Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-28

Whitelaw Reid, United States ambas'
sador at London. will said for New York
on board the Eusitania, on Dec. 30, with
the intention of taking a holiday il
America.
The International shoe Co., repre-
senting the consolidation of the Peters
6. Roberts. Johnson & Rand Cos. filed
articles of incorporation at st. Louis.
Wednesday, with an authorized capi-
tai of $4,000. 600.
All the Is cotton mills of the r. r.
&c II. Knight Co. in Rhode Island.
Connecticut and Massachusetts will
go on a fun time schedule, beginning
next Tuesday. The mills have been
running As hours a week for 20 weeks.
The company declares that the change
was not due to any increase in bust
ness but was made for 1.-The benefit
of the help
After travelling half way across the
continent to meet his brother before
he died, Rev. Victor Oblom of Manis-
ter. Mich, arrived in Worcester.
Mass, five minutes after the death of
Rev. Oscar oblom. pastor of the Fin
nisn Congregational Mission, from
iAQiOoacr ct Lut IiOSDi-
tai. The deceased was q years old.
Rev. Austin kempton of Lunenburg
was. Wednesday night, called to the
pastorate of the Emmanuel Baptist church
at Cambridge, Mass. over which former
~ presided Rev. Clarence V. T. Richie
son. now in le-charles street JAIL await
ing trial on the charge of the murder of
Avis Linneil. Rev. Richeson resigned
after his arrest
a deficit of $50, 469 in the finances of
the province of New Brunswick for
the year ended Oct. 81. 1911. is shown
in the statement of the accounts for
the fiscal year, issued Wednesday.
The ordinary revenue amounted to
s1.347,077, while the expenditures were
81 ,403, $40. The construction of numer-
Gus bridges at large expense is given
as the chief reason for the deficit.
In collision off Green island
about 100 miles east of Halifax, early
Wednesday, the British steamer Rem
wick was rammed amidships by the
French mail steamer st. Pierre Mique-
lon and went down carrying three of
her crew with her. The others in
GLIDING Capt. Chapman, were saved
by the French steamer, which arrived
at North sydney, Wednesday night,
with the survivors on board. The three
men lost were firemen.
e Fire practically destroyed a three
story brick and wooden building on
Dudley street, Roxbury,s occupied as
a stable and storage warehouse, early
Wednesday morning. The lower floor
was occupied by the Mount Pleasant
stables, and when the fire was discov-
cred 80 horses were in the building.
All were safely led out. The fire start
ed in the upper part Of the building
from an unknown cause. The damage
is estimated at $4,000. Because of the
proximity of numerous tenement
houses three alarms We're rung in.
An average decrease of forty per
cent? in cases of communicable dis
eases, the best showing In the history
of the Boston Board of Health. was
reported, Wednesday, by Commission
er Mullowney for the year 1911. The
death rate from diphtheria is the low
est in the history of the city, the
deaths this year to date having been
only lis. In 1908 there were 1889
cases of typhoid fever reported while
this year there have been but 479
cases. The percentage of deaths from
tuberculosis to the total mortality in
1910 was ten and up to November.
this year, it was s1a per cent.
Anxiety in the war department,
Wednesday, was relieved by cable
gram from Gov. Gen. Forbes of the Phil
ippines, confirming the press report of
Gen. Pershing's successful efforts to dis.
arm without bloodshed the troublesome
Moros who sought refuge on Mt. Dajo
The governor generals cablegram fol-
lows: John J. Pershing reports 300 Mo-
ros surrendered; opposition to disarma-
ment practically ended. Considered his
management of affairs has been master.
~" Officials in the insular bureau be.
lieve Gen. Pershing has made it possible
for large number of peacefully in
clined natives to take up agriculture and
thereby greatly stimulate the develop.
ment of the lands.
A gun given to Albert Blair Boone,
13-year-old son of. Spofford Boone OF
South Cedar street, Milford, Mass,
for a Christmas present, Monday,
caused his death, Tuesday afternoon,
while hunting in the Bear Hill woods
with chum, Frank Evers, also
aged 49, The bullet penetrated the
lads spine, and death, in the opinion
of DIR. j. J. Duggan and OF Medical
Examiner VIM. j. Clarke, probably
resulted Immediately. 1t was purely
an accident. According to the Evers
boy. he stumbled in some brush while
carrying the gun and the weapon dis
charged, the bullet striking Boone,
who was few feet ahead. Frank went