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

| Boston. a 600-pound piece of metal
| Eel from crane into the galvanizer.
causing IN explosion of the molten
metal. which splashed over the work
mon. Those who were seriously burn
| ed Nere William From. George Har-
| rinEtea ard Albert Vail They were
treated at the relief hospital. From
ii Is feare /, viii lose the sight of both
eyes.
The Cambridge, Mass, municipal
court. Friday. put the lid on cigar
cite poker bg Harvard undergraduates
by hauling a local cigar dealer into
court and finding lin guilty of an
couragns gambling. The cigar deal
er pleaded ''nOlo" ard was released on
the payment of sm.!l costs The buy
= ing of cigarettes in packages contain
ing pictures of poker hands proved a
popular gambling pane at Harvard
until the attention OF the court was
called To thu practice by the Watch
and Ward Society.
! In order 10 make premature cxplo-
sion of shells used by the army prac
/ tically an impossibilitE, the ordinance
| department has devised test 40
! times more severe than the one for
merly given In the future every
shell before it is issued for use, will
| be subjected to hydraulic pressure of
2006D pounds To the square inch.
While the old test of 800 pounds wa
ter pressure to the square inch was
almost certain To force water out of
any holes which might be present in
the projectile, the row one should in
lvariably develop ans flaw or weak
place. according to ordnance experts
! of the army who have been working
on il.
| An Indictment charging manslaugh
ter was returned against Paul l.. Tay-
| lor. son Of Il wealthy resident of Wor
| ccstfr. by tire .aiddieseX county grand
| Jury at Cambridge, Mass, hate Friday,
/ rs 4 result of an automobile accident
| in Marli5oro. las September. in which
| Two rostan men we're killed. Ii is al
laeei that the automobile driven hS
| TaYlof eelllded with that in which the
two men were riding. Taylor gave
hin self ull u the Worcester police "a
few days later stating that he believ
| cd that his ear had been concerned ir
| the collision The seriousness Of Whicl
he said he had not realized He fur
| fil-fi'-i S1pVH lpiii lp'hbiiG ti'li'i ~
| the grand jury.
! The motion of Jackson Palmer the
| Lowell attorney convicted Of perjury
| in connection with the so-called Mid
dlesex graft cases, in which The petit
| toner seeks to have the indictment
against him dismissed, was filed at
| the MidGlesex county superior court
| in East Cambridge, Mass, Friday
| The motion arrived in Thursdays mai
too late for fling then Palmer alleges
| that the grand jury never indicted hin
ard ii is understood that he is pre-
| pared 10 submit affidayits from mem
| bers of the grand jury substantiatins
| his claim. District Attorney John j
| Higgins who prosecuted the case
| against Palmer. said Friday: .At
! this tire | have nothing to say. Ny
turn will come later But l will say
that the Indictment against jackson
| Palmer was properly returned.
i A country vide search for 14-year
| old ogden Milton Spencer loveair'
| has been undertaken by the police az
/ the request of the missing BOYS moth
/ en- from whose home, in East orange,
| \. j.. ogden disappeared on Feb. q
| last The intervening months have
| brought no tdings of his whereabouts
| and what was DIT first regarded as
| runaway may Vet assume the proper
| tons of a tragedy, the police fer. Mrs
| Lo.eaire was inclined at first to be-
| lieve that her son had run away Z
| Cuba. rs he often talked OF going
there, but inquiries of the authorities
| ther1 have Welded no results.
| Uyb1 haoDaI
the pardon Of Mrs. Fred Swift of New
York, Tuesday night. when he rob
bed her home of $4,000 worth of valn-
ables. Friday, walked into the police
| net. Dressed in the height of fash
| ion. the burglar, whose identity Is
| still unknown, was espied by detec-
| Tive. Friday morning, carrying
lSeeminely overWeightcd satchel
lfhough he politely hut firmly declin-
ed to allow the officer to look into the
| leather bag, the burglar still main
tained his poise when the detective
suddenly opened il and disclosed hun
dreds of dollars worth of booty some
| of the valuables were identified as
those belonging To Mrs Swift. Later
the burglar took the police To cache
on Jamaica Bay. where hundreds OF
dollars worth of valuables We're found
hidden.
The commission appointed by the su
prone court Of the United states III
1907 To settle the long draWn-ont con
| troversy over the boundary between
Maryland and West Virginia has com
ileted its work and submitted its re
port TO that tribunal for final action.
The report of the commission is said
to favor West Virginia on nearly every
point and should the supreme court
approve of it, many people who have
been voting and paying taxes in Mary
land will become citizens of West
Virginia. The controversy has been
Waged for more than 200 years and in
wolves about Sc square miles OF land
and the citizenship of several thousand
people. THE question what are the
headquarters of the Potomac riVer?"
is at the bottom of the trouble
A state organization of the Ameri
can Business Woman's League was
formed, Friday, at Portland. The fol-
Il