Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

All grades of refined sugar Were re-
dueed 10 cents per 100 pounds at New
York, Wednesday.
The Arkwright mills and Barnaby
Manufacturing Co at Fail River, Mass,
makers of cotton goods, have passed
their regular quarterly dividends. The
Arkwright mills have passed the divi-
dendS for seven consecutive quarters and
the Barnaby for two quarters.
William Ruedger of Methuen was held
in $500 bail by United States Commission
er Hayes at Boston, Wednesday, on Il
charge of passing counterfeit half dollars
in Lawrence, last week. Ruediger waived
examination and the ease will go before
the March term of the federal grand
jury.
The main steam pipe of the British
steamer Skipton Castle burst and killed
two of her crew on the voyage from Gal
weston, whence she sailed Jan. 6, fol-
Antwerp. She was spoken, on Jan. 20
and reported that she was proceeding t
Fayal in the Azores, after she had un
dergone temporary repairs.
Augustus L. Thorndike of Brewster
Mass, the defeated Democratic can
didate for state treasurer, at the No
vember election, was, Wednesday
nominated for bank commissioner by
Governor Foss. The commissionership
was made vacant through the resis-
nation of Arthur ID. Chaplin OF Hol-
yoke.
\ sentence of five Years in the fed
eral penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. was
imposed by Judge Martin in the
United States district court at Rut-
land VT, Wednesday, on George Ed
wards, convicted of robbing the post
office at Morgan, VT. Edwards, who is
also known as portland Fatty" is
said by the postal authorities to be a
burglar of national reputation.
Jacob Adams wealthy farmer liv-
ing three miles south of Haverstraw
n Y. became suddenly insane
Wednesday. After sprinkling his
clothes with kerosene he set himself
atire and ran across country nearly
two miles until he dropped dead
When found he was burned almost
beyond recognition.
A. S. Reninger. who WAS arrested
Monday, for sending threatening let
ters demanding money from George
NJ Reynolds president of the Cont
mental and Commercial National Bank,
Wednesday, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to five years in the Leav-
erworth penitentiary by Judge Lands
in the United States district court
at Chicago.
AS matter Of state pride, we
urge that Kansas men look to the
girls at home for wives instead OF
seeking women in foreign country
about the disposition, character and
temperament of whom they have nc
knowledge" This appeal appeared in
a Peabody, Kan, paper, which recent
Is printed a request for husbands
from a club of eligible young women
in Stockholm, Sweden. It was signed
by l. Peabody girls.
First of the Gloucester fishing fleet +
get clear of the ice in Bay of Islands
the schooner Constellation, which cam'
into port at Gloucester, Mass. Wednes.
day, with a cargo of frozen herring was
also the first of the feet to reach nome
The Constellation, in command of Capt
Jerry Cook, has been exactly one weef
on the passage. Other vessels of The
fleet that We're ice-bound at the Bay %
Islands and Bonnie Bay on the ives
coast of Newfoundland, are expected Il
come in at frequent intervals until al
of the schooners have returned. q
Champion. the third of the string OF
polo ponies, imported by John S
Phipps, of the Meadowbrook Polo
Club, was destroyed at Hampstead. n
Y, Wednesday, because of an attack
of rabies. The pony was Waited al
$1,000 and was brought from England
for the polo match between English
and American teams, last summer
Two weeks ago, rabies appeared In
the Phipps polo stables, after cui
had bitten Gay Boy, a $4,000 pony and
$4,000 brood mare. Both these ami
mails died within a few days.
The trial at Boston of William NJ Call
former employee of the New Havel
Railroad, on an Indictment for larceny
ended abruptly, Wednesday. by Calf
pleading guilty to another Indictment 10
conspiracy Five other employees hav'
pleaded guilty to the same charge, In
conspiracy being to pad the railroad
payrolls, by which thousands of dollar