Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES

Upton Sinclair's divorce suit will nave
to be heard over again. Supreme Court
Justice Davis at New York, Wednesday,
refused to confirm the report of Referee
William S Kelley. who first heard the
evidence and reported in favor of the
author who is suing his wife, Meta Full
Ter Sinclair. Justice Davis reason was
that the referee allowed Sinclair TO tes-
tify regarding the alleged relations be-
tween his wife and Harry Kemp, the
tramp poet" whereas the statute pro-
vides that in a divorce trial the husband
or wife is not competent to testify ex-
cept as to the marriage and to deny the
statutory charges. The case will be re-
ferred to another referee.
The career of Edward Ripinski,
whom Broadway, New York. got to
know as the millionaire Kid made
an abrupt pause Wednesday, when
Ripinski Was arrested on charge Of
forgery. The police say that the
youth, who is only % years old, OBJ
tanned at least $4,000 from the big
tea company for which he worked, by
signing the firms name TO checks pay
able to James Wilson and then
cashing them. The firm discovered the
alleged forgery a week after Ripinski
left its employ.
The troops requisitioned by the lord
provost of Dundee, Scotland, to re-
press the disturbance caused by the
lockers and carriers of the port, who
are on strike, have arrived, and their
presence has had salutary effect on
the rowdies. These had taken adyan-
tage of the strike to create disorder
in the city and had thrown several
wagons and a quantity of goods into
the docks. The strike of the carriers
has necessitated the closing of a num-
Der of mills which are unable to OBJ
tain coal for their furnaces. Twenty
thousand workers are idle and the
business of the city is almost par
alyzed.
Christmas liberty was granted
Wednesday. to Frank e. Moos, formerl,
tax collector at South Hadley, Mass.
serving 3-year term at the Northanlp
! ton house of correction for larceny o
| the towns funds, and to Eastman b
| Nickerson of Boston, serving a 1-yea
| term for statutory offense The pardon
| committee of the Governors Council rec
commended the release and Governor Eos
signed the necessary papers. Wednesda.
| afternoon. The council also heard sup
porters of the petition for pardon 70
Walter A. Scott of Weston, serving a lif
sentence for the murder of James z
Samin in 1895, but postponed action.
! petition for a pardon for former Mayo
William P. White of Lawrence was pre-
scented and hearing was arranged 70
| the afternoon session.
| In checking an attempt at what is he
| lieved to have been intended for a whole
sale Jail delivery, jeremiah Shea, guar
| at the Hampden county Jail In Spring
| field, Mass, was shot in the leg, earl
| Wednesday. Two men with whom She
had exchanged shots in revolver due
! escaped without leaving any clue to thei
| identity. AS Shea was making his round
| of the Jail at 5.45 A. NJ, he saw two me
| tampering with the outside of the barre
windows to the jail workroom. AS 500
as the men found out that they had bee
discovered they opened fire upon Shea
| who returned their shots. More than
dozen shots We're exchanged and finall
Shea fell, wounded in the leg. The tw
men then made their escape. Shea
wound is painful but not dangerous. TIL
authorities are Investigating.
The use of spring gun in a hel
house cost Henry A. Sharp, a well
lsnown farmer of Norfolk, So. Gpol
Sharp's plea OF guilty of manslangh