Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

DIR. Howard oSEopu, VINO was
member of the American COMMITTEES for
the revision of the Old Testament, died;
Tuesday morning. aged 81, at Rocnes-
ter, Y. Y. For % years he had held
the chair in Hebrew at the Rochester
Theological Seminary. Harvard,
Brown and Princeton gave him de-
grees. k4 NJ, &
Lord" George Sanger, the famous
circus Snowman, was murdered. Tues
day night. by an employee on his
farm at Finchley. London. Eng. The
murderer escaped. His motive in kill
ing his employer is not known. San
ger sold his show to P. T. Barnum in
1874.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Mas
saehusetts addressed 5000 or more
persons, Tuesday night. at Raleigh. n.
c.. at a public meeting of the North
Carolina State Library and Historical
Society His subject was the MAX
ing of the Constitution" The senator
vigorously attacked the initiative and
referendum and recall. Every raw
Idemagogue." he declared, every noise
agitator whether in Congress or out of
Congress incapable of connected
thought and seeking his own advance
| ment by an easy method of appealing
to envy. malice and uncharitableness,
all such people now lift their hands
to tear down or re-make the eenstitu-
ton"
In accordance with the resolution
adopted by the American Federation
of Labor the building trades depart
ment now in annual session at ATTAIN
ia, Ga, Tuesday, reinstated the Unit
ed Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners, which was suspended, about
a year ago. The department also con-
CURED in the action of the Federation
declaring for amalgamation of the
Steam Filters and Plumbers Unions.
Representatives of these bodies were
Instructed to confer with the execu-
| tive committee of the Federation as TO
| the method of amalgamation. The ap-
! plication of the Boiler Makers Union
| for membership in the department was
received. Tuesday. The boilermakers
| have a membership OF 10000.
| Alfred G. Vanderbilt called at the
| Office of the New York department OF
| taxes. Tuesday, and swore an assess
| ment on 100000 worth of personal
| property. supposed by the depart
| ment's assessors to be owned by him,
| down to $1,000. Mr.. Vanderbilt said his
! debts tsuch obligations as are allow
ed by law as offsets to personal prop
| erty taxation) exceeded the value OF
the property on which he had been
| assessed. He would not even have
been assessed $1,000 If he had not had
| that amount invested in securities not
registered for exemption in accord
| ance with the new law. William ROCK
efeler secured a reduction from S6oo,-
900 to 100000, the same amount he
paid, last year.
1t took the jury but 10 minutes To
reach a verdict of guilty, Tuesday, at
| White Plains, n. Y, in the trial OF ' IN
cenzo Gonna, charged with the muir
der If Mrs. Mary Hall, at iarm
house near Croton Lake, Nov. y last
Two days after the murder, hVe men,
alleged TO have been the baneits VINO
killed Mrs. Hall in an eHort 10 make
her disclose the whereabouts OF large
sum of insurance money, were arrest
ed; they were indicted two Gays later
Gonna. the alleged leader of the ban
| dts was placed on trial. Monday. The
| defence presented no witnesses. The
trial of two more of the alleged ban
dts will be begun, "Wednesday, with
eusrd of acoueduct police still on du-
ty at the court house 10 prevent
friends of the accused man from car
rving ont threats which they have
made in letters to the prosecuting at
torney.
Arrested and accused of the murder
of six persons. then confronted with
their hlood soaked clothing that had
been found near the crime scene, Gle
mentine Rarnabel, a young Negress
laughted at the police, Tuesday, at
I.afayette, La, refusing to admit any
Mart in the murders. Her brother and
two Young Negroes have been arrest
cd with Clementne as material swift
nesses. Late Monday, the family of
Norbert Randall, including six per-
sons. were found in bed, their bodies
horribly hacked. 1t is believed they
were murdered, Saturday night. as
/, they slept. They were Negroes. Sher-
}. lift Lacoste declared he believed he
n could trace four murderers to Clemen-
e tine. the Negro girl. He thinks she
: was directly involved IN the murder
$ of four members of the Andris fam
: lily, some time ago. for which her faith
e er was convicted, then granted . new
trial.