Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

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The big Canadian Pacific Railway
| liner jiamura reached st. John, n. b.,
Sunday to inaugurate the direct ser
vice between st. John and Australia
She will load general cargo and will
get away in about five days.
| The Right Rev Monsignor Patrick j..
| T1adkins, for 40 years pastor of st. Jer-
ONE church at Holyoke, Mass, died late
! Sunday night at the House of Providence
| hospital, an institution which he founded.
| He was Il years of age and had been all
! ing for some time, death being in a large
measure due to his declining years.
| Coasting down a hill on bob sled
Sunday at Wheeling, w. Va, two boys.
Harold Meyer, 10, and Charles Brahler,
Is were almost instantly killed when
| the sled crashed into an automobile
ascending the hill. The automobile
was partially wrecked but the chauf-
feur Arthur Austin, escaped injury.
| The Countess De Nicolay and her
son and the chauffeur in charge of
an automobile in which they were
driving were killed Sunday at a rail-
road crossing near Lemans, France.
| The automobile was struck by an eX-
press train. Gasoline from the auto
mobile spurted over the front car
Iiages OF the train. setting them on
fire. The passengers were thrown into
a panic. but the flames We're quickly
| eXtinguished.
| Robert and Charles Ferris, aged 9
| and 5 years, were burned to DEATH
| their parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Caeser
Ferris, were probably fatally injured
| and the only other members of the
| family, Maud, aged II, and baby
We're badly hurt in a fire which de-
| stroyed the Ferris home early Sunday
at Reynoldsville. Pa. The father and
| mother We're injured in jumping
through a window, with Maud and the
baby.
The stamping campaign which Cover
nor-elect Eugene n. Foss has been wag-
ing on Cape Cod the past three days
against the reelection of Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge. came to close late Satur-
day with a meeting at Wareham. Barn
stable county, where the rallies were
confined. sends three representatives to
the Legislature and all of these, it is
claimed, have been pledged to support
Senator Lodge. Governor-elect Foss and
party Of half a dozen Republicans held
% rallies, the tour being made in cover
ed automobiles.
Governor John A. Mead of Vermont
has received a communication from
Joseph Battell offering to give to the
sttae of Vermont for state park 1000
acres of virgin forest. including the
peak of the Green Mountain range
known as CameIs Hump Mr. Battell
offers to deed the property to the
state under proper conditions as TO
the preservation of the forest and pro-
vision for suitable paths; and as the
park is intended for the safe use of
the whole population of Vermont, au-
tomobi]es are to be excluded from the
same. The donor suggests that the
park be named Mount Ethan Allen in
honor of Eermont's revolutionary hero.
The flood continues serious along the
valleys of the Loire. Rhone and Ca
rome, France, and there is but slight
improvement elsewhere. AL the coun-
try to the northwest of Nantes to the
extent of about 10 miles in length and
five in breadth, is a sheet of water.
reports from Nantes say that during
Saturday night q dixie collapsed and
five villages to the southeast of Paris
were overwhelmed in few minutes.
Several thousand families by this dis
aster We're added to the already large
number of sufferers. No casualties
We're reported.
An important step has just been TAX
en- by China with the object of expend
ing and increasing the efficiency of her
issued edicts creating a navy depart
ment. which up to the present has con-
sisted merely of board for the con-
Quoting OF naval affairs. Prince Tsai
Sum, uncle of the emperor who recent
ly paid an extensive visit to the United
States has been appointed president
OF the new department and his full
recommendations for the re-organiZa
ton of the navy have been approved.
The general staff of the army will be
re-Organized along modern lines, as
proposed by Gen. Yien Tehang, who
formerly was minister to Germany but
who is now president OF the war de-
partment.
Figures giving the altitude above
sea level of more than 400 places ir
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
have just been made public by the
United States Geological Survey in
special bulletin. In it's task OF max
ing topogra phic and a geologic at
las Of the United States the survey
from 1896 to 1870? ran lines of levels
through these three states. In most
f the places permanent bench marks
we're placed. The work in Maine had
the cooperation of the State authori-
tses. TIE surveys are not onlv valu
able TO work of The survey. but also
in other ways. s.ieh as in road max
ing operations of various cou:,tits.
Pres. William II. OBrien. of the
Central Labor Union, recently a can
didate for Congress against Congress
man A. p. Gardner, may be 4 candi-
date for the school COMMITTEES against
the nominees of the Public School AS
ISOLATION and the Citizens municjna,
League. Mr.. O'Brien may announce
his decision today or possibly Mon.
day. He has been promised the s,,n-
port of the labor unions and inf,uen.
tial persons in no way connected wifi,
iabor movements. Mayor Fjtzcaro,d q,