Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-03
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

All grades of refined sugar were low
cred 10 cents per hundred pounds Thurs
day at New York.
Joseph S. Harris, former president of
the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.,
died suddenly Thursday at his home in
Germantown, Pa.
BY tie vote the Massachusetts Sen
ate Thursday killed the bill providing
for general state tax on incomes in
excess of $1,000.
The steamer Ben Cruachan, which
struck on the rocks at kelley'S cove,
| near Louisburg, n. s., Wednesday. is
still hard and fast. The sea was so
rough Thursday that the wrecking
vessels We're unable to make any at
temp 1T floating the steamer.
Pleading to a charge of murder in
the second degree, Edward j. Conro5
was sentenced to state prison Tor llf"
| by Judge Wait Thursday at Boston.
| While under the influence of liquor
Conroy killed his wife Bridget at their
home in South Boston, Feb. Il.
Many lives We're lost and several
Ships We're wrecked in hurricane
| which swept the Loyalty Islands in
March, according to belated advices
brought Wednesday by the steamship
Manuka from Australia.
Commander Robert F. Peary was
presented Thursday to King George at
Marlborough House. He remained a
half hour, telling His Majesty some
thing of his own achievements and
discussing with him the prospects of
n tn, aynalitinn
Gibson Oliver, treasurer of the
grain firm of Durant & Gilmore and
Henry =. Palmer, former freight agent
OF the Delaware 4 Hudson, We're ar
rested Thursday at Albany, \. Y, on
| charges growing out of alleged manip-
ulation of bills of lading by which II
| is claimed the firm was able to Dor
| row hundreds Of thousands Of dollars
| The premature explosion of blast in
| the quarry of the Lahi2h Portland Ce-
ment Co. at West Coplay, Pa. Thursday
snuffed out the lives of eight men. Among
| the killed was Daniel Cannon, the fore
men We're preparing three holes SO feet
deep and had put in 600 sticks of dyna-
mite when the explosion occurred.
in a premier explosion of a blast
| in a stone quarry Of the Lehigh- Port
| land-Celnent Co, at West Coplay Pa,
| Thursday, three men were instantly
| killed and three others seriously in
| jured. Three men are missing and ii
is feared they are buried under the
mass of rock.
| Eighty districts are yet to be heard
| from but the Hungarian government
| has secured a najorty in the general
elections of more than 100 seats in the
next Parliament. The parties headed
| by Francis Eossuth and Julius Justh
| have thus been overwhelmingly de-
| feated.
Mrs. Dora F.. DoXcy, accused of pcis-
| Oning William J. Erder. took the wit
ness stand in her own defence Thurs
day at st. Louis. She denied all con
| nection with he death of Erder and
| excused her other acts or the ground
| that she was the victim of the NOR
phinc habit.
| Replying to a letter received from
! Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston in watch
his cooperation was asked in a move
mGnt for reform in the theatrical eX-
| hihiticns, Mayor Gaynor of New York
! states that he would be most happy
to cooperate in any way to elevate the
| tone Of theatres.
| The New York Bank Note Co. of New
York City Thursday brought suit in the
United States circuit court against Ran
some H. Thomas, president of the New
York Stock Exchange and its 100 mem
bers for damages of 100000. The COM
planant charges that the New York
Stock Exchange by it's rules makes il
mandatory that certificates of all compa-
MES traded in on the exchange shall be
printed by the American Banknote Co.
The Pilgrim monument on Town
hill! Provincetown, Mass. at the laying
Of The corner stone of which President
| Roosevelt made n memorable attack
upon corporations, will be dedicated
Aug. 5, the anniversary of the sail
ing of the Pilgrims from Delft Haven
Holland. 1t is expected that President
Taft will make the trip across Massa-
chusetts bay from Beverly and attenc
the dedication.
| David s. CowleS of New York, a
representative of the companies own
ing the tug Pejepscot and the barges
Which struck off cape Spencer Tuesday
night, arrived Thursday at St. John
n. b., from Bath. Me-, and made ar
raneemcnts to be taken to the scene
of The wreck Immediately. An effort
will be made to free one of the barges
from the rocks and it is thought that
there Will be an endeaVor to raise the
sunken tug.
Five thousand Dales Of Southern cot
ton are on their way back to Southern
lSpinncrs after a journey from the South
to Liverpool and from Liverpool to the
port of New York. The cotton left
New York Thursday on the steamer
| City of Montgomery, which is making
her m2iden trip to the city for which
size was named. 1t is explained THAI
| Southern cotton factors were so eager
to take advantage of high prices hero
and abroad that they stripped the 10
cal markets bare.
| Tnicty-s indictments involving 10
| persons. II Of whom were arrested and
admitted to bail. is the sum Cf The
york accomplished by the extraordi-
nary Term Of supreme court which was
| called May IL by Gov. Hughes to in
| veStiSate alleged graft in the conduct