Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-02

| c: G. Cowie, formerly a weIl-knowr,
cotton buyer and prominent in Mem
phis, Tenn, social life, was found dead
Tuesday in a room in his residence
with a bullet hole in his temple. The
police declare it was a case of suicide
| Temporarily insane through illness.
Mrs. Horace b. Sanborn, aged IS
years. committed suicide late Tuesday
| at Franklin, N. H., by hanging herself
| to her bed post with a shawl. A hus-
band, son and brother survive.
At the bottom of 60o-foot shaft be-
ing sunk for salt mine in Oakwood
Village, Mich, a diver Tuesday after
noon recovered in 40 feet of water the
bodies of three of the workmen who
were suffocated by sulphur gas while
working in the shaft last Saturday.
An operation for appendicitis was
performed Tuesday upon Miss Dorothy
Draper. daughter of Lieut.. Gov. and
Governor-elect Eben s. Draper at a
private hospital in Boston. Miss Drap
er was : reported to't: have passed
through the operation successfully and
there was every hope of recovery.
struction under the auspices, of the
State Board of Agriculture was held
at Greenfield, Mass, Tuesday and will
be continued Wednesday, Lectures on
the "Sheep Industry in sachusetts"
by. L. B. Harris of Lyndonville, VT,
and The Planting of a Commercial Or
chard in Massachusetts" by Prof. F. G.
Sears of the state Agricultural College,
We're heard.
The clubhouse of the Anglers Asso-
citation of Onondaga at South Bay on
Oneida lake, near Syracuse, N. Y,
was burned to the ground early Tues
day morning. The building and con-
tents We're valued at 100000. The in
surance is nearly $4,000. There We're IA
persons in the building, including sew
en- women. All escaped in their night
clothing. Officers of the club believe
the fire was of incendiary origin.
The trial of the suit brought by Mary
f. Bits of Everett, colored, against
the Merchants & Miners Transpcrta-
ton Co, in which the plaintiff seeks
to recover 5000 damages for alleged |
discrimination blythe company III re-
fusing to allow her tirst-class aecomIho-
dation because of her color. was begun
in the United states district court at |
Boston Tliesday. Mrs. Bits alleged
that she purchased round trip ticket, |
frst-class, to Norfolk from Boston but |
the company compelled her to eat in |
the second cabin and refused to per-
NIT her to occupy a cabin on the up
per deck.
Antoine Augustus, former supreme
treasurer of the Portuguese Royal |
Michaels Automomanic Beneficent So
ciety, was found probably guilty of the
larceny of $l650 of the society's funds
by Judge McDcnough in the district
court at Fall River Tuesday The de-
fendant waived examination and then
furnished $2500 bonds. He will be tried
at the next term of the superior court
John Nersonelos of New Bedford, a
director and John Ferreira of Fall
haVer, successor to Augustus as treas
lrer, testified as to the shortage. Au-
Sustus disappeared on Sept. IS and
went TO South America. He returned
two weeks ago, surrendering himself to
the, police.
A conference at which was DISCUSS
ed the responsibility not. only of the
church but of all other
Protestant agencies toward the training
# foreign speaking ministers and lay
workers for labor among foreign and
populations was held Tues
lay in Philadelphia by the board of
education of the Presbyterian church,
whose. headquarters are in Philadel-
phia. The General Assembly of the
Presbyterian church Instructed the
>oard Of education to investigate the
question of the responsibility of the
,hurch in the matter and to report if
possible a policy to the next assembly.