Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Lindsey & Tryon, automobile deal
ers of Pawtucket. r. l., filed petition
in bankruptcy Thursday. The liabili
ties are given as $4,000 and assets
as $4,000.
While starting his days work at the
mill under construction of the Massa-
chusetts Manufacturing Co. at Lowell.
Mass. Wolf Goldman. a bricklayer,
aged 80, walked out on an overhanging
plank and fell into the canal and was
drowned before the eyes of his fellow
workmen. He was married and a
widow and two children survive.
Locusts by the millions have des-
cended upon the cultivated regions of
Yucatan. and have left in their wake
nothing but ruin and destruction
among the principal crops. Vegeta-
ton generally has suffered, the chief
loss being in the corn crop, large
percentage of which was destroyed.
Consul McGoogan of Progreso. Mexico.
reports to the Department of Com
merce and Labor that vast quantities
of corn will be imported.
Monsignor Vico, the Papal nuncio at
Madrid. has returned from Zaraus, at
ter a months stay at the summer re-
sort, and with his temperance in the
capital the organization of the clerical
campaign against Premier Canalejas
is proceeding with renewed activity
Great preparations under the direction
of the priests are being made for the
Inauguration of a series Of manifesto :
tions, and meetings of protest to be
held throughout the country on Oct.
2. the day before the Cortes reas-
sembles Particular care will be taxi
en- that the meetings assume a pa
triotic and peaceful character. Hos
tility toward the premier is growing
in court circles, many of the ladies or
the court having already signified an
intention to remain in retirement so
long as Premier Canalejas continues
in power.
Two men were detained as suspects
by the police at Boston Thursday in
connection with the alleged attempt
to stow away 90 Italians on board the
White Star Liner Canopic which sail
ed Wednesday for Mediterranean
ports. Their names were withheld un-
til a definite charge could be laid
against them. One of the alleged
stowaways claimed that he identified
the men under arrest as two of those
involved in the smuggling of the Ital-
ians on board the vessel. This stow
away told the police that the 20 1tal-
ians gave 1922 apiece to one of the
men last Tuesday night and that the
other man accompanied them to the
Charlestown bridge later that night
whence he alleged that two members
of the Canopic's crew struggled their
aboard the liner from small boats.
Rev. Cuthbert Fowler, rector of ST
Georges Episcopal church in Sanford
has been selected to fill the vacancy
in the office Of canon presenter at St
Luke's Cathedral in Portland, sue
ceeding Rev. J. H. Nolan. who re-
signed last spring to accept call to
become rector of Trinity Episcopal
chruch u Lewiston. He will assume
his new duties at the cathedral Oct
l. and last Sunday gave notice to his
people in Sanford to that effect.
Joseph Meyers, Harry Moran and
Robert Cochrane. the three men ar
rested in New York charged with
robbery and assault and the manning
of Edward Frazier. a machinist. In
Buffalo last June. but cutting off his
ear and then sending it through the
mails to President Coulby of the
Pittsburg Steamship Co., Thursday
We're turned over to Buffalo detectives