Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


B. Harrington acting for the railroad.
The arbitrators are l. j. Rawn. John
A Newman and B. H. Meyer
7 The Russian council of ministers has
decided that the United States pro-
posal for the naturalization of the
Manchurian railways is not acceptab BILE
to the Russian government at present.
Russia's reply to Secretary Knox's note
| will be delivered in a few DAYS to
United States Ambassador Roc<hiIl at
st. Petersburg.
Miss IncZ Milholland, who. since her
failure to get into Harvard Law
School. has identified herself with the
cause of woman suffrage and the strik-
ing shirt waist operators in New York.
was arrested Monday night after an
encounter with the police in front of
an East side factory, New York. she
was released on $500 bail.
Charged with being implicated in the
murder of James H. Mullins, in Bridge
port in the night of Jan. II. Clara Fish
er. 26 years Old, was arrested MONDAY
night at the home of her parents in
Danbury, CT. Mullins was killed in y
room on the top floor of the Union
Square House in Bridgeport and car
ried to an alley running off Union
street, where the partly nude body was
found with the skull fractured.
Ambassador Stratus Monday at Con-
stantinople presented Charles w. Fair
banks former Vice President of the
United States. to the Sultan, who en-
gacju him in q long conversation on
the ubiect OF his tour Mr.. Fairbanks
later visited the Parliament where he
was received BY the President of the
Chamber. Consul General Edward H.
Oz.nun gave q musicale that afternoon
in hoaor OF Mi. and Mrs. Fairbanks.
Mayor Hubbard of Boston Monday re-
war,led his campaign manager, former
Senator Fred s. Gore. by appointing him
to the penal commissionership made va
cant by the removal of Vernon V. Skin
ner. The removal of Skinner came dur
ing the height of the campaign, as a re-
suit of his testimony before the finance
commission regarding conditions at sew
eral of the penal Institutions
A recount Of the votes of the four
candidates for mayor and the 10 can
didatcs fer the Boston city council
was begun Monday by the commission
ers in Fancul hall There are 95,37S
ballots to be checked and the final re-
suit will not be reached for several
days. The recount for nine of the %
wards showed a gain of II votes for
StOrroW.
King Gustavc oficiated Monday at
the opening Of the Riksdag at Stock
holm. The estimates for 1911 are 229
All ,000 kroneer (about 56O00,00O), which,
is lower than in 1910. The speech from
the throne. however, announced that
new-taXation would be necessary in
VolVing an increase on coffee, inner
itance duties and the introduction Of
income and estate taxes The army and
navy estimates veIbeen considera
bly, reduced. ir%
state boards of arbitration and nc
diation from - statesiand Canadian
representative are meeting in Wash
ingtCn at The first International Arbi-
tration conference between capital ami
labor. The object of this first confer
ence is to form q permanent organiza-
ton. The possibilities of government
al boards in dealing with industrial dis
putes, and like subjects will be taken
up. Among those who attended the
preliminary meeting was F. a. Ack-
land, deputy minister Of labor of Can
ada.
The last bucket of cement to com
pleta the big government dam to i'm
pound food water of the Soshone river,
eight miles above Cody. Wye, was
put in place Monday and the event was
celebrated in true Western style. The
dam is the highest structure of its
kind in the world 32S feet 1t is s.
feet long at the bottom and 200 feet
long at the top. 1t is designed to hold
back only the flood waters of the So
shone 10 form an artificial lake ~
miles square. This is expected to fur
nisn water for the irrigation of $4,000
acres of land.
Baltimore financial circles Monday
discussed report of negotiation,
which is carried out, would involve Tho
Western Maryland Railroad being TAX
en- over by the New York Central sys
tenn. The plan, it was said, provides for
the connection of the two systems al
New Haven, Pa, to which point an
extension from Cumberland, Nd, is to
be built by the Western Maryland u
join with the Pittsburg and Lake Eric,
a subsidiary road of the New York
Central The Pittsburg and Lake Erie
ii was added will build a line through
northern West Virginia to the coal
fields of the Fairmont region.
The will of the late d. Ogden Mills
Of New York disposes of his large es-
tate by divisions ealally between his
son and daughter. Ogden Mills ana
Mrs Whitclaw Reid, wife of the Amer
lean ambass ador to the court of St.
James. The sum of $400, 900, however, is
directed to be paid to institutions be-
fore the division of the estate. The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
American Museum of Natural History
and the Home for 1ncurables in New
York are bequeathed 100000 each Inc
sum of $4,000 is left to the New YORK
botanical Gardens and to the American
Geographical Society and the Aneri-
can National Red Cross $4,000 each.
Ogden Mills and Mrs. Reid are ap~
pointed executors.
r>,-+o man wore arroStpi Monday