Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| Eighteen bandits who attacked thu
Istore of Francisco Ibarra at VeiardenaX
Mex, were repulsed Monday by barr,
and his wife, who fought the marauder!
from behind barrieade killing five ant
seriously wounding three of the assail'
ing party.
As a double-headed freight train
was passing a section gang on the
Norfolk & Western Railway at Lynch
burg, Va, Saturday, the 'front.' iocomo-
tive exploded James Galloway re-
| eeived wounds from a lying crate bar
| which caused his death.
Samuel Haughton Graves, Chicago
hnaneier. president of the White Pass
and Yukon Railway, was found dead in
bed. Monday, at the Aylmcr apartments
at Ottawa. lie was due in that city on
business with the railway commission.
Death was due TO heart failure.
Moving picture show promoters re-
|ceived a blow. Monday. when the SUI
preme court of the United States de-
cided that moving pictures based ON
the scenes of a copyrighted book, may
constitute an infringement of the copy
right on the book or reserved rights 10
dramatize
The long continued potash controversy
ended. Monday. at Berlin, when the Ger
man syndicate, the non-syndicate inter
ests and the American dealers ratified
the agreement. The contracts existing
between the Americans and the non-syn-
| dictate firms. which caused the trouble
| We're cancelled.
Germans and American have formed
a trans Atlantic aerial company. at
Cologne. Germany. and are building a
dirigible balloon VITA the object OF
crossing the Atlantic from Seneriffe,
Canary Islands to America early in
1912. The plan is TO take advantage
| Of the trade winds.
At meeting of the directors of the
| Canadian Pacific Railway. Monday in
Montreal. dividend of . per cent. was
declared for the quarter which ended
Sept. 50, being at the rate of 10 per cent.
per annum; per cent. from revenue and
; per cent. from interest on the proceeds
of land sales and other assets The diyi-
dend was declared to be payable on Jan.
: next, to shareholders of record at 3
P. NJ, Dec. 20 Of this year.
] Discussion of the relative claims of
the various fields for financial support
occupied the attention of the Board
of Home Missions and Church Exten-
sion of the Methodist Episcopal
church. Monday forenoon, at Denver
iCol. Mission work among the Italians
lreceived special consideration. The
work in Porto Rico, Hawaiian islands
and Alaska was also discussed. This
evening popular mass meeting will be
held. Chicago.
| An indictment charging that he had
made false entries in his time book was
returned by the Bristol county grand
jury at Taunton Mass. Monday, against
Edward V. Atcherly. timekeeper of the
Taunton division of the New York, New
Haven &c Hartford Railroad Indictments
charging that they had benefited by the
act of Atcherly were returned against
six engineers and fremcn, all of Taun-
ton. The engineers and firemen indicted
Monday were Charles E. Powers Will
liam 3. Howe, William Searle. Dwight
Beckwith. Charles +. Bird and Elton Il.
Alger
Thomas j. O'Brien, who succeeds
John G. A. Leishman as American am
bassador to Italy, was received, Mon
day. by King Emmanuel, to whom he
presented his credentials. The audi
ence lasted for a half hour, when MIR.
O'Brien presented Secretary Of the
Embassy Charles S. Wilson and the
second secretary of the embassy,
Alexander K. Magruder. The military
Iattache, Maj. Reynolds Lands and the
naval attachc. Commander Andrew Il.
Long, are with the Italian forces at
Tripoli.
A bye-election for member Of the Brit
ish House of Commons to represent Old
| ham was held, Monday. 1t was made
necessary by the retirement of the Rt
| Hon. Alfred Emmett, the Liberal mem
Der for that constituency and deputy
Speaker of the House of Commons. He
recently was raised to the peerage. r.
Il. K. Dennis. Conservative. who was a
defeated candidate in the last election
won the election Monday. The Unionist
gain was due to the fact that Labor
lite had been nominated, besides a Lib
eral making IL "A three eOrnered fight.