Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-23

OWING TO the Illness OF a Juror the lIldl
at Waterbury. CT, of Sophie Kritchman
and Joseph Mitchell for the murder of
Bronislow Kulvinskas was adjourned
tuesday morning until next Monday.
Tired of life." as she said in note
which she left behind, Mrs. Sarah
Gray of Hardwick, VT, in her 73rd
wear, Tuesday committed suicide by
drowning in the I.amoille river.
The Rev. Aaron X. Sanford, D. D..
a prominent member of the New York
conference of the Methodist Episcopa
ochurch, died Tuesday at his home in
Yonkers, after an illness of several
months He was 81 years old.
An oxygen tank exploded with ter
rifle force in garage in East 14th
street, New York City, Tuesday after
noon. Arthur Cornmeier. a mechanic,
was literally blown to pieces and his
brother, Henry, was SO severely injur-
ed that he may die.
The seventh torpedo division compris-
ing the torpedo destroyers Smith alag
ship, Reid, Lamson, Flusser and Pres
ton. arrived off Pensacola bar Monday
night and went into the harbor Tuesday
morning. The vessels are there for target
practice.
The Rhode Island Business Mems AS
ISOLATION in convention assembled at
Providence Tuesday afternoon heartily
indorsed the coming of the Grand Trunk
Railroad to that state and urged the pas
sage of bill before Congress for rev.
enue cutter to patrol the waters of Mar
ragansett bay.
An investigation into the death of
Joseph Tclink of Providence, X. l., who
came home and died suddenly, was be-
gun Tuesday by Medical Examiner G.
A. Griffin. The man had several gashes
about his head and his death is regard
ed as suspicious. He was 80 years of
age.
Despite a contest in the committee
rooms Tuesday at Providence. r. l.,
an act forbidding department stores
and factories to employ children more
than eight hours a day, was reported
favorably to the House. Children I'M
der 16 years shall not be allowed to
work at all unless they can write a
simple sentence in English.
The Dalai Lama OF Tibet, the re-
iiEiOus head of the Buddhist faith,
with several Tibctan notables, has fed
from Lhasa into India and is expected
to reach Darjiling next week. 1t is
supposed that the Dalai Lama's flight
was due to the advance Of Chinese
troops from the Province of Khan to
strengthen the garrison at Lhasa.
The Franklin wooden mills of M. T.
Stevens & Sons of North Andover, Mass,
will be shut down. it is stated by Supt.
A. B. Day, unless the striking weavers
return to work. The weavers struck two
weeks ago for an increase of one-fourth
of cent per yard and the abolition of
the system of filming for imperfect cloth.
The management is willing to grant the
increase but declines to abolish the fin
ing system.
Lord Curzon of KedlestOne has re-
sigred the rectorship of Glasgow Uni
verSity. Last week the university stu
dents held a meeting and adopted
resolution of censure against the Lord
Rector for postponing his installation
ceremony in favor of his political en-
gagements. Lord CurZon then sent q
letter of explanation, whereupon the
students met again and adopted for
the second time a vote of censure.
On Atlantic assage of only
two days less than four weeks, the
German steamer Vogesen, Capt Paul
sen, put in at Halifax, N. S., Tuesday
to take on supply of coal. The Voge-
sen sailed from Bremen for Savannah |
on Jan. 81, with cargo of mineral
salt. During her trip across the At
lantic she met gale after gale. and
was badly battered by the winds and |
seas. When she put in Tuesday her |
bunkers were nearly empty. In addi- |
ton. the ship showed many traces Of |
the violent buffeting she had received. |
After coaling and making temporary
repairs. the vogesen win resume herl
voyage to Savannah. ~