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

Saturdays program of the automobile
races at the Speedway track at Atlanta,
Ga, was called off on account of rain.
Racing will be held Monday, weather per-
hitting. ~
The Griffin button shop at Shelton
It., was partially burned Saturday
temporarily, and the loss is ABOUT
S2o000.
Named as beneficiary of trust fund
Of $4,000 created by his brother. Gen.
Charles n. Pine of Ansonia. only last
month, J. Edgar Pine, aged 60. for manv
years owner of the largest monumental
works in Ltchfeld county, died at his
home in Winsted, Ct. of heart failure.
Denver is to have a tive-days high al
titude" aviation meet A contract was
closed Friday with representative of
the Wright brothers for the appearance
of Ralph tombstone, Archie HoXsey and
Walter Brookins in exhibition flights in
Overland park. Nov. II to %. A guaran-
tee of $4,000 was made.
Robert A. Crump, former cashier of
the Fedora. Banking Co. which failed
several months ago. was Saturday at
Mexico. City sentenced to II years i'm
prisonment following his conviction for
embczzling $685. from the institution.
This Is tue maximum penalty provided
~ Mexican laws The bank was an
American house.
Engineering asserts that Germany
las long been making guns that beat
the British 1873 guns. These guns, the
paper says, are likely to be placed on
the warships now being built. Ger
| many is also introducing new eX-
plcsive shell of unprecedented power.
| Tests with this shell have shown dew
astating results.
A movement to form a national or
! ganization was inaugurated by the
| Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Sunday
| School Societies of Massachusetts,
| which concluded a two-days conven-
| ton Sunday evening at Gardner, Mass.
Steps will be taken to extend the pro-
| iect to every state which possesses n
| considerable number of followers of
| the faith.
A chauffeur was killed and three
prominent New York men were injur-
ed Sunday, when an automobile turned
turtle near Walden, n. Y. The dead
man is Alexander Fhbel His skull
was crushed. The injured are: John
F.. Roosevelt, relative of Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt; John T. Silt. a New
! York financier, and J. H. Robinson of
Mount Vernon, n. Y.
! More than 20 per cent of the men nomi.
| mated by the Democratic and Republican
parties as candidates for Congress al
/ the coming election are in favor of suf.
| frage for women, either in full or partial.
| ~. according to the Congressional com
! mttee of the National Woman Suffrage
| Association. To ascertain the view OF
prospective congressman on the subject
Of woman suffrage the committee con.
Quoted a canvass by mail.
After killing his two young daugh.
tiers. F.. p. French. a superintendent
| for the Public Service Corporation OF
| Elizabeth. \. j.. Saturday at his home
took his own life. French had beer
| i'll long time, and it is believed his
| mind had become affected. The vic
tins were Reba. u wears old. an(
Doris. 10 years old. He shot both girl:
, dead, then turned the revolver agains
! himself.
Arrangements are being made for al
| aeroplane fight across the Florida
straits from Havana to Key West
probably the first week in December
The distance is over 90 miles. but thu
conditions for flying. it is claimed