Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-15
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


Mildred Bridges, was admitted TO pan
Friday in the sum OF $4,000.
The first cruiser for Chinas modern
navy, under the program adopted BY That
government last year, was launched FRI
day at Barrow-in- Furness. Eng. it is a
small ship Of 24e0 tons. and is equipped
with turbines providing speed OF 20
knots an hour. Its largest guns are O.
inch.
The big social event of the National
Shoe and Leather week in Boston was
the trip down the harbor and shore
dinner at Nantasket Beach FRIDAY.
About 800 visiting buyers made the
trip in specially chartered boat ana
were accompanied by a band. 1t was
the first time that many OF the visitors
had ever been on the ocean.
Prof. Edward c. Pickering of Har-
ward College observatory reported Fri
day that a photograph of the spectrum
of the comet kiess had been obtained
at Harvard, on July {, with the eight
inch Draper telescope which showed
the two bands 1888 and 4737 bright and
nearly equal. The former band was
much the fainter of the two in Daniels
comet of 1907.
ON the petition of States Attorney
J. Ward Carver. Superior Court Judge
w w Miles Friday at Barre. VT,
called special session of the grand
Jury to be held at the county court
house In Montpelier next Tuesday to
consider the evidence regarding the
death OF John aicAuley. who Was mur-
= .N.., .ffYI,. ,,rV INV lnhn
Turley and Frank Primavera are un-
der arrest on suspicion Of the murder
The death Thursday night of Daniel
Mcdonald. former attorney general of
Nova Scotia, was announced Friday at
Antigonish. y s. Mr.. Mcdonald, who
was so years old. had served several
terms in the provincial Parliament, had
been appointed provincial commission
er OF works and mines and for several
years was the attorney general of the
province.
Formal announcement is made at
Rochester, y. Y. by President Hubbel
of the Federal Telephone & Telegraph
Co. of which the Buffalo Consolidated
is the holding company. that the Fed
eral Co. now owns the Rochester Tele-
phone Co. This is the outcome of the
strenuous fight between the Bell and
the Buffalo Independents. started last
spring by the offer of the Bell To buy
the Rochester Co. in connection with
the Syracuse and Utica Companies.
Accompanied by Colonel Goethels,
Henry l.. Stimson the American secre-
tary of war and his party went Thurs
day from Colon, Panama to Pedro
Miguel, from where they walked to
Bas Obispo, making an examination of
the culebra Cut. Secretary Stimson
called upon President Arosemena Fri
day afternoon at Panama. The inter
view was most cordial. The President
will give reception in honor of Sec
rotary and Mrs. Stimson.
Archdeacon William H. Allen of ST
GATHERINGS Episcopal church at Pensa-
cola, Fla, has rendered his resignation
as a member of the Pensacola Minis
terial Association, of which he was
president, as a result of the action of
the organization in prosecuting base
ball players for playing ball on Sun
day. The archdeacon. who is one OF
the most prominent ministers in Flori-
da, in an interview is quoted as saying
that baseball is matter of conscience
solely.
Johnny Spanish known TO the East
Side, New York, as the meanest and most
| cowardly gangster in the city, Friday was
| sentenced to four years and 10 months ia
jail en- mis- plea of guilty to a charge OF
robbery in The first degree. The court
! might have made it twenty years. hut II
| Is doubtful II he will live out the lesser
sentence He has tuberculosis in an ad-
| yaneed stage. Johnny Spanish was chris.
tened John Weller. He Is 90 years old
| HIS specially was knocking old men and
women over the head TO get what money
they might have.
Coz G. II. Salisbury of Guam one
| OF the Far Eastern possessions OF the
United States, has requested the post
| Office department.. through the navy
! department TO establish a postal sew
| ings depository on the island. In a let
ter Gov. Salisbury says: There is no
bank on the island, Tor any depository
| for funds that may be accumulated by
| private individuals. In my opinion "a
postal savings bank would be of great
| convenience and benefit to the people. -
| The post office at Guam is under CON
| troll of the navy department directly,
but II is likely that Postmaster Gener-
al Hitchcock will arrange to open a
postal bank on the island.
Mark Twain left actual property
Won tn SAT-. 1856. An appraisal of his es-
| tate filed with the surrogate at New
| York Friday places this value on Sc
curitics and real estate which the hui
morist bequeathed to his only suryiv-
| ing child, Mrs. Gabrilowitsch Mi
/ Clemens left no real estate In New
| York The value of his personal es-
tate there was 1896. TAG. This does not
include a trunk full of manuscripts to
| which no value is assigned in the ap.
praisal. The authors property inaCon.
nectieut, where he owned an estate al
Redding, the place of his birth, is val
ued at 81 4, 24e- Outside of the real -es.
tate IL consists of mining, railroad anc
industrial stock,