Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Second National Bank Of Clarion,
Pa. was closed Friday. by order of
the Comptroller of currency
a courtmartial sitting at Fee, Moroc-
co, Friday. condemned nine Moors to
death for participation in the massacre
in taat city in the middle of April.
| Wilbur Wright. the noted aeroplane
! inventor. is suffering from typhoid fe-
yer at his home, Dayton, Ohio. Attend
ing physicians state that his Illness
has not up to this time assumed an
Iacnte form.
I'i.e property Of the Rhode Island
Coal Co.. was sold to Robert G. Hay
of Boston for $4,000 at receivers
sale at Portsmouth. II. L. Friday. on
! ~ one bid was made. Mir Hay said
that ne was acting for Charles c!
| Marvel Of Boston and added that tile
new company. which is now being orr
| gained viii be capitalized at ss00.o 900.
| Premier Giovanni GioIlitti. amid the
cheers of the members announced in
1.-THE Italian Chamber. Friday. that Gen.
Amigiio had surrounded and defeated
| the garrison of the Turkish island of
Rhodes which had surrendered, Friday
lmorning. and had been accorded MILF
tary h6nors.
| The Senate finance committee, Fri
lday. authorized a favorable report on
| the Lodge substitute for the House
free sugar bill and an unfavorable re-
Iport on the so-calied House exeise-fn-
come tax bill which proposed a tax
ION incomes in excess of 5000 year.
| The Lodge sugar bill would eliminate
the differential and Dutch standard
from the tariff and leave the duties
Iotherwise practically as present.
| The Massachusetts legislative COM
/ mittee ON railroads, Friday, voted
| unanimously TO report favorably the
| southern New England Railway bin,
authorizing that subsidiary of the
| Grand Trunk to extend its lines to
| Boston. The committee viii submit its
| report in the House, Monday. Under
| the tennis of the bill as reported. the
railroad must file its plans within one
| YEAR, commence work within one year
| after That and complete the extension
within three years from the time work
| is begun.
Mrs Hannah Saunders. - years of
| age, was dying in the Fropdham hos
1 b'N"it -NNN iot ", 1EOll eX-
posture. the result of sitting for two
days on the sidewalk beside her
meagre household furniture in front
of Third avenue tenement from
which she was dispossessed. on Tues
day. No one paid any attention to
the woman's plight until, Thursday
night, when a neighbor offered to pay
for the storage of the furniture il she
lxaHf ont IL
The proposed amendment to the con-
stitution providing for direct election of
senators will be mailed to the governors
of the states by Secretary Knox with a
| letter addressed to each governor certi.
flying that it has been duly adopted by
two-thirds vote of each branch of Con-
gress. AS all the Legislatures are not
now in session and some meet only BIZ
annually, it seems reasonable to suppose
that at least two or three years must
elapse before the amendment can be act
ed upon by sufficient number of the as
| semblies to indicate whether it can com
mand the necessary three-fourths vote
to put it into the constitution
When hearing of charges against
Judge r. w. Archibald of the COM
merce court was resumed, Friday by
the House judiciary committee. Rich
ard Bradley, a Scranton coal operator.
testified that W. r. Boland, who made
the charges against Judge Archibald,
had told him that he thought the
Katydid culm dump was "a good pro-
position and worth $4,000 Boland
lalso first suggested to Bradley that he
took over the dump with a view TO |
negotiating for its purchase from Will
liams and Archibald, who then had the |
option on the property. Bradley said |
that James r. Dainty had contracted |
to sell the dump for $4,000 if Bradley |
could get 1t for $4,000
Ordering a verdict of not guilty,
Judge Chase in the superior court, at |
Boston took the case of George e. |
Ferris, charged with perjury, from the |
Jury, Friday. Judge Chase said that |
there was no evidence to warrant the |
charge that Ferris. who was formerly |
an officer at the Lowell jail, swore |
falsely before the Middlesex county
grand jury, that Harry f. Shaw. keep
Ter of the Lowell jail, and members of |
his family used tickets on the Boston
& Maine Railroad that were bought |
By Shaw on account of the county. |
Shaw is dead and his widow and
daughters have denied that they had
used tickets paid for by the county.