Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


A disagreeable Christmas surprise was
experienced Saturday by l.. II. Shaner,
foreman of the rolling mill department
of the United States Steel Corporation at
/ Gary, Ind, and brother of Armstrong
county's sheriff, when he discovered that
everything in his home had been carried
away by robbers. Furniture. carpets,
dishes. pictures, in fact everything was
/ stolen. Shaner, who formerly worked
at the American Sheet & Tin Plate Cos.
mill at Salisbury, Pa, was ordered TO
Gary three weeks ago. His wife and
family went to her parents home at
Apollo, Pa, and the house was locked up.
Shaner returned, Saturday, 10 prepare
| his household goods, valued at s9e99, for
shipment to Indiana. The house was
bare.
A strawberry plant, imported from ST.
IBERIA, last spring, by Edward Dixon of
Forest Grove, Ore, bears fruit every
month in the year, the berries being
white In color when fully ripe. The ber-
ries are not so large as the Oregon bet-
ry The flavor resembles that of a pine
apple Blossoms and fruit are found on
the plant every week in the year; how
ever, the best season for bearing is from
Aug. l until about the end of the year.
The berries hang in clusters on a long,
slender stem. Each plant has several
stems on which the fruit grows. The
stems with leaves bear no fruit In
stead Of propagating new plants from
runners, as is the case of native straw
berries, in this species the parent plant
is broken up. the several fruit-bearing
stems are separated and planted indi-
vidually. York World
The government is to have a telegraph
office installed in the life saving station
at the isles of Shoals. This plan was
lately arranged between the Western
Union and the government and the work
has already started. One of the wires
in the cable will be used between the ca
BILE station at Rye Beach and Appledore
island. For many years Capt. S. II.
Harding, superintendent of the life saw
ing service in the First District, has adj
vocated the government having commu-
nication with the island. 1t is expected
that the work will be so far advanced
that an operator will be placed at the
life saving station in January. The wire
will run direct to Portsmouth, n. H, and
In the summer the office at the island
will be transferred TO the hotel.
Town Marshal C. A. Roberts of Dom
aldsonville, Ga, was shot and killed.
Saturday, by a Negro named John War
rem, who was captured shortly after and
summarily lynched by a mob which had
followed the officer who went TO arrest
Warren. The Negro quarreed with a
white man and threatened him with a
pistol. Warren was chased out of town
by witnesses. hut on learning of the af-
fair Roberts started in pursuit. Over
taking the Negro on the outskirts of the
/ town, the marshal ordered him to climb
! out of his wagon, whereupon the latter
opened fire. Roberts returned the fire
and both men We're wounded. In attempt
ing to drag the black from his seat Rob-
erts fell dead from his wounds AT this
stage the men who followed Roberts
came up and literally shot Warren to
pieces Roberts leaves q large family.
THE best proof that there will new
er be war between Japan and the
United States is the fact that it has
been predicted so often by Capt. Hob
son and has not yet taken place" said
DIR. Inazo Nitobe of Toxic, who was
invited to address Mems meeting at
the Y. NJ. c. A, at Atlantic City, sun
day. DIR. Nitobe, who has affiliated
with the Friends faith, and has a son
at Haverford College, near Philadel-
phia, says predictions of war between
Japan and the United States are
absurd. I'm the first place Japan has
all ii can do to carry its present war
debt" he said. Second. there is
nothing whatever in the talk of Japan
wanting the Philippines. We have all
we can do to take care of our own
country and Corea Lastly if there are
any serious complications at any time
between Japan and the United States
they will be amicably settled without
resorting to force of arms" DIR.
Nitobe says that for man to be an
American was all the passport be
needed in Japan. He received his de-
gree of doctor of philosophy at Johns
Hopkins University and is president
of the government school, Sapporo
College, at Sapporo.
Charles y. Emerson for 25 years
agent of the American Express Co. at
Franklin, n. H. died at his home on
Main street, Sunday, of angina pee
toris. Mr.. Emerson was born in And
over the son of Harrison and Mary
tHardy) Emerson, and was 81 years
old. He moved here from Andover %
years ago. He was a SOD degree Ma
son, belonging TO the consistory in
Nashua, kearsage Lodge, A. F. and A.
NJ, of Andover, st. Ames Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, of Franklin and
Mt Horeb Commandery, knights
Templars, of Concord. He was a past
worthy patron of Ionic Chapter, O. e
S. In Andover he was a member of
the Board of Selectmen. He also was
chairman of the Board of Selectmen
in Franklin for three years He was
a prominent member Of the Democrat
ic party and once its nominee for may
! or. A widow and one son, Clifford
also two brother, Albert w. of Frank
lin and Allen A. of South Newbury
and q sister, Mrs. Carrie Bartlett OF
Tilton. The funeral will take place
Tuesday at 1870, at the Christian
church.
In the midst of Christmas eve