Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-25

Mrs. Charles II Beach, president OF
The Rhode Island State Federation of
Women's Clubs. it became know Thurs
day at Providence. died Wednesday
night at her summer home. Mrs. Beach
was 81 years old She was widely known
in womens organizations in New Eng
land.
Henry Donahue, chief clerk and
superintendent of carriers at the New
buryport, Mass, post office for the past
IL years, was arrested Thursday
charged with larceny. He is a prison
er at the Newburyport police station
Donahue is "A years of age. Money
has been reported missing from the
NeWburypprt post office at various
times for the past 10 years.
The body of Leonard Treadwell
Kendall, a wealthy retired business
man of Glen Ridge n j.. was foand
in Cross Mil pond near Charlestown,
r. l., Thursday. Death, according to
the towns medical officer, was due to
apopleXy, as there was no water in
the lungs and no other evidence of
drowning.
Nomination papers for Lieut. Coy.
ISbtliS a II DIS Il INtpuDlitdil
candidate for governor were filed Thurs
day by Charles S. Baxter DIT Boston. 1t
is expected that the force of clerks in
the office of the secretary of the COM
monwealth Will be swamped with nom
ination papers by the afternoon of Aug
% when the time for filing expires under
the direct nomination law as something
like 5000 papers will be filed.
The municipal street railway committee
at Liverpool Thursday decided to rein
state the strikers thus ending the labor
troubles in that city. 1t took the com
mittee nearly three hours to make up
their minds to yield to the demands of
the strike committee that no discrmi-
nation be shown against the strikers re-
turning to work. Sixty-eight thousand
men who are still on strike at Liverpool
awaiting Thursdays decision on the part
of the committee will now return to
work
Following the blowing up of freight
car on the Pittsburg, Butler. Newcas-
Tie & ffarrn6ny Railroad Wednesday
night. an attempt was made early
Thursday To wreck another ear near
Evans City Pa. The crew discovered
that three trolley poles had been saw
ed off near the ground and placed on
the track Wires had been thrown
down. neeessitating the suspension OF
operations on the division for several
hours Metormen and conductors are
striking fer recognition of the union.
Hurled through window in the en-
gine room when a cylinder head OF
the 1900 horsepower engine at the Gre
lock Cotton Co.'S. mills at North
Adams. Mass, blew out Thursday.
Ulysses Grant, the engineer, suffered
serious injuries but will not die. When
Grant was picked up in the rear of the
mills he was unconscious. AT hospital
where he was carried, it was said that
several bones were broken. There was
no other persons in the engine room at
the time of the blowout. The accident
will throw 500 employees out of work
temporarily.
John r. Early, the alleged leper whose
case caused the health authorities at
Washington much trouble several years
ago and created a dispute over the di-
agnosis between various New York and
Washington physicians. has applied for
a renewal of his pension for services
III the NpdlllSb -Nih'iitbli W Il iN''tt -
is on the Pacific coast living under an
assumed name. The pension officers have
ordered his examination by physicians
who are unaware of the real identity of
Early or his supposed malady lie will
be given fair examination, said Com
missioner of Pensions Davenport, thy
doctors who in my opinion are competent
to tell whether il is really leprosy or
merely some harmless skin disease from
which Early is suffering.
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, wife of the
inventor is not lost somewhere on
the Pacific. as indicated in dispatches
received Wednesday, night at Orange,
n. j.. nom he West. On the contrary
she is at the present time with her
husband in Europe. This statement
wes made Thursday by representa-
tie Of AR. Edison, who explained fur
Their that Mrs. Edison her daughter
Madeline and her son Theodore met
Mr.. Edison and his son Charles when
the last mentioned arrived in Europe
Aug 8 and that the Edison family IS
now on an automobile tour of France.
Belgium. Switzerland and Germany.
The erroneous statements concerning
Mrs Edison's whereabouts are aserib-
ed to mistaken identity.
NJ Drieux. the examining magistrate
at Paris, who is conducting the IN
| quiry int the disappearance OF Leon
ardo da Vincis great painting, MONA
| Lisa is at last in possession Oh
clue. A Partisan official states that on
Monday morning last he saw tau
stout individual who appeared Greauy'
agitated, carrying large panel coy
cred with a horse blanket. The man
| Jumped on the 7.F express Tor bor
daaux as it was pulling out from the
| Ouaj D'Orsay station, Paris. AS the
| station is few minutes walk from the
I .ouvre the time corresponds with the
time the picture is believed to have
| disappeared from the museum Ah-
other report that the picture has pass
| ed through Belgium is being investi-
! gated.
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.