Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-11

most Of the members of the cottage set
Element are on verandas reading. SOM
out driving or walking before breakfast.
Goodwin Tavern, at South Hampton
NJ. H., one Of the pre- Revolutionary
inns, where prominent men were en-
tertained in the early days. was struck
by lightning Sunday and burned. Fol
q number of years it has been occupied
by Francis A. Jewell of Somerville
who was on his way there Sunday to
occupy the place for the summer when
the fire occurred. The tavern is in
the town square and help was sum-
moned from Amesbury to assist in
saving the town library and other adj
jacent buildings.
The New York to Bermuda race for
sailing yachts. $40 nautical miles. mar
rowed down Saturday to two contest
ants, the schOoners Shyissa. belonging
to Detnarest Llody of Boston and Har-
old s Vanderbilt's new Vagrant. This
will be the Migrants first race. The
yachts were late in sailing. owing to a
law suit in the Chicago courts which
very nearly prevented Mr.. Lloyd from
getting away at all. At the last mo-
Il0nl H6 Outdlutu pCiihis'9iOh ~ w.
graph from his client to sail and came
bowling down to the starting line just
before dusk.
The Pennsylvania Railroad crews in
active service on the Philadelphia and
Middle divisions and is preparing to
reduce the time in the extensive shops
in Harrisburg. Orders were given to
store "a engines on the Middle division
and 20 have already been stored on
the Philadelphia division. On July IA
four preference crews will be restored.
Reductions in the number of engineers
were made and firemen and trainmen
laid off The reductions are due to
traffic conditions, which do not war
rant the force carried lately.
Smugglers, with diamonds worth $4oo.Wc
from the Southwest African mines. nave
succeeded in evading the colonial omcers
at Luderitz Bay and escaped for Europe.
1t is believed they are aboard German
liner. The government. which is entitled
to SO is per cent. of the value of the
Jewels, is watching all vessels which ar
rive. The revenue officers assert that
diamonds, worth many millions. have
been smuggled out in this way In recent
years. The smugglers have not been de-
tected, but are supposed to be women
who conceal the stones in their clothing.
The German Admiralty board has ar
ranged for the vessels of the fleet en-
gagged. in the grand maneuvers this year
to be kept in constant communication
with land by means of dirigble air.
ship fitted with wireless telegraphy. The
no ro nf
the semi-rigid type yet constructed, has
been completed for the army. The air
ship is 3Os feet long and AZ feet in di-
ameter 1t has four propellors and car
ries two gondolas The motors are cap
able of developing 400 horsepower. The
new airship will participate in the i'm
perial maneuvers.
The Rhode Island supreme court Sat
urday disbarred Macmillan Lizotte. a
Providence attorney. from the Rhode ISL
and courts for year for "unprofessional
acts in employing a detective. Maurice
Murray. to work for one' party in d.
vorce case after the detective had been
employed by the other party. The case
in question was the recently settled War
rem contest, which was one of the long.
est divorce trials ever held In the state
The detective attempted to collect fees
from Lizotte, but the court also ruled
that he had no right to collect the money
The German American oil tank
steamer Hesperus arrived Sunday at
New York from hamburg with her
steel foremost broken in two places
her starboard bow denied at the deck
and her starboard rail smashed. She
was in collision early yesterday with
the big six-masted schooner Addie
M. Lawrence, east of Nantucket in a
dense fog. AS far as could be learned
the Lawrence was not seriously dam
aged. She was bound from Boston for
Philadelphia in ballast and is one Of
the largest schooners in the coast
wise trade.
Joseph w. Swan, the former wealthy
Everett real estate dealer and his son
Robert G.. now 6 years old, whom the
father is alleged to have kidnapped from
his divorced wife's home IA Abbott
street, Dorchester, on May 10, 1903, was
brought back to Boston Saturday after
noon by Police Inspectors Thomas NJ
Lynch and Harry M. Pierce. The return
of Swan, who fled to Brazil with his
child, and who defied the United States
government to bring him back to Boston
for trial, was pitiable one, for the once
prosperous real estate operator was but
shadow of his former self, as he STEP
ped from the New York train in the
south station at Saturday night With
the man whom the police have sought for
more than two years, was his little son.
VINO went to his mothers custody. Swan
went to Jail
Miss Grace p Howe has mysteri-
ously disappeared from the knowledge
OF any of her relatives and friends
from her home, 267 Summer street.
Somerville. Mass. She has been absent
since I.20 on the morning of June 20,
when she left ostensibly to visit a per-
sonal friend. Mrs. Frederick Gould. in
weymouth. She never arrived at Mrs
Gould's home and all search for her
mas proven fruitless. leaving her sis
ter. Mrs. William J. Talbert of 267
Summer street, with whom the young
woman had lived for the past Is years.
completely baffied and greatly affect
ed Miss Howe is Is years old. She is
plump in figure, standing feet in
height and weighing about $50 pounds.
She has dark brown hair. blue eyes
and a pale skin. When she was last
seen she wore a black coat lined with
white satin. which fell nearly to her