Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-17
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| third annual convention OF the MlSSlS-
ppi-to-the-Atlantc Inland Waterways
Association were the guests of citizens OF
| Pensacola Fla. Wednesday morning on
| a trip about the harbor, across the bay
to the life saving station, to the navy
yard and the forts. The last session of
the convention was set for afternoon.
Italia De Muelemeester. a pretty
woman of % years, and John Diletta
aged "a years, We're held without bail
Wednesday at Philadelphia TO await
the action of the New York authorities
the finding in their possession the jew
elry alleged to have been stolen
The first automobile to travel the
interior of Yukon from the coast has
Just completed a run of $50 miles from
White Horse to Yukon Cross. making
as high as 20 miles an hour in places
| In View of the rOughness of the road,
this is considered a remarkable ac-
cOmplishment. This machine is own
ed by transportation company which
hopes to displace sleighs with auto
mobiles.
Funeral services for the late United
States Senator A. S. Clay of Georgia
were held Wednesday afternoon in the
Methodist church at Marietta Ga.
Business was suspended for the day
in Marietta. Mr.. Clay's home for many
years. Eight senators and Is con-
lgressmcn We're in attendance at the
funeral. Intcrment was in the Mar
lietta cemetery.
When George c. Orr of Sunapee, n.
III, was brought before Judge Par
menter in the Boston municipal court
Wednesday on q charge of attempted
larceny in seeking to obtain money for
alleged evidence in a recent divorce
case, he was re-arrested on charge of
larceny OF 1885, from G. c. Goodrun of
Fall River, Mass. 1t is charged tina t
orr obtained the money from Good
run in January. 1908, by means of
worthless checks.
The United States monitor Puritan.
which vas Tuesday submitted to high
leXplosive armor plate tests, Wednes-
day WAS still lying on the flats at Nor
folk, Va. where her after compart-
ments were flooded as result of the
experiments. An expedition was sent
out from the Norfolk navy yard to
l
have to b" done to get the vessel to
the yard for docking
The steamer Wolverine Of Selkirk.
| Man.. which on Nov 10 was reported
nine days overdue from the north
ports of Lake Winnipeg with 300 fish
ermen on board. is still missing. The
crew of the Lady of the Lake. which
arrived Wednesday at Selkirk trav-
eled on foot from Gull Harbor to CHM
II, and cr'iiSed as far as Commission
er's island without finding any trace
of the Wolverine
/ The application of Japanese Vice
! Consul Mort II Honolulu for member
ship in the Young Mems Christian
Association has been rejected by the
board Of directors. which decided not
to admit Japanese on the ground that
the social incompatability would mill
tate lgainst the usefulness of thc~or-
| ganizatiCn. TIL" directors however. Of
fered to form Il Japanese branch of
the Young Mems christian Associa-
| ton.
| Louis a. rockingham spent $l05O to
be reelected lieutenant governor of
1
Tcnt Of campaign expenses. filed
Wednesday at the office of the secre-
tary of state. Charles G. Washburn
of Worcester. the defeated Republican
candidate for Congress in the Sd Mas
sachusetts district, incurred expenses
of $l209. In the I'd District it cost
congressman Frederick H. Gillett
$l316 to be reelected and his defeat
ed Democratic opponent. VIM. G. Nc
kechnie, expended $3.50
! Governor Mead Of Vermont. on tho
ground that the State Board Of Health
would be invested with powers now
residing exclusively in the courts. If
| Tue measure became law, has vetoed
the House bill which provided that
the board should have authority IN
prescribe the regulations for the heat
ing ana ventilation of all mills fac
tories, shops and other buildings con-
tanning 10 or more employees A fur-
ther provision was that if corpora
tfon tailed to comply with such reg
ulatlons within four months of notice
thereof. it should be fined not more
than 5000 and not less than $40. Gov
ernor Mead pronounced the bill IN
constitutional inasmuch as it deprived
those VIII" imight be fined under its
provisions of due process of law.
Besides the charter amendment author.
izins the issuance of s5,0O0,OO0 city bonds
Tor the Panama Pacific Exposition to he
heid IN III at San Francisco which car
RED by large majority, several other
important amendments were adopted at
tuesdays election. BY vote of to
i was determined that hereafter all can
didates' names must go on the ballot at
primary elections without party designa-
tons and the names shall be rotated n
give each an equal position on the print
ed TICKET The two candidates receiving
'ie highest number of votes shall be de-
uiaied the nominees, regardless of party
iiiies In the eve1t,sef anyissarldidate for.
nomination receiving ma nffty vote his
ute f"feffice shall have been establish
:" Without the necessity for further con
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