Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-12

sunday endorsed the strike at the Baid-
win Works and pledged assistance TO
the strikers.
The discovery of an empty boat
anchored far from the shore on john
sons pond. Bedford, Mass, sunday
gave the first inkling of the drowning
of two Haverhill men, James smith
and a companion named Batchelder.
The men went to the pond for the
week end and il is supposed that while
fishing they in some way capsized the
boat. One body was found floating on
the surface of the water, the other has
not yet been recovered Smith was
man of 50 and Batcheder about 80.
Both men were married.
Three men were drowned in Connec-
ticut Sunday. one 1ied as the result of
trolley collision, one died from pois !
on and a sixth committed suicide. In
Windsor two men whose names are nov
known and who stole a canoe, upset
and drowned in the Pennington river.
Otto Cedargren of Hartford. was
drowned in IA cove at Wethersiield
while fishing None of the bodies have
been recovered In New Haven. Ed
ward Brady Of Philadelphia took an
overdose of medicine containing NOR
phiEe and died in local hospital.
George Thomson of Ansonia who was
injured in a trolley collision at Race
Rock Memorial day, died Sunday night
as q result of his injuries. In Mid
dlebury John f. Blackman committed
suicide by drinking carbolic acid.
American athletes carried off the hon
ors In the international track and field
meet of the Elton A. a. Saturday at To-
ronto, Ont. George Bonhag gave a big
| field of canadians liberal handicaps in
the five-mile event and beat them home
by nearly 100 yards George Goulding.
| the great Canadian walker, won the two
| mile walk in easy fashion. He was OPP
posed by George Larned of England.
| Goulding led from start to finish and
breasted the tape rs yards TO the front.
| The handieaps proved too much for Abel
| kiviat TO overcome in the one-mile run
and he was beaten home. Newell of the
| Central Y. NJ. c. A. of Toronto. who
| had start of 100 yards, was first, with
| Kiviat second. More than 1900 saw the
| contests.
With view to stimulating futurity
|
| tween Sand 4-year- olds, instead of
2-and 3-year- olds as now a sweep
stakes for trotting foals of 1907 have
been proposed by James Gatcomb.
owner of Audubon Boy. 1891, to be
contested for at the Grand Circuit
meeting at Readville. Mass, the week
of Aug. 28-Sept. 2. The entry fee Is
placed at $500 and Gatcomb has en-
tered as the first May Audubon. 224
by Audubon Boy. The proposed race
is TO be in mile heats, best two in
three to harness. The purse is TO he
divided 20. 20 and 10 per cent. The
race is expected to attract many own
ers of 4-year-olds throughout the New
England and offers one of the star at
fractions of the meet.
Practical CONSUMPTION for college
graduates is suggested by Major Cen
eral Leonard Wood chief of STAFF L. s.
A. as method of recruiting the regu-
lar army. His plan is that an enlist
ment of from six months 10 a year in
the regular army following their grad
uation would not only teach the r9i.
lege men the rudiments for military I'D
ucatien but would also incuicate i4U
son of practical patriotism cegs~~
Wood points out that when in 1864. the
army of the Southern Cross needed
men more than ammunition to pro-
long the war with the North. the stu
dents Of the Virginia Military Insti.
tute foften called the West Point Of
the SOUTH marched out i'm body 70
the support of the Confederacy. The
ages of these Young soldiers ranged
from ii TO IS years, the majority OF
them being nearer IA than IS The SER
vice they rendered to General Robert
f. Lee and the Lost Cause in Vir-
einia sorms one of the bright pages In
the history of the Civil War.