Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The court of first instance at Caracas
Venezuela, has declared dissolved the con
tract OF the government for the sale of
the lmitaca iron mines TO the Panaman
Ore Company.
An appropriation of $l,1o,o0 for the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
conditional upon the raising by gifts of
requests Of like sum before 1917 was the
principal provision of Il bill reported to
the Massachusetts House Friday by the
committee on ways and means.
Or. German l.. Martinez, the minister Of
foreign affairs and Fernandez Alonzo, the
Bolivian minister TO Peru. Thursday night
at Lima signed a protocol assuring annie
able relations between Peru and Bolivia
pending the submission TO the Hague tribu-
nal OF the points at issue over the boundary
between the two countries.
Mayor Shafer Siglrr committed suicide
Friday at 11ackettstoWn. n. J., by hanging
himself from a beam in his blacksmith
shop. He first cut his throat with a pen.
knife. His wife found his body. Mr.. Sig
Ter tried L" introduce IL reform policy in
n" town government but WAS unsuccessful.
This proved on his mind ana his friends
believe ii WIS responsible for his act.
The question whether the three trustees
of the estate of the late Quincy A. Shaw
are criminally liable in failing to dis
close assets of the estate amounting 10
$4,000, 900. upon which back taxes amount
ing to 1892. 600 were paid TO the city of
Boston last week, will be considered by
the Grand jury next week, according 10 a
decision Friday of District Attorney Pelie
tier. The three trustees are Quincy A
Shaw. Jr., Robert f. Herrick and Francis
c. WEIGH.
Reused by an unusual noise in his home
a. LhnSdownc, near Philadelphia, early
Friday ANA seeing u figure moving about
in the dim light. Alexander Kerr, Is years
old, fired Il shotgun ut the object and then
discovered that he had shot his sister, Mel
lie, lG years old. The girl died in Is min.
uteS. The father of the two is Il night
pD from 10
SricfStrickcn young mans story WAS cor
roboratcd by The mother and the aHthori.
ties have not taken action against him.
Flames Friday swept The threestory
building al Pratt and Sharp streets, Bal
timore. occupied by the Hopkins Tailoring
Co, some of the . employees crawling
across narrow ledge to the next door
building to safety. and threw 200 girls
plant several doors away into panic.
Controlled by cooler heads, however, the
girls made their way by the stairways aud
fire escapes to the street.
Phillip Purpurpa, former commission
iessed 10 the ponce that he had written
no less than p letters to people of that
suburb. demanding money and signing
THE Black Hand p Some of these were
Thursday when he went to a designated
| spot and took a dummy package which had
been deposited there by the recipient of
| the directions enclosed. The police are try
| ing to connect with the senders of other
missives Of similar import which have
| been mailed TO residents of Chicago, one
of them to Federal Judge X. NJ. Lands and
| to the members OF a Jury in his court which
was trying a Black Hand case.
Official announcement has been made of
| the appointment OF Professor Theobald
Smith as Harvard exchange professor at
the University of Berlin during the aca-
demic year 1911lsl2. DR.. Smith is pro-
fessor OF comparative pathology in the
medical school He received his degree
| in medicine from the Albany Medical Col
| lege in 1888 and has since won worldwide
distinction in his ehose enfield field Of pathology.
efeIler institute Tor Medical Research in
New York Announcement is also made
Of the appoinmfnt T of Dr.: John Warren as
Harvard University ac maashai to succeed Prot
assistant professor of anatomy at the
| medical school.