Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-27

been submitted to Sec. of the Treasury
| MacVeagh. to be placed in the hands
OF President Taft. The President ex-
poets to devote some space in his mes
| sage to government economy and sew
| eral months ago he instructed depart
ment heads to pare this years esti-
| mates as much as possible. Mr. Tafts
| message is expected to be completed,
4 Monday, and final corrections Will be
made on it at Tuesdays cabinet meet
| ing
After friends had searched for her
| fer three days, Miss Elizabeth Robin
| son, aged 40, was found dead. Friday.
| from gas poisoning in her home at 81
Union park. Boston, where she lived
alone. From indications found by the
police she committed suicide. She left
no letters. \ policeman went into the
house when Miss Margaret Sexton, Il
saamstress who had worked for Miss
Robinson, reported to station 5 that
she had tried several days to deliver
some work at the house, but could get
no response and feared that something
was wrong. The policeman found Miss
Robinsons body on the kitchen floor
President Samuel Gompers of the
american Federation of Labor was
unanimously reelected at Saturdays
session of the convention at Atlanta.
Rochester, n. Y, was chosen as the
next convention city, Saturday eve
ming. The vote was: Rochester so2s,
Seattle 5o54 Richmond. Va, 22lo. Be
cause the present convention OF the
federation has granted the United
brotherhood of Carpenters everything
ii has asked in the matter of eompui-
sorry amalgamations, this organization,
With d membership of 100000. Satur-
day, agreed t. re-enter the Building
Trades department and abide 10y its
decisions.
Herman Bauler. alderman from the
I'D ward. Chicago, close friend of
Mayor Harrison, and whose name had
been brought into the investigation OF
police graft, died suddenly. Saturday.
under circumstances that caused the
coroner to begin an investigation.
Matthew Bauler, father of the alder
man, declared his son was the victim
of poison, and told of seeing foam on
his iips before death. Bauler died IN
bed only a few hours after returning
from a political conferences. Ben NY
man. in his testimony recently before
the Civil Service Commission, named
Rauler, among others, us having aided
iE protecting gambling.
shortly after o'clock, Saturday
morning, fire was discovered in the
sls- story farmhouse on the White
place at Rye Beach, y. II. When dis.
covered the fire had gained good head
h.. l., oil tS-harp the fam
lilies slept was destroyed. The house
WAS occupied by the families OF Frank
atom and Joseph Gibson, and they
We're aroused by neighbors in time TO
make a hurried exit into the midst OF
the then prevailing snowstorm in their
night clothing. The neighbors rallied
To the assistance of the occupants, but
despite their efforts to extinguish the
flames, a large portion of the home
stead was damaged and the sleeping
rooms were destroyed. The homeless
families were made as comfortable as
possible.
A fast train on the Jersey Central
railroad made an unexpected stop. Fri
day. at FL Mora station. midway be-
tween Roselle and Elizabeth, because
of the eWild West method of James
Surge of Elizabeth. With his friend,
Thomas Davis of New York, he went
To the station just as the train ap-
preached. Surge had pistol and fired.
The engine driver, believing it tor
pede signal. applied the air brakes.
Theo a couple of bullets whizzed
throrgh the cab. Its all right, old
man.. said Surge. Il merely wanted
a the
lce." answered the engine driver. The
village policeman, James Reeves. att
er hearing Ell Mora was nag stop Tor
that particular train, put Surge ana
his friend aboard and regarded the IN
cident as closed.
Postmaster General Hitchcock will
recommend in his annual report II is
said, that Congress make an appro-
priation of at least $4,000. and not
more than $4,000, for the experiment
al use of aeroplanes in the postal
service. The postmaster general VIII
suggest that the matter be gone into
not with reference to any particular
machine but as respects the general
development of aeroplanes for practi-
''eal postal service. In several in.
oldilttS AIt dttOpidliC tdbs 49, N@N''
used in the postal service with the
official sanction of the postoiiice de-
partment. At the Mineola, L. l., meet
Mr. Hitchcock himself went up IN u
proposed mail aeroplane. The post
master general expects to try out the
Iaeroplane system of mail transporta-
ton in the West, where conditions are
considered most favorable. 1t even
has been suggested that the service OF
laeroplanes might be utilized in Alaska,
but that yet is purely tentative.
The report to the. corporation py
the county purposes committee of the
results OF the day census of London,
taken last April, has been issued. 1t
was compiled by III. Percy Monckton.
the chairman, The grand total Of all
persons employed or resident in the
city on April 20, was 64,061. of whom
34.425 were principals or employers,
247,9S4 made employees 69,772 female
lemployes ana 1880 children under 10
In 1891 when the last day census was
ltaken, the grand total was 301,3S4, and
in 1911, 261 ,061. The imperial census
t.ty nj,