Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-10

George Matthews, aged 40 years.
| shot and probably fatally injured his
wife Helena, aged So years, at their
home at IL Hallem street, Dorchester.
| Mass, Tuesday night and then kill
ed himself by putting a bullet into
| his head. The couple 1t IS said have
had many quarrels during the past
| year. They had been married about
| five Years, Matthews was an insur-
| ance agent.
While Margaret Martenez of Stock
| ton, Cal. a 10 year old Spanish girl,
OF whom he was insanely jealous. was
| PLAYING a piano Monday for his enterl
| tainment, Paul Miller, a miner aged
As years, fired two shots into her killA
ing the girl Rushing into an adjoining
room, Miller placed a stick of dyna-
mite in his mouth. lit the attached
fuse, and blew his head into fragments.
| Despondent because he could not re-
| turn money that he had borrowed,
| William A. Taylor committed suicide
| by hanging Tuesday in his home in
/ South Boston. 1t is said that Taylor
had secured the loan of considerable
amount of money to help support his
mother and to aid his sister in caring
for her sick children. Taylor was 26
years old and was employed as a
| shipper.
| Anacieto Palabay. the young Fill
| pino Ieper confined in a pest house at
| Washington. is to be returned to rel
| atiVes and friends i'm the Philippines.
| Manuel l.. Quezen, resident commits
sioner from the Philippines, Monday
night received a cablegram from the
| governor general of the island sane
| tioninS the return of Palabay. The war
| department will defray the expenses.
It is said the leper will be sent aboard
| some sailing vessel
Reports received Tuesday from the
| various sections of western Massa-
| chusetts that have been afflicted with
| forest fires for the past two or three
| days indicate that the heavy rains
| of Monday night and early Tuesday
has practically extinguished the
| flames. A large territory has been
| flame swept and great money loss
has resulted from the destruction of
/ valuable standing timber and in some
cases, farm buildings.
| Popular feeling at Constantinople
| against the Turkish government on
| account of the Jerusalem incident is so
strong that the ministry may be forced
| from office. Tuesday in the Chamber
of Deputies, the minister of the in
| terror admitted that the Englishmen
who are alleged to have profaned the
| Mosque of Omar in their search for
| sacred relics beneath it's foundation
| operated within the mosque through
| the connivance of its guardians, whom
| the explorers corrupted.
The quarterly dividend of the Boston
G. Maine Railroad was reduced Tues
day from a to a per cent. basis on
| the common stock. No action was tax
en- ON the preferred stock. The reduc-
| ton of the dividend will fall heaviest
on the New York, New Haven & Hart
| ford as the guarantor of the preferred
| stock of the Boston Holding Co, which
| holds 211 4S3 Sharets of Boston & Maine
and has issued 265.225 shares of pre-
| ferred stock, paying 4 per cent.
| One years in the house of correction
was the sentence given Valenua w.
| Crawson, former treasurer of the
| Westfield, Mass, Savings Bank, in the
| superior court at Springfield, Tuesday.
after he had pleaded guilty to five
counts of making false returns to the
| bank commissioner. According to
statements made by bank officials
Crowson admitted taking money from
the institution for the purpose of sup
porting his aged parents. The deposit
| tors lost nothing.
DR.. F. r. Walters. director of the public
health department at Pittsburg, Pa,
Tuesday was found not guilty of accept
president of select council, in favor of
| the banks repositories ordinance. The
| jury placed the costs of the case on the
| county. The announcement of the YER
| dict caused one of the most exciting
| scenes in the history of the local courts.
The spectators cheered and clapped their
| hands and the directors friends rushed to
him with congratulations
The seven mills of the Fall River
| Iron Works Co. at Fall River. Mass,
| owned by M. c. D. Borden OF New
| York, will curtail production so per
cent until the dry goods market i'm
| proves. 1t was announced Tuesday that
| beginning May Is. the mills will be
| idle alternate weeks until further no
| tice. The mills employ 5000 persons. 1t
| is understood that Notwithstanding the
| dizziness in cotton goods, Mr.. Borden
has been heavy purchaser of narrow
print cloths. much of which has been
| sold at less than the cost of proiuc-
| ticn.
Pointing out THAI the state is fac
| ing deficit of nearly three-quarters
| of u million dollars because of APP
preparation bills passed and awaiting
passage by the Legislature, Governor
Pothier in special MESA ge 10 the
| Rhode Island General Assembly Tues
| day urged that some action be taken
| by that body TO provide an increased
| revenue along the lines proposed by
| the special committee on taxation
| Unless something is done Governor
Pothier intimates that he will refuse
| to sign the appropriation bills now
awaiting his signature and those
which will come to him Wednesday,
when the Legislature plans to ad-
| iOirll