Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Several hundred employees of the
| Otis Elevator Works at Yonkers, N. Y,
went out on strike Monday for a raise
| Of % cents a day in pay and 50-hOur
| weeks.
Col. !. c. Phillips, who commanded
| the 18th Virginia regiment in the Civil
War and burned the town of Hampton,
| under orders from General Magruder.
died Monday at Hampton, va.
f. w. McCready, formerly of the New
York Herald and Boston Post. has been
| elected president and general manager OF
| the Telegraph and Times Publishing Cos
| of ST. John, N. B.
Delegates to the 18th biennial con-
vention of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
| tive Firemen met Monday in the st.
Paul, Mimi, Auditorium. The conven-
| ton will be in session about three
weeks.
Authentic figures on the expulsion OF
| the Jews from Kieve, Russia, show that
| 142l individuals have been expelled mp to
| June s. OF these 904 received passports
good only over the route to their specified
destination
MY feet hurt and nobody cares for
me. May God have mercy on my
soul" was the suicide note left by JOS
| eph Kreas, a rural mail carrier, whose
| body was found hanging in a barn at
Bennetstown, Ky, Sunday night.
| Fred Warner Carpenter of Sank Gen.
| ter, Mimi, formerly secretary to Pres
ident Taft, received his commission
| Sunday as envoy extraordinary and
| minister plenipotentiary to Morocco
and Monday took the oath of office. he
will leave for Washington in about 10
| days to receive instructions before
leaving for his new post.
| The 10th annual convention of the Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers
| Union opened Monday in Boston with a
large attendance. President Abraham
| Rosenberg congratulated the members on
| the efforts to obtain higher wages during
| the past year. and Secretary and Treas
urer John A. Dyer reported the Organiza-
| ton in good condition, both financially
and in membership.
The International Horse Show opened
| at Olympia, London, Monday afternoon.
| 1t will continue through 10 days. Walter
Winans was among the early prize win
| ners. In the afternoon judging of riding
| horse over 1875 hands, capable of carry.
ing more than 175 pounds. he captured
| secon~ and fifth honors with Bugle
March and Brigand, respectively.
Over 100 delegates. representing boys
clubs throughout the United States and
| Canada, are in attendance at the annual
| conference of the Federated Boys Clubs.
| which opened Monday evening with a
public meeting at the High school build
| ing in Rochester, N. Y. Two sessions
] will be held Tuesday at which addresses
will be given by prominent workers for
boys.
| Crubbs Batson, a Negro, wanted for
striking two white girls on the head
with a pistol at Krebs, Okla. Sunday,
was shot and killed Monday by an I'M
known man, who, while Batson was in
a Grug store pending removal to Jail,
poked shotgun through the rear door
| and fired. The girls attacked were not
| severely hurt.
| A fine of $500 was imposed Monday
by Judge Rellstab, in the United States
court at Trenton, n. j.. on Mrs. Matil-
| da NJ. CheSbrOugh, wife of a wealthy
| Boston ship owner, who was recently
| convicted of the charge of attempting
| to smuggle personal property into this
| country. Counsel for Mrs. Chesbrough
announced that an appeal would be
| taken to the United States circuit of
| appeals.
| Hugo and Jules Rosenberg, brothers,
| and members of the firm of Max Ros-
enberg. millinery importers of Fifth
avenue. New York, were arrested Mon
day. They are charged in a federal
| indictment with using a false invoice
ard with making and attempting to
! make a fraudulent entry of imported
| merchandise al the custom house last
| November. Judge Holt held them in
$4,000 bail each for pleading.
| Nearly all details have been perfected
for the merger of 20 large oil producing
| companies in the Oklahoma field into a
| company with it's own refineries and
| pipe lines, according to an announce
ment Monday at Kansas City by
| Thomas Priestly of BarHesville, Okla
Mr.. Priestly said the new company
will have control of wells which are
producing 10000 barrels of oil day.
| The inquest in the case of Alma Kell-
ner. which was to have been begun
Monday at Louisville, KY, has been
postponed for a day or two. Coroner
| Duncan stating that the evidence is
not sufficiently complete. The suspec,
| arrested al Bowling Green Sunday and
who was brought to Louisville early
| Monday proved not to be Vending
the missing janitor.
More than hundred delegates
| from all sections of Massachusetts
| assembled in Lynn. Mass. Monday
to attend the 18th annual meet
| ing of the State Federation of Women's
| Clubs. An address of welcome was de-
| livered by Miss George A. Bacon of
Worcester, president of the federation.
| The delegates then enjoyed automobile
rides along the North Shore, visiting sew
| eral women's clubs
A pair of bloody overals and bloody
hat are in the possession of the sheriff
as evidence to connect Raymond Hardy
| with the murder of his father James
Hardy, his mother and her brother Earl,
who were found Monday with their skulls