Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-11-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The captain of the Swedish steam
er GOdhem, which arrived Thursday
at Hamburg from Lowestoft, Eng,
reported that on Sunday night he saw
& big balloon drifting in northwest
erly direction. He hailed the aerial
craft, but received no response. He
believed. however. that there We're
men in the oasket.
Burning out chimney to clear it
of SCOT workmen started fire in the
peterboro Opera house at Peterboro,
Y. f., late Thursday which destroy
ed the roof and caused damage to
the building and stores below of SILL
$50. The Opera house, which is own
ed by the town. was damaged $4,000.
All the losses W are covered by insur-
ance.
1t is rumored in business circles that
a mammoth automobile factory is to be
erected in Springfield. Mass. Capital
lists allied with the Standard Oil Co,
are said to be back. of the new enter
prise No information concerning the
venture is expected to be given out
until site has been purchased, and
bios for the construction of a factory
called fer.
Seven persons We're made ill by eat
ing poisoned pie in a South Main
street restaurant Wednesday night at
Washington. They are reported i'm a
serious condition, but VIII recover
The pie later was thrown from the
Windcw OF the restaurant and was
eaten by chickens 81 of which have
died. John Fremont, a Negrt c.ok.
in making the pie got hold Of can
of rat poison instead OF baking pow
der. He is one of the victims of his
| mistake.
BY the faculty edict that no member
Of the college body shall belong to any
Freshman or Sophomore class frater
nifty it is stated at Wesleyan Univer-
si!y, Middleton, Conn, the parent
chapter of the Theta Nu Epsilon So
'ciety which is included in the ruling,
has been definitely legislated out of
existence. This society was establish
ed years ago at Wesleyan as a SOpho-
more fraternity and from its sprung
Z, hapters in many colleges and univer
sites in the country.
Advance estimates of the population
Of the commonwealth of Australia
made by the federal statistician, places
the total number of people in the six
states at 4,474,000, according to Con-
Sular reports received at Washington.
The taking of the decennial census will
be begun on April l, 1911, and allow
ing for a normal increase before that
date. the population is expected to
reach 100000 This would represent
an increase during the past decade of
about 725,O0O.
B. l.. Barry, election judge at Day
ton, Ore, has written to Attorney Gen
eral Crawford, stating that women in
j. his village are in the habit of voting
and he wants to know what can be
done to keep the gentler sex away from
the voting booths. How long the wo-
men of the little town have been cast
:. ing illegal votes, Barry fails to state
, The attorney general replied advising
Barry that itsis the duty of Oregon
election judges to bar women voters
! except at school elections.
The constitution of New Mexico. as
0 written by the constitutional conven-
a ton. is now practically complete 1t
: is expected that the convention will
adjourn within a week. Half dozen
j.. reports We're received from the com
mittee on revision and arrangement
G at Wednesdays session, all the ar
d 1lcles being adopted and approved as
= presented. Several Democratic mem
o bers Of the convention have declared
that the constitution is so far, good
a and that they will give it their un-
@ qualified support.
Capt Martin S, James of Provi-
2 dence, r. L.. well-known Civil Wal
G veteran and for the past 10 years
: :ead OF the license bureau of Provi-
r. dcnce died at the Rhode Island hospi-
y tal early Thursday of uraemic poison
ing. III" was Il years old. Capt. James
Ii 'ras assigned by the government q,
me clos" of the war to dismante all
the cannon around Richmond He was
also commissioned to 90 snme spe.
cial work for the government in the
Spanish War. \ son and a daughter
living at Holyoke. Mass. and a son
ut St Paul. Minn.. survive
. Professor A. O. Lousehner, director
iof the students observatory at the
University of California, announced
s Wednesday night that calculations
= completed at the observatory have
:, established positively that the come,
discovered by DR.. V. Corulli of the
: Cullruania observatory at Teram
Italy, is identical with Fays comet
:. a celebrated cemetery member of the
i solar system. The calculations were
made by Instructor w. +. Meyer of
the local observatory and Miss Sophia
Levy. q Senior student at the unver-
g sitN.
Count Jacques De Lesseps, the avia.
u tor. has accepted an invitation to par
T ticipatc in the ceremonies of break
)? ing ground in Balboa park, San Diego
: Calf, for the Internal tonal expedition
to he held in 1915. Il shall always be
grateful to the United States" writes
;. The count for having proved to the
n world that my fathers project could
9 realized. Time is the great dispen-
X ser of Justice.