Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

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an indefinite period. More than 200
| men will be forced out OF work.
According to the French government
adyices three FOREIGN strikers We're
killed and a score of persons, lnciud-
ing subaltern and a gendarme, were
] wounded during the rioting in Gaude-
loupe.
A bill providing for biennial state cleo
tons in Rhode Island was favorably re-
ported Thursday by the House commit
tee on special legislation. This report is
believed practically to assure the passage
of the bill.
| Thomas Holmes, at one time widely
| known as thee lastic skin man, who for
! wears was connected with P. T. Barnum' S
| shows, died Wednesday in Carney hos
pital South Boston Holmes was 40 years
of age.
The county court house, Jail, Ma
sonic Temple, which contained the
Opera house, and several other build
ings at Greenville, N. c., were burned
Thursday. The total loss is estimated
at $150,000.
A street car conductor was instantly
killed, a motorman was probably fatally
injured and 10 passengers were severely
hurt Thursday at Chicago in a collision
between a street car and a Chicago, Mill
waukee & st. Paul passenger train.
All of the property of Samuel D.
Warren. the millionaire paper manu-
facturer, is left to his widow and chill
dren under the will filed Thursday in
Boston. The executors and trustees
are empowered to continue Warren's
interest in several Maine mills.
Demands for increased pay have
been presented by the engineers, ire
men and telegraphers of the Delaware
& Hudson Co. The demands, it was
| learned Thursday, ranged from per
| cent. to 70 per cent. but the average
| increase approximate 20 per cent.
George G. Ward, vice president and
general manager of the Commercial
Cable Co., announced Thursday that
the company will soon lay an addition
al trans Atlantic cable. This Will be
| the sixth cable which the company
will own between Europe and America.
Three persons We're badly injured,
two of them so seriously that they may
die by the explosion of gas stove
and water roller Thursday at the hand
some residence of Luther G.. WiShard,
a New York stock broker, at Montclair,
n. j. The shock of the explosion was
felt in houses a mile away. Frozen
pipes caused the explosion.
Child labor was dealt a severe blow
Thursday when the Rhode Island House
a nt 1lyin a
manufacturer or merchant to employ
any child after o'clock in the evening
or to employ at any time a child between
the ages of IA and is years who cannot
write a simple sentence in the English
language. The bill now goes to the SEN
ate.
Charles ". Potter. of East Douglass.
Mass. is dead as the result of q quar-
rel with Peter Mantle. an Italian, last
December. Potter's throat was slash
ed by stiletto and he had been in a
weak condition since. Mantle has been
in the Worcester Jail since the assault.
Potter was 10 years Of age and a ma
tive of Woonsocket, r. L. He pos
sessed considerable property.
Hope of saving the British steamer
Arroyo, which went aground on Ports
mouth island. near Ocracoke bar, Mon
day night while bound to Philadelphia
with cargo of iron ore from SANTA
go, Cuba, has been given up. The YES
sci will prove a total wreck. The tug
Alexander Jones. which went from
Wilmington to assist the Arroyo, has
returned, ler crew having been for
hidden to board the ship.
Formal announcement was made
from the rostrum of the New York
Stock Exchange Thursday of the incl
igibility for reinstatement Of Clifford
NJ. Washburn board member of the
firm Of J. NJ. Fisk & Co. and his seat
was ordered sold forthwith. The gov
ernors of the Exchange Wednesday
adjudged Washburn guilty of reckless
and unbusinesslike dealings for his,
firms connection with the Columbus
& Hooking Coal and Iron pools the
collapse of which was followed last
month by three Stock Exchange fail
ures, incl;'f,"y that of his own firm.
Justice l ,zek overruled Wednesday
at New York the demurrer of John
Wallace & Co. stock brokers, at the
same time granting to Charles w.
Morse an interlocutory order for an
accounting from the firm. Morse al
legged that the firm never gave him a
statement of his transactions, and that
it converted to its own use certain
stocks put up as collateral He added
that he had an agreement with the
brokers that they should not sell him
out. and that they violated this agree
ment. The former ice king" also al
leged that the defendants took adyan-
tase Of him when he was in Jail.
An investigation Of the much criti-
clzed tenement properties owned by
.he trinity Church Corporation, con-
quoted by the secretary of the tene-
meht house committee of the New
YORK Charity Organization Society and
o'hers' shows that only IA houses,
yer cent. OF the whole. are in bad con-
ul'ion. The report, made public
thursday night shows defects in about
oIe-third of the houses but finds that
ihose houses in good condition are of
very great value to the community"
lhey give said the reports. quiet
comfortable private living quarters.
Tree from overcrowding in the heart of
.he city and within walking distance
10 the business district"