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

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Charles M. Preston, ex-superintend-
ent of banks of New York state, died
Friday at his home in Kingston, N.
Y. He was 81 years old.
The deadlock of lake employers and
employees began Friday at Buffalo,
when the steamer Charles S. Weston
sailed in ballast with a non-union crew.
The opening is week earlier than
usual.
Robbers dynamited the safe of the
Bank of Lucien, 80 miles east of Enid
Okla, Thursday night and escaped
with $1,000 in currency and notes to the
amount of $4,000. The interior of the
building was wrecked. The robbers es-
capped in a stolen rig.
Announcement was made Friday at
the New York Consolidated Stock Elk
change that Louis G. Spence, who
Thursday failed to pay his balance at
the Exchange Clearing House and was
given "a hours in which to make a set
tlement, had settled his obligations in
full
The White Star Line was advised
Friday by cable Of the arrival at Liv-
erpool from Belfast of the new steam
err Laurentic. The steamer will sail
from Liverpool April 20 for Quebec
and Montreal, inaugurating the new
Canadian service Of the White Star
Dominion Line.
John Bulletto, a wealthy land owner.
was assassinated Thursday night while
sitting at his desk in his office at Clare
mont, Okla The assassin escaped.
Bulletto was to have been married soon
to Miss Pearl Eddleman, clerk in the
government Indian agency at Musko-
gee No motive is known for the crime.
The death of Fred r. Gomez, assist
ant manager of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, and well-known throughout
the musical world of the country, was
announced Friday. Mr.. Gomez was
connected with Boston's great musical
organization almost from it's inception
and in addition has been active in the
management of many musical celebri-
ties. He was So years old. The widow
survives.
The trial was begun Friday at
Whiteville, N. c., Of Cleveland Russ, a
prominent young white man, charged
with the murder of Jerry Bigford, who
was assassinated in his home on the
night of March % on the eve of his
marriage to Miss Squires, for whose
hand the defendant is said to have
been a rival sutton. A number Of wit
nesses were sworn including Miss
SQuires.
A Brussels newspaper declares that
system of German espionage has
been unearthed in the city. A man
named Montaigne was arrested on Sus-
picion of having committed murde.
in Paris. He was innocent of this
crime, hut it was discovered that he
was the head of the system and docu-
ments of vital Importance concerning
the naval defences of Brest, France,
were found in his possession.
Upon the representation of commits
sion of physicians that the man was
mentally unsound and upon his own
promise that he would Immediately
leave the state, Daniel Harrigan, after
pleading nolo to charge of incendi-
arism, was discharged from custody
Friday in the Newport, r. l., district
court. Harrigan, who is about 80 years
old. vas arrested for setting fire to a
New Haven freight car loaded with
kindling wood last month.
Joseph McCann. a prominent meat
dealer of Elmira, N. Y, was shot down
on the street in the center of the city
Friday, while on his way to his store.
Two bullets entered his body. He was
taken to the hospital and is not eX-
pected to live. His assailant is sup
posed to have been Raymond Gill, a
young man who had been employed
by Mr.. Mccain, and who had been
dismissed because of alleged short
ages in his accounts. The assailant
fled on a bicycle, which was found in
the outskirts of the city.
Orders for SO new locomotives for the
Boston g. Maine Railroad at cost of
s50O,0O0 have been issued, according to
announcement made Friday in Boston,
while it was also stated that negotia-
tions are pending for considerable in
crease in other lines of rolling stock.
A number of new stations will be built
during the coming summer and the
grade crossings along the lines Of the
road still further eliminated, notably at
Maiden, Somerville, North Reading,
Fitchburg, West Deerf1eld and North
field.
A celebrated defalcation case was re-
called Friday by the release from Sing
Sing prison of Cornelius ]. Alvord, for
merly not teller of the First National
Bank of New York. Alvord was sent
enced Jan. 16, 1901, to IS years impris-
onment for making false entries in the
books of the bank to cover up defalca-
tions said to have aggregated 100000,
extending over a period of several
years. Communication for good behavior
reduced the term by about five years.
Alvord confessed the defalcation. When
he left the prison he told the officials he
was going to Hudson, N. 7.
Decrease in the area devoted in In
dia to cotton culture is shown by the
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