Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Three-cent street railway fare with NIL
nicipal supervision of the car lines be-
came a reality Tuesday in Cleveland,
Ohio, when the Cleveland Railway Co.
took over the property.
With the booming of guns, the battle
ship South Carolina was Tuesday placed
in commission at the Philadelphia navy
yard. Capt. Augustus Fechteler read tn :
orders of the navy deartment putting him
in command.
While handling a shotgun Sunday
Edward Smith at Finalhaven accident
ally shot his younger brother, Harold,
who is four years of age. The bullet
entered his right shoulder from behind.
The wound is considered serious.
Returns under the new corporation
tax law had been received from near
| ly 10000 out of $1,000 corporations b.
| the collector of internal revenue in
| Massachusetts, up to noon Tuesday
| The Office remained open until mid
night Monday night in order to re-
ceive the returns.
| Lieut.. Col. Bernard A. Byrne, U. S.
| A., retired, is dead at a San Francis
was a veteran of the Indian cam
| raigns and served in the Philippines
and Cuba, where he participated in the
| charge at San Juan Hill.
OF the several thousand seamen appren-
| tees connected with the United State 5
| navy Frederick E. Constantine of the
battleship Vermont, in competitive exam
| nations, has proved himself the most eff
| cient, thereby winning the Bailey gol |
| medal. Young Constantine enlisted from
Newport. r. l., year ago.
| Herbert j. Gladstone, British governor
general of United South Africa, who was
recently elevated to the peerage. has been
| created a viscount. Two Churchill Guest.
| formerly member of Parliament for Car
diff and earlier for Plymouth, has been
| made 4 baron.
| The modern cotton mill at Gastonia, n.
| c., one of the largest plants in that sec
| ton Tuesday announced a curtailment
| plan which embraces shutdown of on
| day each week during March and two
| days weekly thereafter until further no.
| tice. This action follows that taken by
| certain Charlotte, N. c.. mills Monday.
| Federal investigation into the meth
| DDS of the so-called Beef trust" is
scheduled to come to a close Wednes-
| day at Chicago. The grand jury will
| then adjourn for alternate days until
| the indictments if any should be order
ed, are drawn up and ready to be
voted
Anxiety about the outcome of an OPP
Grafton which was being performed up
on his wife for appendicitis in an ad
| Joining room caused John Mccarthy to
drop dead of heart disease Tuesday
| night at his home at East Hampton,
| Mass. The wife's operation was sue
eessful.
| It was reported Tuesday in New
| York that the Portsmouth. N. H., plant
| of the Publishers Paper Co. has been
| sold to the Colonial Paper Co., a sub
| sidary company of the United States
| PLAYING Card Co. The purchase price
is said to beabout 81, 100000. Because Of
the absence from the city of r. n. Nc
| Cutcheon, secretary of the United
States Playing Card Co., details of the
reported sale were not obtainable.
The elections for the Presidency
were held lnTOuBIlouI brazil IueSudy.
The candidates are Marshal Hermes
Fonseca, the former minister of war,
and DIR. Ruy Barbosa, a senator and
ex- president of the Senate. The final
| result is not known. but returns re-
ceived up to late hour give Marshal
Fonseca a great majority in the CAPT.
tails of 10 states. which practically as
sure him of victory.
AS an expression of their apprecia-
ton Of his efforts in bringing to Quin-
cy, Mass, s22,O0O000 in contracts for
the construction of two battleships for
the Argentine Republic, hundreds of
| Quincy citizens Tuesday evening well
coined home from abroad Former Rear
! Admiral Francis T. Bowles, U. s. NJ,
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