Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


be dry after the regular closing hours.
More than POO applications for all-night
licenses to hotels and restaurants were
received by Mayor Gaynor Tuesday. but
he promptly announced that all such re-
quests will be refused.
The department of justice will begin
taking testimony in the government s
suit against the so-called bath tub
trust in Pittsburg On Oct. 81. before
Lindsay c. Spencer, Baltimore at
torney. who has been appointed a
81 ecial master to hear the proceedings.
1t is understood in Paris that
France has Withdrawn Its objection
to the American plan for the regener-
alton of the finances of Liberia. pro-
vided Liberia promptly signs an agree
ment approving the recent frontier
delmitation with France. The United
States. it is said. is urging the little
reyublic to agree to this proviso.
The Criterion stakes of 80 sover-
eigns each, with 200 sovereigns added,
| for 2-year- olds, distance six furlongs,
was won Tuesday at Newmarket Eng,
| bv August BelmontS Sandwich II. p.
Whitney's Borrow was second and
Prince San third. There were five
| starters.
Lieut. Monte fell with a Wright
aeroplane Tuesday at Magdeburg,
Prussia, and was instantly killed. The
air man was planning to the earth when
| he started his motor. The strain
caused the machine to turn turtle 1t
crashed to the ground, carrying the
II. IL lou
was smashed to bits.
Many shots We're exchanged Tuesday
between the police and the striking driv-
ers of the United States Express and
their sympathizers at Jersey City. AS far
as could be learned no one was hit by the
bullets, but clubs and blackjacks were
used freely during the rioting and scores
we're cut and bruised. Later several driv-
ers who ventured on to ferryboats with
their teams were badly beaten. The ar
rests were made
Within a half hour of the time set
for the sailing of the steamer Merida,
upon which he had been ordered to
proceed for Washington with special
diplomatic mission. General Armada
Riva, chief of the national police, was
ordered ashore Tuesday at Havana
and told to resume his usual duties
It was rumored about the palace that
the Presidents action resulted from
A strong remonstrance on the part OF
the American minister, John B. Jack
son.
Heart failure which struck down
Henry p. Butler, prominent lawyer
Il oil bn Now
York City waterfront, causing him to
fall into the Hudson river and drown,
killed his sister law, Mrs. George
Butler, wife of the late well-known
portrait painter at Croton Falls, n. Y,
when she received the startling news
that the body had been found floating
in the North river. The attorney had
been missing eight days. The widow
is Frustrated.
Nearly POO acres of oyster beds along
the kickamuit river were condemned
Tuesday by Prof. F. p Gorham in his re-
port to the Rhode Island commissioners
of shell fisheries. The beds are near the
Fall River line and Prof. Gorham blamcs
the sewage from that city as the source
of contamination. In his report to the
L Al
condemned over 1000 acres of oyster
grounds in Mt. Hope bay and stated at
that time that the sewage from Fall
River was responsible for the pollution
The Kickamuit river empties into Mt
Hope bay.
Frank c. Williams and Anna Hull
If Pittsburg, Pa. were found guilty
Tuesday of violating the white slave
law enacted by Congress on June 25
'ast, by federal jury in the United
states district court. Williams was
sentenced to years and months in
the federal prison at Leavenworth.
kds., while Miss Hull will serve like
term in the Western penitentiary at
Pittsburg. These are among the first
prosecutions under the new law and
the trial of the offenders has excited
vide interest. Miss Hull. 1t was
brought out in the testimony, was
proprietor of a resort TO which Will