Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-11-23

dered by the commissioner of patents, in
which he holds that the protection Of the
law will not be given by any manufac-
turer who includes in his trademark the
arms of the United States or those OF
the various states or cities of the country.
Not even parts of the coats of arms or
other public devices will be registered.
The decision was reached in the case OF
firm using the eagle and u. s. on
its goods.
Dr. Alexander Graham Boil has COM
pleted his new aerodroma and has permit
ted a newspaper representative. who visit
ed his summer home at Baddeck. near
Sydney. c. B., to inspect the machine.
THE Sygnet," which made successful
ascent last year. was composed of 1898
tetrahedrons. while the new aerodrome,
constructed on practically the same lines
has SEQ tet1ahedtal cells. DR., Bell intends
to make trial flight the first week in
December. In the center a space about
six feet square has been left open for tbs
motor ard aviator.
The British schooner Delta A. Tarrel.
Capt Abliel, with a cargo of fish from
TORI bay. was wrecked at Meghers bay
while trying to MAKE Halifax harbor at
an early Iour Sunday morning. There
was little wind sat the time and the YES
sci was carried on the rocks by the cur
rent The crew and three passengers
were rescued by boat from the schooner
Jubilee. which was making port and
which was within hailing distance at the
time of the disaster. The vessel is to-
tai wreck She was built at Salem in 1888
and REGISTERS at ST. Andrews.
Lying side by side on the floor of the
kitchen of their apartment in the
Bronx were found Sunday the bodies
of Charles A. Walters, an elderly
veteran of the Civil War, and his
daughter Emma, spinster, 40 years
old The room was filled with gas. all
the cocks of the gas stove having
been turned on, so that it is certain
that either the father or daughter COM
mitted suicide and possibly both did.
Mr. Walters, who was member of
elisa Post. No. 264. of the G. A. r.,
was IS years old He and his daugh-
ter lived together many. years.
Michael and John Flaherty, brothers,
both entering the borderland of old age,
were discovered in their little frame
cottage at Bay avenue and Avenue N.
Greenfield. Brooklyn. Saturday. one
dead and the other dying. They had
suffered for nearly a week from the
fortunes of starvation. John. who is Go
years old was found lying unconscious
on the kitchen floor. crippled with
rheumatism and unable to move, while
his brother, Michael, five years older.
sat bolt upright in his invalid chair.
maintaining the same attitude in death
as in lite. He had been dead for So
hours The two brothers had hoard of
money in their home, but both sue
cunlbed to the diseases of old age, ami
help reached them too late.
York city.
A discovery regarded by prominent
physicians as have a revolutionary i'm
portance in sugury was made by Cor
oner's Physician O'Hanlon and Prof.
John II. Larkin of Columbia univer-
sity during an autopsy Saturday
Death by electricity, it was definitely
established by the two medical men,
may be caused not only from a ruptur-
ing of certain blood vessels of various
vital organs. but also from an air en-
bolism, or compression of air, in the
region about the right side of the heart
This never before. 1T was asserted, had
been observed with regard to the body
of human being. Five thousand or
more volts of electric power have. how
ever. produced the same effect in AMI
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