Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-15

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sidering a merger with Boston Uni
| versity and closer cooperation with
| Harvard was first publicly announced
| Wednesday in the annual report of
| President Richard G. MacLauin to the
| corporation OF the institute.
Laughing heartily at the joke of a
| friend Albert Summers of La Crosse.
Wis, aged IS years, gasped ana sank
to the ground Wednesday. He died
few hours later. Physicians are Of
| the opinion that the strain of laughing
| induced a stroke of paralysis.
| President Jacob c. Klinck of the Will
| liamsburg Trust Co. of New York an
| nounced Wednesday that the company
was going into liquidation and that all
| its deposits would be paid in full The
company suspended during the panic of
1907
! One life was lost and the sound
steamer kitsap and the launch Column
/, bia were sunk as a result of two col
| hslons in Seattle harbor late Wednes-
day, involving the Columbia, the Kit
| sap and the steel steamship Indian
apolis. The man who lost his life was
| Aubrey p. Yemen a passenger on the
| Columbia. None of the 80 passengers
| on the Kitsap was injured. The acct
dents are attributed to the heavy fog.
| Gov. Draper of Massachusetts
! Wednesday appointed Frank l.. Dean
Of Worcester, his former private sec
| rotary. to the office of controller of
| county accounts to fill the vacancy
| caused by the death of Charles H.
| Prescott. The appointment was i'm
| mediately confirmed by the executive
council under a suspension of the rules.
Mr.. Dean will take office at once and
| receive a salary of $500 a year.
The Somerville police are looking for
| Frank Petellno of 81 Warren street, who
| Is charged with shooting his wife Marga-
| ret late Tuesday night. The shooting
! followed a quarrel when Peteeno drew
| a revolver and threatened his wife
| frightened by the threat she fed to the
bedroom. where he fired through the door
! panel, the bullet lodging in her groin
After securing what little money his wife
| possessed, Peteleno escaped through IL
| window Just the officers arrived
Willie Hoppe the billiard expert
| was married Wednesday afternoon at
| Baltimore Md. to Miss Alice Walsh.
daughter of Thomas Walsh. a wealthy
| clothing manufacturer of New York
| The ceremony was performed by Rev.
| p. c. Gavan. chancellor of the Arch
| diocese of Baltimore. The marriage
was the elimination of an elopement
The first meeting of Hoppe and Miss
| Walsh is said to have taken place three
| years ago at Atlantic City, when the
| young lady's life was saved by the
| man she wed Wednesday,
The New York Fire Insurance Ex-
change whose methods and DEALINGS
have for some time been under inves-
! tlgalion by the Merritt joint legislative
committee announced tonight a sweep
| ing reduction in rates on all business
within the city limits written after
Nov ]. 1910 and not affecting apart
ment houses or residential property.
The reduction varies from to Is Der
| cent. and will reduce in corresponding-
~ proportion the total premium in
come on New York property. which
last year is estimated to have amount
ed to s21,000,OO0.
l. with their arms about one another,
howard Newcomb, said to have been
a resident of Higlllandtown, a suburb
| OF Baltimore. and Mrs. Nellie n. Hall
| OF Camoen, n. j.. were found asphyxi-
| ated Wednesday in rom Of an apart
ment mouse here where they had lived
for week. y gas jet was found omen
III the room and the fact that all air
| spaces about the windows and door
had been stuffed with paper led the
police to the conclusion that the con.
pie had agreed to commit suicide TO-
gether. Nothing was found in the
room to indicate why they should
nave ended their lives. Little was
Known about them at the house. New
comb was about 30 years and the wo-
man about %.
! The boilermakers' lockout in London
affecting 10000 men in the yards of the
Shlpbuild:ng Employers Federation
ended Wednesday with the acceptance
/ by the men of the terms made by the
! employers. The yards will re-onen
thursday. The lockout was instituted
on Sept. 2, following a strike of tho
rlveters employed at the Walker shin.
Saro at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The feder-
ation asserted that the strike was a
| violation of an agreement made he
| tween the federation and 10 workmen,s
| societies last spring for the prevention
| Oh strikes and lockouts and declared q
| LOCKOUT to remain in force unit, tho
| ooiiermakers' society was prepared To
! guarantee the fulfillment Of the agree-
n,ent.