Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-22
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

\ sharp earthquake was felt at Gas p
! NJ, Tuesday. at Cotton, Cal. 1t lasted
but a few seconds
| In the first primaries held under the
! new city charter at Chelsea. Mass.
James H. Malone and George Fl. Ford
! were nominated for mayor. There were
no party designations on the ballot.
Lafayette Choate. Tuesday, at Liberty,
Mo-, pleaded guilty To a charge of hay
ing harnessed his wife with team of
mules and compelled her to help harrow
a field. He was sentenced TO 50 days
Imprisonment. He has been in Jail four
months awaiting trial His wife is suing
for divorce
In no previous year has so much cot
ton been ginned to Nov IA, as during
the present season, the census bureaus
report. Tuesday, showing "a total of
II a69, $50 bales. which is almost mil
lion and a half more bales than We're
snned to that date in the record year
of 1904
Ellis w Morse, a prominent Mason,
died, Monday morning. at the home
| Of his son, Clarence Il. Morse, on
Fine street, Springfield. VT. He was
| Lorn in Canton, Mass. Nov. l6, 1881,
and was for many years a machinist
at the Parks & Woolson Machine Cos.
| plant. He was a leading member of
the Methodist church
The sale of the Ruth library at
| Sstheby's furnished fresh sensation.
| Monday, when a MarZarin Bible
! brought the remarkable price cf s29,-
| eco Bernard Quaritch bookseller,
opened the bidding at $4,000. The next
offer was $4,000, and this was follow
cd by bids rising BY $500 each time.
Mr.. Quartch took the prize at price
amounting to double that obtained for
| this copy when it was last sold at
| auction.
| Counsel fer the government, late
| Tuesday. filed with the commerce
court at Washington a writ of appeals
| N the trans-continental rate cases.
| The appeal is from temporary injunc-
| lions granted by the commerce court
| in the cases involving Interpretation Of
| the long and short haul provision of
| the law. \ motion also was filed by
i the government counsel that final
| decree making permanent the lnjunc-
| lions be entered by the commerce
! court.
| Friends OF Herman ID. Mcdonald,
| foreman at a Brockton shoe factory
| for many years, are worried because
| of his absence. He has not been seen
or heard from since last Tuesday
night, when he went to the factory to
| exchange a coat Mr.. Mcdonald is
| treasurer of the Broclton Association
| of Superintendents and Foremen and
! also of Ponemah Lodge. N. f. o. =.
| Mr.. MeDonald's automobile is at a
| local garage, but at the apartment
| house where he lived it is stated that
| re packed up most of his belongings,
| last Tuesday night.
The rejection of proposal of mar
| Rage is held by the Waltham, Mass,
police to have been the cause for the
| murder by shooting, Tuesday night, of
| Miss Giovaninio Nateli, I-year-old
! mill worker The girl was sitting at
| the supper table in the home of her
| sister on Oak street, when suddenly
| the door behind her was pushed open,
! two shots rang out and the girl sank
| to the floor with a bullet in the mead
She died an hour later. The police inn
! mediateiy began a search for Dononic
: BeninattIs aged 81 years. Of Sprln
street. also "a mill werker- who haa