Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-22
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

ing the constituuonality of the COM
mission form of government law.
\ large two-masted steamer cap
sized and sank three miles to the
south of Penzanee, Eng, Thursday.
She came into the port that morning
with heavy list. Her name has not
yet been ascertained
Quiet has reisned throughout the
republic of Panama, since Dec. s, and
no disturbances or riots of any kind
have occurred recently. According TO
Dr. Pablo Arosemena, President of
the republic, the outlook is calm and
no disorders are anticipated.
As the result of profit sharing sys-
tenn introduced at the state prison at
Cranston, II. l.. by Warden McCus-
ker, the prisoners have sent out
Christmas presents TO their families
in the form of checks aggregating
1894, in the past two weeks. The
prisoners are allowed a portion of the
money collected from the sale of their
work.
News of rich gold strike on Ham
| mond river has been brought to Ruby,
Alaska, by Deputy Marshal Howell.
luc gnu WIS tOuDd d uttp NUdHIlSi
and runs $4,000 at the bottom of the
shaft. Pay dirt has been found in this
neighborhood before but this is the
| first time a channel has been discov
cred a rush to the new digging is in
progress.
The International Opium Conference,
| Thursday, at The Hague adopted reso-
| luton presented by the American dele
gates providing that the powers ex-
change communications fully at tie
| earliest possible date with a view to
| adopting further measure to enforce the
provisions of the opium convention.
Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry
gave a dinner at the palace, Thursday
evening, to the leading delegates.
The steamship Philadelphia arrived
at New York from Cherbourg and
Southampton, Thursday, without one
of her life boats and with two bruised
men aboard as evidence of a gigantic
wave that deluged her bow. last Sun
day. The wave boarded the vessel
during the height Of a storm. smashed
the lifeboat, flooded the cabin of W.
F. Kenney, an editor of the Boston
Globe, hurting him against the wall
and rolled Charles Weaver, the wire
less operator. along the deck and down
the companionway.
Bill" an expert Boston rat CATCH
er, Thursday, became a life saver
Charles ToWle was enjoyi ing a nap in
downtown office building when fire
broke out in the office near his chair.
BILL the office eat, was awakened
by the smoke. He leaped into the
mans lap and began to meow"
ToWie awoke with a start and with
a rush for the window, shouted Come
| on Bill" The firemen arrived at that
| moment and Towle. with the eat under
his arm. went down the ladder OF
safety.
Declaring that the local Russian colony
at Los Angeles, Cal, was marriage
market wherein young girls were barter
ed like cattle by their parents. Elsie
Tavicknavkoff. II years old, while In the
juvenile court. Wednesday, on charge
of delinquency, screamed that she would
| bare the secrets of her race rather than
| 10 marry stranger TO whom she alleges
| her parents We're trying to sell her. She
| declared that in the. Russian. quarter
| with a population of about 1890. there
We're GOO young girls for sale at an ave
age price of $500. 9.'They have sold me
| TO a man l have never SEEM" the gili
cried. II will die before / will marry
him. 1 love an American and he love,
me and we will be married as soon as
we can get away from my people,"
| Arrangements for the funeral, Fri
! day, at New York, of John BigeleW
the historian and publicist, We're com
| pleted, Thursday, and the announce
ment was made that in recognition of
Mr.. Bigelow's long association with
the Swedenborgian church, the Rev.
Julian X. Smyth, pastor of the Church
of the New Jerusalem, will assist IN
4! the service in St. Georges Episcopal
church. Bishop Greer will also take
part. Four clergymen, who met with
Mr. Biselow, not long before his death,
! at u consultation aimed to promote a
reconciliation and unitication OF the
different forms of Christian belief
have been asked to sit within the
| chancei. The pail bearers will be j.
Pierpcnt Morgan, Joseph II. Choate.
L. T. V. Randolph and Scott Eos
ter.
The Waltham Watch Co. is in nc
tway implicated in the suit just enter
led by the federal government in the
limited States circuit court at Phil
adelphia against the Keystone Watch
Case Co., according to statement
made, Thursday, by Il. c. Fitch of
! Boston. manager of the Boston and
! Canadian offices of the Waltham
Watch Co. The Keystone Co. is al
legged by the government to be mo-
nopoly in restraint of trade under the
| Sherman antitrust law. Mr.. Fitch
said that he was of the opinion that
the Keystone Co, had in a large meas
ure monopoized the watch case bus
mess, whether lawfully or unlawful
ly, he could not say. He asserted that
! in the watch movement business there
was now a healthy competition.
| The monotony of the trial at New
York of George Graham Rice and his
, associates in the firm of B. f. Schef-
tells & Co., charged with defrauding
investors all over the country through
chain of alleged bucket shops was
relieved, Thursday. by the arrest of a
man who is charged with trying to
bride the jury. The prisoner, G. J..
Byrne, was arraigned before United