Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-25
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES,


yachts Thursday off Quincy. Mass, and
| thus retained the cup for the Quincy
Yacht Club ior another year. The Ell
| len of the Boston Yacht Club was second
y resolution commencing DR.. Wiley
| for his work in connection with the
pure food and drug laws, was adopted
Thursday at Pottsville, Pa, by the
state convention of the Patriotic Or
der Of Sons of America.
The maximum terms which France
| Will offer to Germany for the settle
ment of the Moroccan dispute will be
submitted Friday to the full French
cabinet for approval. Meantime they
are held in complete secrecy.
| The Anchor Line steamer Furnessia.
which has been overdue at New York
for several days, arrived Thursday
Iafternoon from Glasgow and Neville
land reported that on Aug. II a flaw
was discovered in the main shaft.
/ The battleships Missouri, Mississippi
and Maine from Philadelphia passed
in the Virginia Capes early Thursday
/ and later dropped anchor with other
vessels of the Atlantic fleet preparatory
/ tn the elaborate war game maneuVres
| soon TO begin off the coast.
abandoned as a complete wreck the
| Thomaston, Me-, schooner Willie f..
Child which recently went ashore On
/ the dangerous Hatteras coast at Gull
Shoals, has been stripped and sold on
| the beach. She can never be fioated
She struck while bound from New
York 10 Jacksonville. Fla. to load
lumber for Boston.
Five hignwaymen early Thursday
| robbed II. /. Stedman of Buffalo:
Charles Schriver of Cleveland and Ben
Gotleib and Joseph Maethawk of Erie.
Pa. in the yards of the Lake Shore e
Michigan Southern at Erie. Stedman
ATTEMPTED TO run and was seriously
wounded. The highwaymen. after
taking all the money their victims mad.
compelled them to exchange clothing
with them.
Official practice Thursday for the
automobile races at Elgin, H. Friday
and Saturday. developed one minor az
cident. wheh II. w. Ogren. driving a
Colby ear. was thrown into a ditch
when his machine threw a wheel.
l.
in any automobile race meeting, driv-
ers were subjected 10 examination by
physicians as to their physical fitness
to enter into the gruelling tests.
The barge Albatross of Midland.
Captain Deane, foundered in Georgian
bay. off French River, ontario Monday
night, according to word brought to
Bying Inlet. Ont, Thursday by sur
vivors and it is practically certain that
the tug c. C. Martin of Midland. Capt.
Vent, which had the barge in tow. was
dragged down with her. The tug car
ried besides the captain and his wife
a crew of eight. Seven persons from
the barge reached Bying Inlet Thurs
day Nothing has been heard of the
tug.
The new comet recently discovered
by Prof. William r. Brooks. director
of the observatory and professor of
astronomy at Hobart College and
named by him the Brooks comet, has
become so bright as to be seen with
opera glasses or q small telescope and
will soon be visible to the naked eye.
The comet is now in constellation
Cygnus about three degrees north of
Alpha, the top star in the Northern
cross, directly overhead in the early
evening.
ST. Paul society is in a nutter OYER
the marriage Thursday of Richard Ed
ward Blacque Bey, first secretary OF
the Turkish embassy at Berlin ana
Miss Josephine Kalman, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Kalman OF st
Paul Over a thousand invitations We're
issued for the ceremony, performed in
the Sacristy of the cathedral by Blsh-
Oh Lawlor of st. Paul. The brides-
maids were Miss Cecilia Kalman, SIS
ter of the bride, and Miss Kathleen
Beresford daughter of Admiral Lord
Beresford of England.
James Calhoun, a St. Lawrence river
guide living on the main shore neal
Round Island, n. Y, is beheVsd 10
have persisted in the fire Which de-
strcyed the Hotel Frontenac Wedhes-
day night. He was last seen entering
the burning building and mas peen
missing since. The main buildings ana
mems lormitory were destroyed. Al
though the annex caught fire 1t was
saved Many of the 200 guests lost some
of their clothes and most OF the ser
wants are left destitute. Manager Red
DIV OF the Round Island Co. which
owns the property, Thursday estimated
the damage, including furnishings, at
$3.50. 600. The insurance is said to be
about $201, 600
Following an alteration on an inter
urban car near Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio,
wednesday night, Pitchers Fred Blan-
ding. Eugene Knapp, William Mitchell
and "Crum'' Kaler Of the Cleveland
American League club We're taken into
custody by Ralph Williams, constable
of cuyahoga Falls. and held until
Thursday morning, when they were re-
leased on advice of Prosecutor Frank
Rockwell Of Akron. Nat Hayes, an ac-
tor of Akron. who is said to have occu-
pied two seats with his feet and bag
gage and is alleged to have been struck
by Pitcher Blanding when he objected
to the players taking forcible posses !
sion of the seats, caused the constable
to take charge of them. Thursday,
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