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


was announced at Halifax, NJ 'S.,
Wednesday, The Canadian govern
ment has adopted an order providing
that vessels of not less than 1900
tons from Italy, Germany. Neither
lands, Sweden, Norway, Dennnart,
Austria Hungary. Belgium. Argentina
and Japan shall be admitted 10 coast
ing trade between Nova Scotia and
Quebec on the same terms and eendi-
tons as Canadian vessels until the
close OF the year, 1918.
Although separated by 500 miles.
Charles r. Anderson. wealthy New
York broker, and his wife enjoyed d
Christmas dinner together by tele-
phone. Mr.. Anderson is at q Denver
hotel and his wife is in Salt Lake City.
Utah. Telephones were placed at their
respective dinner tables and walters
on extension telephones heard husband
and wife order a menu together as If
they had been sitting side by side.
During the meal husband and wife
kept up a conversation. Telephone
charges brought the cost of the din
ner up to s75.
Greeting cheerfully the neighbors
who came to wish her well, Mrs Lucy
Wagner, who claims to be 40 years
old. and who lives Just across the line
in Taney county, Ark, said she spent
as merry a Christmas as any one in
the state. Es'Granny,' Wagner, as she
is called. lives alone in log cabin,
and makes her own living by work.
ipg in the cotton fields and doing odd
jobs. She says she was born in Ten
nessee. i'm 1901, and that she has eight
great great grandchildren, besides nu-
nierous other descendants
| A baby, 9 years old, appeared suffi-
cient security at first glance for debt
of SO cents, but afterward q demand
for a money substitute brought the
debtor and creditor into court, accord
ing to a story told a judge in the city
court at South Bend Ind, Tuesday.
John Urban, explaining why he be-
came involved in a brawl with Mrs.
Rose Sheerer. said he owed her the
SO cents. She held his baby for it.
| When he went to make 2-ceht pur-
chase from her and offered 81 bill,
he said, she kept the bill and told him
to take his baby. This. he said, en-
ragged him, and he tried to stab her.
| The court suspended sentence.
The theft of eight blank navy pay
masters checks from the 'battleship
| Mississippi and an alleged attempt to
pass at least one of them with a
| forged signature is being investigated
| by Secret Service officers. Thomas
| Words, a Negro mess attendant on
the warship is under arrest in Phila-
| delphia, having been captured by Sc
| cret Service men while attempting, it
is charged, to cash at the Phiiadel-
phia sub-treasury one of the checks
| for 1925, with the name of Paymastef
! Robert{ OrTfs.Sof the Philadelphia navy
yard, forged Four other checks
| forged in the. same handwriting. it
is alleged, were found In possession
of Words. is
Further fighting is reported in Off
| cial dispatches which reached Madrid
Tuesday, from Melilla, Morocco. There
have been several engagements be-
| tween the Riff tribesmen and the
| Spanish troops. The tribesmen met
with a severe repulse, on Dec %, and
We're again driven back on the two
days following. Monday, at daybreak
| five Spanish columns attacked the
| Riflians simultaneously. They were
/, driven across the river, leaving a
| large number of dead on the field
Quantities of arms and ammunition
| were captured by the Spaniards. whose
| loss is reported as two killed and 40
wounded.
Carlos Freile Zaldumbide. who is
4 h. x.,lx,
| fairs in Ecuador. has fixed the date