Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-15
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


With an attendance of 24,6O1, the
total attendance for the first AZ days of
the sAlaska- Y ukon- Pacific Exposition
passed the million mark the grand to-
tai being 1,015,272. This surpasses the
record of the Lewis and Clark Expo
sition and also the jamestown EXPOSE
ton.
Two trunks. said to contain the miss
ing books of f. Augustus Heinze's Uni
ted Copper Co., were turned over to the
federal authorities in New York Tues
day. They have been missing for al
most two months ana have been the
basis of the recent proceedings. They
were found it is understood in q house
in West 59th street
A telegram received at North Sydney.
N. s, Tuesday night states that the
schooner Ceto. Capt Ralcom Of Hafffax,
which loaded coal there Saturday, had
run ashore on Man War point on
Boulardarie island in the Bras Dor
lakes, Tuesday The Ceto was making
her way along in a thick fog when the
accident occurred. The steamer Glad
iator left at a late hour Tuesday night
for the scene of the wreck. The vessel
is reported to be badly damaged.
Rosie Pitenhof, dorchester girl, 1s
years old at flood tide Tuesday after
noon succeeded in swimming across
Hull gut, from Peddock's island. Miss
Pitenhof is the first person known to
have passed over and back without q
rest. The que is about half a mile wide
and the strong cross currents make Il
particularly difficult swim The girl
was in the water % minutes, nine min
utes crossing and 10 minutes returning
Glen H. Curtis in the aeroplane he
recently sold to the New York Aero
nautic Society. made three flights just
before dark the other evening, near
Mineola, L. I. Two of the flights, the
first and third. were short but in the
second he remained in the air two min
utes and 80 seconds. going in a circle at
the rate of about 40 miles an hour for
total flight of approximately one and
two thirds miles
A dispatch from Watseka, ILL.,, says
| that the sensational killing of j. B.
Sayler, vice president of the First Ma
| tional bank of Crescent City, by DR.. w.
r. Miller, a well-known physician, also
of Crescent City, has aroused indiSnsf-
| ton throughout that vicinity. On the
day of the tragedy when Mr.. Sayier
was absent from horne, 1t Is alleged,
| Mrs. Sayler, DIR. Miller, John Gruntier,
| father of Mrs. Sayler and a resilient ar
Oklahoma, who are visiting Ills dauRl,-
ter, and Ira Grunder, brother OF .MrS
Say.er, had been drinkin& saliss state4
ment was made by Ira Gruhder, who
gave himself up to the sferiSk GsAtd-
er said that he had been SO overcome
by the effect Of the drink that he slept
| through the excitement attending tlatf
shooting. DIR. Miller, the GRINDERS and
Mrs. Sayler are in jail. No move, to
secure their release on bail has beeii
made.
The formal opening Of the Catholic
Educational Associations sixth annual
convention took place Tuesday in Bos-
ton, when gathering made up of pres
idents and professors of the Catholic
colleges Of the country. clergymen ard
laity associated with educational.wofix
and number of nuns and sisters, az :
tended nass,rat the Cathedral Of the
Holy Cross. After the mass. a5welcom-
ing address, was delivered by Arch
bishop William H. OConnell, opened
the days proceedings. After this SER
/ vice the delegates adjourned to Boston
College, where the business meetings
were begun. The association consists sof
three distinct departments, the selnina-
ry, college and parchial school, each of
which is subdivided into sections.
Six-year -old John Creedon wis
drowned in the Mystic river at Med
ford, Mass, Tuesday afternoon and his
/ playmate, Joseph O'Leary, had aanar-
row escape from death when the two
lads went beyond their depths In front
of the old Mystic pumping station
: The British House Of Lords Tuesday
night; by vote of 1923 to 1913, decided
not to proceed with the national SER
vice bill which Lord Roberts introduced
4 in the House Monday. This bill pro!
Z vites for the compulsory service in the
territorial army OF eli male eitieent be
tween the ages Of Is to 81.