Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

William Thornton, Il prominent car
pet yarn manufacturer of Philadelphia,
died at his home there Thursday from
heart disease. He was born in York
shire, England and was IS years old.
The steamer Seattle Manu- brings news
to Seattle. Wash, that in a heavy Storm
which prevailed near Dwarf bay Jan. $,
20 japanese fishing vessels were wreeke ii
and 30 men drowned.
General Pershng, commander of the de-
partment of Mindanao, +. l.. has ended
the punitive campaign in the Davao dis
trict, having killed or captured all the
murderers and dispersed the Law ess
Manobo bands.
Women representing 116 clubs APP
peared at public hearing at New
York Thursday on the proposed hat
pin" ordnance to urge it's adoption
The ordinance will make it unlawful
to wear hat pin or similar device
whose points protrudes more than half
an inch from tho crown of the hat.
The Mauritania. due Friday at New
York from Queenstown. has smashed
another speed record, according to a
wireless message received Thursday
by Cunard Line officials at New York.
The message states that the liner made
SIC knots during the "A hours ending
at noon Thursday. The previous rec
ord, also made by the Mauretania was
673 knots, established June I, 1909
A panic was created in the Italian
quarter on the upper East side New
York. Thursday when a bomb was
thrown into the basement of a store and
residence building on East SD street. The
explosion wrecked the lower part of the
building and shook the neighborhood.
John Garbage, a grocer who occupies
the basement, admitted to the police that
he had received several threatening let
ters from the Black Hand
Three vessels loaded with Chinese are
cruising somewhere off the Mexican
coast between Ensenada and the cali
fornia coast, according to information
brought TO San Diego, Cal, by the cap
tain of the steamer Bernardo Reyes just
in from Ensenada. The captain said he
passed the three vessels at a point nearly
off the American line. Awaiting the sup
posed smugglers is the patrol boat Orient
which is moored in a cove near San
Ysidro.
The arguments in the case of Will
liam j. Chg Bid kelliher, who is I'M
der sentence of * years for aiding and
abetting George w. Coleman in looting
the National City Bank of Cambridge,
were finished late Thursday before
Judges Colt Putnam and Lowell of
the United States circuit court of APP ,
ngf, ~
sides We're then each given two weeks !
to file further briefs. The closing ,
arguments We're made by United I
States District Attorney French for /
the government. Daniel II. Coakley, !
counsel for kelliher replied.
In granting the defendants motion |
for non-suit for want of jurisdiction in !
the divorce case of Sarah Catherine !
Ford of Morristown, y. j.. against !
Milton Ford. Judge John S orr of the |
district court at Reno. New. Wednes- |
DAY drew more sharply than ever be-
fore the lines which mark out what /
constitutes residence. The court re-
fused to accept Mrs. Ford as a resi-
dent of Nevada on the mere fact of q
six-months stay at an apartment
house without acquiring property
when she has a home. the decision
says, in Morristown
Members of the Young family were
advised by Governor Spry Wednesday
at Salt Lake City to ignore the unoffi-
cial protests against the ornamentatiou
OF the battleship Utah's silver with the
portrait of Brigham Young. The gov
ernor told the committee which waited
| upon him that he did not think the ag-
! ltation of the matter would have any
effect and that it would be time enough
to resent an insult to the state when
| such an insult was forthcoming from
a responsible source. 1t is understood
that Governor Spry's counsel has been
| accepted.