Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-19

board Of adjustment, James Smith,
Tuesday night presented the request
OF the clerks for 1910 to Gen. Supt.
Charles F. Lee of the Boston & Maine
Railroad. The request is for an in
crease in wages of 10 per cent.
Charged with the larceny OF $3036
through manipulation of the books,
from the dry goods firm of Crawford,
| P1ummer g. Co., Boston, of which he
was manager. Alfred l.. West was
placed under arrest by the police late
| Tuesday. The police state they are also
| seeking a woman as a confederate IN
the alleged looting of the store.
The winter price of milk. nine cents
- o,1ort. will be continued through next
| summer, according to vote taken by
the Boston Cooperative Milk Produc-
ers Co. at its annual meeting late.Tues-
day. 1t has been customary to make
| reduction to eight cents for the sum-
mer. The increasing cost of milk pro-
ductinn was given as the cause.
John Goodwin political lieutenant of T.
Coleman Dupont president of the dupont
Powder Co.. and Republican state chair
man, must serve two years In jail Tor at
TEMPTED election bribery. The state SUI
preme court at Dover, Del, Tuesday al
frmed the decision of the judges of the
Newcastle county court, who pronounced
Goodwin guilty.
Praise for President Taft's recent
decision on What is whiskey:' was
sung last night by Timothy L. McDon-
ough, president of the American Liq-
uor League, in his report to the Or
eaniZation now in annual session at
WASHINGTON Mr.. McDonough declared
the President had given the Prohibi-
.ionists q hard blow by his decision.
He asserted that the storm of prohibit
ton that has swept the country for the
past two years has spent it's force.
Mayor John F. Meehan of Lowell,
Mass, Tuesday removed from the
boar, of charities William L. Drapeau,
Ambrose Hindle, John McManus and
Thomas Brady, appointing in their
places respectively Frank Ricard Will
liam p Curtis, Harry j. Howe and
Matthew Coupe. Mr.. Howe was re-
moved by Former Mayor George II.
Brown and is now reinstated.
Theodore p Shonts, president of the
erborough Metropolitan Co, which
operates the subway and elevated
ines in New York City, took a dose OF
his own medicine Tuesday night in
riding home from his office in the sub
way during the rush hours. After be-
ing pushed, battered and squeezed and
carried two streets beyond his home
station. Mr. Shonts defined conditions
as outrageou and characterized his
appearance as fierce.
1t was learned Tuesday that Henry
Sing Sing prison, who was being placed
in dark cell for INSTRUMENTATION Mon
day night, had turned on Keepers
Thomas and Edward McEnery and at
tackled them with a poniard-like knlfe
with a razor edge, which he had evil
dertly fashioned from a file. The races
OF both keepers were badly slashed pc
fore they got the better of the prison |
rebel. Both men will be incapacitated
from duty for long time.
Several of the strongest anti-imperiai-
lists in Massachusetts, including Edwin
D. Mead and Raymond L. Bridgman, ask
ed the Legislature Tuesday to adopt
resolution deprecating further extension
of territory by the United States by con-
quest The President and Congress are
requested to transmit to the next Inter-
national Peace Conference the assurance
of this country that it will not increase
ances from the Powers. Other states