Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-01

has, spent many weeks in vacation
time, ~ Helle ..Ig,' said the President,
fhow 8, my fellow citizen Major
Butt, the Presidents aide, who also
comes from Augusta. gave luncheon
for Cobb Wednesday. and Thursday
the President expects to watch him
play at American League Park at
Washington.
Police Commissioner Stephen O'Meara
of Boston was reappointed Wednesday
for term of five years by Governor
Foss. Under the law the appointment
lies before the Governors Council for a
week. The reappointn,ent of Commits
soner oMeara who Is Republican.
has been fought hard by many Demo-
cratic leaders. headed by Mayor John F.
Fitzgerald. Governor Foss has answered
all objections by stating that Commits
sioner O'Meara has administered his Of
flee well and that no one SO well qualified
has been put forward. Commissioner
o Meara was a newspaper man in Boston
for many years. The police commission
ership is the only public Office he has
held.
Carl Simpson, Chicago travelling
salesman. was mysteriously murdered
at Bluefield, w. Va. month ago and
Wednesday three Negroes confessed
the crime Simpson walked out of
hotel April q and was not seen again
The Negroes. Jim Perry, Lob Foster
and William Harvey. refused to tell
what disposition was made of the body.
All efforts to find the body were I'M
successful. The prisoners were re-
moved to Princeton Jail for safe keep.
ing. Another prisoner in the same cell
said the men put the body in coal car
and covered it with cial. Much of the
coal shipped from Bluefield is for ex-
port and the belief is growing that the
body of Simpson has been loaded I'M
noticed into some foreign ship or
coastwise vessel at Norfolk The scene
of the murder was beside the railroad
tracks.
Following an attack on his wife.
whom he had shot during a quarrel
about their daughter. William F.
Brown, a plumber living at 1914 Frank
liz street. South birmingham. Mass.
died Wednesday from a seif-infiicted
bullet wound at the hospital. Mrs.
Brown, who was taken to the hospital
| with her dying husband. was still un-
conscious today and but little hope
shooting is understood to have been
| the result of quarrel between the
couple caused by the mother repri-
manding their daughter for being out
| late Tuesday night. Brown. 1T is al
| legged. took umbrage at some of his
wifes remarks and. angered to a point
| of frenzy shot his wife in the breast
and then sent bullet through his own
| temple.
A fire that threatened serious con-
sequences destroyed the Gloucester
Gas Cos. house on Duncan street.
Gloucester, Mass. and few small
wooden buildings nearby shortly after
midnight Thursday morning. The en-
| tire city fire apparatus with the fire
boat kept the flames within bounds
after a hard fight. The blaze started
in the gas house. but failed to reach
the storage tanks. As a result the
city's gas light supply was not cut off,
as was at first threatened. The coal
sheds or the company of the Old Bos-
ton and Gloucester Steamboat Cos.
wharves were destroyed. with large
quantity of soft coal. The loss coH.
not be estimated. but 1t is not ex.'
pected to exceed $4,000.
Stock of the American Tobacco Co sold
at sf75 per share a few minutes after the
New York curb market opened wednes-
day, This is decline of SIS from Mon
days price. Later the price was sold
down to $40. sAsregular meeting of the
directors of the American Tobacco Co.
was scheduled for "Wednesday. Directors
say that while the company purposes to
conform with the decision of the supreme
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