Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Slow working snake venom was the
cause of the death at Hamburg III
Karl HaGenbcck, the animal collector
April IL according To the physiciaa
who attended him. lie was bitten
years ago and the venom eventually
affected his liver.
Opposition to the Democratic tariff
bin as it affects wheat and its pro
ducts Was voiced Friday, by mille$s
of western Minnesota and North Da-
kota at the annual meeting 1T Grand
Forks, \. H. Of the Spring Nheets
League The milers ask for a 10 pc
cent duty ON wheat and 10 per cene.
I'D Valorem duty on wheat products.
Snpt. :. l.. Hector OF the Pittsburs
public schools of Pittshurs, Pa, was.
Friday. declared not guilty of two Sc
rions charges preferred against him ~
Ethel |. Risher. domestic, employed
in his home, when jury returned 4
verdict in common pleas court on
one of the charges the jury dserrstl
that the county pay the costs.
NIlhjaImHr .itefaGsson, tic Arc -
explorer. Vii sal from London. .';tt
urdaV. from Southampton for NeA
York. where he Viii spend three weees
before starting, under the auspices %
the Canadian government ON his four
year expedition to the Arctic IN searoh
of IA new continent.
Ernest WEIGH. convicted Of compile
itv in the tarring of Minnie LaNalley
at West Glarksdeld Ohio last Ansusf.
Friday. was plroled from the Tolet''e
Ia had
10 DAYS of a months sentence. fae
state has practically decided /" a!"p
tic cases against hair 1 t!o"ea @th"t'
West ClarkSGeld men Indicted III cot
nection with the tarfins.
owners Of silk mills ut Paterson, \.
J.. whose employees are on strike ar
sending their silk abroad to be dyed
and will have it shipped back 10 rae
torie; in Pennsylvania to be woven, Il
was reported. Friday. Some 9ooeo
hounds are already ON the ocean, l
is said. to be distributed for dyeins IN
England, France. Germany and swift
zerland.
With ss.so7 600 in currency within
the First National Bank at kansa,
City. Mo. was unable 10 open iis
vaults, FRIDAY TIE time lock con-
bination. supposed 10 open autemati=
eally at 9 o'clock each morning, falt-
ed 10 work and efforts of all the vault
experts in the city were in vain. un-
less the vault Is opene. it viii BE- dN-
namited. Neighboring banks loaned
money To conduct Fridays business.
Rev. Fr. Robert Hughes, pastor OF
atb3iio. church hi Aftrff-f#
cured temporary restraining order
against the president OF the Mankatn
Mimi. school board to stop the read
ing of the Bible and other so-calied
religious exercises in the High school
Customs and usages of the ofthodo&
Evangelical churches, enter into the
exercises and the King James version
of the Bible, which is not accepted by
The Roman Catholic church Is read'
according to the complaint. The or
der issued by Judge Pfau is return
able on April 20.
Judge Mayer in the Federal district
court at New York, Friday, consented
to hear. on May Is, next, argument
on the demurrers interposed by the
American Tobacco Co. and the United
Cigar stores co. 10 the pin oi i"Nte =
put in by Otto :. Jonas for himself
and other retail tobacco dealers o.
New York. Jonas, in his petition,
asked for the setting aside OF the
circuit courts decree dissolvinS the
Tobacco Trust on the ground that II
was not in accordance with the man
date of the United States supreme
court.