Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-08
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Two battalions covering a detachment
| of engineers who were engaged in con.
strueting a redoubt at HONS, Tripoli
We're attacked, Sunday, by a large force
| of Arabs. After three hours of fierce and
continuous lighting the Arabs withdre "
with heavy losses The Italians had q
men wounded
Gov.-Gen. w. Cameron Forbes of
Manila denies that he has any inten-
| ton of offering his resignation. He
intends to visit the United States in
| March and will return to Manila, in
September,
The main building, boiler house and
storage house of the Industrial Cot
ton oil Co, with 10000 tons of seed
and other produce, burned at Hous-
ton, Tex, Saturday. The loss is esti-
mated to ne between $50o,O00 and
$3.50, 000 The plant employed $50 men
and was partly insured
The battleship Revenge broke from
+ her mornings at Portsmouth, Eng,
Sunday, and, owing to the exception
ally high tide, drifted onto the bows
of the super Dreadnought Orion. n
hole was stove in the starboard quar-
ter of the Revenge, but the Orion ap-
parantly was not damaged Both yes
| sells will be locked.
Actors and actresses paid a tribute
Sunday evening, to the genius of
| Charles Dickens, when at the Coli
scum they gave a performance of the
great noyelist's work in aid of fund
which is being raised for his grand
children. The presentation was made
! a ,I.xr nd t.ah
leaux portrayiug familiar scenes and
incidents from his books.
Gloomy feeling is prevalent in the
newspapers at Madrid, in regard to
the Frdnco-Spanish negotiations on
Morocco. Both the Manana and the
\. j. c. say they will be broken off
if France persists in her demand to
exercise protectorate over the whole
of Morocco. Spain insists ON domino
ton over southwestern Morocco.
The three-masted schooner j. Quill
Ian. loaded with dynamite, caught fire
at her dock at Norfolk, Va, Sunday,
and was partially destroyed. Despite
the dangerous character of her cargo.
tugs hurried to her assistance and
succeeded in extinguishing the flames.
| The crew, awakened by a Waterman,
escaped.
! II is understood that a compromise
will be arranged in a day or two be-
| tween the cotton mill owners and the
operatives at Manchester, Eng, who
& have been locked out The compromise
] provides that the Unionists' refusal
to work with non union operatives be
reliuquished for the present and n
truce be agreed upon for six months,
during which there shall be no strike
on the non-union question.
The first lord of the British admir-
atty. Winston Spencer Churchill has
made further important assignments
to those instituted in November last
when Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman
| Vice Admiral Prince Louis of Batten-
/ burg and Capt. William &. Pakenham
became first, second and fourth sea
lords respectively. An admiralty
memorandum issued, today, completes
the naval re- organization by the ere
alton of naval war staff of which
Rear Admiral Ernes Trowbridge. here
tefore private secretary of the first
lord of the admiralty becomes chief.
Arthur II. DeGoyler. formerly con-
nected with real estate and
loan company at Seymour, Ind,
who disappeared in 1909, and
whose assets paid his creditors
about cents on the dollar, has for
warded $4,000 to- pay his debts in full.
The money was brought to Seymour
Ind, Saturday, by Judge o. II. Mont
gomery, who refuses to tell where De
Goyer is or what he is doing. As the
money was paid the creditors signed
a petition, and all the cases against
DeGoyIer were dismissed in the cir
cult court.
on application of Charles Il. Hotch-
| kiss, representing the Knickerbocker
Trust co. Of New York. Congress
man John w Dwight and Robert Il.
Williams of Ithaca. Saturday. We're
appointed receivers for the ithaca
Street Railway Co. and the ithaca.
Auburn & Lansing Railroad by Su-
preile Court Justice George f. Lyon,
ut Binghamton, y Y. More than 81
100000 in bonds is involved, the securi-
ties being held by savings banks In
Maine, Rhode Island and New York
AID five individual bondholders resid-
ing in New York City. The receivers
took charge Saturday night.
Arthur Ocelaccrelli, who, Friday aft
ernoon, confessed TO a priest he was
wanter by the officials in Dunmore
Pa, for the murder of his uncle. Naz-
2oreno Desando, June IS, 1906, was ar
raiencd in the central district court
at Worcester Mass, Saturday morn
ing He pleaded not guilty and the
case was continued till Monday in or
der to give the authorities at Dun
more time to come and get him. Fred
erick Spellman was his counsel. The
defendant said he would not fight eX-
tradition, as he wanted to get the case
over with. His plea will be self-de-
fence. rs he claims his uncle was try
ing to assault him with an ak because
he would not pay some money he owed
his uncle when he shot him.
Asst United states Treas. Dotys
statement regarding the business OF
the sub-treasury in Boston for 1911
issued, Saturday, shows total receipts
of $225. s6,eol.4G. payments 1924, s42 122.
9G. cash in the vaults, Dec 81 $o2