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

Freedom G. Smith. formerly mill
tant ProhibitioniSt, who ran for office
several times on cfty and state tickets,
was found dead from heart failure
Monday in bed at his home in Brook
lyn. He was in his sith year and had
been in failing health since 1908. when
he retired from active business as a
manufacturer. of pianos
y telephone message from McComb
City, Miss. Says four companies of mill
tia had been sent up the, Illinois Central
Railroad, to Summit in anticipation of an
attack Oh "A train scheduled to leave Nc
Comb City and carrying strikebreakers.
1t was reported number of strikers
have secreted themselves along the line 4
short distance from Mecomb.
Signs notifying striking shopmen
that they would be paid their Septem-
Der wages Wednesday outside the
fence surrounding the Burnside shops
az Chicago were posted Monday by
the Illinois Central Railroad. This pre-
caution has been taken TO avoid the
possibility of trouble. Nearly 1000 men,
or about one-third of the regular
force. reported for duty Monday and
there was no disorder.
In the game follow your leader A.
year old Grace Walsh was dared Mon
day TO jump over a burning mattress
in the back yard of her home IN Pas
sale, n. j. She stumbled and fell into
the blaze and died at the hospital Mon
day night from the burns Henry
Tutcle. of the same age as the girl vic
fa laaart eli. In
circumstances Monday, while playing
about a bon fire near his home in the
Bronx, New York.
The qualifying medal round in the Ma
tional Womens Golf Association cham
pionship tournament was won Monday at
Snort Hills. y. j.. by Mrs r. III. Harlow
of the Merton Cricket Club. Philadelphia,
with a score of 81. Miss Dorothy Camp
bell, the American, British and Canadian
champion, had the second best score.
90. and Miss Lillian Hyde the Metro
politan titleholder. was in third place
with 90.
The stage coach has replaced the rail-
way in southern Colorado to aecommo-
date the few who care to risk transporta-
ton over the flooded districts. great
area being Inundated as result of heavy
rains the past week, which have caused
all rivers and creeks to overflow. II IS ru-
mored that many lives have been lost.
It is almost impossible to get any definite
news from the localities where the great
est damage is thought TO have resulted.
Scarcely six hours after he had mar
ried Miss Gladys Caruthers Monday I'd
Lieut. John Il. Lynch Sd Cavalry, L. :.
A., killed himself at Fort Sam Houston,
San Antonio, Texas. The marriage was
performed at 1 a. NJ. He was alone In
his room about o'clock, when two pistol
shots were heard. Fellow officers burst
ing open the locked door found the man
diving. No cause has been determined
Lieut. Lynch enlisted in. the army as q
private in Missouri in 1907.
| Aviator C. f. Rodgers, en- route To
the Pacific coast, from New York, ar
rived in Springfield. H., at $40 P. NJ.
Monday from Peoria, Ill. His fight
! was made in comparative ease. the
weather and wind being favorable. He
was forced but once to descend, ct
Niddietown. H., 20 miles from SPRING
field, where his oil tank sprung q leak,
Rodgers will leave Tuesday morning
en- route 10 hdHSdS lily ne tApeclS
to reach that city within two days.
| Newman Erb, the New York finan-
cjer was elected president Monday at
New York of the Minneapolis a. st.
Louis ard the Iowa Central Railroads,
both Hawley lines, succeeding Theo-
dore p. Shonts, resigned. Other Off
GERS, including Edwin Hawley, as
chairman of the board of directors,
were elected. Mr.. Erb is now in the
West. making an inspection of the two
roads preliminary to carrying out
proposed program of new construc-
ton.
! The Wisconsin Paper ana PUP
Manufacturing Freight Association,
an organization which handles the big
issues of papermakers in the Fore.
river valley and Wisconsin river val-
ley, has been granted the right OF in
tervention in the protest by the Hem
nepin Payer and Watab Paper CO.,
against rates to the Southwest. al