Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


The Turkish relief force entered
Sanaa Thursday morning With the
arrival of reintorcements the govern
mcnt is gradually getting the upper
hand in the Arabian REBELLION.
Gen. Henry Clay Young, a veteran of
tie American Civil War. died Thursday
in Paris. aged %. Gen. Young was for
merly of Cincinnati but since 1883 had
lived in Paris. where he was one of the
best known in the American colony
Mayor Gaynor and other New York
City officials will be subpoenaed as wit
nesses before the grand jury in the
crime wave investigation. SO it is
understood Thursday night. No session
of the jury Thursday.
In the standardization test Thursday
the torpedo boat destroyer Ammen de
veloped a speed of 1895 knots per hour.
The test was made off the Delaware
Breakwater by the New York Ship
building Co. of Camden. whicn built
the vessel. The contract called for
29.5o knots.
The New York Chamber of Com
mercc Thursday adopted a peace reso-
luton advocating the adjudication of
controversies between nations by ar
hitration and requesting the assistance
of the Chambers of Commerce of
France ana England in urging new ar
bitration treaties between the nations
The Scotch Duke of Atholl (John
James Henry Stewart Murray informs
the Athol Mass, anniversary conn
mlttee that he may be able to attend
Inc ppIphr1ti0n of hn
sary of the founding of the town,
next year. Athol was named by John
Murray. an ancestor of the duke, who
said the locality resembled Atholl in
Perthshre
The London Times Friday makes the
announcement that the purchaser of Rem
brandts landscape THE Mill is =. A. r.
Widener of Philadelphia. Mr.. Widener
has already denied that he has purchas sed
The MILL" and he added to this denial
that he never thought of making such n
purchase or that he knew who the pur-
chaser might be
While assisting to carry the body of a
woman who had committed suicide by
jumping into the Charles river basin from
the West Boston bridge Thursday night
Patrolman Timothy w. Hurley lifted the
sack placed over the face and found the
woman was his wife, Mrs. Mary E.. Hur-
ley. % years. The couple had been sepa-
rated. Dependency is believed to have
caused the womanS act
Robert 7. Moseman. aged 50. and his
niece, Della Franken, aged II. of Schenec-
tady. were instantly killed Thursday
night by Fonda Johnstown and Glo-
versville interurban car near Scotia, "
y. They We're walking on the eastbound
track and did not hear he approaching
car for the reason that car was pass
ing on the westbound track at the same
time.
The big river steamer Henry A.
Laughlin belonging to the Nesta Coal
Co. was wrecked by high wind early
Friday morning, turned turtle and
went to the bottom of the Monon-
gahela river near Monongahela. Pa,
keel uppermost. Effie Hughes. cook.
and Jane Lawrence. with the fireman,
name unknown. We're drowned. Eleven
others of the crew swan ashore. The
steamer is thought to be a total loss.
which is estimated at $4,000.
The unreasonable weather that de-
Veloped a snowstorm Wednesday in
France continued Thursday. During
the night there was a genuine blizzard
in Paris. The intense cold extends
through Southern France to the shores
of the Mediterranean. This has been
the coolest week of the year in some
districts. The damage caused to fruit
trees and in the wine vineyards as we'll
as to other crops by frost will amount
to millions of francs.
When arraigned Thursday at Hall
fax, n. S, on a charge of uttering
forged check. a plea of guilty was en-
tered by Herbert Strothard. the Hal
flax man who was arrested at Cam
bridge, Mass. few months ago. and
cNtradited at the request of the Cana
dian authorities. Sentence was re-
served until later. Strothard is alleged
to have uttered forged check in or
DER to be better able to support the
wife whom he had just married.
The British steamer Hannah NJ.
Bell, bounG from Newport News to
Vera cruz, is probably IL total wreck
on Elbow Reef near Carysford Light,
Florida. The revenue cutter Forward
returned to Key West Thursday from
the wreck. bringing 13 of the crew. The
captain of the ship remained on board.
I he first and second holds of the Bell
have Is feet OF water in them and tho
engine room is flooded.
After refusing d pipe which his IA
tier urged him to use instead of 81
garettes, Emil Senius. a young insur
ance agent, committed suicide In his
home in New York City Thursday
night by inhaling gas. He was an ex-
cessive cigarette smoker and was
threatened with consumption. The ia
ther tried to persuade him to use the
pipe Thursday morning and returned
home at night to find the young man
dead.
Two young society women of Wash
ington, Miss Laura Merriam, and Miss
Dorothy Williams, enjoyed the dis
tinction Thursday of being the first
two women in the United States to
make a fight in an aeroplane at the
same time. Anthony Janus was the
aviator and the fight was made in
a Rex Smith biplane. The distance