Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Interior Alaska banks, it is reported
at Seattle, have reduced interest on
loans from to l per cent. per month.
Seattle bankers attribute the cut to
reduced cost of living and operating
expenses in the north.
Two tobacco growers of Dye Ridge,
KY, were indicted in the federal court
in Covington, KY. Thursday for alleged
attempts to interfere with interstate
shipments OF tobacco by threats of Nio-
lence against the shipper w. T. Os-
born, Nov. &c, 1907.
While the Waterman was making his
rounds in another part of the build
ing early Thursday burglars effected
an entrance into the Brandreth co.
drug manufacturers at Ossining, n.
Y, blew open the vault with dynamite
and made away with $500.
Miss Agnes Elkins, niece of Senator
Elkins of West Virginia, who shot her
self at a hotel at Kansas City Wednes-
day, was much improved Thursday and
her physician believed she would recover.
Miss Elkins passed a fairly good night
and seemed cheerful.
The shareholders of the three prln-
cipal London tube railway companies
about half of the stock in which is helu
in America, met Thursday in London
and agreed upon plan of ama1gaba-
ton. A bill providing for the ANAL
gamation will be laid before Parlia-
ment.
The sloop Jeanne Dare containing
cargo of petroleum, blew up at her
wharf at Brest, France, Thursday. The
captain and one sailor were burned to
death while the others of the crew
were burned or otherwise inJurd. Inc
accident is attributed to the careless
ness of sailor who carried lighted
candle into the hold.
George W. Storer, assistant general
passenger agent of the Boston & Maine,
died Thursday at his home in Airing
ton, Mass. Mr.. Storer entered the rail-
road business as an employee of the
Concord & Montreal Railroad and lived
in Concord, ~ H., for several years.
He had been with the Boston & Maine
system 20 years. He was about GO years
of age and a widow survives.
The Oriskany Malleable Works Co. at
Utica, n. Y, one of the oldest iron work
ing industries in the state, Thursday
granted without solicitation an increase
in wages throughout its entire plant.
ranging from 10 to Is per cent. Thursday
was payday at the shops and in each en-
velope was a slip explaining that the IN
crease was to meet the increased cost of
living.
The Chamber of Deputies at Brus-
sells by vote of 70 to 40 Thursday
passed the Congo budget. 1t provides
for no change in the system OF raising
revenue by compulsory labor. M. Lor-
and refused to vote, explaining tnat
the debate on the budget had proved
that no effective control was exercised
over the Belgian administration OF
Belgian Congo.
All American tramps will have to
leave the east coast of Nicaragua ac-
cordng to advices received Thursday
at New Orleans. An order to this eff
feet, it is stated, has been issued by
General Estrada, provisional presi-
dent, upon the suggestion of American
Consul Moffat at Bluefields. American
tramps, it is claimed, have been prov
ing a disturbing factor in Nicaragua,
being responsible for frequent brawls.
John Bohning. aged 90 years, ma
tive of Kansas, is the second member
of the crew of the armored cruiser
Washington to die of smallpox since
the warship returned from Honolulu.
Rohning died Wednesday at the Dia-a
mond Head, Wash, quarantine station
where three other sailors are in Sc