Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Rear AuIDlTdl I1o"oiu' Nc'AAAA"''N''
of the fourth division of the American
Atlantic battleship fleet, gave recep'
ton Monday afternoon to the frenct
naval and civil authorities on the pat
tleship Georgia at Brest, France
AS the result of an investigation by
While he was frolicking Monday
with some other boys who worked WIN
Aim in a factory at New YORK. LOUIS
Scorer fell into vat filled with a So
lution of cyanide of potassium. He
opened his mouth to scream. swallowed
some of the solution and died in agony
FOR stealing two rings worth Ss9 from
his sister. Andrew Burns Monday was
sentenced to Sing Sing for life IN the
Queens county court New York Cit!
Burns. who has spent just half II his
70 wears in prison, received a life term
because he is an old offender. He has
already served four, terms.
While Mrs Mrs. Annie Gilmore aged
.. wife of John Gilmore, was prepar-
ing supper in the kitchen of hey nome
at 50 Lowland avenue, Cambridge,
Mass. Monday night, her dress caught
fire. Before assistance could reach
her. she was dead from her burns.
The strike of taxicab chauffeurs,
which has been vexing New York Tor
several weeks and has led tC consid-
cradle violence, was ended MONDAY
night. The men voted to accept the
proposal submitted several days ago
by the taxicab companies. which they
had previously rejected
Following an investigation by a COM
mission into the sanity of Katie Mans,
the 16-year- old Massilon. Ohio. girl
charged with poisoning her sister.
Elizabeth, a jury Monday at Canton
found the girl insane. She will be
committed to an insane asylum. The
girl is alleged to have killed her sister
through envy of her clothes.
Representatives of is of the largest
exchange buying banks in New York
City at a meeting Monday decided
that cotton carrying roads in the South
must adhere strictly to the rule pro-
viding that all bills of lading for cot
ton shall be validated only where the
property comes into actual possession
of the carrier. otherwise the banks do
ing a foreign exchange business may
refuse to by the bills.
A wireless message brought word to
the agents of the North German Lloyd
Line in New York Monday afternoon
that the Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse
lost her port propeller at 2.15 2. M.
Monday and is now making port with
her starboard propeller at Il knots ar
hour. At this rate she will dock
Wednesday afternoon instead OF
Wednesday forenoon. as had been ex-
pected. No alarm was felt among the
passengers and no damage to the shil
beyond the loss Of her screw
Considerable anxiety is felt at St
Johns. N. F., for the safety of the
little Danish schooner Hamlet, which
left st. Johns four weeks ago for
La Maine. N. F.. to load fish for
CadiZ. The winds We're favorable and
she should have arrived at her destin-
alton in three days. There was nc
pilot on board and it is feared that
the vessel foundered. The Hamlet reg.
lstered as tons, was commanded by
captain Rasmussen, and carried \
crew of four men.
the United States authorities into the
Cmnese smuggling cases, which, it is
dHeged, nave been going on between
Baltimore and Jamaica in the last
rev years, the United States grand
jury Monday at Baltimore indicted
George E. Baldwin, of Lauren, Md
who until recently was an immipra
tion inspector. In addition to th.
charges against Baldwin in the in.
uictment, there are also charges OF
conspiracy against HON Hen and Get
olt. members of Baltimore's Chimes,
colony. '''''e''
ri1ts amounting to $1S6.OOO have bee,
| made recently to Columbia rniversit,
| according to an announcement mad
| Monday by the trustees. The most i'm
portant, one of 100000, is anonymous ant
! VIII be added to the general endowment
| 1pnd. Ultimately the income of this gif
| VIII be available for promoting cultnra
relations between Germany and TIL
| United States. A gift of $4,000 has bee
made by Edward w. Adams of New
York, president of the Germanistic So
ciety, to buy and equip a Deutsches Hau
| for the university
| On the eve of the annual meetin,
TO be held in Washington of the Amer
lcan Red Cross, President Taft. VIII
Is president of the organization. re
ceived word that New York City ha
completed its subscription OF $500, 0OC
apportioned to it on the basis of 1
cents per capita population, for tn
sZ'ooooO0 endowment fund of the so
ciety. New York City is the first t
complete it's quota and the Presiden
VIII make announcement to that effec
Tuesday.