Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-13
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Ferd r. French & Co, Ltd, dealers in
carriages and sleighs at "a Sudbury street.
Boston, assigned Thursday for the benefit
of their creditors. No schedules of as
sets or liabilities were announced
Col James II. Carmichael. a former
member OF the board of aldermen of
Lowell. Mass, announced Thursday his
candidacy for Congress on the Demo-
cratic ticket in the 5th Massachusetts
District.
The Russian government is prepar-
ing a favorable reply to Sec. knox's
proposal for q permanent court of ar
bitral Justice through an extension of
the jurisdiction of the international
prize court authorized in 1907 by The
Hague peace conference.
The differences between the telegra-
piers employed by the Boston Termi-
nal 60. and officials over hours and
wages, which at one time threatened
to end in Il strike. have been adjusted
The new schedule will go into effect
Friday
A special dispatch from Wilhemshaven.
Germany, reports that five bluejackets
were killed and several severely wound
ed by an explosion Thursday while the
mine laying division was maneuvring off
the coast. There is no official contirma-
ton of this report
Sir William Higgins. the astronomer.
died Thursday at London He was born
in London in 1924 and had long directed
private observatory which he erected.
He was formerly president of the Royal
Astronomical Society and of the British
Association for the Advancement of
Sciences.
The reopening of the American Jute
Manufacturing Cos plant at Williams
burg Thursday after shut down of
three weeks. following a strike for high
er wages of nearly 1000 employees, a ma
jority of whom are women, was marked
by series of desperate fights between
the strikers and others, which only ceas-
ed when the police reserves from several
precincts used their clubs on the rioters.
A favorable report on a new income
tax to be levied on incomes in excess of
$4,000 was made in the Massachusetts
House Thursday by the legislative COM
mittee on taxation. The House rejected
the income tax amendment to the federal
constitution and the Senate will vote on
the resolve next week. The new income
tax bill applies to incomes from annuities
and also from vessels engaged in foreign
carrying trade.
The last echo of sensational es-
capade was heard Thursday at Phila-
delphia when the grand jury ignored
a bill of indictment charging Ferdi-
nand Cohen. the hotel waiter with
kidnapping and running away with
Roberta B.. DeJanon, the 1S-year-old
heiress. 1t is understood the action OF
the grand jury was agreeable TO
counsel for Robert Buist, the Million
aire grandfather OF the girl.
One man was probably fatally in
iured and two others were severely
hurt Thursday when fire DESTROYED the
4-story brick building and stock of
Koch & Henke. furniture dealers. at
Cleveland. Ohio. Loss is estimated at
s35O 600. covered by insurance. Four
dwellings, in the rear and tailor shop
at the side of the store also were de-
stroyed. A rear wall fell and crushed
two of the burning residences.
Escaping gas is believed To have
caused a violent explosion Thursday
ON the fourth floor of a tenement
house on East l13th street. New York
City, i'm which seven, persons We're m
jure1 and 80 families in the bthhfias
fled i'm n panic. The explosion "crffr@d
when a party of tenants. uNifg |" -
cate the source of escaping Eas. en-
tered a vacant fiat on the i"h'ih il""f
carving a lighted candle.
Between $500 ana se"ol in mon ~
and iewelry was the booty carried 'f
early Thursday morning by thfse
bandits who held IN a S%n;a Xxx
street car at Seattle. Wash, - NY
men were on the car, including tie
three bandits. While two "f n" nri
| covered the victims with revolvt rs the
third robbers took their valuables. The
heaviest losers were saloon Keepers
| who were on their way home after the
nights work The robbers escaped.
Florence Heynerman of Sacramento,
| Cal, who. was recently divorced from