York, when
he retired Friday night. He was found
dead Saturday with a revolver bullet in
his BRAIN Curtiss is believed to have
been Respondent over the recent death of
his partner in the electrical business.
John T. Hunt He left a note asking that
the brother of his late partner be noti-
fled, and begged his housekeeper's pardon
for causing you so much trouble
Capt. Raold Amundsen will remodel
Nansen's famous ship Fran for a
drifting expedition to the North pole,
and has selected as his captain Lieut..
Engelstad of the Norwegian army. She
will probably be ready to leave Chris
tiania carly next year. Capt Amund-
sen will proceed to America and thence
to Nome, Alaska, where the Fran.
which goes by way of Cape Horn, will
pick him up. The expedition will en-
ter the Arctic ocean through Behring
straits.
1t is understood that the American
Federation of Labor will not file cross
appeal to the appeal allowed Friday by
the court of appeals to the Buck Stove &
Range Co. of St Louis to carry it's case
against the federation and it's officials to