Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| continues to go well.
| President James *. Taylor % NaFsar
College announced before the chap'l
exercises Monday night that MIS-
| Russell Sage had presented NasSar
with $4,000 for the construction OF
new reside nee hall Or dormit"ry. The
| lift was made TWO weeks ago, but
! it was not until Monday that President
Tavlur was giver by Mrs. Sage per
mission to make it public. The new
building is greatly needed as great
MANY students are living off the cam
pus.
| IT was not until 90 of the 1Ol tales
men had been examined that the jury
| which is tC try Silas Phelps, the mon
| roe Bridge outlaw sO-callcd, charged
| with numbering Deputy Sheriff Emmett
| r. Haskins at Monroe last June, was
| completed Monday at Greenfield. Mass.
| Elmer d. Severance of Turner's Fails
! was selected as foreman. After read
| in. the Indictment and the plea enter
ed ny Phelps il was arranged that the
| Jurors pass Tuesday in viewing the
| scene OF the murder.
! "ne VereinS bany at Frankfort on
the oder, Germany, suspended Monday
an examination Of its affairs by an
auditing company. A run on the in
stitution began last Wednesday since
which time depostors had withdrawn
i Sf25, 900, the exact amount of the cap
ital The deposits totallcd $3.50, 900.
1t is stated that the bank invested too
heavily in the mortgage of land COM
panies. 1t is probable that the de-
i
Rev Francis Charles Williams, q
retired Unitarian clergyman, died Mon
| day at his home i'm Brookline, Mass
| MIR. Williams was born in Boston in
| 1924. He studied at Harvard and was
graduated in the Glass of 1S43. He was
| ordained to the ministry in 1850. His
| first parish was at North Andover, and
| this was followed by pastorates at
| Brattleboro, VT, and later at Hyde
| Park. He was an abolitionist and at
! the outbreak of the Civil War enlist
I ed as chaplain in the Sth Vermont
| Regiment.
! The Wachusett House, history
| Wooden structure in Princeton Center,
| Mass, was destroyed by fire Monday
| forenoon. a building occupied as tel
| ephone station in the rear of the no.
| tel was badly damaged and two near
by buildings We're scorched, as a result
| OF fire which started from a defective
! chimney in the hotel. Famed by a
| strong east wind the flames for ii time
| threatened all the buildings in the
| center of the town and help was sent
| from Huhbardston and East Princeton
| The loss is not expected to exceed $3v.-
| 900.
Clarence A. Walters. a member of
| the firm If John F. Briggs 4 Son.
| dealers in wooden goods on East 18th
street. New York, was arrested Mon
| day Ey Omitted States Marshal HenkeI
on charge of falsely entering through
the custom house imported goods at
| less than their true value. Assistant
| Dist. Aatty. Plat says the alleged
frauds Will aggregate about $4,000
Walters was arraigned before United
| States Commissioner Shields and held
| in $4,000 bail for examination on
! Dec. /.
! Rev. Charles II. Burr, for the past -
years librarian of Williams College.
| died Monday at his home in Williams
| town, Mass, aged 63 years. Mr. Burr
| had been i'll for more than a month
| suffering from nervous collapse He
| was a graduate of Williams College of
1868 and of the Princeton Theological
! school two years later. From 1874 to
1878 he was pastor of the Rochdale
Pres byterian church, New York CITY
and was pastor of the Bethany Congre-
Satlonal church. in the same city from
| 1850 to 1883. A widow three daugh-
ters and a son survive.
! A. j. Miller, James Douglass. James
Mclean and Arthur. Curtiss James
were Monday at New York elected
directors Of the Rock Island Co to
succeed f. G.. C. Boissevain, f. s.
Pearson, Percival Farquhar and f. D
i<enna. Mr.. Mclean was elected n
director OF the first class and men,
Der of the finance committee. Mr.
James was also elected director of
lhe Chicago Rock Island & Pacific
20. ana a member of the executive
committee. Officers of the Rock Is
land Co. and of the Chicago, Rock
Island < Pacific Railway Co. were
re- elected
PRESIDENT James Kirby, in his annu-
al report to the building trade depart
'nent of the American Federation of
Labor at its annual meeting at ST
Louis Monday advised all councils with
which the Reid factions of the electri-
cal workers are affiliated. to unseat
mis- faction. He urged that all possible
assistance be rendered the Internation-
al Electrical Workers in organizing
their union. The split in the electricaI
workers was the cause of much dis
sension during the convention of the
American Federation of Labor last
week President McNulty and the
"Regulars' have the favor OF the fed
GRAFTON.
Six comely nurses of the Citv hos
oital. Jersey City, participated in q
sacrificial and Monday that will assure
them of bearing for life badge indi-
eating that they contributed their mite
toward saving a human life. On the
left arm of each, midway between the
shoulder and the elbow, is a SPOT about
an inch square. from which the skin
was deity pared by a razor edged sur-
scoh knife. The six contributions of
SKIN from the young women were add
eu TO others and the total of 25 square
lhches was used in a skin grating ef-
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