Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

the encampment city for 1910, and cleo
ted Col. Edward J. Chan of Wakefield,
Mass, commarder-in-chief. The name
of the organization was changed to
Spanish War Veterans
The body of Richard ]. Barry, As
years. a barber in Beverly, Mass, who
fell from the bridge two days ago. was
found floating in the harbOr Friday.
Barry was unmarried and lived with
his pvrcnts.
Patrick Cannon of Clinton, Mass,
WHO killed his wife Mary with base
ball bat at their home in Clinton April
II last, was found guilty of murder in
the second degree Friday by jury in
the superior court at Worcester. He
was sentenced to life Imprisonment.
For the first time since Commodore
Oliver r. Perry won the decisive ma
val engagement OF the war of 1872 en-
Lake Erie on Sept. 10, 1873 the
achievement of Perry was commence
rated in a hitting anniversary celebra
ton Friday at Put in Bay, Ohio.
a bronze statue of Secretary of War
William II. Steward, the father OF
Alaska, who bought for a trifing sum
the richest colonial possession of Rus
STA, was unvsiled Friday at Seattle,
Wash, Secretary Stewards son, Gener-
al William II. Seward of Auburn, n.
V, delivered the Grafton Of the unveil-
ing
The buhOnic plague epidemic in Ven
ezula seems to have Disappeared. The
state department has received a tele-
gram from United States Minister
Russell at Caracas dated Thursday,
saying that the Venezuelan govern
ment officials had declared the plague
epidemic at an end. in view of the fact
that Is days had elapsed since the last
case was reported.
According to an announcement by
Superintendent Hotchl1iss of the New
York state insurance department Fri
day at Albany, owing to change in
the executive offices Of the American
Credit Indemnity Co., New York
corporation with principal offices at ST
Louis and questions which have ars.
en- in auditing its last annual state
| ment. a joint examination of this COM
.;any has been begun by the insurance
departments of New York and Massa-
| chusetts.
A dispatch from Boston, says that J.
| Franklin Wight. president of Wigh,
| Brothers incorporated, fur dealers, and
| widely known in the fur trade
| throughout The United States and
Canada, died Friday at his home a,
| Wellesley Farms. He was born in
Dtisficld Nc. June 10. 1899. He went
to Portland. Me-, at the age Of D. and
entered in the wholesale grocery bust
ness. He came to Boston in 1869 and
opened in the fur business with his
brothers. A widow survives. The flu
neral will he held at Deering, Me.
Temporarily crazed over the imrris-
| onment of her son, Mrs. Margare,
Sheehan, IS years old. committed sui
eide Friday at Fall River by slasQline
her throat with table knife. She
| lied Just as an ambulance arrived tC
| take her to the hospital. Before the
arrival of the ambulance she strug-
sled Gerccly with the police who hat
difficulty in restraining her from tear
| ing open still further the wound in hel
| throat Mrs. Sheehans son was sen.
| fenced Thursday to three months ir
| Jail for abusive treatment of his wife
! This fact greatly exercised the elderly
woman and Thursday night she drove
| her daughter-in-law from the house
by a threat to kill her,