Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


FORD. Conn. by the New England Ma
rine Co. of Noank, shows liabilities OF
Il 3ss. 1853. SO and assets of $3.50.
The Ohio river was gorged with ice
at two points below Cincinnati Tues
day and unless warmer weather sets
In and causes a break, millions Of dol
lars worth of floating property along
the river in that city will be In danger.
Mrs. Alice V. McAloon Tuesday at
New York obtained an interlocutory
decree OF absolute divorce from Will
liam A. McAloon, who is known on the
stage as Andrew Mack. The decree
granted to the wife the custody OF their
only son, Francis A. McAloon.
Clarence Lebus. president OF the
Burley Tobacco society, in his answer
to the suit filed against him and the
society by the +. o. Shelby Tobacco
Co., denies that the society Is a con-
spiracy or combination in restraint OF
trade.
Philip S. e. Griffiths Of Greenfield,
was nominated by reclamation tues
day at Butler. Mo. today by Republic
cans of the 9Th Missouri district as a
candidate to succeed the late Congress-
man David A. DeArmond. On Dec. %,
the Democrats nominated c. &. Dick
inson.
Hogs brought the unusual price of
$3.50 on the Kansas City market Tues
day This is the highest mark attain
ed there since 1882. Receipts were
heavy. Packers did not explain the
high price, except to say it marked an
other step in the constantly increasing
value of hogs.
Fifteen persons were injured, none
seriously, by the overturning Tuesday
afternoon of two day coaches on the
West Jersey & Seashore Railroad near
Penns Grove, 20 miles south of Cam
den, n. j. The cars were attached to
the rear of local passenger train and
the accident was due to broken rail.
Little Tim" Sullivan, alderman and
political leader, who died recently in
New York City. left an estate valued
at approximately 100000, according to
tinued search has failed to reveal any
will During his i'll health several
months ago Little Tim" started to
make a will. but never. signed it.
Fire was discovered in the hold of
the White Star liner Celtic last
Wednesday when the vessel was four
days out from New York. The liner ar
rived safely Monday at Liverpool. The
fire was still burning but it's presence
was known to none of the 400 passen-
gers. The hold has been flooded.
A report that the American Sugar
Refining Co. has purchased property
in the Philippines was denied Tuesday
by President Washington B. Thomas,
in statement issued from the COM
nany's Boston Offices The company has
no investments in the Philippines, he
said, and has no intention of making
any.
Alexander McMullen. a brakeman on
the Boston & Maine Railroad, residing
in Concord, n. H, was instantly killed
~ falling from a train about 2.35 A.
NJ. Tuesday morning. His death occur
red near the point known as the Six
Arch bridge. about two miles from the
center of Lowell, Mass. McMullen was
25 years of age. married and lived in
Pierce street, Concord.
At the request of the United States
government the date for the hearing
at The Hague of the case in regard to
the rights of United States fishermen
in New Foundland and Canadian wa
tiers, in the North Atlantic, has been
postponed for six weeks from the orig
inal date set. April 4. The postpone
ment was sought to give the United
States government further time to pre-
pare MS case.
The 4ody of Frederic Remington. the
artist, vas taken Tuesday to Canton. n.
y. tor burial. A party of relatives and
friends of the illustrator accompanied the
We're joined by others from Canton and
nearby places who attended the funeral
services Tuesday afternoon. Prior to the
funeral the body lay in state in the Uni
versalist church. Services were held in
that church and the burial was In Ever
green cemetery where Mr.. Remingtorlss
father and other members of the family
are buried.
Robert D. Muir, the former treasur-
err Of the Peoples Bank and Trust Co.
of New Haven. CT, who is charged
with embezzlement of securities Of the
bank to the amount of $4,000, waived
examination in the city court Tues
day and was held for the superior
court. The bank recovered the securi-
ties and cash shortage of $4,000.
was made up by stockholders. The
complaint was made by the bank COM
missioner.
To remedy possible defects in the in
dictment upon which Mrs. Jeanette
Stewart Ford is now under bond for
trial Jan. 10, Prosecutor Hunt Tuesday
at Cincinnati presented a new form to
the grand jury for consideration. The
defects in the present Indictment,
which charges attempted blackmail by
Mrs. Ford on Charles L. Warmer. de-
Veloped during the argument on a de-
murrer Monday. The defect Mr.. Hunt
finds is alleged lack Of directness in
charge and definiteness in penalty.
Seven children, ranging in age from
two to IL years, We're burned to death,
and three persons perhaps fatally in
iured late Monday night when fire, fol-
lowed by an explosion of powder de-
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