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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

Leon de LaGranSe ranked among the
first of the aViators Of the world. on
Dec. 80 last at .Iuvisy he broke all speed
records in an attempt to win the Nichlin
cup He did not succeed in beating Hen
ny Farmans record for distance but did
establish a new distance record for mono
planes and a new worlds speed record.
He covered ia miles in ; hours and g.
minutes De LaGrange had been we'll
known automobilist and was one of the
first men in Europe to take up aviation.
In October last De LaGrange mad a
flight at Doncaster, Eng. establishing q
speed record for one mile and $50 yards
in one minutes. II Is seconds. His first
public flight was made March Is. 1907, at
Bagatele. France, when ne assembled in
a biplane The machine moved 80 feet
in the air and descended. Some days
later de LaGrange made a fight of 4i53
feet carrying a passenger. Visiting Rome
in 1908 he made a flight in the presence
of royalty. Soon afterwards at Turin he
took woman passenger on brief trip.
In May. 1899. at Juvisy, he won the Le-
Catineri prize. making clio miles in IL
minutes. Is seconds.
He entered the competitions at Rheims
in August last, preparing for the first
time in a monoplane. He captured the
i0th prize for speed and the eighth priz
for distance In September last he visited
Denmark and made flight of 10 minutes
duration before King Frederick.
De IaGrange's first really sensational
flight was at Doncaster on Oct. 26. 1903,
when he flew six miles in seven minutes,
Go seconds.
De Lagrange has exhibited great daring
and at times did not hesitate to assume
grave risks rather than to disappoint
crowds that had gathered to see hin. On
Nov. D. Ig0z. lie fell with lis aeroplane
while giving an exhibition II Issyi Tn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

Frederick II. Owen, Jr., who had
been passing the Christmas holidays
with his grandfather, Hon. Howard
Owen, of this city, left on train "a
yesterday forenoon for Concord
Mass, to resume his studies in the
Concord School for Boys
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

The regular meeting of King Co.,
No. 4, L. r., X. of p, will be held at
the armory Thursday evening and it is
earnestly desired that all members be
present as preparations will be made
for the coming installation of the Of
ficers-elect which will be held on
Thursday evening, Jan 90
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

Among the upriver people who
came to Augusta yesterday to attend
the Peary lecture at City hall last
evening We're Mr.. and Mrs. +. E. Me-
Nellie and Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Patten
of Skowhegan
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

Bangor News: Mrs. c. F. Penney,
who has spent the last five years in
Bangor and vicinity, has returned to
Augusta where she has taken her old
home for the winter
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

John Wadleign,, who has been at
home during the Christmas recess, will
return to Concord, Mass, today, to re-
sumo his studies iii the Concord
School for Boys.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

Miss f. A. Baker of Bangor, who at
tended the Shaw Business College in
that city, has taken a position as
stenographer at the Vickery & Hill
publishing house in this city
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05
CUMMINGS A CANDIDATE,
Seeks County Commissioners Nomina
ton at Hands Of Republicans.

Henry F. Cummings Of Manchester,
who Represented the Manchester
Hallowell- Farmingdale class in the
74th Legislature announces his candi-
dacy for county commissioner and
seeks a nomination at the hands of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

The Ladies' Aid Of the Green Street
Methodist church will meet Thursday
afternoon at 2.30 o'clock with Mrs. G..
+. Friend, 81 Chapel street
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

The Sacred Heart Circle is planning
to hold musical and literary enter
tainment at the Circle hall Thursday
evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

G. II. Sanford of Oakland, Calf, is
the guest of his uncle, a. l.. Cram,
50 School street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05
(The Mission

a, those eorpuscles in your blood
mat have been called Little
s"IdIers," is to fight for you
soainst the disease germs that
Constantly endanger your health.
1nase corpus cIes are made
healthy and strong by the use Of
Moods Sarsapari!ia.
This medicine is a combination OF
more than 20 different remedial agents
IN nroportions and by process known
univ to ourselves and it has for thirty
vears been constantly proving its worth.
No substitute, none "just-as-good. -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05
Daily ksnnebee JcurnaI
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LOCAL BRIEFS.

Roy H. Bodwell went to Belfast
Tuesday on a business trip.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

day that sufficient repairs had been
made to insure performances this even
ing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05
ODD FELLOWS HALL.

ASYLUM LODGE NO. 70, REGULAR
meeting Friday evening at 73O o'clock
Friday evening, Jan. I, work in First de-
D. w. LOvEJOY, N. G.
r. Fl. BROWN, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

JEPHTHA ENCAMPMENT, NO. 3.
Meetings at 7.3O o'clock every second and
fourth Tuesday.
FRANK J. HAM, G. p.
q. w. MERRILL, Scribe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 9 p. M.
Regular meeting every third Tuesday at
s o'clock.
]. K. BROWN. Capt
JOHN II. KELLER, Clerk
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

U. O. G. C. MORRILL, CON-
mandery No. 32G. u. o. G. c. Regular
meeting on Tuesday evenings at 80
o'clock at Golden Cross hall,
JOHN "A. GARDNER. n. G.
BERTHA A. WRITTEN. X. r.
w. +. CI.OUGH, f. *. r.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

KNIGHTS OF THE MACCABEES
Kennebec Tent No Il, meets in Golden
Cross hall on first and third Mondays Of
each month at 7.4J.
l.. RI. DUDLEY. Com.
EUGENE MERRILL, r. *.
m-W-f
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05

AUGUSTA LODGE, 3. p. o. e.. NO.
964. Meetings the second and fourth
Thursdays of each month at o'clock.
+. w. PLAISTED. T.. r.
II. \. HEATH. See.
july m-w-f-tf
Connecticut western news., 1910-01-13
BOSTON ELECTS
 FITZGERALD MAYOR
Chosen by Small Majority Over
 RefOrmer StOrrOW.

The Hon. John r. Fitzgerald former mayor of Boston and also a former congressman, was again chosen mayor of the city on Tuesday by plurality of 1,223 over James J. StOrrow, the banker, selected by the framers of the new city charter to lead the reform movement there. Mayor George A. Hubbard was third in the race, but he received only 1,7S3 votes, while Nathaniel H. Taylor, who had assert ed confidently that he would get 39,- 900 votes, could muster but 629 at the polls As each of these men required the signatures of 5000 citizens on their nomination papers before they could become candidates, it is quite evident that some of the signers of the Hubbard and Taylor papers forgot to mark ballots for them when in the voting booths.
 The victory of Fitzgerald is a severe blow to the reformers but it is great personal triumph for the little general" The odds were against him when the campaign opened. He faced an unlimited campaign fund, the op- position of almost all the leading busi- ness men of the city, the influence of the newspapers, every one of which was either OutspOkenly or half heart edly opposed to his candidacy, and the abuse of Democratic leaders who were formerly his closest allies.
 MT. Storrow will demand a recount.
Connecticut western news., 1910-01-13
RAILROAD MEN CONFIDENT.
Sure Government Cannot Dissolve Un- ion Pacific Southern Pacific Merger.

Sure Gevern.Hent Cannot Dissolve Un-
 ion Pscific- Southern Pacific Merger.
 Robert $. Lovett, president of the Hartman lines, and his counsel told President Taft that the government could not win the suit which it began under the Sherman antitrust law to dissolve the merger of the Union Pa rife and Southern Pacific railroad sys- temS.
 This, it is said on high authority, was the basis of a White House con ference at which Attorney General Wickersham and Frank B. Kellogg, the leading trust buster" of the gov ernment, were present. They made no offer, it was stated, to dissolve the merger and be good hereafter, as was reported from New York. Instead they attempted to show the admins tratiOn that there was no possible chance for the government to win its suit An investigation will be made.
Connecticut western news., 1910-01-13
EARLY DECLARED A LEPER.
Committee of Experts Says Soldier
 Was Properly Quarantined.

By a special committee Of live, ap- pointed by the Society of Medical Jul risprudence of New York to investi- gate the case of John R. Early, the United States soldier who was long held a Quarantined prisoner by the authorities at Washington as a leper, Early has been adjudged a leper.
 The committee, which consisted of three physicians and two lawyers, said in it's report:
 The medical members of the committee found John R. Early to be a leper be- cause of the demonstration of Dr. Henry Kreuder of the bacilli of leprosy in prep arations made from his skin and which have been identified and confirmed by Drs. Dietrich, Fordyce, Whitehouse and Morrow.
 The legal members of the committe in view of the foregoing findings by the medical members of the committee and of the record and exhibits herewith pre- sented find that the action taken with reference to John R. Early by the au- thorities at Washington was within the provisions of the interstate quarantine regulations of the United States making leprosy a quarantinable disease.
Connecticut western news., 1910-01-13
DIR. COOKS WORKS FICTION"
Boston Public Library Decides tO
 Chance Their Classification.

SndH9o SiaSSIiSdLiOns
 The three books published by pr. Frederick A. Cook now in the Boston Public library. have been officially placed in the "ictitiuuS narrative list. This is the library's way of declaring the explorer a fakcr. Furthermore, pr. Cooks works cIjoy the unenvia- Ole distinction of forming One-half of th"t exclusive division nf the library. f. r up tn the present b't three other vU!'lm"% h!ve Eren so charactPrizPd.
 The present members of the library's ''iH bad" club are "Through CneXplOr- ed Asia" by W illlam Jameson Reid of Boston. published in 1899; ''The Ad- ventures of Louis De Rougemont," as told by himself, published in 1900, and "A Historical and Geographical De- scription of FormOsa," by George Psalmanazar, in 1705.
 Boston's library officials make a dis tinctiOn between books containing fic- titiOus information which have been published as bona fide works of explo- ration and the larger class of harmless impositions which are frauds on their face. For the reason such books as the Arabian Nights" Baron Nun chausen" and others are officially ig- nOred
Connecticut western news., 1910-01-13
AERONAUT HAS SKULL BROKEN
Accident to Amateur at Los Angeles. PauIhan and Willard n Fine Flights.

Accident to Amateur at Los Angeles.
 PauIhan and Willard I7 Fine Flights.
 Forty thousand spectators at Do- minguez aviation field witnessed flights by Louis Paulhan in a Farman bi plane and Charles F. Willard ill a Curtiss machine in the great interna tional aviation meet which began in Los Angeles, Cal. Professor J. $. Yer be broke a driving chain, which smash ed the left ground wheel, and his flight proved a failure. His multiplane had just arisen from the field when the ac cident occurred. The machine, which weighed 1,200 pounds, fell with a crash, but the aviator was not injured.
 While starting his Langley type mOnoplane Edward $. Smith, a local amateur, was struck by propeller blade and sustained fracture at the base of the skull The field ambulance was brought into use for the first time during the meeting. Smith, who built his own machine, will recover.
 Paulhan reached the height of GOO feet. His first flight was 21 minutes r seconds. Flying directly over the grand stand, he made beautiful land ing in front of his tent.
Connecticut western news., 1910-01-13
.ELOPING HEIRESS
 CAUGHT IN CHICAGO
Roberta de JdnOn and Hotel
 Waiter ROW Prisoners.

After a chase lasting thirteen days and extending through ten states Miss Roberta Buist De Janon, the sixteen year-old heiress of Millionaire Robert Buist of Philadelphia. was captured in d house in Chicago on Monday in company with Frederick Cohen, the middle aged hotel waiter, with whom she elOped.
 After leaving Philadelphia the couple fled from city to city in an endeavor to throw the police off their track and abandoned trip to England with this end in view. They went to New York from Philadelphia, staying in Gotham but a few hours. Then they left for Montreal Prom the latter city they went to St. Juhns, boarding steamer for England. At Halifax they left the ship and went by train to Boston, thence going to Chicago.
 To Captain Rehm. in charge of the police station to which she and Cohen were taken. the girl told pathetic story of lonesomeness. She said that her mother had just died and that her father was living in another city. There appeared to be nothing for her but a boarding school. Nobody seem ed to understand or sympathize with her but Cohen. q waiter. married and forty-two years old. He was employed in the same hotel where she lived. She said
 MT. Cohen was waiter in the pri- vate dining room in the hotel where 1 took my meals. and to him l talked a great deal after my mother had gone He sympathized with me and seemed to understand how l felt. He knew what my sorrows were. and it was only natural that in q short time I told him everything. His sympathy and kindness seemed to relieve me a great deal.
 Finally, when I could stand my lonesOmeness no longer. 1 begged him to take me away. He refused at first, even after he admitted that he loved me. and not until had threatened to kill myself would he consent. Then we made our plans.
 We passed as father and daughter wherever we went" explained Miss De Janon. Sometimes we gave one name and sometimes another"
Connecticut western news., 1910-01-13
SAT0LLI DEAD, LEFT : MESSAGE TO TAFT.
Cardinal Hoped United States !. and Italy Would Be Allied.

Cardinal Francesca di Paola Satolli, former apostolic delegate to the Unit ed States, died in Rome on Saturday of nephritis and atrophy of the right lung. complicated with blood poison ing.
 Almost to the hour of his death the cardinal discussed with the few who were permitted to see him the affairs of the church in the United States, in which country he had profound in terest following his visits, which in cluded his mission as first apostolic delegate from the Vatican ill the Unit ed States ill the fall of 1892. To a friend from America the dying man said:
 Remember me to President Taft and tell him that 1 hope the day will come when tile United States and Italy will be allied. Italy then being re- public"
 Satolli was born in perugia. Italy, in 1889.
Connecticut western news., 1910-01-13
DANGER IN GODLESs MONEY.
Methodist Bishop Criticises Carnegie
 and Rockefeller Gifts.

In an open letter, dealing with the great educational gifts by Andrew Car negie and John D. Rockefeller, Bishop Warren Candler of the Southern Meth Odist church declares that these gifts under the conditions inspired, tend to godlessness and ruin of the country. Bishop Candler said:
 "The Carnegie fund excludes from its use members of faculties of the church schools, and the Rockefeller fund denies the use of any part of what is given for theological instruc- tion. These two foundations embody prevalent notions on this subject. Now we may as well understand first as last that the policy of religiOnless edu- cation and immoral culture can end in nothing but ruin.
 "The colleges of the Roman CathO- lie church have not asked a penny of the Rockefeller fund or the Carnegie fund, and one risks nothing in saying they will not. These colleges do not propose to be drawn away from their mission by any promises of gold. Would that our Protestant institutions were equally devoted to the religious objects they were founded to achieve"
Connecticut western news., 1910-01-13
GRIM ES
 AND CASUALTIES.

SAooN- of tunnel he was digging under street ill New York to get at the safe of jeWelry store across the way. He had Gug about thirty feet in the right direction. when he lost his bearings and started to dig down the middle of the street.
 Sixteen Italians, one of whom was convicted of murder in Italy and an other under d six years sentence there as forger, were arraigned before United States Commissioner Shields in New York as counterfeiters, having been captured i'll a raid by Captain William J. Flynn.
 Refusing to confess that they cheat ed the federal treasury i'll the interest of the sugar trust. the four checkers who were convicted before United States Judge James l.. Martin in New York were sentenced to one year on BlackwelTs island.
 The New York Military academy at Cornwall, N. T., which trains students for West Point. caught fire, and the main buildings were burned to the ground. The cadets marched out of the burning buildings and escaped in- jury.
 Driven crazy by religion, F. B. Klm- bier, farmer living near Ballinger, Tex, killed his wife and two children, seriously wounded his niece and ended his own life by cutting his throat with d pOcketknife.
 Matuda Wong, who shot and killed Chong Lock Wing, the Chinese vice consul to New York, pleaded guilty of murder in the second degree in that city. He will be sentenced to life im- prisonment.
 Charles O'Neil, a private in the Fourteenth infantry, was convicted in the United States court ill Kansas City, Kan, and sentenced to be hang ed for the murder of Miss Minnie Scha rbOra.
 w II. George, Jr.; Harold George md w. G. Garner, three young men
Connecticut western news., 1910-01-13
SOLONS AT WORK IN TRENTON
Assembly Begins With Lively Row Over
 Rules-Both Houses Organize.

HSSSnpIJ 0S9iHS Wltn -iNS!y now ONef
 Rules-Both Houses Organize.
 The usual routine connected with the organization of the New Jersey legislature was enlivened by spirited though unsuccessful attempt on Tues day on the part of the Drmocratic minority to have rule adopted com- polling committees to report any bill by request of fifteen or twenty mem- bers of the house. The majority adopted the rules of 1907, when the house was Democratic, making com mitteeS amenable to a majority vote
 The organization of the senate was accomplished without a hitch, Senator Joseph $. Frelinghuysen of Somerset being elected president and Howard Tyler of Cumberland secretary. In the house Assemblyman Harry P. Ward of Bergen was elected speaker and Captain James Parker of Passaic clerk. The remaining officers in both houses chosen in the caucuses were elected. Both houses adjourned until next Monday night.
Connecticut western news., 1910-01-13
PRESIDENT REMOVES CLIFFORD PINCHOT
Chief Forester L9;-S Giles
 For Writing to DOIIiver.

After a cabinet session on Friday President Taft announced that he had directed Secretary of Agriculture Will son to dismiss Clifford Pinchot from the office of chief forester of the agri- cultural department. Later on it was made known that Secretary Wilson in accordance with decision of the pres tdent and the cabinet had dismissed Overton w. Price, associate forester and MT. Pinchot's chief assistant, and Alexander c. Shaw, assistant law otfi- ger of the forest service.
 The decision to dismiss Messrs. Pin fact that, contrary to instructions from Secretary Wilson, MT. Pinchot had written a letter to Senator Deliver to be read publicly in the senate defend ing Price and Shaw after they had ad- mitted that they had inspired the mag azine and press campaign against Sec retary Ballinger, that MT. Pinchot had cast reflections in the Deliver letter on the action of President Taft in di- recting the dismissal of Louis +. Gla- wis of the public land service, the man who charged that MT. Ballinger and other officers of the interior depart ment had been guilty of improper ofti- cial conduct in connection with Alaska coal claims, and that MT. Pinchot had the administration would have allowed fraudulent coal land claims in Alaska to be patented.
 According to President Taft, Mir. Pinchot wrote to Senator Deliver to offset in the public mind the presi- dents decision in the Glavis case. MT. Pinchot in this letter paid high trib- ute to MT. Glavis and indicated that President Taft had erred in dismissing him and by inference that MT. Glavis' charges against Secretary Ballinger were based on proper grounds.
 Coupled with the dismissal of For ester Pinchot was the significant ac- tion of the house of representatives in connection with the joint resolution for an investigation of the charges af- fecting Secretary Ballinger. Through combination of Democrats and Re publican insurgents, aided by personal friends of MT. Pinchot among the house membership, the house rejected that provision of the resolution which directed Speaker Cannon to choose the representatives who should sit on the congress committee of inquiry.
 '"These imaginary stories dealing with my retirement are getting to be the regular thing" said Speaker Can non when he was asked to say some thing concerning the reports that as a result of the factional row in the house he was or had been recently thinking of quitting.
 Hereafter" the speaker added, q am not going to take the trouble to deny them. But I will say now, once and for all, that I am not thinking of resigning and will not resign. l have repeatedly stated that l intended to die in the harness, and the only thing that will make me change my mind will be the failure of the people of my district to re-elect me to my seat in the house."