Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-04-08
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Prix GranumaSter, run at Au-
teuil, France, Thursday was won by
Eugene Fischoffs Solomon
The report of the Cunard Steamship Co
made public Thursday at London reflects
the depression in the shipping business
generally. No dividend will be paid.
Williams Grayson, millionaire president
of the Grayson- Mcleod Lumber Co., died
suddenly Thursday at st. Louis of heart
disease. He was 65 years old.
The U. S. S. Prairie has sailed from
Philadelphia for Colon to bring home
$50 marines who have been on the
isthmus for nearly year and half.
sulzberger & Sons Co.. meat packers,
was incorporated Thursday at Albany,
n. y, with capital of So 100000. The
principal office of the corporation is in
New York. The directors are Nathan
Sulzberger and Max J. Sulzberger OF
New York and German F. Sulzberger
of Chicago.
Tho courtmartial of Lieut.. l.. G.
Haughey, for loss of $500 as pay
master of the gunboat Castine, was
indefinitely postponed Thursday at
Boston. The official cause given is the
illness of the Judge advocate, but un-
officially it is said that the matter was
dropped because the amount has been
MADE good by Lieut.. Haughey.
AS result of general samplinE of
candy eggs sold in Philadelphia during
the Easter season a crusade against the
sale of adulterated candy has been start
ed by Dairy and Food Commissioner
James F. Must. Reports of analysis of
the eggs are beginning to arrive at the
capital and arrests have been ordered in
several counties. Two We're made Thurs.
day in Allegheny county.
Standing a few feet from the window
Of his bedroom on the fifth floor OF a
fashionable Lenox avenue apartment
house at New York Thursday Harry
Cohen, a former diamond broker, leap
| ed forward headlong, crashed through
the glass and plunged to the concrete
pavement below He struck on his
head. Cohen learned last week that
he was incurably ill of a fatal malady.
With the gas cock in his room turn
ed on, the body of Elliott w. Garrett.
35 Years old, an insurance agent, rep
resenting the Metropolitan Insurance
Co., was found Thursday by cham
bermaid in a lodging house in Paw
tuckct, r. I. Medical Examiner French,
who viewed the body, was unable to
determine whether death was accident
al or Intentional A widow and two
children in Boston survive
An injunction restraining the United
Mine Workers of America from pick
eting the plant or interfering with the
employees of the Dominion Coal co. or
persons about to enter it's employ was
issued Thursday by Judge Lawrence
in the supreme court of Nova Scotia,
The action is an outcome of the long
strike at the colleries of the company.
Pittsburgers no longer will be oblig-
ed to speculate on the age of cold stor
age meats, eggs and butter. if an or
dinance approved Wednesday by coun-
ellis committee on public safety be-
comes a law. The measure provides
that under supervision of the public
safety department a label bearing the
date shall be attached to any article
when placed in storage.
Chief of Police Fl. w. Smith and
Chief of Detectives J. B. Ryan of Can
ton. Ohio. arrived Thursday at Chi
cago to take charge of Clarence Will
laman, who was arrested Wednesday
night charged with the murder of Mr.
and Mrs. Warren Rooms at Canton. The
Canton officers stated after an inter-
view with the prisoner that he had
agreed to waive extradition proceed
ings
Noah f. Barnes, former president of |
the Cottonwood Creek Copper Co, who
was convicted of charge of grand |
larceny, the allegation being that he |
applied to his own usage 100000 of tho |
FUNDS of the concern, was Thursday in |
New York sentenced by Justice Goff TO |
not less than four nor more than six
years in state prison. The case as
suned a degree of International inter-
est when Count Won Hochberg, who
sold stock in the stock to his friends in
Germany read on the witness stand |
letters said to have been written by the
crown Prince of Germany.
After an investigation showing that
three cases of total blindness reported to
the New York city health department
were directly due to wood alcohol in
drinks purchased in East Side saloons q
crusade to stop the sale of the poison has
been started by the department. state
ment regarding the investigation saws
that victims were made permanently blind
by single drink through atrophy of the
optic nerve Il
An indictment of 20 counts, charging