Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-13
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egate to The Hague peace conference.
and cousin of Joseph II. Choate, Tor
mer American ambassador to England.
was seriously injured Sunday at Los An
seles, Cal, when an automobile in which
he was driving turned over and rolled
down 20-foot embankment Mrs.
Charles II, Rundel and Mrs. Clark Ma
han, prominent club women who were
riding in the car also were injured
AS result. it is said, of a fight
at Fort H G. Wright at Fishers
Island, n. Y, June II. late Sunday
night. in which four soldiers took
part. Private John Cresher is in a Sc
rious condition at the past hospital
with a bullet wound in the eye. An
official inquiry is being made. The
other three participants are members
of the 131st Company. one of them
Private Wilson. it is understood. be-
ing accused of the shooting.
Prof. Devils C. Wells, recognized
authority on sociology, died Monday at
Hanover, n. H. II was Is years ago
that he established at Dartmouth the
first sociological department in an
American institution of learning Prof.
Wells investigated the problem of vice
and crime on New Yorks East Side as
a member of a government commission
Prof. Wells was born in Fayetteville,
n. Y, IS years ago. He was a graduate
of Yale. He taught at Andover and
Bowdoin before going to Dartmouth.
The work of making the much
needed improvements in the harhor
Ut ha,k ,I,.a tfasa,
ed Monday with celebration in
which representatives of all the diff
ferent nations residing there partici-
pated. Lieut.. General Count Terauchi,
the Japanese resident general of
Corea. officially opened the opera
tons. The present plans involve the
expenditure of s2,5o0,000 and the en-
ployment of thousands of Corean la
borers for several years.
The two Colombians who in the sum-
mer of 1909 seriously stabbed William
B. McMaster. the American vice con-
sui at Cartagena. Colombia were Mon
day at Bogota sentenced to imprison
ment, one for ii years and the other
for six years. McMaster is a Colom-
bian by birth but was appointed to
POSt iIoiil ANCN ioih. At the tlttic
of the assault. there was some anti
American feeling in Colombia and Nc
Master became involved in dispute
with Mario LARA Cordova, an editor.
and Abelarde Barrera. resulting in the
assault of which the two men were
convicted.
The establishment of unions in six New
England cities. making a total of 80
cities working under union conditions
and increases in the wage scale in 80 in
stances affecting Is unions. were report
ed by the executive committee of the
New England Branch of the Information
al Typographical Union at the annual
meeting which opened Monday at
Springfield Mass. New unions have been
established during the year at Augusta,
Me. Concord. n. H., Danbury. New Bril-
tain and Norwalk CT, and Newburyport.
The Continental and Commercial Ma
tional Bank of Chicago became the Iarg-
est bank in the United States Monday as
to resources. by taking over the Hiber-
MAN Bank Official announcement of the
acquisition was made by President
George NJ. Reynolds. The total assets of
the bank are s2s5 100000 The total de-
posits of the consolidated bank reach
2eS, 30. 200. Since 1907 the Continental Ma
tional and the Commercial National,
which merged last winter. have taken
over the International the Globe Nation
al. the National of North America and
the American Trust and Savings Banks.
Acting under the powers conferred by
the act recently passed by Parliament.
Home Secretary Churchill has issued an
order prohibiting navigation of air craft
of any description over the county of
London the three days of the coronation
professions and over Windsor and Lon
don on the three other days devoted to
events connected with the coronation.
The penalty for failure to observe this
law is punishable by Imprisonment for six
months or fine of $1,000. The police reg
ulations to ensure public safety on cero-
nation day are becoming so rigorous as
to be almost calculated to deter the gen.
eral public from any attempt to witness
the procession. 1t is understood that the
barrier gates will be closed not later
than o'clock in the morning-possibly
much earlier than that-and that all seat
holders must be in their places by Z
o'clock.
A jury in the supreme court at
New York Monday brought in YER
diet of $780, s4 in favor of Stephen NJ.
Weld & Co., cotton brokers and
against the Postal Telegraph Com
pany for damages the plaintiffs sus-
tanned i'm the transmission of a tele-
gram to their agent in New Orleans.
The plaintiffs allege that they tele-
graphed their agent to sell 10000
bales of cotton at 1910 but that when
the telegram reached the agent it
read to sell at 1901 The plaintiffs
asked for damages to the amount of
1885, with interest. The jury gave
them the full amount asked for.
A continuance until further orders of
the preliminary injunction restraining
Henry NJ. Baker of Bow. executor of
the will of the late Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy from removing any of the prop
erty of the estate from the state of
New Hampshire was granted Monday
by Chief Justice Robert A. Wallace in
the superior court at Concord. N. n.
The court gave the executor two weeks
in which to file notice of hearing. if