Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-31
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Archbtshop Ryan of Philadelphia i
confinedsE his bed with severe colt
and has cancelled all engagements foi
the futur
Rev. Jo(h Currie, professor of He
brew at BE Hill Theological Semi
| nary, Presbyterian institution. ir
Halifax. n. s., died at hisxhome there
Thursday. He was born " Tatama-
gouche, that province, 81 years ago and
educated in Scotland. q
D, B. Johnson, president of winthrop
Normal and Agricultural College OF
Rock Hill, S. c., was elected presiden,
of the Southern Educational Associa-
ton at Thursdays session at Charlotte
N. C. DR.. Charles w. Eliot, president
emeritus of Harvard University, ad-
dressed the delegates this morning on
rural schools.
Edinboro, Pa, was swept by a serious
fire Thursday. The Masonic temple,
Twitchell building, postofiice, several
department stores and other minor
structures have been destroyed. The
loss is estimated from $4,000 to 500, :
900. number of persons were slightly
injured. ~
Charles verorks, bookkeeper and tel
Ter of the Workingman's Savings Bank
and Trust Co.. North Side, Pittsburg,
Pa, was committed to Jail Thursday
on charges of embezzlement. His bail
was fixe at $4,000. 1t is alleged he ap-
propriated to his own use the, sum of
$4,000 of the banks funds on or be-
fore Dec. 80 The information is made
by bonding company. :
But for a prompt general alarm
which was sounded Thursday after
noon the Leominster hotel, a five STORY
structure on the southeast side of Mon
umeRt square and adjacent. buildings.
in the business center of the town of
Leominster Mass, would J.. probably
have been destroyed. The fire was con-
fined to the three upper stories of the
building. The damage is estimated at
$4,000. s&s4
Judge L.. c. True of the district
court, Kansas City, Kas, Thursday
declared the Traders Livestock Ex-
change Association trust and order
ed the association dissolved. His de-
cision was rendered irfe q suit brought,
against the ASSOCIATION by tie Sattof-
ney general of Kansas. The ASSOCIATION
operates at Kansas City stock Yards
An appeal will be taken.
Patients in DR.. Kings private SAM
tarum between White Plains and
Mamaroneck, n. Y, had to. be carried
out into the icy air Thursday when
fire broke outin the sanitarium build
ing. The attendants discovered the fire
in time and got everyone out in safe
ty and with little excitement The pa
tents We're taken to nearby houses for
shelter. The building was completely
destroyed at a loss of $4,000.
A number OF textile mill in Pawtuck-
ct and Central Falls are curtaling pro-
duction, due in part TO high price of
cotton. The American Yarn Co., an
nounces that until further notice it's
mills will be operated five days week
The two concerns employ about 1000
hands. The mills Of the Royal Weav-
ing CO. and Leader Weaving Co., have
shut down for a week, affecting 700
operatives.
William Foster. pioneer Des Moines
architect and theatrical man. and Lew
is Bemis of Spencer, Ia, aged II, Tho
was a guest at the Foster home at Des
Moines, were found dead from asphyx-
iation in adjoining bedrooms Thursday
The gas came from asleaking stove in
the bathroom into which both bed
rooms opened. Mr.. Foster owned the
Foster and Grand Opera houses, the
two largest theaters in Des Moines.
r,,ro I,pfaro u,l,o boI fo1lou,o,l %no L..
in the snow to a deserted blackcmith
shop at Georgiaville, r. l., Thursday
were startled to find that the supposed
game was man. His bodyeWas lying.
on the floor. The medical examiner
was quickly summoned and after an
exam ination said that the dead man
apparently was a farm hand, about 40
years of age. 1t is supposed that he was
walking across country on Sunday to
the Smithfield poor farm and took ref
uge from the snowstorm in the old
shop. Death was due to exposure.
Gloucester was formerly the home
port of the American fishing schooner
Charles Levi Woodbury., which, ac-
cording to a dispatch from Vancouver,
B. c., has been forfeited to the British
crown for f1shing within the Canadian
three mile limit. The Woodbury. was
seized on April Is off the Scotch group
of islands by the steamer Kestrel, after
lively chase. The Kestrel fired num-
erous shots across the bow of the
Woodbury. before the schooner surren-
dered. The Woodbury. was built at
Essex in 1888 and is 100 tons register.
Lawrence Perrin Of Baltimore. who has
been In the custody Of the American con-
sulate at Tangier since Dec II. was
Thursday officially declared lnsans ana
unfit to be at large. He will be retained
In the care OF the consulate pending or
ders from the state department for his
removal to the United States. Perrin first
attracted attention by his strange be-
havior which followed his announcement
that he had discovered archaeological