Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-07
was swept overheard and lost and, the
vessels cabin was flooded

was swept overheard and lost and, the
vessels cabin was flooded
John Burns, president of the London
government board and labor leader in the
House of Commons, had smart mix-up
with an unidentified man as he was leav-
ing political meeting Wednesday night
The minister was about to enter his car
when the other sprang upon him from
behind and threw him to the ground
There was lively struggle and exchange
of blows until the police pulled the as
sailant away. In the excitement the Of
fender escaped.
In Dispute over wages. Frederick
5. Neudorffer, timekeeper of the To-
ledo Construction Co., which is doing
some contract work at Reading. Pa.
was shot and killed there Thursday
by w. Fl. Brooks, a Negro employee
of the company. The murderer COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the head, after being pursued four
blocks by crowd of men. Neudorffer
was quite prominent in local political
affairs.
The difficulties in the A. M. Creigh-
ton shoe factory at Lynn, Mass, were
submitted Thursday by agreement to
board Of arbitration made up of rep
resentatives of the firm and the Unit
ed Shoe Workers of America. An I'M
usual feature of the agreement was
that the strikebreakers and n number
Of members of unions affiliated with
the United Shoe Workers should con-
tinue to work side by side in the fac-'
tories w.
The truth of the recent alarming re-
ports concerning the health of Marie
Charlotte, widow of the late Emperor
Macmillan of Mexico, was authorita-
lively denied Thursday in Paris. The
condition of the ex-empress, who had
been mentally incompetent for many
years is stated to remain the same.
She inquiries frequently for her BROTH
er, the late King Leopold, of whose
death she has not been informed. She
is 20 years Old
Charles j. Flynn, arrested in connec-
ton with the $4,000 robbery of the
Canadian Express Co., at Niagara
Falls. ~ Y, has been released, follow
ing the refusal of Canadian authorities
to permit William Dobson, the cashier,
and Pearl Whistler, also under arrest.
to cross the border to testify. Before
his release Flynn is said to have agreed
to return several thousand dollars to
the express company. $50
Major b. NJ Harrod of New orleans,
who was a Confederate soldier has
accepted an invitation to deliver the
next Memorial day address at Harvard
University In extending the invitation
to Major Harrod President Lowell OF
Harvard said: II feel sure you win
appreciate one who was in Harvard
before the Civil War and one who
fought on the Southern side" Major
Harrod was formerly a member of the
Isthmian Canal Commission.
That plans for the re-financing OF
Guatemala will soon be put into exc
cution is the information received at
New Orleans by parties with Central
American interests 1t Is stated that
the Guatemalan government has suc-
cessfully concluded negotiations be-
gun some months ago for a loss OF
s2O, 900, O0G by New York financial In
stitution. The transaction, it is said.
provides for the placing of Guatemala
on a gold basis and the establishment
Of q central bank in Guatemala City.
In it's review of Massachusetts, rail-
roads and street railways for the year
ending June 30. 1909. the Massachusetts
Railroad Commission in its annual re-
port to the Legislature states that 1t
finds some embarrassment in perform
ing its duties under the general law
and special acts and resolves since
specific limitations in the law control
it's expenditures for compensation and
it recommends amending certain acts.
There are &c railroad corporations IN
Massachusetts, with aggregate capltai
of $23S, .S15 and aggregate FUNDED
and floating debt Of $403,996,62O. Totai
capital of Massachusetts, street rail-
way companies is $50. 72S.Sso and fund.-