Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-31

lev Railroad and the declaration of
melon" to the stockholders, We're con-
tained in a dispatch from Philadelphia
Wednesday. The arrangement agreed
to is said to include declaration of a
so per cent cash dividend of S25 per
share upon the s40.Oo0,000 of Lehigh
Valley stock.
The order of Mayor Gaynor of New
York City to the police to stop all excise
arrests-designated to knock out saloon
graft-was formally issued Wednesday
and now New York is wondering whether
it's saloons will be wide open or shut up
on Sundays. Mayor Gaynor has put the
Sunday closing question up to the state
excise department and district attorney
The court at Brussels Wednesday au-
thorized the Princess Louise to begin a
suit for the notification of Baroness
Vaughans ownership of two villas at
Ostend erected upon ground bought by
the late King Leopold of Belgium. The
daughter contends that the money thus
spent belongs rightfuly to her fathers
heirs.
Harry Levy. a Broadway, New York,
dyer and cleaner, who catered to theatr-
cal folk and the Well-to-do, failed
Wednesday with liabilities of $9O96O and
assets Of only $4,000. Among the cred
itors are Samuel L. Clemens c'Marll
TWain'), whose name appears in the list
of persons claiming garments lost or
damaged. The humorist's modest claim
is for $l5.
The supreme court grand jury at Hal
flax N Wednesday, hnolp O
the evidence against Sales Agent Dick
Of the Dominion Coal Co and Manager
CoWans of the Cumberland Coal 4 Raii-
way CO., who are charged with conSplr-
ing to enhance prices. The grand jury is
expected to report on Friday or Sat
urday.
Stopping the steam roller which he
was running in The middle of one of
the rn:requented city streets at Mel
rose, Mass, Wednesday, Gardner r.
Brooks, an engineer, committed suicide
w hanging himself to the SuperStruc-
ture of the roller. Brooks formerly
lived in Lynn. He was 80 years cid and
is said to have had considerable do
mestic trouble.
Thomas Doyle, a dock superintendent
Of Arbuckle Brothers sugar refinery
in Brooklyn, appeared before the Unit
ed States circuit court in New York
Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to
an indictment charging the entry of
sugar impnrtatiOnS at less than their
true weights. Doyle was released in
| $4,000. The Indictment was found last
November. No date was set for the
| trial.
After deliberating for Is hours, the jury
at New York in the case of William r..
| Evans, art collector and chairman of the
art committee of the Lotus Club, against
| William Clausen, dealer in paintings, they
| reported a disagreement and was dis
| charged. 1t was said that the jurors haG
| stood nine to three in Clausens favor on
many ballots. The suit was over the
charge that Clausen sold Evans two al
| legged bogus Homer Martins.
| The cause of death of Prof. Alexander
| AgassiZ, who died on the steamship .,dri-
| attic, due Thursday at New York, was
| heart failure. A wireless MESA ge~ from
the Adriatic Wednesdays says that Prof
! Agassiz passed away on last Sunday
morning from heart failure. News of tbs
| death of the naturalist was only briefly
| contained Tuesday in a wireless dispatch
from Prof. Agassiz's son Maximilian t.
Major Higginson of Boston,
| John McPhee, a shCe worker was
struck by fast freight at the Boston
| Il Maine station al Haverhill Mass,
| wednesday and was so badly injured
| that he died in the ambulance on his
way to the hospital. He was waiting
| 10 take a train to Boston, and had
started to cross the tracks. evidently
not seeing the approaching freight,
When he was struck. He was about 50
years old. A widow and five young
children survive
No trace has yet been found of the
valuable jewels belonging to Mrs. Hen
| rietta Bugher, mother of the deputy
police commissioner of New York
which were stolen in Washington Mon
day, from the home OF Mrs. Nicoll Id
low. where Mrs. Bugher was a guest.
A servant in the Ludlow household
named Wilson, who disappeared about
| the same time it was discovered that
| the jewels We're missing and for whom
the police have been asked to look
has not vet been arrested.
The funeral of Levi c. Weir. former
president of the Adams Express CO..
was held Wednesday at St Thomas
Episcopal church, New York City. His
WlSh to be cremated was observed
Among the pail bearers We're VIM. NJ.
Barrett. president of the Adams Ex-
press Co, Lewis Cass Ledyard and
crank H. flatt. Several railroad pres
!dents attended the service. among
them James McCrea of the PennsvI
vania; Edwin Ilawley and +. d. Under
wood of the Erie.
inc temperance advocates in .MaSSa-
chus"tS won decisive victory in the
Massachusetts Legislature "Wednesday
WEen the lower branch passed to q
third reading the bill which prohibits
the selling Of bottle goods of an intoX-
icatl1g nature by holders of licenses
which permit them to sell liquor to be
drunk on the premises. The bill is
known as the bar and bottle bill and as
1t has already passed the Senate the
action of the House Wednesday is re-
Sarded as practically assuring tlre
passage of the new act. The vote was
141 to 80