Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

will be sent soon to other clearing
houses throughout the country, re-
questing their cooperation In an ef-
fort to create demand for clean pa
Ter money.
Burns received, Sunday night. by
George H. sawyer OF Clfftondafe,
Mass. while playing Santa Cfaus re-
suited in his death, Wednesday,. HIS
injuries were due TO a candle ignftfng
his coat
The four masted schooner Charles
~. Dumas from Philadelphia to Gal
led, Tuesday night, ON Pea island. be-
and his crew of SIX men were landed
in surfboats by life savers. There is
little prospect of saving the vessel.
Colonel Everett c.. Benton was at
Boston, Wednesday, Installed grand
master Of the Grand Lodge of Mas9ns
of Massachusetts, featuring the ST.
Johns day observance of the lodge.
Colonel Benton has. long been pronfi
nent in the craft e
The financial affairs of Harry K
Thaw, an inmate of Matteawan asy-
lum and the slayer of Stanford White,
We're wound up. Wednesday, when
Referee in Bankruptcy William r.
Blair directed that checks for % per
cent. Of the amounts Of the claims
against Thaw's estate be mailed TO
his creditors. Thaw,s liabilities were
about $500, 900. The principal claim
was that of his mother Mrs. Mary
Q. Tha@, for $2g9.e74
The Rev. william r. Toll was conse-
Grated suffragan bishop of the Episcopal
church in the diocese OF Chicago.
Wednesday. He thus becomes the third
s1ffragan bishop In the United States.
Mrs Emma Langnan, 10 years old.
who refused to get out of bed for Is
years. died. Wednesday,, at the county
infirmary at Evansville, Ind. A reversal
of her fortunes which drove her to the
county asylum caused her resolution
never to leave her bed after she arrived
there. Recently. from continuous lying
down. she suffered paralysis, and 1t was
the Immediate cause of her death. @
Capt. C. Palmer, 70 years old. or
ganizer of the Butte and Boston Min
ing Co., and one of the best known
mining men in America, died, Wednes-
day, in Atlantic City. n. j., according
to a telegram received at Butte,
Mont. Capt. Palmer came to Butte In
1888 from the Lake Superior copper
district. 4
One of the most voluminous wills on
file in the Plymouth, Mass, registry
was received there. Wednesday,. 1t
is the last will and testament of s..
X Tobe of Wareham, and covers
more than so typewriter pages. An,
estate roughly estimated at quarter
of a million dollars Is disposed of by
| the document. Various charities I'm
Wareham receive $4,000 by the will.
Fifty cents year each for
general Improvements is allowed
Fairview and Central Street cene-
teries at Plymouth, Mass, under the
will of Cynthia NJ. Gray, filed,
Wednesday. The will places the in2
come of 500 at the disposal OF the
trustees of each cemetery for the care
of family lots, but provides that 30
cents of such annual income may be
used for general Improvement Of the
cemetery.
Supreme Court Justice Davis fol-
lowed up his action of a week ago in
refusing to confirm the report of Will
commended that Upton Sinclair the
author, be granted an interiocutory
decree of divorce from Meta Fuller
Sinclair. by directing. Wednesday, at
New York. that the case be retired.
The justice appointed Marshall s.
Marden as referee to hear testimony
anew. so ~ AgE 40 Essassa
A dentist is under no compulsion
not to tell secrets acquired in the prac-
tice of hts profession, according TO a
decision BY the appellate division at
New York. Wednesday,. The courts
ruling that the knowledge of dentists
concerning their patients is not priv
LEGGED as is that of surgeons, ply
sicians or nurses under the statutes,
was in the case Of Frank H Lowe. a
dentist, who took the witness stand
in his own suit to collect bill from
the estate of a man he had profess
sionally treated.
George Graham Rice, who with B.
T.. ScheftelS, and others. had been On
trial in the United States circuit court
lin New York the past eight weeks.
charged with misuse of the mails In
an alleged scheme to tieffaud irive9-
Itprs, was re-arrested Wednesday,, on
| n bench warrant and committed to
the Tonlbs without bail. Rice has
been at liberty in $4,000 BAIL He
turned pale and grasped his lawyers
.arm for support when arrested No
official statement was forthcoming
from any source as to the cause for
the re-arrest of Rice fANss
J AS a supplementary preventive Of
typhoid fever in The navy and the ma
I rine corps, the compulsory ihocetilation
/ OF all the officers and enlisted men In
these branches of the service under As
years OF see. has been ordered by
Secretary OF sse Navy Meyer. All re-
eruits will be suatected to the treat
ment and all those applying for re-en-
listment will also take the treatment
il they have not undergone 1t within
two years previously or have had the
fever. In case of doubt the order pro-
vides that ii shall be administered A
similar order was issued by the war
department some time ago,
More stringent requirements re-
garding the eligibility of college attn
letes were considered at a meeting.