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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-13

that his s'club was mightier than the
constitution" The letter petitions the
President TO deal with the Constitution
violator as BELTS his contempt for the
federal laws"
That the present session of Congress
will adjourn on or about Saturday, May
9 was the prediction Sunday of Rep
James H. Watson, Republican whip"
Of the House. Mr.. Watson bases this
prediction upon information he has
gathered as the result of careful survey
of the situation in the two houses of
Congress.
The President Saturday talked for some
time with Senator William j. Meserole
| of New York, member Of the Ethical
Social League, about means of caring for
the unemployed in the United States. Mr..
| MeseroIe favors the appointment of a
federal commission to study the ques-
ton, and, after getting his views. the
President asked him to place them in
writing for his inspection. Mr.. Meserole
said he came to Washington on his own
responsibility and not as a representative
of the Ethical-Social League or any other
organization.
Secretary Root and Ambassador Bryce
SATURDAY. signed two treaties negotiated
recently between the United States and
Great Britain. One provides for a COM
mission to determine the boundary be-
taween the United States fand Canada
and the other regulates fishing in the
Great Lakes and contiguous streams.
The boundary commission will be charg-
| ed with the work of reSurveying certain
sections Of the boundary line and deter
mine disputed questions in that connec-
ton. 1t is understood that the fishery
question also is placed in the hands OF
a commission by the terms of the treaty
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TO ABOLISH NAVY YARDS.
Lilley Says They Are Too Expensive
and Wants Six Done Away With.

Washington, April 1.-THE investiga-
ton of the navy yards at Charleston.
Port Royal, Mare Island. Portsmouth,
N. H., New Orleans and Key West by
a commission appointed by the Presi-
dent. with view to their abandon
ment, was urged by Representative
Lilley of Connecticut before the House
Saturday.
The Mare Island yard, he said, has
cost the people $17.O0O,O00. 1t has a
magnificent stone dry dock, which cost
$1.175,000, "but the secretary of the
navy states that this dry dock will
not permit the docking of battleships.
And not only is this true. but a battle
ship cannot get to the yard"
"Key West is place." said Mr..
Lilley, that has cost us $1,32s,O2S. 1t
is six miles to the straits, and the low
water depth in it's channel is 26 feet
and $101,oOO has been spent there for
dredging. At this yard in the fiscal
year ending in 1907, $94,31S was ex-
pended for labor and the value Of the
total product was but SIPS.
Portsmouth, N. H., or Kittery, Me-,
is plant that has cost us over $780,,
100000" he continued. and said that last
summer when he visited the Ports
mouth navy. yard, aboard the Dolphin,
the captain told him it was not safe to
take even SO small craft as the Dol
phin up to the yard, because of the
dangers of the swift current and mar
row channel The expensive dock has
never locked a first -class battleShip.
Concerning the navy yard at New
Orleans, Mr.. Lilley said that in 1907
s7S,274 was spent by the government
for labor and the total priduct was
$1O46.
Charleston, he said, has but Is feet
Of water in it's channel, yet Congress
has appropriated $1,19S,9S4 to build
there magnificent dry dock. mot
only is the channel too shallow, but
there is no berthing room for vessels,
and no ship of any description has
ever been locked there. The naval
station at Port Royal" continued Mr..
Lilley, was removed to Charleston IN
1sO0-19O3. but as late as 1907 s14,724 was
spent there for labor"
Mr. Lilley criticised Congress for not
establishing a naval training station
at Annapolis and moving the academy
10 miles below Annapolis, thus saving
the $1O,000,000 that is going to the
great lakes. Annapolis, he said, foa
which Congress has seen fit to appro-
pirate sums that will reach total of
100000, is sunk in the mud.
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HARRIMAN's NEW LINES.
He Has At Last Completed His Trans
Continental System.

Birmingham, Ala, April 12.-The Of
fetal announcement by the Illinois
Central that the new Birmingham di-
vision would be opened for traffic
April 10, calls attention to the COM
pletion of the last link in the great
Hartman trans continental road for
by controlling the Union Pacific, Illi-
nois Central and Central of Georgia,
this system will extend from the Pa
cific to the Atlantic. In addition to
supplying The last link in this chain,
the opening of the Haleyville branch
will give the Illinois Central an inlet
to the great coal and iron fields of
Alabama with their immense annual
tonnage.
The entrance of the Illinois Central
has been accomplished by coaling
traffic arrangements and by the build
ing of an entire new line from Corinth,
Miss, to Haleyville, distance of 80
miles,
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FINANCIAL REVIEW.
Securities and Prices Went Up, But
Progress Was Very Slow. .

New York, April 12.-Developmcnts
last week were in favor of values of
securities and prices responded, but in
sluggish and irregular fashion great
interest .centered in the working out
of the Erie financial settlement.
Z. H. Harriman's advance of funds
to the Erie was most interesting in
the light of his far-reaching interest
in the railroad system Of the who're
country.
The publication of the April first
condition of the winter wheat and rye
crops by the department of agricul-
tural was markedly reassuring, owing
to the high percentage of condition
reported for the winter wheat crop
and the large crop indicated in basis
of that condition. The years crop
yields are looked upon as a vital ele-
ment in the improvement of the de-
preston into which business has been
thrown and the course of the growth
and the harvest will be followed close
ly by the speculative markets through
out it's period
No marked influence was perceptible
in the securities market from the side
of business and traffic advices. Re-
ports of railroad officials were mod
erately hopeful in tone. but they had
little actual increase of traffic to re-
port and returns of earnings still show
heavy reductions from the correspond
ing periods of a year ago as well as
for several years preceding.
The investment situation shows
some signs of improvement. Money
continues easy.
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NEW CRUISER LAUNCHED.
High Admiralty Officials Of Germany
See the BIuecher Go Overheard.

Kiel, Germany, April 12.-The armored
cruiser Bluecher was launched Saturday
in the presence of Prince Henry Of Prus-
STA and many high officials of the ad-
miralty. Gen. Baron Won der Koenigs-
berg delivered an address. Countess
Bluecher christened the warship, which
took the waters amid loud applause and
to the strains of the German national
hymn. '.-
Virtually a battleship in all except
name. this latest addition to the armored
cruisers of the Germany navy, launched
from the stocks Of the Imperial Navy
Yard, is built entirely Of steel. with a
displacement of 5000 TONS This IS a
considerable difference from the dimen.
sions of the Scharnhorst, which displaces
only 1l,6O0 tons, hitherto the largest Ger.
man aFmcred cruiser.
The estimated cost of construction to-
tails s6.915OoO, of which $4,625,OO0 will be
spent on the hull and machinery, while
her artillery will cost $2.12500O, and her
torpedo armament $i65,0O0
Her complement will total 790 officers
and men. as opposed to $50 on the Scharn-
horst, the increased crew being necessi-
tated by the augmented power of her
triple reciprocating machinery and the
strength Of her armament. Her contract
speed is % knots an hour
She is to carry 10 11-inch guns, 46 feet
in length throwing 75O-pound missile,
besides large number of transformed
31s-inch quick firers, discharging &C.
pound shell, for defence against torpedo
attacks. These smaller weapons are to
be fitted with simple automatic loading
and ejecting attachment just invented
at the Krupp works. by means Of which
the rate of fire, hitherto about 10 shots
per minute is increased to nearly 20
shots per minute. .*
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SEcTARIAN TIES BROKEN
And Bowdoin College Can Now Accept
Money from Anywhere.

Brunswick. Me-, April 12.-President
William Dewitt Hyde of Bowdoin
College announced this evening at
chapel exercises that the courts had
decided that the income of the Collins
professorship could be used for the
employment of secretary for the
Bowdoin Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION. This professorship was es-
tablished many years ago but has not
been used for some years, for the pur-
pose of employing Congregational
minister to look after the religious
welfare of the students.
BY this decree of the court the last
tie which held Bowdoin as sectarian
institute has been broken as the other
bonds which held Bowdoin to the Con-
gregational denomination, has been
severed in other ways. The decision
confirms the right of the college to
participate in the Carnegie Fund.
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That Slayer Of Annie Mu|-
Tins May Never Be Caught.
Chief uIquhaIt VI Arlington In
yesiIgatIng b 81. John.
soaas Fayef Sslelds Thsery...Bos'
len End II $tandstllI.

Boston, April 12.-Sixteen days Of in
uuiry. extending into neighboring states
and to the distant home of the VIC
tim in ct. Johns N. f., .hae caused a
general fear, which has reached even
officials active in the investigation,
that the murderer Of Annie Mullins
may never be caught.
There has been manifested during
the past few days in certain quarters a
Willingness to have the case recorded
as suicide" but the Arlington police
are still certain that it is murder
case only. '.''-
District Attorney Higgins is credit
ed with thinking likewise and to have
urged the authorities to do all in their
power to solve the mystery.
Chief Urluhart and Inspector Hooley
of the Arlington department are still
at work. The chief will spend a num-
Der Of days at st. Johns looking up
line Of evidence which has not yet been
made public. sa
Meanwhile everything here is at a
standstill. During the two weeks eight
suspects have been questioned and re-
LEASED and q variety of clews discard
ed as worthless. No motive has yet
been established.
There remains one man, Benedict
ShanAkhn, fisherman, hailing from
the Provinces. who knew Miss Mullins
years ago, whom the police wish to in
terrogate, but they don't expect much
If anything, to develop from the inter-
view. He is a member Of the fishing
schooner Catherine and Ellen. Inspec-
tor Hooley will catechise him.
DR.. Durell of Somerville, who as
sisted at the autopsy. was Joined yes
terday by Deputy Chief Neal fthe
state police in the theory that Miss
Mullins ended her own life.
1T ain positive that the girl commit
ted suicide" said Deputy Neal. This
has been my opinion from the first
You cannot say that she was murdered
and harmonize the facts in the case.
Medical Examiner Swan in his report
says that there were four parallel cuts
on the girls threat. and that death was
probably caused by the last one, which
severed the jugular vein. What better
proof would You have that 1t was sui
eide?
II did not see the cuts. II she didn't
make them herself the person who made
them must have held her with one nand
while he welded the knife or razor with
the other. Yet there was no indication
of struggle. The only logical deduction
is that she killed herself in a moment
Of temporary insanity.
There is evidence that she was in poor
health and that she had headaches. She
was apparently headstrong and wilful,
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Premier Acquith
Names Cabinet.

London, April 12-Official announcement
was made tonight of the new cabinet ap
pointrnents. They are identical with the
forecast made by the Daily Chronicle a
few days ago and announced in these
dispatches, as follows: .
Herbert H. Asquith. prime minister and
first lord of the treasury.
David Lloyd George, chancellor of the
exchequer.
Lord Tweedmouth, president Of the
council.
Earl of Crewe, secretary Of state for the
colonies.
Reginald Mckenna, first lord of the adj
miralty.
Winston Spencer Churchill, president Of
the Board of Trade.
Walter Runcirnan, president Of the
Board of Education.
John Morley, secretary of state for In
dia. and Sir Henry F. Fowler, chancellor
of the Duchy Of Lancaster, have been
made peers, but retain their present Off
ces. Col. j. F. Seeley has been appointed
undersecretary for the colonies; Lord I4u-
cas- parliamentary secretary, war Office;
F. D. Acland. financial secretary. war
Office. and Thomas R. Buchanan, parlia-
mentary secretary, India office.
The newspapers here received the
new cabinet with great favor. The
charges are less than expected, the net
result, as far as actual cabinet Off
GERS are concerned, being that Sir
Henry Campbell Bannerman and Earl
of Elgin, secretary for the colonies,
have been dropped and Messrs. Church
ill and Runciman have entered. But
the new blood and the re-grouping of
portfolios are considered to have
greatly strengthened the government.
While Mr.. Asquith seems to have
managed to make the necessary
changes in the cabinet without Offend
ing his own party, the substitution of
the Earl of Crewe for the Earl of Ell
gin is admitted even by the Conserva-
tive press as admirable. The only ap-
pointment provoking criticism, even
among the Liberals is that of Regi-
! maid Mckenna, to the admiralty, which
is supposed to have been due to his
personal friendship with the premier.
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A POSSIBLE CLUE.
St. John Police Looking Up Record Of
Man Prominently Mentioned.

ST. Johns, N. F., April 13.-Inspec-
tor General Sullivan of the Newfound-
land constabulary stated yesterday
that he had detectives at work all the
week investigating the record of a
former Broad Cove man whose name
has been mentioned in connection with
the death of Annie Mullins at Airing
ton. Mass.
The suspect bears an unfavorable
reputation. He was well acquainted
with the Mullins girl. He went to
Massachusetts in September. 1906,
with his wife. 1t is said that the
woman learned in South Boston that
her husband had another wife living
in Nova Scotia. The couple quarreled,
and the husband was arrested for
cruelty. Later he followed his wife to
Newfoundland, but was forced to re-
turn to Boston without her last No
vember. 1t is understood that this
man is the one the Arlington police
are investigating.
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FIVE BROTHERS
Al Thought They Knew Good Coffee

An amusing story comes from vet
eran in Iowa. 1t shows how possible
it is for not only one man to be mis-
taken about a matter, but four make
the same blunder at once.
Thirteen years ago." writes
Colonel of the late war, II was con-
firmed invalid, unable to attend to
business had heart trouble and had
1t bad.
Deciding to consult specialist, 1
told my wife l was going to Chicago
for a few days on business. not saying
what the main business was.
ION arriving in the city I went to
sec man on a small matter and had
to climb two flights of stairs.
thought would never get to the top.
I could only go up two or three steps
at time and did this by hanging onto
the railing. When I got to the mans
office, 1 was so exhausted had to rest
before could state my errand.
Next morning I sought out my
specialist. He looked me over. asked
me il used tobacco, or Intoxicating
liquors: l said no. Ever drink coffee?
Yes. always have, in fact it is all
live en- these days.
"Well, you stop it entirely" said
the doctor why man." 1 gasped
"what will live on?" did you ever
drink Postum" he asked. I said no.
Then he asked me where I was stop
ming and sent me to a restaurant with
instructions to have them make me
Postum.
$50 took my meals there and real
" liked Postum from the start. l
STAYED more than ten days and went
home feeling much. better. 1 could
sleep and that gone feeling had gone.
sure enough. WhentI arrived at home
I Just picked up my suit case ana
walked home from the depot as spry
as a kitten and I'll not soon forget the
happy surprised look on my wifes
face.
"When she opened the suit case,
she found two packages of Postum.
She laughed at me and said we could
get plenty at the store. had always
been finicky about my coffee. and my
four brothers were all acquainted with
tho fine Java my wife used to make.
eve were all bankers and got to-
Rether sometimes for visit. About
this time they all happened to De at
our house and remarked that they ex-
pected some of Nettie's fine coftee.
She called me out and said we must
have some coffee.
"Make Postum just as you have
been doing. I said. The boys were all
about as had been from drinking
coffee. They complimented my wife
on her Java and drank two cups
apiece. @
"After dinner she told them it was
hot Java. What! No. 1t was
postum. Then she told them of my
complete recovery since quitting cof-
- and using Postum. They all went
away determined to quit coffee. and
Ne are all, today ENJOYING the pink Of
rood health. and we attribute it large
n to tho use of Postum"
rerherc:s a Reason" Name given
~ Postum Co, Battle Creek. Mich.
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At SAN DIEGO TOMORROW.
Atlantic Fleet Well on It's Way From
Magdalena Bay.

San Diego. Calf. April 1.-THE At
lantic fleet reported tonight by wireless
as we'll on it's way to San Diego and
likely to anchor about o'clock on Tues
day. The ships will lie in division for
nation or four lines of four vessels
each, off Coronado beach. Thousands of
persons made trips to Coronado today to
view the anchorage grounds. Other
throngs gathered along the wharves to
get another view Of the little tender
Yankton and the repair ship Panther,
which made the trip with tho feet
through Magellan straits and is now an
chored in the harbor.
The last details of the ceremonies of
welcome in this, the first Pacific home
port to be visited by the fleet. have been
completed. The ships will remain here
four days before resuming the journey
up the coast.
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HELIE's LOVE STORY.
He Tells How He and Anna eo...
That They Loved Each Other.

New York. April 12.-Another ch.,
ter was added to the account of ~.
affairs of Prince Helie De Sagan ana
Nine. Anna Gould, who sailed on A.,
ferent steamers for Europe yesterdor
when G. G. Meter of this city, Duh
lished a statement tonight, given. No
explained, by the prince and intend.s
for publication after the st. Paul unoa
which De Sagan took passage w,s
well out to sea. Mr.. Meter is a ne,1
sonal friend of the prince, and va.
intrusted by the latter with the star.
ment that he and Madame Gould we,.
betrothed.
The statement says in part:
when trouble developed betwoe,
Count Boni and the countess, l soueb,
to aid them as a friend sincerely in.
terested in their affairs. 1t was at tbs,
time that her friendships were really
tested.
'She stated at that time that she an.
preciated my efforts very much.
"Our love for each other began n
dawn only after the divorce decree
had been entered. Long after the
COuItS ltdu dClcO i cIldnCeO TO call at
her home one day and by one of those
intuitive divinations-a meeting of tho
eyes, sometimes brings the knowledge
- knew for the first time that real.
ly loved her and she loved me.
ut was on the first day of last An.
gust that the first word about love or
marriage was uttered between us. In
the course of the conversation she sud.
denly said to me: o. Prince, whv
didn't marry a man like you" re-.
piled that I was afraid was too old
but she asserted that she did not think
so. I had known her well: / had
studied her thoughts, her hopes, her
inclinations. And, understanding all
this, realized what good wife she
would make and believed it might lie
in my power to make her happy. We
became betrothed.
"Mme. Gould and I contemplate a
quiet marriage. When that event has
taken place my wife and I will live for
some years in complete retirement In
some quiet suburb of Paris. There I
shall remain until the debts of her for.
mer husband are paid. We are marry.
ing, I repeat, for nothing else except
that we love each other"
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BODIES RECOVERED.
Remains Of Victims Of Great Works
Tragedy Found In the Penobscot.

Bangor, Me-, April 1.-THE bodies
of Howard Collins and Alphonse
Brodeur. both of Bradley, who were
drowned at Great Works on the night
of Jan. 20, have been found in the
Penobscot river, nearly nine miles be-
low the place where the accident &C.
Cured.
Collins. aged Y. and Brodeur, aged
As, both employed on the night shift
of the Penobscot Chemical Cos. plant
in Great Works were returning to
their homes in Bradley. big snow
storm was raging at the time and it
is thought that the men wandered
from the beaten track and stepped
onto the thin ice. The bodies were
badly decomposed and Identification
was difficult.
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The Militia Called
To Pensacola. Fla.

Jacksonville, Fla, April 12.-Gover-
nor Broward today ordered every CON-
pany in the state militia to proceed at
once to Pensacola. The sounding Of
the riot call summoning the three
companies here to quarters gave rise
to a report that serious strike riot
was going on in Pensacola, but this
proved to be a mistake. Later adj
vices, however, showed that the Elec-
trio Co. had decided to start cars on
its lines tomorrow and that the troops
had been called out as a measure OF
precaution because further trouble Is
feared.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-13

Lionel M. Cole, the assistant cash.
Ter of the Mutual Life Insurance Co
in Buffalo, N. Y. who was charged
with the murder of his infant child in
Hamburg some weeks ago, was Sat-
urday at Buffalo declared insane by a
commission in lunacy appointed by the
court. He will be taken to Mattea-
wan at once. Coles insanity took the
form of an exaggerated idealization of
his wife and child and home life. He
believed that the mother and son and
himself possessed Divine, spiritual
qualities and that they needed no
bodies, but should seek to get above a
bodily and earthly existence He
thought that, on the death OF the
baby. its spirit would return to the
mother, and that, by killing them all,
he would secure their greatest happi-
mess.
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CAPITAL JorTlNos.

The President has received and re-
ferred to the attorney general letter
signed by six men. two of them Of the
same family. styling themselves "Citi-
zens Of Rutherford, N. j., in conference
assembled" protesting against the man
ner in which the Anarchist meeting in
Union square on March % was dispersed
The letter says Police Captain Schmitt-
berger at the tine Of the riot proclaimed
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DENIES STORY
Continued From Page One, +

Contemptuous shrugs Of the shou,a
err to this question.
'tBoni says he will meet Won ,,,..
his brothers.
BAH"
After several volleys of futile nue.
tions, the prince at last capitul.ts,
and made this short statement:
"Mme. Gould and had an md.
standing before we left the other sids
My visit has not changed that unde.
standing any"
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CONDITIONS ARE GOOD.
All That Could Be Desired, st. John
Lumber Operators Say.

Fredericton, N. B., April 12.-Lum-
Der operators from the head Of the st.
John river say that conditions ARE all
that could be desired and that pros
poets are excellent. A foot of heavy
snow has fallen on the upper st. John
last week and snow is now more than
three and a half feet deep. =
Wages of $1,75 to 81 day are Of
fered. with plenty of men available.