Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

'-~' tIDuS crown VI SuA'''o 'iVp
from all classes of society beseiged the
Ste'hhell hall in the Impasse Ronsin.
PaT1s, where an auction of household
eifects We're held Saturday. The prices
secured Were low, the murdered artists
paintings bringing from 80 to $40
The Morley Baton Manufacturing
Co. one OF the leading industries of
portsmouth, N H., controlled by Bos-
ton capitalists, has granted an increase
or wages to ever; woman employa OF
their plant in tina. city as a Christmas
gift.
Miss Grace Todd Of Arcola ILL.,. field
secretary of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society of the Methodist
Episcopal church of America, \died
Saturday at hospital al Amsterdam,
n. T.. as result of injuries suffered
recently in the collision of an automo-
bile with a carriage in which she was
riding.
The Consolidated Milk Exchange. a
New Jersey Corporation, which was
authorized to dc business in the state
in October. 1906, notified Sec, of State
ko2nlg at Albany, n. Y, Saturday
that IL has Withdrawn it's business
from the state. The notice, signed by
John A. Mcbride, president of the eX-
change, announces the revocation Of
the appointment of Joseph Laommle
as it's New York representative.
Born in the 18th century in the prov
ince of kiev, Russia, Mrs. Rrayne
Makedensky died at the Jewish Shell
tering Home at philadelphia Friday
night at the age of 115 years Mrs.
Makedensky had ~ children, several
of whom are still living. and is sur
vived by about $50 descendants, scat
tered over the world. Most of item
live in the United states.
In the United States court at Utica,
N. ~. Saturday jury found Mrs. Lii
liam 4Oick Of Ottawa, Canada, former
ly Of Carthage, y. Y, guilty OF bring
ing INTO this country for immoral pur-
poses jennie Valiancourt, young
French. sgirl, who had been waitress
in aE%OttOwa restaurant She was
sentenced to n year and nine months
Imprisonment at Auburn prison ana to
pay yhne of $25.
Gen. Green Berry Raum, former
commissioner of pensions. died Satur-
ness of several weeks. He was 80 years
old. Gen. Raum served under Grant
and sherman. was wounded at Mis-
Sionary Ridge. and held the line of
railroads in the rear of Sherman s
army in the march to the sea. He de-
feated Gen. Wheelers raid and under
len. Hancock had command in the
Shenandoah valley at the close Of the
var
The returns for the new loan system
instituted by the Yale Corporation for
the college show that 80 per cent. OF
the students accepting money aid from
the college have elected to do SO in the
'orms of loans instead of gifts giving
their notes Of hand to be paid after
graduation The majority of the two
lower classes have taken gifts. while
n the Senior class there is a major
ty electing loans. The total amount i'll
volved is $23,1S5 for the present college
halfyear.
Joseph Taomax, long a resident Of La
orte Ind. now making his home with
his daughter in Indianapolis, Sunday
celebrated his l00th birthday His fac
ulties are unimpaired. His health is eX-
cellent. Mr.. Lomax for many years was
partner with Wilbur F. story in the
publication of the Chicago Times. He is
credited with being the oldest Scottish
site Mason and knight Templar in the
United States. He was born in North
Carolina Dec. 10, 1905, coming to In
dianapolis in 1916.
Bench warrants charging murder in
the first degree We're issued Saturday
1t st. Louis against Dr. Loren b
DoXey of Columbus. Neb., and his
wife, Dora Z. Dnxey, by Judge Grimm
in the criminal court at st. Louis. DR.
Doxey was arrested Friday night. His
wife has been in pail since Dec. !. They
are charged with responsibility for the
death here on July 10 last of William
j. Erder. Mrs. Doxey. it is charged
was married to Erder a few weeks be.
fore his death. An analysis of Erder's
viscera revealed arsenic.
In the United States circuit cour
at Muskogee, Okla. Saturday seven
state officials were temporarily en-
Joined from Selling and confiscatins
liquor being transported into Oklaho'
ma by the Missouri, Kansas g. Texas
Railroad. The railroad in pjetitionlne
for the order alleged the federal stat
utes made it incumbent upon them tC
accept liquor for shipment and they
must give bill of lading and assume
liability for delivery. The court holds
the seizure of interstate shipments is
in violation of the federal constitution
Details for the greatest pilgrimage t.
Rome that has ever left America, th>
visit which the knights of Columbus
are to take next August. have beer
completed and general headquarters
rave oeen established in the Metropol-
itan building in New York by the Co.
lumbus Travel Society. The pilgrims
will leave after the close of the next
annual convention at Quebec in Au-
gust. Besides the Holy City and Genoa,
the birthplace of Christopher Column
BUS, the pilgrims will visit Ober AM
mergau, as there has been general
1eSire to see the famous Passion
Play"
Five lions q leonard and q variety