Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Ho, Eng, Wednesday, by A. V. Ham
bro, up and to play
The new German battleship Olden-
burg. in speed test, Wednesday
made % Is knots. The Oldenburg was
launched, June 80. 10, and has dis
placement of % GOO tons.
Drobert McGregor was found guilty
of murder in the first degree for the
poisoning of Scyril Spartins, late
Wednesday night, at Bad Axe, Mich.
The jury was out several hours
Brig. Gen. Aauile Wiley, SO, Civil
War veteran and attorney, died,
Wednesday, at Wooster, Ohio. He was
defeated in a race for Congress
against the late President William
Mckinley in 1877.
The steamer Algerine, which was
sent out by the White Star Line to
search for bodies of Titanic victims.
reported to Cape Race. Wednesday,
that she had found no bodies and seen
no signs of wreckage. She was order
ed to abandon the search and return
to this port.
Captain Road Amundsen, the discov-
erer of the South pole, delivered his first
Ayres on his explorations. lie was en-
Enthusiastically greeted by a representative
audience, and gave graphic recital of
his experiences in the ice fields.
Ten of the passengers of the trains
stalled by the great SHOWS left Inca, Fri
day, to make their way to Valparaiso.
Eight of them arrived there, Wednesday,
in pitiable condition. Two Italians were
overcome and persisted. The survivors
tell of frightful hardships. There were
no Americans among the passengers.
A strike for an S-hour day in print
ing ,,ress facories of Plainfeld, Dunel-
len and Carlitadt, n. j., began,
Wednesday,. All the machinists in the
Plainheld shops struck and it is esti-
mated that $50 men III all are out. The
strikers were orderly.
Improvement in the condition of
Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of
Connaught, was shown throughout
Wednesday at Montreal and towards
evening the alarming symptoms of the
previous day had so much abated that
il is now hoped her complete recovery
will follow within a short time.
The delegates of a score or more OF
countries to the 18th International
Congress of Navigation recently held
at Philadelphia We're entertained,
Wednesday night. by the Boston
Chamber of Commerce at the Algon-
uuin Club. Boston. Representatives. OF
the state. city and chamber poined in
extending the hospitality of the city to
the visitors. The early part of the day
had been passed in inspecting the
Cape Cod canal.
Three alarms of fire, Wednesday,
called a large part of Brooklyn's fire
apparatus to Coney Island, where
flames spread rapidly through row
of small amusement places on the
boardwalk between Ocean Parkway
and Brighton Beach. For time the
safety of the Brighton Beach hotel
and the parkway baths was threaten
ed, but the fire was soon under con-
troll The damage will probably reach
5000.
John L. PapaolIi, II years old. Of
Meriden, CT, VINO pleaded guilty, last
week, to a charge of bringing two
girls from Meriden to Springfield.
Mass. for immoral purposes, was sem
fenced. Wednesday, at Boston. to four
years at Atlanta. Judge Dodge of the
United States district court, who
imposed the sentence. said that Papa
oils youth saved him from more Sc
we're punishment.
The trial of Griffin Halstead. son of the
late Mural Halstead, and former bro
ker, charged by Hubert l. Kiinepeter. a
chauffeur for Mrs. Mark Hanna, with
the embezzlement or larceny of a $4,000
stock certificate, came to a sudden end
Wednesday. in the District of Columbia
supreme court. when Justice Barnard
ordered the jury to bring in a verdict of
not guilty. 1t was claimed Klinepeter
lost the money in "a regular brokerage
transaction.
At least six persons were shot and
many others wounded by missiles in a
street battle at Newark n. j.. Wednes-
day, between $50 striking laborers and
the police. Five strikers. policeman
and a citizen are at the City hospital,
most of them suffering from gunshot
wounds Albert Faulkes, a boy, who
was struck by a stray bullet while on
his way to school. died of his wound.
Wednesday afternoon. One of the 9TH
ers taken to the City hospital was a we
man who is believed to have participated
in the rioting. She was shot in the back
and will probably recover
The national government filed a
civil antitrust suit in the Federal
district court at New York, Wednes-
day, iagainst steamship interests al
legged to have monopolized the trans
portation of passengers and freight
between the United States and Brazil.
Sweeping charges of granting re-
bates, fixing arbitrary and unreason-
able rates and entering into conspir-
acles, combinations and agreements in
violation Of the Sherman law are
made against the Prince Line, limited,
the Hamburg Lines and the proprie-
tors of the Lamport and Holt Line.
More than 100 of the worlds best
known port engineers and harbor de-
velopment experts arrived at Boston,
Wednesday afternoon, on one of the
trips connected with the twelfth in
tcrnational congress of navigation,
held in Philadelphia They were en-
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