Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-01
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President Wilson of Princeton
Iversity will be the orator at the ann
Phi Beta Kappa day exercises at
ward July /. Prof. Barrett Wenf
head Of the, Harvard English dep
ment, viii be the poet.
The Paris Aero Club has recei
three entries from the English a
Club. one from the United States,
one from Italy for the Gordon Benz
Aviation cup to be, contested Aug.
The ninth attempt OF Mrs. Elijah
Lowery to end her life was succesi
Sunday at St. Louis. She drank g
bolic acid because of despopdency.
the last three years she drank poll
six times. used a razor once and I'd
to hang herself twice.
Tonfu IIu of WI Chengh Sien. Chi
was elected to Phi, Beta Kappa at q
nell this week. 1t is the first time
Cornell a Chinanan was ever cleo
to this high honorary society. Thi
students were elected. Goods predo
mated in the proportion Of II to 10.
A military court at Kiev, Russia,
sentenced three men to- death, II
penal. servitude and 10 to. imprist
mcnt for various terms. AL. Of thu
men were members of the commit
of public safety at Lubny and of
Social Revolutionary organization.
Realizing the susceptibility OF n
operatives to the germs of tuberculo
the Thayer Woolen Co. of Oxfo
Mass, announces an offer Of thj
months free board at Rutland sa;
tarium for any person in its empl
who is or may be, afflicted with
disease. The offer also applies to a
member of an employees family.
Failing to affect a reconciliation wi
his wife. from whom he had been sd
arated a week or more. Albert w. Re
of Roxbury. Mass, committed suiciI
Sunday night by swallowing cyani
Of potassium in the presence of
wife and two sons. Read had be
for several years the official rogu
gallery photographer of the Boston n
lice department and was 4S years oil
Carrying As passengers and q lar
cargo Of freight, the United FRI
Cos, steamer Heredia has gone ashoI
at Cape Gracias Bend, Is miles frd
the mainland of Nicaragua accordii|
to advices received by the Fruit Col
officers In New Orleans. The messaI|
says that all passengers are safe al
as yet no transfer has been made.
George w. Jackson. prominent in til
labor councils of the Topographic
Union, committed suicide late Sunds|
at New York by throwing himself
front of an incoming subway exprea
at the 9sth street station. Jacksd
had become respondent over his failiI1
eyesight and thought that he was 81
ing blind So ~ a'
Without any known cause, Alfrt
Vignault, 81 years old, committed SUI
eide at the home OF his parents ];
Whiteman, Mass, Sunday by blowir
off the top of his head with. a shoI
gun. Vignault had. been station agei
at the New York, New Haven & Har'
ford Railroad in South Hanson e
several years. having gone there frof
Everett. A mother and father sui
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Vile D'Alger near Marseilles Saturda
was the Orleanais and not the Nevet
nails. as first reported. The Viii
D'Alger sank before reaching her doc
and divers We're sent down Sunday
examine the wreck They found in til
cabin the bodies of one of, the pas
sengers who had been wounded at til
time of the collision and who was uu
able to make his escape.
Shoe shipments from the factories
Brockton. Mass, are heavier for Febr,I
shipments have totalled 1851 cases. ex
ceeding all previous records for thel
months. Shipments from the Montell
factories continue to lead, totaliing D,4;
for the month Of February, with BROCK
ton shipping 25.335 cases and. CAMPBELL
2i.694 cases. The shipment, for Januar.
and February last year totaf1ed 1905
cases and 1907, 1892 cases
Mrs. Babcock, mother-in-law of Vic
President-elect Sherman, who has bee
q patient. in Central Carplina shospita
Sanford, N. c., since she was take
from a train last Monday night Will
en- route to Washington is reported q
improving and may be able to 'resum
her journey in time to attend the Ia
auguration ceremonies. Mrs. Shernla
is, now at her mothers bedside an
will accompany her to Washington q
soon as she is. able to travel. e
With Mrs. Anna Baxter. wido,
whom. he had ,courted 4. for. sewers
years. sitting on his lap, in her HON
Sunday in Pittsburg, William Gear
hard. a fireman, sudden drew a razo
and slashed her across the throat. Sh
called for help and her son.ahd daugh
ter. dragged her from Gearhard's arm
and notified the police. When officer
arrived they found Gearhard lying o
the floor, his throat cut and abig knit
in his hand, The. razor was lying o
the piano. Both. victims recovery
doubtful. No cause whatever Us al
signed for the deed.
The grooming of the scout cruiser
Birmingham. Chester and Salem "a
their long deferred competitive speed trie
to the Azores and return, began. saturda
at Newport, r. T., with the al
rival OF the three fasteAt dyer
of the navy at the Bradford coal
ing station after an uneventfail run fros
Newport News. The run to The Azors
and return is about 5000 miles, and 1t
expected that the big cruisers will max
the trip in about. 20, days. The object
the trip is to ascertain the coInpArattv