Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-04

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ers, is the substance Of a mail report
to- the wargdepartment at Washington,
from one of it's agents in China.
John I.-Seett of Claremont N H,
| has received the big fish prize vase
offered by the Field and Stream. 1t is
marked as follows: nd-Loelled sal
mon Cup. For the Largest Lan-Locked
Salmon Caught During the Season of
1911. Presented by Charles X. Bris-
plane for the Field and Stream Big
Fish Contest Won by John l.. Scott
Weight IAN Lbs, Length $11a In"
Expressions against Russia's discrimi-
nation against American citizens on tia
passport question" have been obtained,
IL was announced. Sunday night. a New
York, from q large number of members
of Congress, including some senators. by
the national citizens committee organ
ICED recently to gain congressional action
in favor Of compelling the abrogation 81
the treaty of 1892. If Russia continues 10
refuse recognition of passports presented
by Jewish citizens Of this country
After he had cut his wife's throat
and then his own. Thursday night,
James Monahan railroad fireman
1thifIE 1T - ttbSFlld Hlitfit -Nf| lif-
ven. Ct. declared, Saturday. III fire
New Haven hospital he had commit
ted the act while suffering from q
nightmare. His wife, accepting his eN-
PLANTATION, has forgiven him and asks
that he shall not be punished Both
narrowly escaped death. Mrs. Mon
ahan is still in q serious condition
The skeleton Of a man. dressed in
clothes Of good material, was found.
Saturday, within - feet of a public
read near the Crossword station Of
the Harlem River Railroad, IN that
suburb OF Yonkers Beside the BODY
W. vial of quicksilver and a bottle
that once contained carbolic acid.
Grass concealed the trunk of the body.
The head was found ten feet away. a
straw hat and low tan shoes were well
preserved, but the clothing on the
body is in shreds. The coat bears the
label "Willue & Plat Amsterdam, \.
7" This and q piece Of newspaper
reading piano contest at the Ideal
Theatre, Amsterdam, \. Y" are the
orlv slues that may lead 10 ideutifica-
ton. The skeleton was taken 10
Boyles Morgue in Mount Vernon and
The coroner is investigating the case.
One of the many wild cats which
have bothered farmers in that section
or the state in the last few years, Yves
killed, Saturday. by John Herman OF
Mexican Valley. D. !. Herman vas
on a hunting trip and was traversing
one of many deer runs in that section
when he saw a fine doe come boun :
ing toward him. He stopped aside to
lei the animal pass and saw a big cat
bonding along short distance be-
hind trying To get 4 favorable place
to spring from te get al the doe. Her
man fred before the eat could leap in
to the bush and so wounded the ami
nal a second shot vas possible be-
fore it could get away. The cat
weighed forty eight pounds and meas
ured i've feet from muzzle 10 tip.
Bridge whist was played by 500 wo-
|E1en at Chicago, FRIDAY, for the bene-
fit Of q girl of the sluns. the identity
Of whom none Of them knew The
money raised ABOUT 5000. will be
turned into a fund 10 complete the
reformation. The girl. Is years old, IS
said to have fallen Ia lave two ears
| ago while attending a convent. She
rail- away from school and was mar
ried Her father prominent and a
contractor, dtsowned her. she was
deserted six months after her marri-
age and her father refused to take her
back. She became a victim Of drugs
and told her story TO Father Ferry.
He had her placed in sanitarium,
where she has been cured Of the drug
habit Now remains the work of get
ting her back into the paths she left,
two years ago.
Katherine Holtzman, daughter OF
William Hoffman, and MeKeesport's
Wealthiest belle. iast week, Tilted
welito do Greensburg man and ran
away with a pennilees student who Is
working in the Bradd0ck mills at
Pittsburg. Penn. The bride has a mill
lion of her own. The bridegroom is f.
p. Fischer, and the romance dates
from Miss Holtzmaus coed days in
Notre Dame University, where both
were students The engagement of
the wealthy young woman to her
Greensburg sutton was To have been
announced at a Christmas celebration
in the home of the brides parents. and
the bride to- be had her trousseau we'll
under way. On Wednesday, she dis
al peared, and Friday. returned from