Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-11-28

Lumbermen's Association favor the u
hour demurrage rule for which the rail-
roads of New England are contending. A
resolution of approval will be adopted at
a meeting of the association Dec. q at
Manchester The 4S-hour rule, which was
to have gone into effect Oct. !, was sus-
pended for 90 days. The railroad are
now trying to have the 72-hour rule made
permanent with reference to grain, coal,
lumber and other products.
While engaged in washing the windows
of the pension office on the Milk street
side of the federal building at Boston. 40
feet above the pavement, Saturday, Mi
chael Boland 54 years old, of 24O Adams
street, Newton, slipped and plunged to
the street. His body struck James B.
Etherington, who is visiting relatives In
the state. hurting him forcibly to the
ground. The force of Boland's fall was
so broken by contact with EtherinSton's s
head and shoulders that the formers life
was undoubtedly temporarily saved.
Tim Kelher is down here read
brief note found pinned on bundle OF
clothes found on the edge of the dock
river, by the Boston police late Sunday.
The police dredged the waters and found
the body of Timothy keliher of 107 Ryth-
erford avenue, Charlestown. with several
pieces of railroad iron tied to his feet.
| The man had been out of work for some
time Another Sunday suicide was dis
covered at 2S7 Shawmut avenue. where
! Thomas O'Kane, printer, aged 80 years,
| had taken his own life by gas.
Christine Miller walked into the City
| hospital at Newark Thursday and asked
| for treatment, saying he had been bitten
! twice by stray dogs. Over night his
| condition developed into an advanced
case of rabies and Friday he was in so
| serious state that it was declared he
| could not recover. Mr. Miller was bitten
| May .. He had the wound cauterized.
| On Aug "a a dog ran up to Mr.. Miller
| and jumped for his throat Two fingers
| of his right hand were bitten. They were
| cauterized.
William Sprague, the aged war govern
| or of Rhode Island. is critically i'll at the
residence of Sebastian Schesinger
| former Boston man, in Paris. He went
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| February, after the burning of their
| home. Canonchet, at Narragansett Pier.
| At that time the war governor, who
| passed his SOth birthday last Monday.
| said that he was going to enjoy life:
| that he had given up too much time to
| reading Dante, Homer and other writer's
| and that he had not lived enough in the
sunlight
The JOY Line steamer Georgia mar
rowly escaped destruction by fire at
her dock at Providence, R. l., Sunday
when blaze broke out in % bales of
cotton on the pier. The flames licked
against the sides of the steamer. AS
the Georgia does not make her trip to
New York until Monday night, steam
was not up. The difficulty was solved
by Pilot Frank Bunce, who cast off the
forward hawsers, allowing the steam
| or to wind herself away from the dock
! The dock fire itself was not extensive
| AS he was returning with his bride
rom his honeymoon trip. Saturday
Robert Tupper of Round Hill was
washed overheard from the steamer
Yarmouth and drowned in the Bay of
f'undy. He and other, passengers we're
J on the main deck watching the waves
| Whlch, driven by heavy northwest
wind, were lashing the sides of the
steamer and breaking over her bows.
'hc vessel lurched and Tupper went
over the side Harold Warner Of Dig
| >I, was knocked down and washed
along the deck. striking against the
rail and dislocating his shoulder. Tup-
CT and his bride boarded a steamer at
| Digby.
| Half million dollars annually will
'c saved to the postoffice department.
1t is believed, as d result of an order
ISSUED Saturday by Postmaster Cen
cral Hitchcock disseminating the prac
ticc Of rcinClosing registered mail in
"pccial envelopes before sending it
from the office of origin The order
| viii be effective Dec. 1. It changes
policy of so years standing in the
handling Of registered mail in this
'"lntrN. The postmaster general said
"turday that in his opinion, the spec
ili envelope was of no real use, being
SIMPLY waste Of time in the rapid
dispatch of registered mail and of
Expense in salaries and printing re-
| fHHrcG. His order was issued as a re-
nit OF a recommendation by the spcc-
~ committee which during the uast
ar mas been investigating the reg
| Try system. IL foreign countries reg
f'tered mail is handled without speciaI
I"'Nplopes. The mail will be fully as
| F'u". IL is said. when handled in the
rev Way.