Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-10-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

the Chicago river Monday when team
of runaway horses plunged into an open
draw at 18th street. Twenty street car
passengers narrowly escaped the same
fate at the same point while the motor
man investigated the accident. The mo-
torman stopped his car 81 feet from the
bridge and went forward on foot to DIS
cover the cause for excitement. A boy
released the car brakes and turned on
power Policeman NJ. ]. Mulvey stopped
the car on the brink of the open draw by
seizing the trolley rope and pulling the
trolley from the wire. Several women
were injured in the panic that occurred
about the street car.
c. Edward Gibson, a wealthy oil opera
tor who went to Vincennes, Ind, from
Pittsburg about five years ago, was shot
and instantly killed on the Union Sta
tion platform early Monday. George
Moore. proprietor of theatres in half a
dozen Southern Indiana towns and we'll
known vaudeville producer, is charged
with the crime. Gibson is said to have
paid attention to Moore's wife. Moore
boarded a train and escaped to be later
arrested at Washington, Ind. Gibson was
4o wears old and married. Moore is 30
years old.
After serving eight months of his
sentence of year, Carlo De Fornaro,
convicted of libelling the President OF
Mexico in a book entitled 'DlaZ the
Czar of Mexico" was released from the
penitentiary at Blackwelrs Island
Lee Some, cnief secretary for Prince
Tsai Sum of China. is credited by the
Gazette Times Monday with the an
nouncement that contract for two
Chinese battleships to cost SIS, 100000
has been awarded tc Charles NJ
Schwarh, head of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation.
A forest fire which originated from
some unknown cause in a tract of pine
woods near the state line between Rhode
Island and Massachusetts in Rehoboth
Mass. had late Monday burned over
about a square mile of territory and de-
stroyed several hundred feet of standing
timber. Unable to cope with the flames
backed by a 15-mie wind. the volunteer
firemen Monday afternoon took a stand
on the Taunton turnpike and hoped to
stop the fire at that point. If the fire is
stopped at the turnpike the loss will be
confined entirely to standing timber, but
once over the turnpike may building will
be endangered A call for volunteer fire
lighters has been sent out to adjoining
towns.
The recent action of the Baltimore
board of police commissioners in placing
an armed guard around police headouar-
ters in an effort to resist the seating of
temporary board constitutes resist
ance of the lawful authority of the state,
in the belief of Governor Austin l.. Croth-
ers, and he declared Monday that he will.
if necessary. call out the militia to en-
force his orders. The members of the
board are under charges of incompetency
and misconduct laid against them at the
instance of Governor Crothers
Captain John G. Muir Of the United
States Marine Corps who is about to be
retired because of disabilities acquired
in the dash to Pekin in 1898. has been ap-
pointed cashier in the United States sub
treasury in Philadelphia.
The Mechonics Exposition. revival
of the Mechanics fair. which was held
triennial in Boston for more than SO
years, was opened Monday in the Me-
chanics building with display of
working models, manufactures and art
from many parts of New England. The
exposition will continue for several
weeks.
Former United States Senator Rufus
Blodgett Of New Jersey died at his
home in Long Branch, N. j.. Monday
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or of Long Branch, was elected to the
United States Senate in 1886. serving
six years.
Train No. %, bound for San Fran
cisco, left Reno. New, Monday evening,
packed to the doors with gamblers. 1t
is said that nearly all the gamblers
who were financially able have left
Reno. None wished to remain for the
police cleanup that will follow the
closing of the gambling houses.
The negotiations which have been
going on with the object of prevent
ing lockout Of the metal workers
at Berlin have up to the present
failed. Both masters and workmen at
meetings in Hamburg Monday de-
clared their determination not to with
draw from their respective positions.
Nearly 100000 men are affected in Ber-
lin alone. while it is estimated that
at least 100000 throughout Germany
viii be turned out on October 8.
J. Pierpont Morgan passed through
Albany Monday on special train on
ms wev to Cincinnati to attend the
General Convention Of the Episcopal
church. Bishop Wordsworth Of Sails
pury, England; Bishop Doane Of AL
Dany. ana Bishop Hall Of Vermont.
o"ardeo the train there as guests of Mr..
IMofsan, Otner guests included Bishop
uleer OF New York and Bishop Law
renee Of Massachusetts,.
me National Temperance conven-
..oh ~ session at Augsburg, Bav. gave
Jne Jaee uay 70 nonoring Judge William
80" f"ilard OF st. Louis. whose