Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-16

tribution was taken up netting $l50o
The new church is one of the most
beautiful structures in the city, being a
replica the ByZante style OF church
architecture.
Calvin Demarest of Chicago Satur-
day night at Chicago broke the world s
amateur record for the high run In the
oIen game of the national amateur
l42 billiard tournament at the chicago
Athletic Club, making 16S in his nth
inning. Demarest won the game, de-
| feating Clarence Jackson of Chicago
| by a score of 400 to 165. Demarests av-
erage was u 1-19; and Jacksons aver
| age was 3 3-19.
| Another chapter in the romance of
Harold Ashley and Miss Frances c.
Douglass, who were secretly married at
Providence last Saturday, was enacted
Saturday at Middleboro when Mrs.
| Alice j. Ashley, mother of the groom,
| found that her son was married With
| Out telling her about it. She made her
| way to the office of a local paper and
inserted a notice stating that her son
| Harold had left his home and that she
would take none of his wages and pay
| none of his hills.
| Mark y. Hanna, son of Dan Hanna,
| whose marital escapades Guido even
those of the famous Tony Weller OF
Dickens novel, and grandson of the
| late Senator Marcus A. Hanna, ClOped
Saturday from Bridgeport. CT, with Il
young woman engaged to and within
few days of becoming the bride of
another. Hanna is freshman in the
! Sheffield Scientific school connected
with Yale University. The now Mrs.
Mark a. Hanna was Miss Adele Pratt
of Elmira, n. Y, daughter IF Mrs.
Agnes Murdoch Pratt.
Is the insurance tax imposed in New
Hampshire unconstitutional? This is
question raised at a hearing of the
State Tax Commission, and is not I'M
likely to lead to litigation. The Hon.
Samuel c. Eastman of Concord be-
| lieves it is. Atty. r. l.. Cox of New
! York, who represented the association
of presidents of IS life insurance COM
| panies said the companies had not
| been disposed to raise the constitution
al question. because they felt the eX-
| listing rate is reasonable and they We're
willing to bear fair share of the pub
| lie burden.
Acting under orders from Director
of Public Safety Clay, the Philadelphia
police Sunday night aroused the Social
lists and their followers by stopping a
number of meetings scheduled to take
place in various sections of the city
One meeting an anniversary gathering,
to commemorate the death of Karl
Marx, the Socialist leader, was to have
been addressed by Carl N. Zomatkin.
Another was Zionist meeting at
which Dr. Charles Worstman of New
York former professor in Heidelburg
University, was to have talked on the
return of the Jews to Palestine
jeremiah F.. Curry of the Soldiers
Home at Tilton, n. H., disputes the as
sertion that Maj. Davis, who recently
died in Nashua was the last survivor
of the Mexican war in New Hampshire.
He is 80 years old. Jeremiah +. Curry
was born in Holderness. He enlisted
for the Mexican war April II, 1S47, and
was discharged oct. Is, 1S4S. He serv
ed in Company ID, 9th United States
Infantry, under the command of Presi-
dent Franklin Pierce. He enlisted in
Company +, 9TH New Hampshire Vol
unteers, in the Civil War, Oct. II, 1861,
and was discharged Dec. 80. 1864.
Sy the overturning Of Il row boat OFF
Lordship park near Stratford, CT, by
q sudden squat Sunday afternoon
Peter and Wilfred LaCroix, father and
son, aged so and 16 respectively, and
Henry w. Ellison, also about 50, of
Bridgeport, We're drowned Their bodies
We're washed ashore where they were
found several hours aftrward. Ellison
ami I.aCoix both leave families. Just
how the fatality occurred will probably
never be known. 1t is believed that
the men caught in the squall We're
thrown into the sound by the capszing
| of the boat and beaten from their
holds on the upturned craft by the
rough sea.
Eight persons were killed, one was
severely injured and property valued
| at many thousands of dollars was
wrecked Saturday by an explosion of
gas in the basement of five-story
| building occupied by the Natchez Drug
| Co., near the business quarter of
| NatcheZ, Miss. The dead: Cleve Lau-
| bat, Mrs ketteringham, Miss Luella
| Booth, Lizzie Worthy, Carrie Murray,
IneZ Netterville, Ada White Elias
| Hotchkiss, q carpenter, ran from the
building and fell, breaking his neck
John Carkett. II years old, suffered
| fractures of both legs and is not ex-
| pected to live. The explosion wrecked
the building.
| Crushed beneath two tors of sand II.
|