Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-09

the private sanitarium at New York,
where lie has been for some time and
visited the manufacturing plant. His
return was made the occasion OF a well
coming demonstration by the employees.
A sheriifs jury Thursday night d.
clared Mr.. Hammond sane.
The Republican city committee OF
Boston spent H2,94L51 in the state cam
raign III Boston, according to the state
ment Of Treasurer Guy Murchie, which
was filed at the city clerks office FRI
day. The receipts were $1S.174 of which
the Republican state committee con-
tributed S121j and Gov. Curtis Guild
$500
= citizens committee is about 10 take
steps to prevent the Natural carbonic
Gas Co. from further operation about
Saratoga, n. r. 1t is claimed that I'M
less these companies are prevented
from pumping the gas out Of the Min
eral water veins at their plants south
Of the city. the springs which have
made the city famous will be ruined.
1t is expected that the companies will
make fight and that the matter Will
be taken into the courts.
Governmental regulations Of rail-
roads rather than state regulation and
more prevention and less cure, are
among the things the Western Fruit
Jobbers' Association believes are ur-
gently needed in the transportation
world. This became apparent Thursday
when the transportation committee
presented its report to the annual con-
vention. The report was referred to the
resolutions committee with view to
preparing resolutions on the subject.
Grover Cleveland presided at the an
nual meeting of the Association of Life
Insurance Presidents, which was held
Friday at New York. The Presidents of
% insurance companies who are not
members of the association were pres
ent when the informal session was call
ed 10 order at II O'Clock and it was said
that all would be admitted to member
ship in the organization. Several state
commissioners OF Insurance attended
the meeting including TardisOn Of Mas
SachuscttS.
Right Rev. Monsignor Coffey Of Car
bondale, arbitrator in the settlement
Of The silk strike which caused idleness
during the summer months for 5000
operatives in the mills of I.ackawanna
valley, passed his award Friday giving
the employees 4 shorter working day,
as we'll as n slight increase in wages.
He awarded q 55-hour week, decides
against the closed shop and grants a
per cent. increase TO all employees in
the weaving mills and 1919 to Is per
cent. to employees in the ThrOWster
plant.
The New York district attorneys Of
flee Friday took cogniZance of the
somewhat complicated affairs of the
Irovdent Savings Life Assurance Soci-
ETY. at the request of counsel for the
Philadelphia Syndicate, which con-
trac: ed To purchase z controlling inter-
est in the society from L. f. and o. F.
Thomas. After examining E. f. and Q.
+. Thomas Friday the district attorney
summoned and examined seven direc-
tors Of the society who had come 70 at
tend a meeting Of the board.
=. ". Swanson shot and killed his
former vile and her husband and then
committed suicide near Smithville
Tex. Thursday night. Following her
Girorcc from Swanson. the woman
maj ried J. Jacob First. a farmer. With
her husband, she was in Smithville on
a shopping trip and they were return
ing To their home when they met Swan
son. The couple not needing his COM
mani 10 stop, Swanson opened fire.
killing the woman and then First
Turning the weapon on himself. he in
fictad 1t fatal wound.
Five men whom the police believed
have been concerned in number of
recent highway robberies We're taken
into custody Friday at Boston and two
OF them made 4 stout resistance. The
two men who fought We're unprecedented
in the subway after the officers had
seen them in consultation with a man
Who subsequently reported that he had |
beer robbed. They We're both colored |
and gave their names as Price Douglas |
and James Givans. Two officers who |
made the arrest were obliged to call |
for assistance in order to subdue their |
prisoners.
A dispatch from Baku, Russian Siberia |
says a new oil @usher has heen opened a |
Surakhant, ~ miles from that city. This
indicates an important eXtention of the
Bak;i oil industry. The new well gives
1C.CG barrels 4 day. 1t is on the site of
an ancient temrlc dedicated at one time
to cult of fire worshippers, and it is
row learned that the eternal flames
thGt burned at the altar~of the temple
were maintained by natural gas issuing
from the ground. Biologists say this
discovery opens up a possibility of tap
ping an oil strata in region A. times
larger than the present one The new
strata includes part Of the bed or tn
Caspian sea and takes in the so-called
sacred isle" where Zoroas ter, who flour
ished about 400 years before Christ. |
preached the fire cult.
The Princeton debating team Friday |
night defeated Yale. the subject being !
The Employers Liability Act Prince
ton defended the negative of the question:
Resolved. that laws should b. enacted
providing that in case of personal injury
to workman arising out of and in the
course of employment. his employer shall
be liable for adequate compensation and
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