Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

tic City, Sunday, was fioated early Mon
day The schooner was bound from New
ton, Del, to Cape May.
After having been closed since Jan.
80, the plant of the l.. Candee Rubber
CO. at New Haven, CT, resumed oper-
ations Monday, calling back to their
benches about 1900 employees.
The smokeless powder department of
the King Powder Works at Kings NILS.
near Dayton. Ohio. blew up Monday and
Walter Thompson of Lima. Ohio, liz
only man in the building at the time, was
killed
General Linaros, who was in COM
mand OF the Spanish forces at Santi-
ago, Cuba. at the time of the Spanish
America war, has been re-appointed
minister of war in succession to Cen
eral Primo-Rvera. resigned.
EX-Congressman Isaac Ambrose
Barber died at his home at Eastern.
Nd, Monday from the effects of fall
he sustained Sunday. He was 81 years
OF age and served one term in Congress
from 1896 until 1895
William Gearhart, captain of a Pitts
burg fire company. who Sunday murder
ously assaulted Mrs. Anna Baxter.
widow, with razor and then seriously
cut himself. committed suicide Monday
by jumping from the third floor of the
Fittsburg hospital.
Four letters or documents signed by
Washington We're sold at auction at
Sotheby's, London. Monday for $40 to
London dealer. The letters are addressed
chiefly TO Col. Israel Shreve. command
ing in New Jersey. and are dated be-
tween February, III, and January, ISL.
Homer Davenport, the cartoonist who
was in a taXicab crash in Central Park,
New York, early Monday morning, re-
ceived only a cash on the forehead ana
a severe shaking up. and it was ascer-
tanned at his hotel after the accident that
his injuries were comparatively slight.
w. Vernon Booth, president of A. Booth
& Co., and F. K. Robbins. formerly as
sistant treasurer of the company. who
We're indicted Jointly last Saturday at
Chicago on a charge of conspiracy to de-
fraud the Continental National Bank out
of $500 900, gave bonds of $4,000 and Sl5,GO
Monday.
Christmas attacked President Fallieres
i'll Paris and tried to pull his beard.
was tried and convicted Monday and
to four years imprisonment
the imprisonment to be followed by
FIVE Years Punishment from the bound
aries OF Paris.
The Gam bill, providing for statewide
prohibition, passed the Arkansas House
Monday by vote of SO to q. The Gam
bill provides that liquor may be sold by
druggists for mechanical. medicinal and
similar uses and that wines may be sold
to churches for sacrament. Physicians
must make out certificates in giving pre-
scriptions calling for alcohol or liquor.
Fire Monday at Reno. New, destroyed
the Arcade hotel and the Palace hotel and
gambling house owned by James May.
The damage is 100000. Several men were
injured by falling bricks. The palace
gambling house was one of the most not
ed in the West. 1t has been the scane
Of many spectacular plays, One night
two years ago, after run of hard luck
May put $1,000 bill on No. 4 on the ro,;-
lette wheel and won $4,000. In lien CT
cash he received an interest in the paa-e
which later he bought outright.
After the jury had been out at Pitts
burg, Pa. for nearly IS hours YER
dict Of guilty was returned late Mon
day against President of Common
Council William Rrand and Council
men John r. Klein and Joseph c. Was
son, charged with conspiracy. Former
Bank President w. w. Ramsey, who
was indicted jointly with them, was
acquitted upon the orders of the court
and the request of the district attor-
ncy.
Disbursements of the 81, coo. 900 in re-
bates due gas consumers in Manhattan
and the Bronx, under the S0-cent gas
law, in accordance with the decision of
the United States supreme court, was
begun Monday by the Consolidated Gas
Co. and it's subsidiary corporations. Up
to 10 o'clock at night. when the four
days work of repayment was closed. APP
proximately 5000 checks had been sent
out. these aggregatng face value esti-
mated at about 100000. In all about g.
100000 checks must be issued.
United States Senator Isaac Stephen
son might have been reelected on thu.
1JeIs ptiiCl sluHudy dl MdQlSOn, w u.s..
had it not been for a bolt of all of the
Democrats except V. III. Cady and all
OF the Social Democrats There was
not quorum. The total vote was "a,
CT which Stephenson received 50, NJ
j. Cleary one and Neal Brown one.
e. j. Lucky) Baldwin died at his
home at Arcadia, Cal, on Baldwin's
ranch Monday. after an illness of sew
eral weeks. He was 81 years of age.
Using an awning over grocery store
in front of the building as toboggan
slice, dozen tenants on the lower floors
of burning tenement on Uppen First
avenue. New York. Monday slid to safety
in the arms of policemen and firemen on
the street. Smoke filed the halls and cut
off their escape by the stairs and they
were too terrified to climb down the fire
escape ladders. A hundred other tenants
of the building. further away from the
origin Of the fire, escaped from the blaz-
ing structure by the roofs and the va
rious fire escapes.