Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES

Herbert L. Bridgman secretary of
the Peary Arctic Club, stated Monday
night at New Britain, Conn, that up
to the present time 100000 had been
expended by the club in fitting out ex-
petitions to Sc arch for the North pole
The famous Lilliputian Col Ruben
Allen Steere. known all over the Unit
ed States and Canada, is seriously ill
with pneumonia at his farmhouse at
Chepachct, r. l. His little wifes whom
he met on the stage while touring the
country, is at his bedside. The colonel
is in his 72d year and before he was
confined to his home weighed So pounds
and was but As inches in height.
This is the easiest days work I ever
did and I would give up brick laying any
time for it, said Emil Eul, who is six
feet tall and weighs 200 pounds, Monday,
after a quart of his blood had been pump
ed into the veins of an invalid at the
Kings County hospital. New York City.
In exchange for his blood Emil was given
feast of champagne, eggs and milk and
$40 in cash.
Charles M. Hamilton drove his biplane
from San Diego, Cal, over the border line
of the United States and Mexico Mon
day, then without stopping he flew back
to the polo field of the San Diego Coun-
try Club on Coronado island. He was
gone from the field 40 minutes and trav-
eled "a miles, For the greater part of
the time he was over the Pacific ocean at
height of 200 feet.
The bright rival of Venus in the
western sky, the new comet officially
known as Alpha, 1870 is chvalrously
retiring and leaving the beautiful star
the farest visible object in the heav-
ems. according to photographs taken
of the comet by the Harvard observa-
tory Monday night. The comet prob
ably reached its brightest about Jan.
II and is now going away, travelling
from ,hc sun.
At mass meeting of various Greek
societies held at the Greek church at
Boston Sunday resolutions were adopt
ed condemninG the recent newspaper
article which charged NJ Coromilas
the Greek minister to the United
States, with attempting to levy tax
of $12 on native born countrymen
Action in Boston was the same as in
New York and was against the news
paper report and not against the Greek
miniSte!.
William ID. Mahon, president Of the
Amalgamatcd Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees, an
nounCed Monday night that the threat
ened strike against the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit Co. would not be de-
ri. rod II1tiI bc national OrClniZJt iDr
had exhausted all means by which a
peaceful solution of the difficulty might
be found. Another effort by G. o.
Pratt toward an adjustment of the
trouble failed Monday and he was no
tilted the directors would decline to
discuss the matter in dispute with the
men.
Two of the financial agencies of the
government in Boston passed to new
hands Monday, Colonel George II.
Dotv of Waltham becoming Assistant
United states treasurer, while Edwin
L. C,,rtis relinquished charge of that
nositiop To become collector of the
mort of Boston Both Colonel Doty and
Mr.. Curtis have been prominent in Re
nublcan politics in Massachusetts, the
state committee for five years while
the latter was once mayor. Mr. Curtis
succeeded George H. Lyman, who has
been collector for Is years.
Although the Board of Health and
the townspeople of Wakefield. Mass,
generally were satisfied Sunday that
the smallpox epidemic was on the
wane, three new cases We're discover
ed Monday. One of these found to be
suffering from the disease was Will
liam &. Strong, a, prominent citizen
and ,pirrff7fsident of a MACHINERY manu-
|faeturing company with, Offices in Bos---
ton. -. .-,..,. - 80 M. ~, -.
The New York Evening World Mon
day published items claimed to be the
testuale terms of the agreement by