Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-15
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| condition of all national banks at thu
close of business Thursday Nov. TO-
Lieut. Siegfreid Helm. the German
army officer. who was arrested at Lon
don, charged with having mad
! sketches OF the Notifications of Ports
mouth harbor. Monday pleaded guilt!
and was placed under bonds of $125,
not to repeat the offence.
The directors of the Canadian Paciti,
| Railway Monday at Montreal declared
| dividend of , per cent. on the common
| stock for the quarter ended Sept 30, be
! ing at the rate of : per cent, per yeal
| from revenue and per cent. from inter,
I est on the proceeds of land sales. The
| dividend is payable on Dec. 81 to share
holders of record on Nov. 80.
| The selection Of a jury to hear the evi.
| dence in the cases of Wassili Ivankowsk
| and Andrea Ipsen, the Lynn bandits who
| are charged with a double murder, occu-
| pied the attention of the court all day
Monday at Salem. the jury box being
| filed Just before adjournment. The tax
| ing of evidence will be started with the
| opening of court Tuesday morning.
| The Nobel prize committee Monday at
| Stockholm, Sweden. awarded the prize
| for litel ature for 1910 to Paul Johann
Ludwig Heise. the German poet and nov
| elist HeiSe was born in Berlin in 1880
and has produced some tragedies, many
narrative and epic poems and several
works on philology as we'll as collections
of metrical tales and novels
The run on the Birkbeck Eng.
Bank subsidized Monday The deposit
| tors who made Withdrawals during the
day numbered not more than half OF
those who applied for their money on
previous days. The bank officials be-
lieve that the trouble is practically
ended.
Stripping off ler coat. S-Erar-old
Martha Stauffer of Ellsworth, a suburb
o: Pittsburg, jumped into a pond sun
dav and rescued from drowning her
3-year-old brother. who had fallen in
while throwing stones. The child swan
to the bank in four feet of water,
supporting her little charge
The sale of the Boston Herald to a
committee OF the bondholders was
confirmed Monday by Judge Colt in
the United States circuit court The
question of the compensation of the re-
ce!vers, john Norris of New York and
Chrales Il. Weed of Boston will be
taken up later.
The will OF Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
who died at Middletown, Ct Oct Ii. was
admitted to probate Monday at Ports
quests. All of the personal estate was
Wiilnl T., al
estate tn Mrs. Howe's four children
George II. Richards. son-in-law. is
named as executor. The will was exc
cuted in Boston in 1897.
In true Western style, TWO men held IN
Mrs. Sarah Schwartz Monday in her lit
tie shoe store on First avenue. New York
City, and at the point Of revolyers tore
her diamond ear rings from her ears and
took pocketbook containing $50 from Il
dresser, escaping after Il chase of sew
eral blocks. Mrs. Schwartz was alone in
the store when the men asked to see
some shoes, but she fought until knocked
down.
Because his father made reflections on
his mother on the witness stand in po-
lice court at San Francisco Monday,
George Cameron attacked him and gave
him terrible beating before the court
attaches could separate them. Judge
Shortall said the beating was so well
melited that he would not hold the young
man for contempt. But he was ordered
from the court room.
Finarciers who have returned from
the National Monetary Commissions
conference held in New York last week
expressed the belief Monday that Sem
ator Aldrich would attempt to accom-
plish at the soming short session or
Congress the enactment OF currency
reform bill and that the central bank
idea would be one Of its features. Such
bill. it was said. is now in course of
preparation. y
There was d didn't know it was
loaded" episode in the servants coat
room at Young's hotel. Boston, Mon
day. with the result that two colored
walters We're sent to the hospital with
severe bullet wounds from an automat-
ic revolverh Jacob Wheeler who was
showing the weapon to Nathan Brew
er had to fingers blown off. while
Brewer caught the bullet in the hip.
Brewers condition was regarded AS Sc
r;ous.
Within &c hours Of the time he es-
capped from the yard of the Newport
county Il. l., Jail last SATURDAY after
noon George Andrews of Tiyerton was
again a prisoner. Andrews was recap
tureG late Sunday night at the home
of George f. Manchester. in the Tiv-
erton woods by Tiverton officers. He
was returned to the Jail at Newport
Monday forenoon. Andrews was being
held at the Jail pending an observa-
ton as to his sanity.
That the officials of tho International
Union of Photo Engravers were not
acting in good faith in calling off the
recent strike in the local trade and
that Some power is preventing MEM
bers of the union from returning to
work was the opinion expressed Mon
day by Judge Pierce in the superior
court at Boston. Judge Pierce also
stated that if next Monday he is not
satisfied that the strike is really at
an end. some one will be adjndged
guilty of contempt and dealt with ac-
cordingly.
| The first anniversary of the Illinois
greatest mine horror the Cherry dis