Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

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| joined by the circuit court at Kansas
City. Mo-. Thursday from presenting her
'.Salome'' dance during the remainder of
her engagement there. on the ground that
the dance is obnoxious to public morals.
| Miss Blanche Walsh. the actress,
| was taken I'll again Thursday at Kan
sas City, Mo. Her physician diagnosed
her case as lead poisoning. THIS, they
say, may have resulted from her eat
| ing canned fruit or may be due TO cos
metics
Mrs f. B. Tracy Of Winchester.
Mass, has been chosen president for
Massachusetts of the Shut-In Society.
according to an announcement made
at the headquarters of the Interna-
tional Shut-In Society in New Haven.
ct. Mrs Tracy succeeds Mrs. I. II.
Ames, who has removed to New York
Major Parseval has completed new
aeroplane which will be tried out Short
ly near Berlin. 1t is monoplane driv-
en- by a motor and 1t is arranged to
ascend from and land on the surface
OF the water. Parsevars third steer
able balloon. which is considerably
more powerful than his previous air.
ships, has just undergone series Of
successful trials under the superin-
tendence Of the military authorities.
Judge Milton D. Purdy Of the Unit
ed States district court Mt st. Paul,
Mimi, gave up his seat on the bench
Thursday and Judge Page Morris Is
holding court in his place. Judge Pur-
dy held that his appointment received
from President Roosevelt ended at
midnight Wednesday night. This APP
Senate, owing to opposition from Sem
ator Nelson.
Democrats noted nationally as well
as in Pennsylvania were speakers late
Thursday night at a banquet tender
ed at Pittsburg, Pa, to William ].
Bryan by the Allegheny County Bry-
an League. More than 1900 guests were
at the dinner Owing to an engagement
to deliver lecture earlier in the even
ing, MIR. Bryan did not reach the din
ner till after midnight.
Despondent and i'll, Howard D. Has
call returned to Rutland, VT, his ma
tive city. early Thursday, after an abb
sence of two years, and ended his life
by shooting He was 81 years of age
and the son of George M. HascaN. q
well-known Rutland jeweler. Recently
the young man had been employed at
Stamford, CT, and had also worked at
various placed in New York state.
The Omaha. Neb., police Thursday al
ternoon arrested a Greek named John
SAWS, who came from New York. in
whose possession they found pearl neck
lace valued at 100000. which was lost
near the Knickerbocker hotel at I'd street
and Broadway in that city Nov. 26. SAWS
says he was employed as street cleaner
and swept up the jewels with d bunch of
refuse.
The New York Legislature will be asked
to make an appropriation of $3.50 for the
purchase and preservation Of the cottage
in which General Grant spent the last
days of his life, and the woodlands about
it, on Mount Macgregory. near sarato-
ga Commissioner B. s. Whipple of the
state forest, fish and game department.
is interested in the project and already
has obtained an option on the property.
Counsel for Mrs Ben Teal, wife OF the
stage director, agreed Thursday at New
York to submit briefs pending her appli-
AVocOAA1ASAS
doubt. Justice OGornan ordered the
briefs submitted Friday. The defendant.
who was convicted and sentenced to IL
months in the penitentiary on the charge
of attempting to procure false evidence
in connection with the Frank J. Gould
divorce suit, will remain in the ToTnbs
until decision on the application IL rem
dered. s...
Suffering from choral poisoning, q
young man believed to be Emile Du"
fault of S24 Washington street, Boston.
was found unconscious on a New York.
New Haven s. Hartford train which
arrived at the Grand Central station.
New York, Wednesday, night. A bank
book which bore the name Dufaut was
the only indication of his identity. He
was taken to a hospital where 1t was
said early Thursday he would probably
recover. s s..t 49," :tI .
Fire in q big tenement building on
seventh avenue. Brooklyn. early Thurs :
DAY caused the death Of two members
of family Of five and serious injury
10 the remaining three. Five firelIien
were injured and a number OF tenants
had narrow escapes. Mrs. Nathan
ltdDlnOWlIZ ana UeT 1L-ychT-Ofu HDu
Harry were The ones who petishad.
The family occupied the top floor ana
their escape was cut off by the flames.
The mother and her oldest som we're
overcome and died Of their iiljur1eS.
Memorials to Congress were adopted
by the Now York Chamber OF Com
merce Thursday protesting against the
Of I'D valorum duties tln-
der the new tariff on the Wholesale
market price in ti1is country instead OF
on the price abroad; urging ptoviAion
in the new tariff law for securing from
France minimum. rates OF duty on
American exports; and favOfing the
bin for providing adequate re4ldefces
abroad for American diplomatic otii-
cials. The appointment was urged Of
a committee to study the question Of
the Panama canal construction and re-,
port what should be done to MAKE the
canal subserve for all time the needs
Of a constantly expanding Information
al commerce.