Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-13
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The report that Mulai Hafid, the Sui
tan of Morocco. will demand the evac-
uation by Spain of the Riff Region
has been officially confirmed. He is
sending a mission to Madrid with this
END in view.
Reorganization Of A. Booth & Co.
fish dealers, Chicago, having been de-
termined upon sometime ago, the
bankruptcy petition filed against the
company was dismissed in the United
States district court Wednesday.
A distant earthquake, beginning shortly
after 7~P. NJ. Tuesday, was reported
Wednesday by the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey observer and Chel-
tenham, Maryland The tremors lasted s.
minutes. The record was of small ampli-
tude.
The New York Central Railroad
Wednesday paid to the United States
circuit court in New York city the
sum of Sl36.OOO in settlement of fines
imposed upon it by that court for the
granting of rebates to the American
Sugar Refining Co.
Broughton Brandenburg, accused in
New York of grand larceny for hav-
ing sold TO a newspaper an alleged ar
t;ce by Grover Cleveland, which is de-
clared to have been forgery, left San
Francisco Wednesday for the East in
charge of New York detective.
The Missouri state Senate Wednesday
refused to recede from the tax rider
amendment to the prohibition joint reso-
luton and asked the House for con-
ference committee This action is taken
generally to mean the end of legislative
action on the subject at this session of
the Legislature.
The Massachusetts Senate Wednes>
day killed the bill to permit the sale
of fruit, ice cream and confectionery
| on Sunday, a'so the bill to permit the
sale OF Kosher meat on Sunday. By /;
vote of "a to the Senate sustained the
| governors veto on the bill to increase
the salaries CT the assistant secre-
taries Of state.
Robbers entered the store of c. D.
West at MOosup. Conn. sometime
during Tuesday night and made away
with between $500 and $4,000 wort
of goods in the shape of silk ribbon
and JeWelry. Entrance was gained BY
forcing a rear door with an axe There
is no clue.
After attempting to end his life by
drinking turpentine and then begging q
doctor to kill him, a 3O-year-od man. sup
posed to be John Noonan of Housatonic
Wednesday hanged himself from the fire
cord in his room at the Greylock house.
Adams. Mass. Dependency is supposed
to have been the cause
The Providence, r. T.. police Wednes-
day began an investigation into the
death of CLYDE Perkins of South Bel
bingham. Mass, following the discovery
OF his body floating in the Providence
river. H. B. Perkins of Woonsocket. an
uncle of the young man, declared his
belief that the young man was muir
dered April 50. the day he disappeared.
Application for the appointment of a
receiver for the Nantucket Central
Railroad. the little siX-mile line which
runs across the island to Siasconset.
was made in the United States circuit
court In Boston Wednesday by the
Windsor Trust Co. of New York. acting
as trustee for the bondholders upon
the claim that the interest on $17. 900
bonds was defaClted Jan. ! last. The
application is claimed to be a friendly
one and brought with the intention of
reor2aniZing the company in antici-
patton Of the summer business