Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-08

| sa,,., s,r the estate of the late Charles
| r. ycrkes. and for Louis Owsley, It's
| executor. He had asked $2l0,""
In plain sight of 80 reno" ""' N''N"
Wednesday, Charles Kendall hI"ui"
er's helper leaped into cup 81 VIII
hot metal at the foundry al BarHeH'ii'e'
Ohio The mans flesh was entiTeiy CON-
sumed and only the bones were feco'-
cred.
Commander Robert Platt, u. >. n,
Retired. died at his home in Washing
Ton late Wednesday following an at
tack of cerebral embolism with when
he was stricken three weeks ago. ne
was born at Southport, y. G., ana "as
76 years of age.
Carving q total of s8,l60,9S3, the
Indian appropriation bill, the hrst pis
supply measure finished at TINS session
of Congress, was reported to the Rouse
"Wednesday by Chairman Burke OF the
committee on Indian affairs. Inc
amount exceeds the formal estimates
of the interior department by Sl4,IZ"'
hut is s851.663 less than the total APP
propriations for the Indian service for
tho current year.
An inspector of Antiquities Vlsahoi'i'9'
who was being examined Wednesday at
Athens, charged with selling diplomas
of the University of Athens, commi''eo
| & .;icide in the court room. a bullet from
his revolver also badly wounded the mag
istrate.
Tho Rat Portage Lumber Co.'S pl@
mill in st. Boniface; across the river
from winnipeg, was burned Wediles-
day LOSS $25O,O0O. With the temper
, azure at 16 degrees below zero. ~ pa
! tents in Stroch's hospital, 200 ieet nls-
tant from the fire, We're transferred 70
, another institution.
The Chinese. authorities are hurrying
doctors to Manchuria from all points in
Siberia to fight the plague. The Chinese
have been warned that restrictions VIII
he placed on the sending of wheat and
| beans to the central markets. 1t is feared
that the trade of the whole country VIII
be practically suspended for weeks ana
/ perhaps months
,Justice Charles wv Dayton of the
New York state supreme court, cled
at his home i'm New York CRY
Wednesday of pneumonia. He was
horn in 1876, was admitted to the par
ip 1868. served as postmaster OF New
I York CITY during the second Cleveland
administration and was elected to INC
: supreme bench in 1906.
Although George Moore broke the
worlds record for high run at three
cushion billiards. making ID straight
| points. he was defeated by Tom" Gal
lapher in their three-night handicap
match which was concluded Wednesday
l. night in New York City The former
record was made by Frank Peterson at
st. Louis in 1885. Wednesday nights
score was: Gallagher Al; Moore 81.
According to dispatches received at
Lima, Peru, Bolivian forces surprised
and attacked the Peruvian garrison at
Guayabal on the Bolivian frontier
sharp engagement ensued in which
many of the Peruvians were killed or
wounded. Peruvian troops have been
rushed to the scene. There are fears
that this may lead to serious rup-
ture between the two countries. lhn
insurgents under Ferro have taken
refuge in Ecuador.
Gov-elect Woodrow Wilson was the
recipient of loving cup presented pH
the Senior class of Princeton unVer-
sity at u banquet Wednesday night at
Princeton, n. J. Answering the proph-
esy of the class president. M. Dwight
of Morristown, n. j., about Higher
, Honors Than the Governorship,' Or.
Wilson said: Your gift is a token to
Princetonian embarking on voyage,
for what port / don't know, nor do
care. | am making it for the fun OF
navigating we'll, whatever the destina-
ton
Jew elry said to be worth $4,000, tho
! property of Mrs Theodore p. Shonts
wife of the president of the INTERIOR
| ough Rapid Transit Co, was retained
| BY customs officials at New York
| Wednesday. when Mrs. Shonts return
| ed from Europe on the steamship
| Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse. Mrs.
| Shonts did not declare the jewelry, eX
planning that she had obtained it in
Paris in exchange for old jewels on
which duty had been paid when they
were originally imported. For that
: reason, she said, she did not think the
i gems were dutiable.
The officials of Noble county, Ohio.
| after an investigation, are positive that
! Mrs Minerva Williams, widow re-
| cluse IS years old, whose charred body
was found in the ruins of her burned
| home near Kennettbury Wednesday
morning, was murdered by robbers, who
fired the house after obtaining $4,000
concealed in it. For five years past the
! aged widow had lived the life of her
! nit.
Frank B. Kemp of Springfield, whose
term as member of the Massachusetts;
| Highway Commission will expire Jan.
=. three days before Governor Foss
takes Office. was reappointed for three
years by Governor Draper at the meet
! ing Wednesday of the executive coun-
ell. Other appointments made were: f.
| II. Harrison Of Wellesley. insurance
commission and Charles II. Preston
OF Danvers, trustee of the Massachu
| sets Agricultural College.
All the retiring directors We're re-
elected at the annual meeting of the
stockholders and policyholders Of the
| Equitable Life Assurance SociCt!'
Wednesday at New York City. 1t was
| stated by one of the officers Of the so