Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-10-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| Victor Massena, the fourth Prince
| D'Esslan and Duke De Riveli died
Friday at Paris. He was born in 1896
He was a grandson Of Marshal Andre
Massen, who served with distinction
under Napoleon.
| The separation of the state and
church was announced in a decree
| published Friday by the Portuguese
| provisional government. Another de-
cree published declares for the free
dom of the press.
| movement to enlist settlement
! workers and college girls as pickets
in the garment workers strike at Chi
cago took form Thursday night.
Thomas a. Rckert international
president of the Garment Workers
ment, said that 10000 men, women,
boys and girls, are now on strike. The
strike is for better working conditions
| and a closed shop.
The International Waterways Com
| mission held short session Friday at
Toronto, Ont. taking up matters re-
| lating to the demarcation of the boun-
Diary line. The line through the St.
Lawrence river was the section under
consideration. 1t was intimated that
1t would be fully year before the
commission will be able to report it's
findings
William Weathers, a special officer of
the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. was shot and
killed Friday near the Fernwood Colliery
near Wilkesbarre, Pa, by an Italian
men who had been tampering with
switches along the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road, when he came upon two Italians
While he was attempting to arrest them
one of the men shot and killed him.
The men fed and are still at large.
On a charge of criminally libelling
Congressman John X. Tener, the Repub-
lican candidate for Governor f. A. Van
Valkenburg, the editor and publisher of
the North American of Philadelphia, was
Friday held in 5000 bail for court after
three-hour hearing before Magistrate
william Gallagher. Bail was furnished
by Rudolph Blankenburg, well-known
independent Republican leader in many
reform movements in both that city and
Pennsylvania.
quate inspection of mercantile estab-
lishments and workshops was the
unanimous opinion of the speakers
who addressed the Massachusetts
State Commission on Factory Inspec-
tiOn Friday. One Boston wholesale
clothing dealer said he had never seen
an inspector in a clothing establish
ment in Boston. Laundry works also
complained of conditions in their in
dustry claiming that their shops were
usually poorly ventilated and poorly
drained.
The fourth session of the Duma
opened Friday at ST. Petersburg. AS
had been anticipated there was
trouble at once over a proposal to
honor the memory of Prof Serge
.Mouromtzeff, who died recently. The
Vice President declined to put an Of
fered motion that the members rise
as mark of respect to the former
President of the lower House. I'm
'mediately upon the announcement
Of his decision, the Constitutional
Democrats and the Radicals Withdrew
from the sitting.
Charles r. Ellis and Edwin r.
Graves, who were convicted at New
York last week of conspiracy to de-
fraud the public through the mails,
were sentenced in the United States
circuit court Friday to serve three
years each in the federal prison at
Atlanta. Ellis and Graves ran the
kernite Manufacturing Co.. which
pretended to hold a patent FOR the
manufacturing of a substitute for
ruDbe: from the hoofs and horns of
cattle. TIE company also published
a magazine of mystery.
Thousands of operatives in Olneyville,
r. l., the largest woolen-worsted man.
ufacturing section in the country. who
had hopes that the fall season would
bring better conditions in the mills there,
have been disappointed by the announce
ment that practically all of the large
mills have returned to the four days a
week schedule. This makes the situation
as depressing as it has ever been during
the long period of cnrtailment and the
outlook for the winter is gloomy. 1t is !
believed that hundreds of operatives will
leave the section to seek work in other
places.
Albert J. Myer. who was known |
while soldier at Fort Myer Va, as |
the millionaire corporal" has been
reduced to the ranks for disobedience |
of orders and being absent from duty |
without leave. His term of enlistment |
will expire, his officers believe, with |
out finding him any nearer to the |
realization of his ambition-a COM |
mission-than when he entered the
army Myers grandfather was the |
late Brig. Gen. Albert j. Myer Myer
went away on furlough early in the
summer and remained over his time. |
Reporting at Fort Banks, Mass. he
was ordered to return to Fort Mver
Failure to comply led to arrest and
conviction.
Friday afternoons session of the
International convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association of North |
America ut Toronto, was taken IN
with the reports Of officers and clubs
all showing healthy growth in the
work and outlining campaign 10 |
carry 1t forward in foreign lands
Ipe triennial report placed the en-
dowment fund on Jan. l. 1910, at ST.
I4,ssa.ss. This report said the as
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