Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-12-24
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Parties representing the W. Z. Doug
las Shoe Co. of Brockton Wednesday
leased the Chich Brothers shoe fac
tory in Haverhill for term Of five
years. The firm will manufacture
mems shoes and will employ a force
Of 900 employees.
Mrs William Warren of London and
Boston, will retain the S250,000 of bonds
given her by the late George s. Well
man of Boston while she was acting as
hcusckeeper, the suit by the admin
istratOr of the state to recover them |
being dismissed Wednesday by Judge !
Wait in the superior court at Boston
On ground of laches.
An unexpected but most welcome
Christmas present was given to the en-
ployes of tie Pairpoint Manufacturing
Co. manufacturers of glass and silver
ware at New Bedford, Mass, "Wednesday,
when notices. of a wage increase Of 10 per
| cent. We're posted. The increase will be-
come effective on Jan. next. Between
| 500 and 800 employees are affected.
1t was with great regret. that his
townspeople learned Wednesday of the
| death OF Thomas Brown Tucker. for
many years the proprietor of fuckers
| Tavern, at his home at Peterboro, \.
H., late Tuesday night Mr. Tucker was
ole of the best known New Hampshire
hotel men. He had served as sheriff
and county commissioner of Merrimac
county for several years.
A balloon trip that will attract general
attention is being arranged at Indianapo-
lis by Carl G. Fisher and George l..
Bumbau@h. Tie proposed fight will be
across the Atlantic ocean The plan is
to make the trip ir a gigantic balloon, at
tached to which will be 20 smaller supply
balloons the gas from which may be fed
into the large balloon as the leakage
makes it necessary. Instead Of basket
to carry the passengers i specially con-
structed boat will be used
!, Moro than a thousand persons We're
made homeless and hundreds of thou
t sands of dollars worth or property
was destroyed in a fire which burned
out an entire block Of tenenonts, be-
tween Second and Third avenues and
Forty Fourth and Forty fifth streets,
brooklyn, Wednesday, Twenty per-
sens were overcome by smoke but they
We're rescued by firemen and carried
!, from their burning homes u places
cf safety. The great Bush terminal
docks were saved from destruction
only by the strenuous work of one of
the big fire boats.
A three year-old boy playing with
matches is believed to have caused the
fire which burned him to death and
destroyed the house of his father. VII
liam White. at Weymouth, Mass.
Wednesday. Mr. White is a shoemaker
and employed at North Abingdon. Mrs
| White. who had gone upstairs. leaving
the child in the kitchen, smelled smoke
and rushed down to find the room in
flames. She was driven from the house
| by the intense heat and stood shiVering
| and shreking on the sidewalk until the
neighhors and firemen arrived Later
q portion Of the chli'S BODY was
found The loss was estimated at $4,000.
The national organizers Of the Ma
tional Textile Workers of America who
| have just finished a canvass Of eastern
| Connecticut, report that the member
ship in the organization has shown
| remarkably large increase during the
past year. According to their state
| nlcnt the northern district Of the cot
| ton manufacturing belt. including the
towns of Thompson. Killingly, Putnam.
the borough Of Danieson and the
large villages of Grosvenordale. Alta
WaLgan and Williamsville have about
| 1900 members; the southern district
Which includes the town of Plainfeld,
| in which is Mousup, Wauregan. JcWett
City, Baltic, Occum and Ta1tNiile, has
| over 200 members. Othcr strong
unions exist in the villages around Nor
wich and Wilimantic, which, il is
CLAIMED, WI bring the total membership
| in the Connecticut district up 20 nearly
il not quite 5000. Many of the unions
have club rooms, reading and school
rooms, and the national organizers
claim that the condition or the textile
Workers has been improved - per
cent by the organization.