Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Myfon #. Thomas, aged 80. for years
yrominent il the shoe industry, died
Sunday. at his home. $40 Summer
street Rrockton, Mass, following am
| illness OF about a year.
Further labor troubles occurred nj lie
Norfolk, Va, navy yard, Monday. oW-
ing to tue so-ealied card system. struc-
tural iron workers and others. 20 men m
all, walked out The men appointed a
| committee to carry the question to WASH
ington
The annual prize of 500 Of the Lake
Mohonk conference on International
feaee for the best essay on "InHrna-
tional Arbitration" has been aNEirded
TO John X. Starweather of Denver. a
student at Brown University. The
prize WAS donated by Chester d. Pags.
leH Of Peekskill, n. Y
NNe persons. including three wo-
men and two children, were killed and
% persons were injured when the first
section of the Van Candt Confederate
Veterans Special of II cars, EN- route
from Texas to the annual reunion at
Macon. Ga, was wrecked. Monday
morning on trcstle mile out of
Eastabuschie. Miss, on the New Or
leans and Northeastern Railroad
Inspectors Kane and Burexes of the
Lynn, Mass, police force left Stockton.
Cal, Monday night, with William A
Dorr, charged with having murdered
George E. Marsh, the millionaire soau
manufacturer, at Lynn, April H. The
prisoner has been confined to his bed
since the hearing of habeas corpus pro-
ceedings, when he had 10 be carried into
court
The directors of the Canadian Pacific
Railway Co. Monday, at Montreal, de-
clared dividend of q per cent on the
common stock for the quarter ended
March 81 This is at the rate of 7 per
cent per annum from revenue and pc,
cent, per annum for interest on the pro-
ceeds of land sales and other extranious
assets. The dividend was declared pay
able, June 20, to shareholders of record
on June l.
Edward W. Bradford, 70, one Of the
oldest telegraph operators in the couu-
try. and for 81 years in the employ of
the Western t'nion Telegraph Co. died
at the City hospital in Worcester
Mass, today. Mr.. Bradford had not
been able TO work for several months
and up to the time of his illness was
regarded as ono of the most proficient
operators in the Western Union service
Mr.. Bradford received the first Civil
War news telegraphed to Worcester
lie lived i'll that city many years.
The first Roman Catholic church at
Troy, VT, was consecrated with inn
lpressive services. sunday, the cere-
Imoniess being conducted by Bishop j.
| j. Rice of Burlington. The Rev. jos
lseph Lavigne of st. lgnatius church.
Lowell, through whose efforts the new
tchurch was erected, also had a promi-
tHent part in the exercises. The build
ling. which is arranged TO accommo-
Idate 200 worshippers, was erected al
Ia cost of $500 and for the present
1.-THE pulpit will be supplied by FIR
I.avigne. There are about 50 Catholic
| families who have been obliged to &c
| to Lowell or Newport, the former
leight miles away and the latter ~
Ito attend church services.
In spite af the protests of the Amer.
lean and Greek consuls, the captain oi
the steamship Texas, which was blowr
| up few days ago in the Gulf of Smyr-
| ne, vas forcibly removed from the
Greek hospital to a Turkish prison in
Urinary. Sunday. The Turks accuse
| him OF spying in Italy's behalf The
American has notified the embassy al
Constantinople and it is said that the
| first secretary of the embassy and The
| captain of an American guardshiI
have been sent to smyrna. A larg,
lndmber of the passengers and crew
were drowned when the Texas sank
An inquiry into the disaster shovel
that the Turkish forts had fired {
lnumber of solid shots at the steamer
one OF which is supposed either I,
| have exploded mine or the vessel:
boilers.
| Fire of unknown origin at New York
early Sunday, destroyed two steamboats,
the Mohawk and the Jroauois. and badl,
| damaged two tugboats in Staten islam,
Sound. The steamboats, We're locked a
Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, AM