Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-03
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

daughter of Thomas j.. Chadbeurne
Col Theodore Schaeck, the Swiss
aeronaut. who competed in last year
International balloon race at St Louis,
died Tuesday ut Berne. Schaeck pilot
ted the balloon Helvetia, which land
ed at Vile Marie, Quebec. having Gov
cred distance OF $50 miles.
Lieut.. Roser of the German army,
who recently obtained an aviation pi-
loss license, fell with his aeroplaue
from Il height of 100 feet Tuesday az
MueIhausen, Germany, and was SO
injured that there is no hope Of his re-
covery. His machine was smashed to
pieces
George Bebard an employee of the
Grant Trunk Pacific Railway. fell
Sonday night from a trestle at Baker
Lake, near Edmundston, n. -, sus-
tanning injuries which caused his
death Il few hours later in the hospital
at st. Basil Bebard lived at Notre
Dame. Que. where a widow and chill
dren SURVIVES
TIE Franklin county grand jury met
Tuesday at Columbus, Ohio, to con-
slider the charges OF bribery involving
about 40 members OF the Ohio Legis-
lature The matter was taken before
the grand jury instead OF q legislative
committee on the advice OF Governor
Harmon and others, in order to pre-
vent any accused members from es-
Gaping punishment through the i'm !.
munity plea. Scores OF witnesses have
been summoned.
Only automobiles followed the auto
mobile hearse in which the body of
Mrs. Margaret DAILY Brown, daugi-
ter of the late Marcus DAILY. was born
to tn. grave Tuesday at New York.
AS the long procession filed its dusty
way from Mrs. Marcus Days house
on Fifth avenue to Greenwood Gem
etery, Brooklyn. it drew comment on
every side. Cosmopolitan Manhattan
used to all varieties % neral Ger
emorial. remembers no other with
quite the same touch o. uit 4 mod :
ernity
The amendment to tho charter Of
the Southern New England Railroad,
giving the road clear path to tide
water, in Providence. was presented
in the Rhode Island House Tuesday
and placed on the calendar for Thurs
day. The amended act which is the
result of compromise agreement be
tween the Grand Trunk and the New
York New Haven s Hartford Rail
J'roads, gives the Canadian road the
right to cross the tracks of the New
Haven at one point and run under
them at another. at which the New
Haven will pay the additional cost
of tInneling.
Several persons under indictment by
the federal grand jury pleaded guilty.
in the United States court at Boston
Tuesday, among them being Arthur
f. Feeley. formerly teller of the Pitts
field National Bank. who admitted
taking $1,000 of the banks funds. Smith
L. Sherman of Fitchburg entered a
similar plea on tile charge OF seek
ing un1awfully to obtain part of the
estate of DIR. Sarah J. Williams, for
meriy city physician of Springfield.
Both will be sentenced later. For
breaking and entering the North Bill
erica post office. Thomas Smith was
given nine months in the house of
correction at East Cambridge.
A fine of $500 was imposed Tuesday
upon John r. Oldham of Lynn. organ
izer of the United Shoe Workers OF
America. by Judge Pierce in the supe-
rior court at Boston. following the find
ing last week that Oldham was guilty
of contempt in attempting TO induce
men to leave the employment of the
F. Bridgham and Gregory Co, shoe
manufacturers of Marlboro Mass,
where a strike is in progress. Judge
Pierce also enlarged the terms of the
preliminary injunction issued against
the strikers, so as to include Oldham
within the scope of the original order
in it's application to two local unions
at Hudson where the company has an
other factory.
On tie steamer ontario. from Balti-
more. when she arrived Tuesday at
Boston, was the body of Timothy Gill
bert Wright, 4 retired manufactures.
who died as the slip was off Vine
yard Haven. Heart failure, given as
the caEse of death. does not tell the
story ef hard struggle, in which the
captain Of the ship. W. b. Bond, Stew :.
ard J. kaiss and eight medical stu
dents from Baltimore exhausted every
means known TO science to keep him
alive until the ontario reached port.
Mr.. Wright died at 1910 p. NJ. Mon
day Mr.. Wright left Boston last win
ter for his health, and had been tray-
cling extensively through the South.
Twelve years ago. when he was SO.
he retired from a shoe business he
had built up in Brockton and had
stree lived in oxbury
Slightly more than 81 per cent. of
the outstanding stock of the Calumet
L. Heela Mining Co. voted Tuesday
at Boston in favor-of the consolida-
ton of nine smaller subsidiary COM
panies with the Calumet. The only
protest was from n representative of
the estate of Thomas l.. Chadbourne,
in behalf of Waldemar A. Chadhourne.
the special administrator When the
stockholders of the Ahmeek Co. gath
cred later in the day to vote ON con-
soliddtion. it was announced that
order had been granted by one of the
COURTS in Michigan preventing the
stock of the company owned by TIE
Calumet from being voted at the
meeting. The order was issued at the