Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Two slight earthquake shocks We're felt
at Victoria, B. c.. at 11.59 o'clock
Wednesday night No damage has been
reported
Rear Admiral Charles II. Stockton,
president of George Washington Univer-
sity, Washington, Wednesday was elected
to the position of president.
Fifteen fishermen are supposed to
have been drowned off Charlestown,
S. c.. their smack having been miss
ing for several days. A report says
a smack was sighted floating bottom
upward Thursday.
Six hundred workers employed by
several Milwaukee concerns went on
strike Thursday, claiming that Chica-
so garment houses are sending goods
&c milwaukee, firms to be finished. The
Milwaukee houses deny the allegation.
Wednesdays nights rumor at Cher
bourg, France, that an American picket
boat from the visiting fleet had been lost
with several men, was disproved Thurs
day. 1t grew out of the swapping of
French launch, the crew of which was
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ship Louisiana
"Ballooning is a barrel of. beer, aero
planning drink of whiskey," said Au-
gustus Post, who after establishing an
American balloon record. with Hawley,
entered ar aeroplane meet Thursday
at New York. "If YOU are thirsty you
want the beer. for stimulation whis
key" he added.
Announcements was made by Post
master General Hitchcock Thursday of
the appointment of James 3. Britt OF
North Carolina, to be third assistant
postmaster general. vice, A. l. Lawshe,
who resigned that office some time ago.
Mr.. Britt is law officer of the depart
ment and ranking official of the third
assistants bureau.
The directory of the living non-grad-
yates of Yale University for 1910, just
published, contains 6S72 names. Over one
half of those listed have unspecited vo-
cation. but the mercantile business shows
564. Next ranks the ministry with 800;
manufacturing with $50: educational work
with S43; law 345, and finance 32l. The
smallest group is that of science. which
numbers 90.
With IA rat bites on her body I.iebe
Lewis, the two year old daughter of
Nj. Lewis of Washington is dying of
blood poisoning. A short time since
Mrs. Lewis was awakened by the
cillds cries. Lighting the gas. the
mother saw a big rat disappear. A
physician was summoned and the
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did not escape infection.
-Four men who have been arrested by
Chicago polio" within the last two days
confessed Thursday they were guilty
of participation in over 100 hold-ups
in that city in the last four months. At
ore time, one of them boosted he had
eight watches and said he took so
much plumber from his victims he and
his partners in crime could not dis
pose OF 1t as fast as they got it and
had to ''lay Off work" for while, to
dc SO
Benjamin Lott. well-to-da civil engi-
neer, was fatally injured at his home
Thursday at New York by the closing of
a folding bed. While he was still asleep,
his head was caught in the bed as in
steel trap. which nearly guillotined him.
Members of his family heard his cries
and rescued him Immediately. but he was
unconscious. An ambulance surgeon,
hastily summoned. said that the spinal
column had been injured so severely that
recovery was impossible.
AS CHINO Brunette hurled himself
fourth floor window. smash
ing the glass and SASH detectives who
had gone to his room to arrest him
night at New York, caught
his disappearing form by the feet. For
five minutes they pulled and painted.
while Brunello. hanging head down.
ward outside the window, struggled
and squirmed to free himself. A crowd
which blocked the street below looked
on expecting to see the man fall and
be dashed to death. With the help OF
policemen, the detectives were able to
pull Brunello into the room. They took
the man 70 the police station to an
swer to the charge of threatening
fellow Italian with a revolver.
American citizens DESTROYS of en-
gaging in farming may obtain an ir-
rigatcd farm ranging in size from 20
to so acres free from Uncle Sam.
A bout 100 farms are now open to en-
try along the several irrigation pro-
jects controlled by the government,
the chief expense incurred in obtain
ing one of these tracts being the pay 4
ment of the cost of water rights,
which amounts to from $50 to $50 an
acre of irrigable land. THE crop
season of 1910 in the West emphasized
the value issued by the reclamation
service. 1T was the best year the
farmers have known on the big pro-
jects Of the government and many