Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-25
NEWS NUGGETS.
Death Of Wel|-knoWn n.
Y. Theatrical Manager,
Sons Of New England Give
1921 Annual Dinner.
Il T.. HlrAHAA c.ArSs
Iiams Of Inieres. Cleaned From
Here, There and Everywhere.


tl.;.; al tie books and PAYERS III cGn-
i..ctiun with the purchase % the lot
of l;,nd on Codn.ai4 street, dorchester.
:, I'D the contracts vita Mi;htr Hios. for
the ilaYgin, be collected and Ii.a,lt
ready for examination ~ ths' GIAnG
jury Til. liant WAS assessed AT 5000
valued al $6UA5 and sold 10 the yitE t"r
$;,,,1r. ;lrcn' d:n:; I" tsti',r'nN h'foi
tlI.. finance commission u short Tim"
age Til. tilIt.IIC. cuIl.illi.r,!"n also
charged that %l3,s33 worth o. tagging
ston" was sold To- t.!., city for $2I,C'9.
rh, 1921 annual dinner uf the New
England Society was given M"nday
v,nin" 1T the Waldorf Astoria in
New York, and was attended by 800
SorS Of New England. On account o:
illness, Governor Hughes, who WAS 10
have been the principal guest, was I'M
abba to be present. Ex-Governor Black
was aI4o unable TO attend on account
of death in the family. The dinner
was presided over hy Austin B.
Fletcher, president OF the society.
Among those 1T the presidents table
were Gov. Woodruff OF Connecticut,
Gov. Proctor of Vermont, Rev. DR..
Wilton Merle Smith. Stuart Wood
ford, j. pierpont Morgan, Maj. Gen.
Frederick D. Grant, L. S. A., and Recr
Admiral Casper F. Goodrich.
a statement showing the condition
Of the national banks Of the United
States at the close of busine IS Dec. 3,
has been made public by the comp
trolltr OF the currency. 1t shows that
the total loans and discounts Of the
banks aggregate $3.50. 3337 ,0iG, indi-
vidual deposits $4.176s73,7i?: cash re-
sources, $500. 1916: capital stock $780,
6Sl ,6S2; United States deposits s923,-
llI.0So The net balance Of Clearing
House certificates in the banks On the
date named was t64. 34i.l2&. rho per-
ccn;ase OF legal reserve to DEPOSITS is
2l."I per cent.
One man vas killed while trying to
save his sister, Il fireman was danger
ouSly injured and several other per-
sons seriously burned in 4 fire in a
fvc-atory tenement house At 81 East
10th street. New York. Monday The
FIRE is believed u have been o. inccn-
diary origin.
AlonZo Wygant. general superirten-
dent of the United States Express Co.
died Monday at Chicago.
A dispatch from Washington says
that General Grant, commanding the
department of the East at New York
has issued general order announc-
ing that the 24th Infantry, one of the
four negro regiments IN the regular
army. on its arrival il that military
department VIII take station as fol-
lows; The headquarters, band and LIST
and I'd Rattalions at Madison bar
racks, Sacket's Harbor. n. Y The lieu
tenant colonel and I'd Battalion AT Fort
Ontario. near Oswego, y. Y. The cath
Infantry will sail from Manila Feb.
% next for san Francisco, whencethey
will go to their stations in northern
New York
President Watson of the Fairmcnt
Coal Co, Fairmont, w. Va, received
telegram Monday from August Bel
mont asking that French mine ex-
perts be permitted to examine contli-
tionS in the Monongah mines. where
an explosion happened Dec. 6. The re-
quest was cheerfully granted. Joseph
A. Holland. chief OF the United States
Geological Survey. ana Prof. Lord.
chief chemist of the survey arc at
quest will begin Jan. :. The number
Of bodies now recovered Is S44
The supreme court of the United
States has denied the petition for
writs 70" certiorari bringing to that
court the case OF Benjamin D. Greene
and John +. Gaynor, who are under
sentence to pay n fine Of $575,149 and
TO undergo terms of imprisonment Of
four years each on the charges 9. en-
bezZlement and conspiracy in connec-
ton with Capt. Oberlin NJ. Carter to
deGraud the United States in connec-
ticn with the harbor improvements at
Savannah.
John Coughlin. aged Is, was killed in
an automobile accident on Washington
street. Newton. Mass. Monday night
and jeremiah Murphy of Brighton,
who was operating the machine, was
arrested on the charge OF manslaugh-
ter. Coughlin was driving a wagon and
his horse. it is said. SHE'D just as the
automobile came up. The heavy ma
chine crashed into the team, hurting
out Coughlin, who Gied on the way to
the hospital. A widow and six chill
dren survive. Murphy was released
on $500 bail
verdict Of not guilty was returned
by the jury at Washington Monday
night in the case of Engineer HilGer-
brand, Conductor Hoffnyer. Fireman
Mcclellan and Brakeman Rudder,' the
train crew. who were indicted for
slaughter following the train wreck at
Terracotta, d. c., on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad Dec. 80, 1906, in which
~ persons were killed and over three
score injured. The trial had been in
progress for three weeks and the yer-
diet was reached after four hours de-
liberati ton.
Horace Sedgwick Dodd. member Of
the cotton brokerage firm Of Nourse.
Dabney & Co. died at his home in the
Norfolk house, RoXbury, Mass, Mon
day. as the result of a few days ILL
ness following an operation for stom-
ach trouble. Mr.. DOdd was born in
Bangor. Me-. Dec. 13. 1889, but spent
about all his business life in Boston,
brother, Henry W. Dodd of the firm
nf iC1,. O.