Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| The official COUNT Of the votes cast
in the election held last August for
1.Alaska's delegate to Congress was
EcO,1plet.d Tuesday. 1t is: James
llWickepshcm >InsurgenD. 4729: E. $.
]Orr (Republican) 2255; OConnor
lf.abcr). 1447.
1 Joseph De Bonti, an Swear old boy
i of Haverstraw, n. r.. before starting
4 to school Wednesday,. put a pistol
Icartridge i'm his mouth and began bit
ling. on it. The cartridge exploded and
1.-THE boy fell on the floor dead. the bull
1let having gone upward through the
sIbrain.
4. News of the death of Hugh Rich
4 ard Garden, organizer and captain
4 of the famous Confederate Palmetto
tbattery reached New York Wednes-
lfav, from Southport. n. c. Death was
laused by apoplexy. Mr.. Garden was
l born at Columbia, S. c.. IS years ago.
IlIHe was a lawyer in New York, for
HIS wears.
II David Pearce Penhallow, the bot
tlhnist, and professor of botany at Nc
HGill- University, Montreal, since 1888,
3idied Wednesday on the steamer Lake
lsManitoba upon which he was pas
lsenger from Montreal for London.
iProfessor Penhallow was born at Kit
] tery Point, Me-, on May %, 1854 and
married Sarah A. Dunlap of Amherst,
MASS, in 1876. He had written eX-
ltensively on the science to which he
Hdevoted his life work.
II Bishop Cranston, of the Methodist
Il Episcopal church, called at the White
u House Wednesday to see, the Presi-
Il tdent about the report, that the former
Eipractice of appointing as chaplains in
1.-THE army and navy only those candi-
dates formally approved and recon-
Hmended by the governing bodies in
dfheir respective churches, was about
EIto be abandoned. Mr.. Taft assured
Ilnhe bishop that he had no idea of
Elabandoning this practice but that he
Ethad recently issued an order affirming
III That only one naval station is need
LED in the South was the opinion, ex-
Hpressed by Secretary of the Navy
EliMeyer Lefore his departure from New
AOrleans Wednesday morning, for PEN
FjisacOla, Fla. There, are unquestion-
l5dbIy too many navy yards and sta
Hitions in the South" said Secretary
[ElMeyer. II don't think. there is need
E1ifor more than one. Where that is
1fto be, is a matter, vet to be decided.
~ is not question of the prominence
Hot any city or the claims of any city.
ffi: is the efiio iency of the navy which
| lis to be considered.
III The street railways of Massachu-
isetts will distribute to the cities and
itoWns through which they run SLIPS
lt1S6. assessed by the. tax commissions
Ter on the franchises for tine current
|Iyear. The heaviest contributors are
flthe West End Street Railway. of Bos-
4 ton. $379,440; the Boston Elevated
EERailway. s307.3Co: the Boston &
Northern, sl09551: the Springfield
EStreet Railway. s74,500;. the Old Col
Iony Street Railway, $6O994,. and the
Worcester Consolidated Street Rail-
Flwsy, s56,S13. Street railways of Mas
Esachusetts are subject to three dis
tii,ct taxes, local real property tax,
Icon1mutation. tax and franchise tax.
1.-THE first is levied by the local asses
sors, the second is based upon the
Igross receipts and the. third is fig
lured upon the value of the corporate
{tfranchises.