Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Andrew Carnegie sailed Wednesday af-
ternoon from New York with Mrs. Carne
gle and their daughter on the Oceanic
to spend the summer at Skibo Castle,
Scotland.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men in session at Harrisburg. Pa
Wednesday decided on San Francisco
as the place for the next convention
to be held in 1913.
The bill annexing the town of. Hyde
Park to Boston was signed by Governor
Foss Wednesday and now goes TO the
people of the two municipalities for APP
prevail. If the measure is adopted the
town will add 1850 in population and
SIS, 900 in value to Boston.
An eventful career. As years of it
spent on the sea. was closed Wednes-
day at Worcester, Mass, in the death
CT Martin johnson, for half a cen
fury a member of Uncle Sans navy.
Johnson. who was SO years old. was
with Commodore Perry when he went
10 Japan in 1853 and saw stirring ser.
| vice afioat
Louis Won Publ of st. Louis. the
well-known aeronaut, was shot three
times and probably fatally injured. a
| man named Copeland was shot once
and another man named Atkinson. was
shot once Wednesday night by H. n.
Henwood. a travelling salesman, from
New York City as result of a quar-
rel in a hotel at Denver, Col. Henwood
was arrested.
e. ]. Macdonald. an attorney. late
"a ad. CHI I,
Mrs. Gertrude Macdonald. in his of
fee in the Colorado building. Wash
| ington. d. C. The couple had been
| separated for six months, the wife
living in New York City. Three days
ago she came back to effect a recon
Citation and Wednesday afternoon
went to her husbands office They
quarreled over money matters. it is
said
Henry j. Duveen of the firm of Du-
veen Brothers. International are deal
ers, New York, was fined $4,000, the
| maximum fine Wednesday in The Unit
ed States circuit court. He pleaded
guilty Tuesday to under-valuations of
imports. and his firm has already paid
| 81 900 TO the government in settle
| ment of further civil suits. Sentence
on Benjamin J. Duveen, who also
| pleaded guilty Tuesday, was deferred.
The district attorney urged Jail
term.
Lightning struck twice in the same
place at Hampstead, L. l., Wednesday,
killing one man and nearly killing an
other. The bolts fell during a short,
sharp electrical storm, among six car
penters working on the roof of new
building. The first struck William Whit
| ing and rolled him, stunned, to the caves
| His fellow workmen had just saved him
from falling when the second bolt struck
the roof. 1t hit George w. Collins
squarely on the head. killing him instant
ly and tearing off all his clothes. Collins
| body shot % feet into the air and fell
TO the ground.
Reciprocity is likely to play a leading
part in the deliberations of the National
Lumber Manufacturers Association
which Wednesday opened a two-days
session in Chicago. Leonard Bronson
manager of the association, will report
on conditions i'll Washington as he found
| them on a recent trip to the capital in be
| half of the association. and resolutions
embodying the stand of the lumber inter
ests on the question will then be adopted
Some of the lumbermen profess indiffer.
ence on the question of reciprocity but
| others are said to be strongly opposed
| to it, Manager Bronson will report te
| the association that the United States
| Senate is almost evenly divided on the
subject.