Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-17
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

during the past week with the United
States, France, Portugal, Spain and
Mexico.
The Russian foreign office has asked
the war office to send troops impedi-
ately to Astraband, Persia, to protect tho
lives OF the people and prevent a threat
ened massacre. Three Russian gunboats
have arrived in the harbor of Astrabad.
It was learned Thursday at Paris that
the French courts in November of last
year granted a divorce between Frederick
Mac Monies, the American sculptor, and
his wife, who was Miss Mary Fairchild
of New Haven. The couple were married
Sept 20, 1888, in Paris.
Fortv-siX separate reasons why Duncan
B. Cooper and Robin J. Cooper, recently
convicted of tie murder of former United
States Senator Z. w. Carmack, should be
granted a new trial, are set forth in the
motion for q new trial filed in writing
Thursday at Nashville, Tenn, by attor-
neys for the defendants.
In a gas explosion Thursday in Mine
No. 2 of the George Creek Coal < Iron
co. at Pennington, w. Va. three min
ers, all foreigners, were killed They
We're the only men in the mine when
the accident occurred. Immediately
after the explosion the mine caught fire
and the victims have not yet beeen re-
covered.
Lindsay Russell, received for Ennis e
Stoppani the New York stockholders
whose failure was announced Tuesday,
has called a preliminary meeting of all
the creditors to be held at 3 p. NJ Thurs
day next in the offices of the firm. The
meeting was called at the instance of at
torneys representing the large creditors
| and it's object is to form a creditors COM
mittee to cooperate with the receiver.
A movement is on foot in Russian rand
Austrian Poland to honor the memory OF
| Helena .Modjeska, the Polish actress who
died in California April s. Arrangements
are being made for memorial service to
| be held in Warsaw, Russian Poland, and
statue of Madame Modjeska will be
erected in the foyer of the Warsaw thea
ter committee is working in Austrian
| Poland to erect another statue at the
Lemberg theater.
Gov Hughes in q special message to the
| New York Legislature Thursday recon-
mends q reduction in the rate of taxation
| so as to provide a sinking fund for the
barge canal debt sufficient to meet the
| bonds actually issued. The suggested
| change will give the state annually be-
tween So, eco 900 and "a 100000 in addition to
present revenues, to meet current eX-
penses. Bills embodying the recommend
atoms were introduced Thursday.
| All of the quarrymen at work when
q landslide overwhelmed them in q
slate quarry near the line between
| West Pawlet, VT, and Granville, N.
Y, or Tuesday have now been ac-
counted for and it is definitely known
that five men lost their lives. The body
of one was recovered Tuesday night,
| another man was rescued alive
Wednesday but died later in the day
| and the three other bodies were recoV-
cred Thursday.
| AS the result of boating accident of
Dominion No. 6, near Fort Morien, N. S..
| Thursday afternoon, four men lost their
lives by drowning while another had a
| very narrow escape and was completely
exhausted when rescued and brought
| ashore. The names of the victims are:
Michael Driver, 80, Englishman, a widow
!
| cock, 80, Englishman, unmarried; Harry
Gardner, %, Scotchman, unmarried; Will
| liam Mcleod 80, of Fort Moren, widow
and two children.
Miss Christina Palmieri, an italian
| girl of 20 years, was married Thursday
| at Providence, K. l., to Camille DesistO,
| 4 young man year her senior, VINO
| on March last, shot and wounded ner
| during a fit of jealousy. AS the young
| man was held at Cranston Jail because
of his inability to furnish bail of $4,000
on a charge of assault with intent to
kill. Miss Palmieri secured reduction
of the bonds to $500 and then furnish
| ed the Sureties necessary for her low
| er's release, in order to get married.
When the students of Manhattan Col
| lege reassembled Thursday at New York
at the close of their Easter vacation,
| they were met with the announcement
that a new president of the college had
beer appointed in the person of Brother
Jerome, from st. Joseph's College, Buffa
| 10, and that John Nugent of Troy, N Y,
the student ball player over whose sus-
pension there was trouble among the
students in the college last month, had
been reinstated. Brother Peter, whom
Brother Jerome succeeded as president,
| was in poor health and had retired for re-
cuperation, it was stated.
Lee f. Mccullough, former president of
the Boston common council, and James r.
| Cassidy, an attorney, We're placed on trial
in the superior criminal court in Boston
Thursday, jointly charged with larceny
| and conspiracy in connection with the al
legged misrepresentation of city funds for
| the purchase of set of law books. In
addition Mccullough is also charged with
perjury. The case grew out of one of the
| reports of the Boston Finance Commits
sion, in which Mccullough and Cassidy
were alleged to have diverted to their
| own uses 5000 of the citys money. The
case was formally called and continued