Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Howard Could of New York was
awarded the Presidents cup. a silver
trophy, offered for the largest entry,
at the 10th annual show Of the West
Haven, Conn, Poultry Association,
which closed. Friday.
Herbert Cooper. who murdered
Lord" George Sanger, circus owner,
on Tuesday, at East Fihchley, a sub
urb of London, committed suicide,
Wednesday, on the railroad two miles
from the scene OF the crime. Cooper's
! decapitated body was found, Thursday
| day morning.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. has been
made assistant manager of the Sacra-
mento, Cal, office of the Hartford Car
pet Corporation. The promotion car
ries With it a $3.50 per year increase In
salary. Young Roosevelt has been sta
toned at Pacific Coast Offices of the
company for the past IS months.
Willis Ray Miller of Corning. y. Y
a senior in Oeerlin College, Oberlin, o,
was drowned. Thursday, in Lake Erie,
while duck shooting. He abandoned an
unseaworthy boat with the idea OF
swimming ashore. but from cramps or
exhaustion. he went down and his COM
panions We're not able to rescue him.
Jewish Americans of san Francisco
have Joined in the nationwide move
ment for an early abregatien of the
treaty of 1892 between the United
States and Russia because of Russia's
alleged refusal to recognize the Amer
lean passports of Jewish citizens It
was announced. Friday, that the Leg
islature, now meeting IN extra session,
would be memerialized 10 have the
matter taken up by Congress
Jesse Watson was, Friday, appoint
ed receiver for the interests of Col.
Christopher Wilson. the convicted
president of the United Wireless Tel
egraph Co. now serving a sentence in
! the federal prison at Atlanta Cred
| itors filed petition against Wilson,
recently. with claims aggregating
! mere than $1,500.000. They aIlege ne
has in his possession about that
! amount belonging to stockholders of
, the company.
TIE probability of a big naval loan
| il the near future is. revived by the
| Pail Mall Gazette al London. which
anticipates that Sl5o, 000 600 and pos
sibly more will be raised supplemental
to the usual naval estimates. 1t is ar
gued that in view of the campaign in
Germany in favor of an increased
navy for that country, 1t is necessary
| for Great Britain to show that she Is
determined to preserve the "2 to 1"
standard. The provision of adequate
! docks for the Dreadneught battleships
4 81
Bishop Daniel S futile of ST Louis,
presiding bishop OF the Episcopal
| church IN the United states, declared
! himself against woman suffrage in his
| Thanksgiving sermon at Christ Church
| cathedral. Telling why he thought it
would not he fair to give suffrage to
| women. he said There are seven
| lines along which human activities in
the main project themselves. These
are the home, the school society, the
church. business, government and war.
Now look al these seven and see how
many of them woman is predominant"
A plea Of not guilty was entered by
Samuel Mcknight q blacksmith of
Norwood. when brought into the dis
triet court, Friday at Dedham, Mass.
to answer a charge of manslaughter
growing out of the recent suspicious
death Of jeremiah Lynch at Norwood.
Judge Emery Grover held Mcknight
in $4,000 bail for a continued hearing,
Dec. 3. Lynch's body was found under
the Washington street bridge Of the
New York. New Haven & Hartford
Railroad, Norwood, on the evening OF
Nov. 30 Meningitis arrest followed
The nature of the evidence against
Mex night is known only to the police
and District Attorney Katzman.