Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-28
Founders Day Observed
at Harvard College.
-Four. Killed. IN Train Collision
10 Philadelphia.


Mayor Michael J. White DemD was
reelected for q second term as the ex-
ecutive head of Dover. n. H.. Tuesday.
The total vote cast. 26o6. was the
largest In the history of the city.
Mayor White received 1919 over his
Republican opponent, George E.
BartIett's 1877.
The currency problem and proposed
financial legislation were discussed
Tuesday night before the Original
Roosevelt Republican Club of st. Paul.
Mimi. by President A. B. Stickney Of
the Chicago Great Western Railroad,
Senator Moses T.. Clapp and Congress-
man Frederick c. Stevens. The prin-
cipal address was delivered by Presi-
dent Stickney
Declaring that his wife of three
months was faithless to him. David
Mack Tuesday at Lowell, Mass. it is
alleged. stabbed his wife probably IA
tally. Mack was arrested and held
awaiting the outcome of the woman's
wounds. Mrs. Mack was taken to the
st. Johns hospital, where her condition
is considered critical. The affair Oc-
CURED at the Mack house at A Cedar
street
Because his demands for money were
refused Adolf Gunkel of New York
Tuesday shot and killed Adolph Lob
man, an oil dealer, and then shot him
self at Lohman's home at Hackensack,
n. J. The men we're former business
partners quarrelied in LOhman's
kitchen and Gunkel seized Lehman by
the throat and fired four shots at him.
One bullet pierced the brain and
Lehman fell dead. Gunkcl then placed
the revolver against his head and fired.
He died instantly.
Deacon Charles T. Shutc of the Con-
gregationaI church of Cambridge,
Mass. dropped dead Tuesday night
while addressing a mass meeting of the
Y. p. S. G. f.. He was a native of Con-
cord, n H.. and served during the Civil
War in the I'd New Hampshire Regi-
ment.
Three trainmen were killed and Il
boy. who was stealing Il ride. was
perhaps fatally injured in rear end
collision between freight trains on the
Richmond Branch of the Philadelphia
& Reading Railroad in the northeastern
section of Philadelphia Tuesday. All
of the killed live in Allentown. Pa
The trainmen were in the cabOose of a
train from Allentown. which was
standing on curve when another
freight train. laden with lumber. which
they had neglected to flag, came down
upon it.
The strike of $50 union employees of
the Louisville Railway Co. at Louis
vile. KY, was called off Tuesday night
by a vote of the men. The men made
no conditions according themselves
beaten, but the officials of the company
announce that they would employ the
strikers who apply as individuals and
who have not been implicated in acts
of violence during the strike. The
strike lasted II days and was marked
by two serious collisions between large
crowds of sympathizers and the police.
The number of persons injured as a
result of these clashes is estimated at
30 and the number of arrests made to-
tails 100. The strike was caused by
friction over the Interpretation of an
agreement signed after the first strike.
which occurred last April
At a special meeting Tuesday Of the
New York State Knit Goods Manufac-
turers Association in Utica. n. Y.
which was attended by knit goods men
from Pennsylvania Massachusetts,. in
all representing Sc concerns. it was
decided that no cancellation of orders
will be cOuntcnanced. Buyers have
taken advantage of the financial Situa-
ton to cancel orders with a view ia
buying at a lower rate after Jan. I.
and manufacturers have decided to
allow none Of this. The rule that all
goods hereafter will he sold f. o. b. at
the mill station was likewise adopted.
Seven of the most notorious "Yegs-
men" in the country. each of whom
have served from one to Is years i'm
states prison in various sections of the
country under one or more of their
aliases. were captured by Chief
Inspector Watts and seven Of his de-
putty inspectors at Boston, Tuesday
night. after desperate fight in which
one innocent bystander was shot in tie
neck. Tho gang was spotted as they
came from dime theatre about mid
night
According to cable dispatch re-
ceived by the Christian Herald by
Secretary Peet. representing in Turkey
the American Board of Foreign Mis-
sions. famine prevails in Turkey on ac-
count of light harvests. Many people
will die unless relief is sent soon.
FOUNDERS day at Harvard was
observed Tuesday, commencing with
the gathering for college prayers in the
morning. The students were addressed
py frof. F. G. Peabody and DIR. Lyman
Abbott. and the observances were then
suspended until the evening. when the
meeting was presided over by Prof. f..
Z. Moore Of the Harvard Divinity