Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-24
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The petition for the recall of Mayor
Hiram c. Gill of Seattle, Wash, was
found Thursday night to- contain more
than enough names to insure the hold
ing CT a recall election. The number of
signatures is 11.443. of which 702 are
those of women voters.
The Rhodes scholarship commission
for New Hampshire Friday selected
Maurice c. Blake of Brookline, Mass.
as Rhodes scholar at Oxford from
New Hampshire. Blake graduated
from Dartmouth College in the class
of 1910 and at present is teaching In
the Thatcher school in Nordhoff, Calf.
The collapse Friday Of q temporary
steel structure supporting the roof OF
an old theatre undergoing recon
struction at Newark, n. j., brought
down a large portion of one wall up
on 20 labcrers working beneath. One
mar, a Pole, was killed and two ma
sons sustained serious injuries.
Fire Friday in Baronne street, between
Lafayette and Poydras, New Orleans,
destroyed three large business houses,
with losses estimated at $25o,Gp Inc
Shubert theatre was slightly damaged.
The firms which suffered the heaviest
losses are the Union Furniture Co., F.
f. Hansell & Co, stationers, and
Schwartz-Eu Co., furs.
The Periodical Publishers Association
of America will hold its annual dinner at
the Waldorf Astoria, New York. on the
evening of Jan. g. and former President
,,-;II he tha of honor and
will make the principal speech. This
will be Colonel Roosevelt's first public
utterance in New York since the cleo
ton.
Frank Sheldon, who shot and killed
Edward Mayo at Green Island last Oc-
tober, was acquitted Friday by jury in
the Albany county court at Albany, n.
Y. A verdict of not guilty was returned
after the jury had deliberated all night
Sheldon claimed lie killed Mayo in self
defence.
AS a result of the disaster in the ex-
cavation of the New York Central Rail-
road on Monday, Therese Loehman,
dresn.aker, died Friday in Bellevue Hos
pital She was walking along Lexington
avenue at the time and was struck by
beam which had been blown from the
excavation. Her death makes the 18th
victim of the explosion. John Smith,
the 13tht victim, died Friday afternoon
at Flower Hospital.
Senator Nelson ". Aldrich of Rhode
Island, who underwent slight opera
ton IN the Roosevelt hospital, New
York. Wednesday for growth on the
right hand, will be able to leave that
Institution probably Saturday. When
asked Friday how he was feeling after
the operation. Senator Aldrich returned
the word that he was AL right" His
condition shows continued improve
ment.
The loss in the Odd Fellows hall fire
AT Norfolk, Va. Thursday night will
not exceed $40, DOC, according to con-
sentative estimates. This is covered
by insurance. The fire is believed to
have resulted from lighted cigar or
possibly from defective wiring. The
Daughters of the Confederacy sustain
ed losses in Confederate records that
never can be replaced
The fifty eighth annual report of the
Connecticut State Board of Railroad
Commissioners, gives the gross oper-
ating reveruc of the steam railroads
for The year Sc, $40, 1852, an increase
of 1888, 95222 over the revenue of
the previous year and exceeding that
of any previous year. The number
of passengers carried by the street
railway during the same period was
ISL $751; ?1.
In spite of the denial from official
quarters, certain Italian newspapers con-
tinue to assert that a naval expedition to
Tripoli Is being prepared. with the pur-
pose chiefly of preventing the sulphur
mines there falling into the hands Of
Americans. The report is circulated
that the American archaeological eXpe-
dition to Tripoli aimed to ascertain the
extent of the countrys production in
order to relieve the United States from
necessity of importing Siclian sulnhur.
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