Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

Kansas has the largest per capita
wealth based upon the assessed yalu-
alton of any state in the Union, &C
eording to figures computed at Topeka,
Monday, by Mark Tully, state treas
urer. The per capita assessment val
uation is $1642.30.
Fifteen destroyers of the Sth. tn and
10th divisions, now stationed at the
Charleston navy yard, have been or
dered to New York and Newport te
Join the Atlantic fleet The vessels will
leave Charleston, Dec. q.
Aviator Robert G. Fowler reached
Lake Charles, La, sunday, on flight
from Beaumont Tex, covering the
distance of about 60 miles in TIVE
hours without a stop. He expected to
start in the direction of New Orleans
Monday, stops being scheduled for
several places on the way.
Jack coombs, star pitcher of the
Philadelphia worlds champion base
ball team, was the victim of q sneak
thief in a Chicago store. Coomhs went
shopping with his wife. He had pur.
chased a set of furs for Mrs. Coombs
when the package was laid down fol-
a few moments OH a counter WheI
the great pitcher turned to pick III
the box it was gone. The furs cos
$500.
The Puget sound salmon pack fol
1871 established a new record, q tota
of 1,625.000 cases having been pack
ed, exceeding the 1909 record by al
NEST 50, 600 cases. The value of the out
put is placed at $S,125,0 900. The record
breaking production is attributed tc
the heavy run of pink salmon, 1052, POI
cases CT which were packed.
While making repairs under his au-
tomobile. Henry f. Lord of Irving
ton, y. Y, was crushed to death. Sun.
day. when the engine became loosened
from the body of the car and fell on
him in his garage. He had been dead
several hours, ii is. believed, when his
body was found. Mr.. Lord was treas
urer of the building firm of Lord &
Durham, and was IS years old.
The annual report of State Mine In
|speetor Dougherty, which has been I'll
ed with the governor at Pierre, S. d.
shows the total output of Black Hills
gold for the year ending Nov. /. was
$685.. 506.2S Different mining work IL
the Black Hills employs 1874 men
among whom accidents, last year
caused the death of nine and serious
injury of 10.
The alleged discovery of a British
plot to blow up the naval harbor al
W!lhelmshaven, published in the Rhen-
ish Westphalian Gazette, is regarded
in official circles in the light of news
paper nonsense. While the Essen
newspaper story is not denied, it is
considered as the product of the pre-
vaiiing espionage mania in Germany
and England. Espionage certainly ex-
listed but it took less fantastic forms
than related in the Gazette.
Control of the Elgin, Ill. Board o
Trade Monday, passed into the hands }
Chicago and Wisconsin creamery me
elected on producers ticket Charlie
Potter was elected president. Under tn
new regime the quotation oommitte
will be abolished, according to J. |
Younger of the producers faction. 18th
price committee is a farce" said Nh
Younger. 1T is nothing more than
Sherman antitrust law and always ha
been"
Preferring death TO a few months II
jail, Thomas femme committed suicide
early Sunday morning. at the Somerville
Mass, police station by hanging himsel
with his suspenders to d cell door
femme was q years old and lived at 2
Webster avenue. Somervile. A shor
time ago he was arrested for drunkenness
and released on probation, with the I'm
Outstanding that if arrested again for tn,
same misdemeanor within six months h
would be sent to Jail. Sunday mornin.
he was arrested for drunkenness by Re
serve officer Walsh, who found hin
elinging TO the water spout of hous
on Springfield street. While the office
was unlocking patrol box he tried t
escape by running. but was quickly re
captured and sent to police headquarters
After attending a Holy Roller
meeting in East Macon, Ga, Satur-
day night, Mrs. Eliza Tharpe became
SO filled with religious fervor that she
thought SHE could walk ON the wa
ter Her husband sat up with her un-
til daylight. Sunday morning, restrain
ing her, When her husband left TO &C
to work she called several OF the
neighbors and ran to the river. block
distant. She took off her shoes and
cloak and waded into the water In a
minute she was swept under by the
strong current. and, when her body
was recovered 10 minutes later, she