Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-22

Machael Heilman, - years old, was
beaten. tarred ana peppered Wednes-
day night by masked men in the
Village of Trail, Homes county, Ohio
ie~was found writing in the high
Way, having walked 10 miles after
the assault He is in critical con-
dition from Internal injuries at the
home of his mother near Fredericks-
burg. Heilman said he was attacked
because he associated with woman.
His body is a mass of blisters from
the tar and pepper and he may lose
his sight
Two additional Fall River, Mass,
cotton manufacturing companies have
passed their dividends and one has re-
duced its rate. The American Linen
Co, which usually pays liz per cent.
quarterly and paid three quarters of
l per cent. last quarter and the Mer-
chants Manufacturing Co., which usu-
ally pays liz per cent. quarterly, are
the corporations which passed the div
idends The Merchants PAID no divi-
dends last quarter. The Shove mills
have reduced the quarterly rate from
l Y to per cent. The Osborne, Tecum-
sch and Cornell Corporations an
nounce the usual dividends.
Preferring death to confinement in a
/ correctional institution, Esther -.
Thompson, H-year-old Roxbury, Mass.
girl swallowed draught OF corrosive
sublimate in the women's detention room
| OF the superior criminal court Wednes-
day at Boston. A court officer saw the
girl take the poison. He Immediately
summoned physician from an adjoin-
| ing court chamber and the girl was
given emergency treatment She was
| later removed to the Relief hospital
where it was said that she probably
would recover. The Thompson girl, hav-
| ing violated the terms of her probation
| after being adjudged a stubborn child.
| was about to be sent to the State In
dustrial School for Girls at Lancaster.
| Edward Valentine, paymaster
/ clerk. who stole $4,000 from the battle
| ship Georgia Feb II at Havana, was
| arrested Wednesday at Buffalo. ~ Y
| His trail was picked up at Toronto
| where he had been spending much mon.
| ey. He went Wednesday for an auto.
mobile ride through the parks with a
girl and on his return was arrested. Al
police headquarters $25, 600 in bills was
| found in a small bag he carried and
$500 was found in his pockets IL was al
| that was left of the funds stolen. The
| prisoner is &c years of age lie will
be arraigned in general court thursday
| and says he will plead guilty to embez-
element.
| The Southern New England Railway
Co. the branch of the Grand Trunk
Railroad which will be built from
| Palmer. Mass. to Providence. r. L.
was formally organized Wednesday at
Providence. First Vice President Fitz
hugh of the Grand Trunk was elected
president of the new company, a board
of directors was chosen and the
amended charter granted by the Leg
lislature was accepted. Plans are prac
tically complete for the layout of the
new road and the route in Rhode Is
land will be filed with the railroad
commissioners before July 1. The
board of directors was elected as fol-
lows; President. Clarence NJ. Hayes
of the Grand Trunk, Montreal. chair
man: w. H. Fitzhugh and H. G. Kel-
~ also of the Grand Trunk: J. c.
Jones and C. W. Writer'S of the Cen
trial Vermont Railroad. st. Adams. VT;
III. '. Baker of Boston; and John S
Murdoch, Providence.
| What victims of the great white
plague cost the community. the fam.
| lily and the individual, in dollars and
cents, was told the National Associa
ton for the study and Prevention OF
tuberculosis Wednesday at Denver
by Drs. Edwin Locke and Cleveland
| Floyd of the Boston Constructive
| Study department. The figures were
based on cases of 500 male patients
These pa who died each cost the com
munitY sl1L56 or a total of $31 ,072. The
256 living have cost s9s41S each, to-
tai of 1892. The cases showed an in.
diyidual loss in wages of $4,000. The
following officers for the ensuing year
were named by the directors: Presi.
dent, Dr. n. p. Ravenet, Madison
| Wis; vice presidents. John NJ. Glenn
| New York and DIR. Walter Holden
| Denver; secretary DR. Henry Burton
Jacobs, Baltimore; treasurer, Gen
George NJ. Sternburg, Washington
D. e.