Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Fire which broke out Tuesday night
in T'hompson's & Smiths livery sta
BILE at London, Ont. did $4,000 damage
and burned IL horses to death.
George p. Hayes, a hotel keeper of
Taunton. has filed a voluntary petition
iE bankruptcy in the United States dis
trict court at Boston, showing Iiabili-
ties of $22,S06, of which $1S,270 is Sc
curei and assets of 1928.
A number of the men on strike in
Stockholm having received notice to
leave their homes Oct l unless they
return to work in the meantime, the
unions have issued a proclamation that
no strikers are to pay rentals due in
October. The strike leaders maintain
that it will be impossible to turn thou
sands of families into the streets.
Rev. Edmund M. Dunno Wednesday
was cOnSecrated bishop of Peoria, ILL.,,
in the Roman Catholic church. The Ger
emory was conducted in the Holy
Name cathedral in Chicago by the Most
Rev. Diomede Falconio, apostolic dele
gate to the United States, in the pres
ence of a congregation including three
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Qufgley and
Glennon-11 bishops and 600 priests.
The newspaper Zvono, which first
published the story that Crown Prince
George of Servia had assaulted his val
ct. q statement that resulted in the
prince renouncing his heirship to the
throne, make another sensational an
nOuncement Wednesday with regard to
a French chauffeur employed by the
prince. 1t declared that the chauffeur
recently received serious injuries and
that he was conveyed secretly to q
Belgrade hospital, where he now lies
iii dying condition.
Capt. Samuel G. Shartle the newly
appointed American military attache.
was presented to Emperor William at
the autumn review at Berlin Wednes-
day of the Berlin and Potsdam garri-
sons. Thirty thousand troops took part
in the review. The Emperor and En-
press returned to the palace through
the principal streets of Berlin and
were cheered by the crowds. Among the
Americans to witness the review were
Orville Wright and his sister Katherine
and Mrs. d. j. Hill, wife of the Amer
lean ambassador.
-Pere Marquette, the Jesuit mission
airy, whose name is inseparabIy inter-
woven with the early history of Mich
1Gan and the Great Lakes, was honor
ed at Mackinac Island, Mich, Wednes-
day in the unwilling of a $1,000 monu-
ment to his memory. The bronze statue
represents the missionary standing
erect and clothed in his priestly robe
Justice William r. Day of the United
States supreme court and Rev. Father
Cunningham of Marquette College of
Milwaukee delivered addresses and
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon of the Ma
tional House of Representatives pre-
sided at the unwilling ceremonies.
"A lively blaze in a two-story house
or Empire street in the heart of the
providence Chinese colony early
Wednesday morning caused practical
ly all Of the guests of the Hotel New
man on Aborn street to leave hurriedly |
in their night clothes. When discover |
ed the flames had broken through the |
roof of the Chinese house and were
lighting up the neighborhood. AS the |
house abutted on the rear of the hotel
it was feared it would spread and the |
guests were Immediately warned. Most
Of them did not wait to don any
clothes but fled to the street at once
The damage was confined to the house
where the fire started.