Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-11
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

CONDENSED OIoFAISHCo.
District Attorney James Swift of Fall
River. Mass. Thursday formally an
nounced his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for attorney general
BY the terms of bill which the Senate
passed Wednesday, the veterinary corps
will be established in the army, this do
ing away with the contract surgeon sys-
tenn. {
A new company to mine and deFel-
on asbestos in Orleans county, VT,
will soon be incorporated under. the
laws of that state. The capital stock OF
this company is fixed at $4,000.
NJ. Lorraine fell with Bloriot aero
plane in which he was flying at
height of 80 feet Thursday at Pau.
France and was badly hurt. The aero
plane was demolished.
In accordance with the views of Mayor
Gaynor of New York, bill was intro
duced in the New York Assembly Thurs
day providing that all personal property
in the city of New York except rents
shall be exempted from taxation.
The Dominion government carried
through Thursday night at Ottawa, ont,
the second reading of it's bill for the con-
struction of a Canadian navy by soma
party majority of Al. The vote finally ana
irrevocably commits the Canadian gov
eminent to the creation of navy hide
pendent of Great Britain.
Another charge of wholesale forgerles
of letters and signatures was made
Thursday in the Russell case at Boston
when Prof Henry Carmichael of Bowdoin
College declared that batch of 80 letters
produced by the defence showed signs OF
being fraudulent. Early in the trial sim
liar charges We're made by other writing
experts and chemists
Three men are dead and several were
seriously injured by the collapse of a
50 foot brick wall, left standing after
the fire which destroyed the bolt
south side of Pittsburg early Tuesday
buried in the debris, most of whom
were foreigners.
Two little girls. Margaret, aged
three, and Alice, aged four, daughters
of Edward Snow of South River, Brig
us, n. F., were drowned Thursday
The little tots ventured en- the thin
ice a short distance from their home,
unknown to their parents, and both
persisted
After falling into a vat filled with
fannie acid, William Karcher was
ground to death Thursday by the re-
volving steel ledles in the leather
manufacturing works of Blanchard
Brothers & Lane at Newark, n. j
<archer was experimenting the mix
ing of the acid to tan leather when he
slipped and plunged into the vat
When the machinery was stopped he
had been ground to pieces.
What the wears at the Franklin
Wooden Mills at Franklin. n. H., fail
ed to get by striking recently they
have now obtained by the voluntary
action of the company. The mer
struck to enforce a demand for an in
crease of one-half cent per yard il
wages for piece work, but returned
| when the company granted a quarter
| cent increase. The company official:
| Wednesday announced that beginning
next Monday an additional quarter
cent would be added to the wage rate
| 1t was announced Thursday that Eu-
| gene N Foss of Boston and summer
| resident of Cohasset, would accept the
| Democratic nomination in the 14th
| Congressional district. Mr.. FoSS ran
| on the Democratic state ticket last fail
| as a candidate for lieutenant governor
| laying particular stress upon Canadian
| reciprocity. Eight years ago he was
| an unsuccessful candidate for Congress
\ in the 18th district, running as a Re
| publican.
| The racing interests of Canada hav.
| lost their case before the special com
mittee of Parliament which has been deal
| ing with the Miller race track anti-gam
bling bill. BY a vote of to Z the com.
mittee Thursday night decided to report
the bill favorably If it passes the House
| next week, the Senate, to which it goes
later, there will be no more bookmakins
on any race track in Canada.
| The prize of $500 offered by the gov
ernor of the Shakespeare Memorial thea
tire at Stratford Avon, Eng, for the
| best play has been won by Josephine
Preston Peabody with THE Piper" Thi:
is a new version of the Pied Piper legend
Three hundred and fifteen plays were
| submitted in the competition The sue.
cessful work will be produced in the
Memorial theatre
Deputy Chieza, Thursday at Rome
! fought the second of a series of duels
the outcome of allegations which he
recently made in the Italian Chamber
| against the Baroness Siemens and the
| Duchess hi Litta. The deputy on this
| occasion crossed swords with Gen
| f'eira Di Cossata. After "a assaults
thte general was wounded in the cheek
and the duel ended by his shaking the
hand of his adversary and embracing
him. Deputy ChieZa greeted the gen.
eral as soldier who fought bravely
| in 1859 for Italy's independence