Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| Cotton futures at New orleans Sat
urday morning broke about 2.2O a bale
below the close of Friday. The break
was attributed to heavy selling by
holders of cotton, who became nervous
upon the receipt of unfavorable news
from interior spot markets.
The body of John F. Johnson, former
president of the state National Bank
of Logansport, Ind, was found 11oathS
in the Wabash river Saturday. johnson
served six years in prison following his
confession that he had embezzled $780,
Geo of the banks funds. Recently lie
| had been a grain broker. 1t is believed
| he committed suicide.
Prices for live hogs fell off from sc.
| to 1Oc. at the Chicago stock yards
Saturday, the top notch being S9.37lA a
hundred weight, still exceeding any
figures paid in the open market for
! hogs since 1870, when the $40 hog was
recorded. The receipts of the animals at
the stock wards was about 5000 more
than a wear ago, which contributed to
the decline from the record of Friday.
| Nine persons were saved from death
| by fire Saturday by jumping into life
nets from a burning tenement IN New
ark. \. J. Smoke and flames below
made it impossible for the tenants to
escane from the upper floors. one girl
who WAS rendered unconscious by
smoke was rescued by firemen. who
raised a ladder and CROPPED through
| tha smoke allied rooms until they
found hcr and carried her to the
ground.
A much battered vessel was the
schooner Annie and Reuben which
| reached Boston Saturday Three weeks
laeo the two-m0stcr sailed from Ston-
| ington. Me. with a cargo of 191 tons
of granite for Cambridge contractor
| She might have made the passage ir
a day and night under favorable con-
ditions. but the Annie and Reuben
vas tumblcd about and sent reelinG
| for harbnr every time she stuck he,
| bluff bows out of shelter and pointed
| her nose in the direction of Boston.
| Two hundred and fifty persons wait
ed patiently all Friday night in front
Of the United states land office at Los
Angeles, Cal. and will remain in thai
same spot on the pavement day ant
night until March l unless they car
afford substitutes, die. or sell out The
reward for 173 OF these patient ones
will be 40-acre homestead on the
Yuma irrigation project. Good places
| in the line are worth from $3.50 t.
$1,000 Since Thursday noon, when w
S. McMannon brought a soap boz
there and planted himself on it thc
line has steadily increased. One mar
has combination chair and bed, but
| he is not allowed to sleep, for other!
persist in talking to him.. Five wome1
are in the line.
The German Reichstag was thrown
into an uproar saturday when DIR
| Franck, one of the leaders of the So
cialist group, excoriated the Kaiser and
/ Chancellor Won Bethmann- Hollweg fol
the latter's remark in a recent debate
to the effect that manhood suffrage
was an evil. "No speaker will be per.
mitted to drag the Kaisers name into
the debate" said President SPAIN o.
the Reichstag, calling DR.. Franck t.
order. Il will say what like about The
Kaiser shouted Franck. II will dis
cuss him as freely as anyone else
This bold utterance threw the Chamber
into the greatest disorder and the Con
servatives tried to shout down tn,
speaker. The Socialists, though great.
4 iy outnumbered, rallied to the supper
Of DR.. Franck and cheered wildly.