Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| The Rio Grande river Is the highest
| in its history and villages ana farms
| in the valley above and below FL Paso
are inundated.
Postmaster General Frank ii, Hitchcock
returned to New y ';.-E- e,'nesday on the
steamer Saratoga from Havana. where
he had been on a brief tiio to Cuba for
| rest and recreation.
l.. p Hollander head of the dress
goods firm of l.. F. I'r!' tnder & CO., OF
| Boston and New York. Gied wednesday
| at mis- summer home at Marblehead, al
| ter an illness of nearly year He was
| 60 years old.
| The Turkish military authorities are
| considering the removal of the place OF
residence of the former Sultan. ABDUL
| Hamid from Saloniki to one of the IS
| lands of the archipelago in the Medl-
| terranean, probably Rhodes island,
which lies off the southwest coast OF
! Asia Minor.
| Binders were started Wednesday in
many wheat fields in Wichita county.
Texas This is the first harvesting of the
year in Texas and marks the beginning or
the season throughout the United States
Reports received from the field indicate
that the yield will average 10 bushels to
| the acre.
| In order that the authorities may have
an opportunity to investigate further into
his affairs. the case of Charles l.. Fox
well. who is charged with the larceny OF
5000 from the Growler Copper Co. and
other Boston financial houses. was
Wednesday postponed in the Boston po-
lice court for a hearing June 9. Foxwell
was taken back to jail
A general alarm of fire was turned in
Wednesday afternoon from the Sehwarz-
child g. Sulzberger Packing Plant at the
stock yards. Chicago. The plant occu-
pies a building covering two blocks. The
fire was brought under control after two
hours hard work. 1t was confined to the
LARD house, where the loss is estimated at
100000
or eight men who were in the Geesey
Hoop Mill at Dowagiac, Mich. Wedncs-
day afternoon when the boiler exploded
five We're instantly killed. one died at
night. one was severely hut and one mi
raoulously escaped without injury though
the entire building tumbled about him
One of the dead men is De crest Geesey
owner of the mill.
Prominent Negroes from many parts
of the United States are in Columbus
ohio to attend the second annual meet
ing of the National Negro American
Political League which began Wednes
day. Former Senator Foraker. who wa
on the program Thursday for an ad
dress. will probably not be able to b.
present.
Harry Lorentzen, known as tn
Banjo Eyed Kid one of the wit
nesses called by the prosecution in tn
case OF Patrick Calhoun. was place
under arrest Wednesday as he entered
the court room at San FranciSC
charged with carrying concealed weap
ons. He was searched by policeman
and dispOssessed of a revolver.
Captain A. NJ. Knight of the cruise
, Washington at Tacoma, Wash, has re
ceived orders from the navy department
to leave his ship Friday and report i'm
medately at Washington. d. c., to be
come president of the special board O
navy ordnance. Captain knight will b
succeeded by Capt. Rogers of the Unite,
States cruiser Milwaukee. now statione,
at the Puget Sound navy yard.
Charles Morrison, comparativel,
unknown millionaire, whose estate it i
estimated is worth between $50, 900, 60
!. and $75,000.000, died Wednesday nea
Reading. Eng. He was SO years old
With a maximum death duty of Is pc
cent. and succession duty of 5 pc
cent. as provided by the new budget
the government will receive from tn
} estate more than s1O.00O,00O,
The damaged Sustained by tn
schooner Minnie Slauson as the result
of her collision with the schooner Ad
die S. Walker in Pollock Rip Tuesda,
" found to have been comparativel,
slight. The schooner was in port a
Vineyard Haven Wednesday having
} repairs made to her headgear and ex
pelted to sail for her destination, Ban
gor, Me
William =. Barrett of New Yorl
was Wednesday elected president o
he Adams Express Co.. vice Lewis c
Wen. who resigned the presidency ant
vas elected chairman of the board o
managers and chairman of the boart
OF trustees. AIr. Barrett has been
vice president Of the company. Th,
changes were effected at Il meeting o
the board of managers in New Yorl
City
Four sticks of dynamite bound to-
g"thcr with wire. were found Wcdnes
day stuffed in the discharge pipe OF
the steamer Frank +. Heffelfnger, lay
ing at the Erie coal docks at Buffalo
N. Y. Attached to the dynamite was q
capped fuse, which had been ignited
but the fire was extinguished by the
tightly bound wire. The Heffelfnger is
one of the Lake carriers fleet of steam
ers, and arrived Tuesday from Supe-
rior with grain. The police are inves-
tlalting the affair.
Women were participants in rioting
Wednesday incident to the strike in the