Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


day at , per cent.
After several years agitation aad as
many setbacks by executive Vetoes, the
81 hour bin. which prohibits women
and minors in mercantile establish
ments from working more than that
time each week. was passed to be en-
| crossed Thursday IN the Massachu
sctts House. Having The approval OF
the Senate, il will reach the Governor
Monday
The international Press Congress
opened Thursday at the Capitol at
Rom. 500 delegates reporting. King
Victor Emmanuel, Queen Helena, the
members of the ministry and many
government officials We're present.
Manor Nathan welcomed the visitors
and former Premier Luzzatti, who has
returned To the work of a journalist.
spoke on the increasing Importance al
the press.
That Australia fears the orient was
| the opinion expressed by Frenk VIII
SON premier of Western Australia, who
arrived Wednesday at Victoria. b. G,
by the steamer zealandia, Ell route to
| London 10 attend the coronation. I'm
less We people Of Australia prepare 10
defend IT, WE viii lose it." ne said. Tin
defence movement. the construction of
an Australian navy. was not begun toe
| SOON
a statement Just issued by the
! United states treasury department
gives S3I55 MS the per capita circuia-
ton. basing the figures uron an es-
| timated population on MAY L. 1911. Of
80 7G5 900. The department showed that
| on that date there was a general
| stock of money amounting to So, 3D.
| 574,237 which included sos ,936, go held
in the treasury and $3,237 .6SS III in
circulation.
The dirigible balloon Parseval [. or
returning with a party of officers of
the army and government officials from
Leipsie Wednesday evening was about
TO land at Bitterfeld. Prussian Saxony.
when the motor broke down and the
airship swept away 10 the northwest.
driven by strong wind. The occu-
rants experienced a few uneasy mo-
ments. hut the pilot p,llled the rip
cord. and releasing the ,Ras from tie
bag, made sIilful and fortunate
landing in the darkness.
a Womans comb and a button fur
lnished q slight clue Thurs day ut New
York in the search for the slayer Of
Mrs. Anna Muhlner, the young bride
found Wednesday, night with her throat
cut in her home.5The comb picked up
beside the body did nat belong To Mrs.
| 2duhlner, Ter husband said. nor was
the button found on the floor like those
used en- any of her apparel. 4 diamond
ring vas left on the murdered wo-
mans finger, showing that robbery was
not the motive Of the crime
The Union Trust Co. at Providence,
r T.. which temporarily closed its
| doors during the financial panic Of 1897
paid Thursday half of the % per cent.
contingent certificates held by those
whose money was tied mp in the insti-
tuition when it suspended. Thursdays
payment leaves only 10 per cent. due
the dePositors and President Rath-
bone Gardner stated that this final
outstanding Indebtedness would be paid
as soon as circumstances warranted
An Indictment of five counts charg-
ing him with making false statements
TO the Massachusetts savings bank
| commits ioner has been returned
against Velenus w. Crowson, former
| treasurer of the Westhed Savings
Bank. by the Hampden County grand
jury, which reported late Wednesday
to Judge Crosby in the superior court.
Crowson was arraigned Immediately
after the Indictment had been return-
ed and pleaded not guilty He has been
out ON bail ever since his arrest some
time ago.
! Four sisters, all widows Of railroad
engineers .<iiled in wrecks, viii meet
at the funeral of Engineer Thomas
Picker of Huntington. W. Va. who
was killed in wreck on the Chesa-
pealle & ohio Road near Thurmond
last Tuesday AR Pitcher was one
Of four engineers who married four
sisters, the Misses Garner of Albcr-
marie county, Virginia Each victim,
met death in his cab; each was the
engineer OF fast express trains. and
the fireman of each was killed with
them, although no passengers was
hurt.
IN addressing the Chamber Of Com
merce Of New York Thursday Gov.
John \. Dix emphasized the import
ancc of the liarhor of New York to the
commerce Of the Western hemisphere
and deprecated what he termed tn-
discrimination which railroads and
| steamship lines were practicing in ia
vor of other scaports. Governor Dix
said that IN his opinion the three
things necessary for the continued
| prosperity Of New York City We're the
| proper DEVELOPMENT OF its terminal ia
cilitieS, including railroad and steam
| ship: the removal of differentlal rail
road rates discriminating against New
York city and in favor OF rival ports
on the Atlantic sea. coast and the COM
i system.
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