Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Mental depression is believed to have
been the cause Of the suicide by
shooting Friday Of Isaac M. Wood
worth q Civil War veteran and an in
mate OF the soldiers Home in Chelsea.
Mass. Woodwork was 20 years ola
and unmarried.
Miss Agnes Irwin. dean OF Radcliffe Col
lege, announced to the surprised students
Friday that she would lay down he du-
ties of her office at the close of her 18th
year of service on Sept. | next, in order
to take long vacation for rest and
travel.
AS the result OF the hearing given
Thursday lit Fan River on objections by
Rev. James +. Cassidy. rector Of St. Ma
rvs cathedral and vicar general Of the
Fall River diocese, Mayor Coughlin an
nounced Friday that he had revoked the
licenses of all the moving picture places
in the city.
After officials of the law had pleaded
in her behalf for nearly an hour. 49,
yedr-old Ruth j. Wells, who was
charged with stealing hundreds OF
gross of valuable stones from Prov
idence manufacturing jewelry concert,
was placed on probation Friday by
Judge Christopher Lee in the sixth dis
trict.
Word was received Friday at st.
John. \. s.. that fire swept the bust
necs section of Cuctouche on North
cumberland strait Thursday night, de-
stroying the Jail, the general store OF
J. ID. Living, the tin store of Patrick
I.ageres and the residence of ID. +.
Gallant The total loss is estimated at
about $4,000.
Charles Hill, in whose restaurant one
man met death and several others. iEClIu-
ing Hill, We're overcome by gas .url"s
at Montreal Tuesday, has been ident fed
by the police as Charles II. MaClath.
wanted in Boston for embazZlemeHs and
for whose arrest Il reward of $3.50 lad
been offered Hill or Magrath has been
placed under arrest and the Boston po-
lice notified.
Heart failure caused by 0ver-eXertirn.
not a blow struck by n companion CalS-
ed the death Thursday night ut Water
town. Mass. of Frank Grassland. q A.
year-old boy according to the ply sici@nS
who performed an autopsy Friday. John
Scanlon, IS years Old who was arrested
case, was exonerated by the report of
the physicians and was discharged from
custody.
After a quarrel with his sweetheart.
Josephine Bland, John Brown. aEci 49,
of lS3 Windsor street. Cambridge. Mass,
according to the Newton police, Friday
night shot and killed Miss Laura Bland,
seriously wounded her sister Emma. aged
16 and IS years respectively. and then
turned the weapon on himself. infiicting
wounds which will probably prove fatal
All three persons concerned are co'ored
The shooting occurred al the Bland come
% Virginia road West Newton.
Four hundred additional operafiv will
lie given employment at the G"eylocll
Cotton Mills at North Adams. Mass
through the doubling of the mills capac-
ity the announcement Of which was
made Friday. This will bring the total
number of hands employed to 800 When
the additions are finished the mill Will
have 1900 looms and 10000 spind,s In
order to accommodate the new operatives
between 40 and 50 tenement houses viii be
erected by the company.
A margin of $43,O32 on the right side
OF the ledger was shown Friday in the
auditing of the books of Luddy Cur
rler, The Lynn shoe firm which failed
on the 18th instant. The following is a
summary of the assets and liabilities:
Assets: Merchandise and quick assets,
SIZE, 160; plants, $17S,917; total, 1924
OF. Liabilities: Indebtedness merchan-
disc account. $113.545; notes payable to
banks. $212,500; due estate B. w. Cur
rier, $4,000; total. 1881 ,O45. The notes
payable to B. W. Currier estate are in
dispute.
So thoroughly impressed is President
Roosevelt with the necessity of con-
servStion of the natural resources of
the world that he Friday directed Sec
rotary of State Bacon, at the sugges-
ton OF the North American Conser-
vation conference in session in Wash
inSton to extend q, formal Invitation
t" foreign powers to participate in an
International conference to deal with
TINS important problem to be held at
The Hague next September All of the
As nations represented at The Hague
/ eacc conference will be invited to
participate.
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