Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| President Brown Of the New York Cen
trail Lines announced, WEDNESDAY. that
orders have been placed for 20 locomo-
tEes and 1900 freight ears for all lines
II IS thought probable that an issue at
something like SIS, 000 IN equipment
trust certificates viii be made 10 finance
the purchase of this equipment, por-
ton of the expense being charged to
equipment renewal funds
A national strike in the British coal |
trade was temporarily averted. Wednes-
day, when the delegates Of the miners |
who have been in session in London for |
three days, voted against taking a bal |
lot of the men as TO whether a strike
should be called Such a ballot undoubt-
eddy would have resulted in the cessa-
ton of work in the mines throughout the
country. Negotiations with the NINE
owners win be reopened with a prospect
of a compromise being reached.
To render assistance to vessels in
| distress at sea during the season of
bad weather, President Taft has or
dered the entire Atlantic fleet of reve-
nue. cutters TO patrol the coast from
Maine to Florida beginning Dec. l,
and 10 remain al sea practically con-
tinuousiy until April /, 1872 The rev.
| enue cutters win be stocked with pro-
visions, water and fuel with which TO
furnish relief. None of them Will seek
| n harbor during the entire five months
except as necessity demands.
An hours melee in which hat pins,
hair pulling and fists figured freely,
/ was precipitated at MacAlster College
| at St Paul, Mimi. Wednesday, when
| the Freshmen appeared at chapel
wearing little blue caps, emblazoned
with 10 in bright gold letters. The
trouble started Immediately after
chapel, when the Sophomores way
| laid the Freshmen in the halls and
took away several of the caps. For
| half an hour the struggle continued
and then the goods. who had satisfied
| themselves with cheering. could no
| longer contain themselves. and started
| another fight among themselves. 1t re-
| quired the Interference of the facul-
~ 10 quell the disturbance.
Lillian L. Moore, who is suing for di-
| vorce from her husband, John j.
Moore, in the courts of Redwood City.
| Cal, took the stand, late Tuesday, and
| made a sensational denial of the hus-
| bands allegations involving Rear Adj
miral Thomas Phelps, L. S. n. IRE
| tired). Il went on my knees TO my
| husband" said Mrs. Moore. and
| swore by the body of my dead boy
| and by my two little girls that his
| accusations were untrue" Moore
| charges that his wife admitted TO him
| that she had been intimate with Rear
Admiral Phelps and that Phelps was
| the father of two of her children. Rear
| Admiral Phelps declared that the
charges are baseless.
Sixty cases of smallpox are report
ed in several towns west OF st. Johns
| bury vt. The situation assumed seri-
ous aspects, Tuesday. when DR.. II. Il.
Hilton Of Brattleboro, secretary of the
| state Board of Health, ordered the
schools, churches and all public places
closed in the towns of Greensboro.
Craftsbury, Hardwiek and Walden.
The nature of the disease was not
learned until Monday many of the
cases having been treated for typhoid
fever In several cases patients have
been i'll since August, and the whole
Gale exposure, resulting from ignor-
ance of the disease, causes great con
sternation. No deaths have occurred.
but there are several seriously III. al
though most Of the cases are mild
Capt Ernest Stevens worked his
mackerel dragging auxiliary sloop j, +.
McMorrow into port at Gloucester,
Mass. Wednesday, and reported the
probable loss in the southeast gale,
Tuesday night. of the two men who
composed his GREY. William NJ. Griffin,
aged 60, and Reuben Rafuse. IS years
old Both men were retired master
mariners and We're we'll known in
Gloucester The men were mackerel
=. dragging about IL miles off Thacher's
Island when the gale broke. Griffin
and Rafuse were in a dory alongside
the McMorrow and the gale bore their
: small craft away. No trace of them
was seen along shore and it is believed
that their dory WAS swamped by the
seas and both men drowned.
Burglars with sweet tooth salts
fed their appettes and replenished
their pocketbooks in raid on the Re-
hoboth, Mass, post office, located in the
general store of Postmaster Edward +.
Earle, sometime Tuesday night. When
, Mr. Earle opened the store, Wednes~
day morning, he found = mass OF
wreckage in the corner, where the post
,, office was quartered and further dis
covered that the post office safe had
been blown open and $10o in cash and
$500 worth OF stamps had been stolen.
> Expecting to find much merchandise
! missing, Mr. Earle made a careful m
d yehtory of his stock and learned that
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