Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


Allan G. Earle, one of the leading
lawyers in Canada, died at his home
Monday at ST. John, N. B. He was
born in 1850. ..
Secretary of state Knox Monday re-
ceived from Acting Mayor Harada OF
Toxic a cablegram expressing the
thanks of the municipal council for
the reception rendered Mayor Ozaki
during his visit to Washington.
Edward ]. Malloy. aged SO. of West
Pittsfield, Mass, was struck and killed
by a Boston & Albany express Monday,
at a spot where for 40 years he had
walked on tracks on his way to and
from work without accident. A widow
and several children survive.
Mail advices from Grand Cayman
say that the recent hurricane did con
siderable damage to growing crops.
Huge seas washed over one half OF
the islands. Two vessels were driven
ashore at the east end OF Grand Cay
man and wrecked.
Six billion board feet of lumber.
valued at about $15.00O.000 were de-
stroyed in the recent forest fires upon
the National forests in Montana and
Northern Idaho. The total area
burned over in this one district was
put a. 1.250,000 acres.
The Prix D'Hardicourt, a selling
event for 2-year old -fillies. $40. distance
four and half furlongs, was run at
st. Cloud, France, Monday and won
by Eugene Fischof's Teneriffe. Frank
J. Goulds Combourg won the Prix De
Fontenay De La Fleury, for 2-year-
olds, $1,000. distance Z 1-2 furlongs.
Rear Admiral John ]. Read, U. s. NJ.
retired, died at his home at Mount Holly.
Monday, after a brief illness of heart
disease, aged 70 years. He saw service
with the Gulf squadron during the Civil
War and was afterward in the lighthouse
service, and commander of the navy yard
at Kittery, Me.
Fire Sunday night destroyed the
Howell Manufacturing Cos. plant at
Geneva, Ill. Loss, 100000. The
building was owned by Thomas Snow,
who is well known politically and ru-
mors are rife that the fire may have
been an incident of political animosity
to Snow.
A report was current Monday at
Rome that the Pope was indisposed
from an attack of the govt. This is
declared to be unfounded. His Holt
ness held his usual receptions Mon
day, those received including Bishop
Kennedy. rector of the American Col
lege at Rome.
Louis Barido aged %, while hunting
at Bradford, Pa, Monday was killed by
tie accidental discharge of his gun.
When the news was carried to his
home. Mrs Anna Barbara, Barido's
mother-in-law, fell dead. Barido had
wife and two children and Mrs.
Barbara a husband and nine children.
Ewing Watterson, son of Col. Hen
ry Watterson editor Of the Louisville
Courier Journal. Monday at Kings.
ton, N. y, was indicted for assault
in the first degree. charged with shoot
ing Michael J.. Martin in Martins sa-
loon at Saugerties on July l. William
D. Brinnier, Watterson's counsel.
will apply for commission to deter
mine his sanity.
Judge Colt of the United States cir
cult court in Boston Monday gave the
receivers of the Boston Herald until
Thursday to obtain consent of the re-
naming per cent. of the bondholders
to private sale Of the property. The
receivers, John Norris and Charles F.
Weed. stated that they had obtained
the consent of SO per cent, but the
court decided that it would have to
be unanimous.
Convicted of numbering William F.
Meagker of Pawtucket on Feb. q. 1910.
William Trent was Monday sentenced
to life Imprisonment by Judge Charles
F. Stearns of the superior court at
Providence. Attorney Daniel A. Cot
ton for Trent, stated that he would
file q petition in the supreme court
for new trial in the near future.
Trent entered Meagher's grocery store
and demanded at the point of a
pistol that Meagher give him the
money in the cash drawer. After re-
cciving the money he shot Meagher.
Tariffs filed by several Western and
Northwestern railways with the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, making
advances of freight rates on grain and
~ 0NN>AS iAOiii TIC -uIOult west
to Eastern destinations, have been
suspended by the commission pending
an inquiry into their reasonableness.
All of the tariffs are suspended until
March l. Participating in the sus-
pended tariffs are about 80 lines in
the North, Northwest and Central
Traffic Association of Chicago. The
commission expects to reach a deter
mination of the reasonableness of the
proposed advances prior to March /,
1911 -
A rlotous demonstration in which two
s'rlKepreakers were badly injured Mon
gay marked the third day of the strike
OF drivers and helpers Of the limited
states Express Co. at Hoboken. N. 7
Eight wagons guarded by private detec-
ives and manned by strikebreakers wera
assalled by crowd of strikers and their
sympathizers and stones and other mis-.
siles were hurled at the wagon crews
and detectives. A detail of policemen
charged and dispersed the crowds. The
trouble was renewed when these wagons
were driven into ferry boat, the fight
ing continuing as the boat pulled into
mid-stream. The strike is for shorter
hours and an increase in pay.