Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-10

| There is no doubt that an American
| squadron will be invited to visit Kiel
during Regatta week, June 1924. The
absence of Emperor William. who is
at Corfu. is delaying formal action in
the matter, but pending a reply from
His Majesty, the foreign Office Satur-
day communicated the purpose of the
government to the admiralty with the
request that preparations for the re-
| ception and entertainment Of the
Americans be made.
| Freyre Andrade introduced in the
| Cuban House Saturday a bill seeking
| to abolish the Havana city govern
mcnt and erect instead federal dis
trict. This was proposed by the ad-
| visory commission under Gov Ma
COON, but the measure was defeated by
the Liberal members. 1t Is said that
the municipality is useless, costly and
anomalous inasmuch as the police and
a majority of the other functions are
already nationalized.
| The Turkish government troops, aft
er stubborn fighting have defeated the
Arab rebels in the vicinity of Sanaa,
in Iomen, killing more than leo The
rebel forts have been destroyed
The railway clerks employed on the
New York. New Haven & Hartford Rail.
road, according to a statement of the
Brotherhood officials Sunday night, have
given the road 30-days notice of a desire
for change in the existing agreement
which is a continuous one, and have pre-.
scented new requests for increased wages
| THE rarpiypH nv N hnr
hood at its meeting Sunday night at Bos-
| ton from the system board of adjust.
ment.
| One hundred union painters will not re-
port for work Monday morning at Glou-
| eester, Mass, because their demands ,or
an increase from $50 to So day have
not been granted. The strike was decid-
ed upon Sunday at meeting of the local
organization.
Robert Taft. aged 10 years, third
| cousin to President Taft, and son of
| Z. r. Taft of Springfield. attempted
to reach England as stowaway on
the steamer Lancastrian, which left
| Boston last week and was brought
| back to Boston Sunday on the
Georgian, of the Leyland Line. Young
Taft was discovered when the Lam
castrian was well on her way out and
| on meeting the Georgian the latter
vessel was signalled and the stowa-
way put aboard to be brought back
| to Boston. He is now being held by
| the immigration authorities pending
| word from his father.
Charles w. Freeman, who operates
| several drug stores in Chelsea. Mass.
and Joseph 3. Everdean, who did bus
| mess in that city as tobacconist
| for many years. Saturday received
| letters, each containing sum of
money. sent anonymously by one who
| signed as "A Repentant." quite a
| long time ago." said each letter. 1.-The
| sender wronged the recipient of this
| letter out of a sum of money. TAX
| ing the example of Zaccheus. Luke
XIX, | beg to return the sum four
| fold" Enclosed in Mr.. Freeman S
letter was g new $40 BILL and the let
| ter sent to Mr.. Everdean contained
| a new S. bill.
| a steeplejack swung helpessly between
earth and Sky on the steeple of st. Mary S
| church at Washington while firemen
lfussed around below. The steeplejack was
stuck in his bosuns chair 10 feet from
| the pavement His tackle was tangled
and he could so neither up nor down. AT
| last he made a 70-Ioot slide for life down
| a slender rope, tumbled the last 10 feet
headfirst. rolled to the edge of the sloping
roof and would have dropped the other
80 feet TO the sidewalk if a fireman had
not caught him. After it was all over the
ol- Sc nd
who lives in Baltimore when he is on the
ground. said he felt little too nervous
to gid the cross on top of the steeple.
the job he started out to do. He reckon
ed, though that he would be all right the
next day.
The Vermont Association of Boston
held its annual sugaring- off party Sat
urday evening. Four hundred odd
members were present with wives. sis
tiers and sweethearts. Paul Revere
hall. where dancing took place, was
crowded all through the evening. and
there were several premature an
nouncements that the sugar was ready
in order to temporarily clear the hall
and given another set of dancers IL
chance on the floor. Spring is never
new maple sugar. and where there is
no sugar camp to visit Vermonters do
the next best thing. The Boston asso-
citation of Green mountain folk never
let's much time pass after the sap be-
gins to run before it imports enough
to give all its members plenty and
make believe that they are at real
sugar camp when the sap is being boil
ed. Saturday night two skilled sugar
makers, Myron j. Colby, a native of
Georgia, VT. and Harvey King, one of
the vice presidents of the association.
watched the big kettles and did what
was voted to be one of the "lilin'est
best" jobs of sap boilin ever done I'M
dor association auspices.
When Mrs. S. 0. Ochs, proprietor of
q Russian importing store at 429 Boyl-
ston street. Boston, opened up the
| establishment for business at Q A. M.
| Saturday. she discovered that the
store safe had been broken into and
about $4,000 in jewelry. cash and val
uble ppers had been taken. She no.
tilted the police and an investigation
| was started, but the police have an