Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

ID. +. M. SchaS, president or the con-
tinental Savings Bank and a widely
known financier, committed suicide
Friday at Memphis. Tenn. by shooting
himself in the head.
The license of Theodore II. Diener,
customs broker of Baltimore. has been
revoked by the secretary of the treas
ury. He was charged with altering
invoice weights. He is the first broker
to be suspended under the new law
which authorizes the secretary to re
woke licenses.
Leo Rhodus, who, when arrested at
st. Louis, recently. confessed to the
murders of William NIichaelis and An
ton Helbig at Chicago, declared Friday
at Chicago that his East St. Louis con-
feSSionS were made under duresS. He
denied committing the murders saying:
Il confessed there because two assist
ants of Chief Ryan beat me with rub
Der clubs. | had to tell that story
The world crop of oats is nearly g.
100. 900, 900 bushels annually, according
to bulletin issued Friday by the de-
partment of agriculture. The United
States annual crop for 190S-09 was
about 900.0Oo000 bushels and the Unit
ed States is aligned with European
Russia. Germany. France and Canada
as tile principal oats producing co,m-
tries.
The British foreign office Friday ap-
piled to the German government for per-
mission to be represented at the trial
early in December. of the alleged Brit
sh spies. Capt. B. s. Trench of the Brit
ish Royal Marines and Lieut.. V. f. Bran
don of the royal navy, who are charged
by the German authorities with espion-
age on the Notifications at Borkum
Twcnty-one persons We're drowned
in the wreck of Two fishing vessels
during a severe storm in the English
channel Friday, near Boulogne Sur
Mer. France One of the craft col
lided with 4 coast steamer. Two 9TH
er fishermen foundered and it is fear
ed that their crews We're lost. A boat
occupied by four customs agents is
missing.
The board of fellows of Browns Uni
versity have approved the action of
the faculty in recommending the
Semester system. This will give two
terms to the college year instead of
three as at present. The action was
taken because it is felt that the three
term system which is now in vogue.
on account of the more frequently re-
curing examination periods, put un-
necessary work upon both faculty and
students.
President c. S. Mellen of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Rail
road petitioned the Massachusetts
Railroad Commission Friday for the
approval by that board of the purchase
by the road of the Milford & WoOn-
socket railroad and the Milford. Frank
lin & Providence railroad. Both roads
are now operated by the New Haven
under leases and the purchases were
authorized by the Legislature of 1908
subject to the approval by the Rail-
road Commission.
The German steamer Prinz Joachim
arrived Friday at Kingston. jam, from
New York and reported having fallen
in on Wednesday with the British
schooner Cornwall which was becalm-
ed off the Bahama islands The Corn
wall was seven weeks out from Mas
Sau and having suffered severely in the
recent storm was without food or wa
ter. The plight of the crew was desper-
ate. The Prinz Joachim restocked the
schooner with the necessaries
John Eccles. one of three Negroes
convicted at Danville, Va, of the MUIR
der of Sidney Woods, a Winston Salem.
n. G.. Negro excursionist, in Henry
county, several months ago. was cleo
trocuted Friday at Richmond, Va.
Thomas Bailey and James uairston.
the other two Negroes convicted
jointly with Eccles and sentenced to
eiectrocution Friday, We're reprieved
by Governor Mann until Dec 16 upon
"a statement made by Eccles that they
were innocent.