Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-20


Diplomatic relations between Persia :
and Russia have ceased. The Persian
regent has persuaded Samsam- Es-Sul- /
tanoh. the premier, who resigned, NOV.
g. tc form new cabinet !
Supt. Wood of the state penitentiary at
Richmond Va announced. sunday, that
reporters would not be admitted to the
death chamber, Friday, when Henry /
CLAY Beattie Jr.. is executed Tor the |
murder of his wife Under state law I.
Virginia newspapers are not permitted /
to publish details of an eiectrocudoh.
Pert stetson of FairIee, VI. returned !
home, Saturday night, 10 una ms +.
mother, Mrs Marg Stetson,s6 years
old. LIVING dead in shed. with hei
clothing burned of. Tho IRE started
while she was filling lighted lamp. !
Tie biz 2e communicated 10 the WOOL
work but hurned itself out MIS-. Stet-
SON was widow and Kept mouse Tor
her son.
.lisnatch at London from Bfltlsil
Centrgl Africa says that PAU l'ialheY'
the American sportsman, with IL. H.
Woosnam, game ranger. SatHufdaE'
Nov II, killed p lions in the game pre-
serve near Kapiti and a uunher Oh
others OUTSIDE the closed area. ne
huptcrs employed Mr. Rainey's PACK
II lsgqsian bear hounds to lind ana
round up the quarry.
lsn,neror Francis Joseph. il is believed
will eventually forgive his nephew, Fer
5inand Charles, who WAS formally de-
nrived of his rank of archduke because
he married without the Emperor's con-
T,f- Tf-
his wife Last October, Archduke ferdi-
nand. who had renounced au ms
uepas as n member Of the imperial fam
ily. married Rosa Gzubef, the aaaEu"et
of a professor of engineering
Rough plans for two huge oattteships
will be laid before Congress cohNehes.
The two batteships are TO be OF ooVgo
tons displacement. armed with ~ 4-lileIt
rifles nearly 20 feet long, with broad oeltS
of the highest type of hardened atiiioi
sand with steaming capacity enough 10
carry them back and forth across the
Atlantic. 1t isrin this point of coal ca
pacity that the American battleship VIII
excel those of other nations.
Thomas Hickey Of North Hadleyt
Mass, chairman of the board of select
men, and William Cummings, town
constable, were arrested, sunday, charged
with shooting deer out of season and
with using "a rifle for the purpose. II Is
alleged that they went To ShutesburX,
last Wednesday, and killed the animal.
bringing it back in an automobile They
were released on bail. The arrests were
made by Deputies y. J. Shea of Ware
and James r Hatch of Hadley.
The japanese Antarctic Expedition
aboard the Kainan Maru, which was
obliged to return TO sydney, Australia,
last spring. las started on its second
attempt to reach the South pole. The
expo lition is in command of Lieut.,
Shirase on the previous attempt
GOT as far as a degrees south. II was
| forced to return on account OF stormy
yea cher and ice packs, the vessel PROV
| ing unfit to resist the Ice pressure. Inc
Kainan niaru has undergone import
ant repairs and the equipment OF the
expedition mas been greatly improved.
From description and a photograph.
the man who registered atNhe Hotel AS
| tor. New York, as Maurice stewart and
shot himself through the heart Nov. D,
was unofhcially identified, Sunday. as
| Edward Westmoreiand Barrel. Barrett
| had said he was the head of a concern
bearing his name, Il perfumery concern
| in London The body was buried about
| week ago, after ii had been wrongly
! identified as that of AN English noble
man now living in the Far West.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer will,
in his annual report, advocate In
creased pay for the government clerks
and age retirement. Dealing with the
enrloyes in his own department nc
will show that while salaries have adj
vancod in all private employments the
government salaries have actually de-
creased with the result the navy de-
partment is losing many competent
employees While the naval establish
me1t has increased ia per cent. In l.
yeara the clerical force has increased
only IS per cent The nav depart
ment ranks lowest in compensation
among the government departments.
Robert Welsh. master of Pejepscot
Lumber Co. barge. bled to death. sun
| day. at st. John, y. B., after his right
| leg had been cut off by n hawser. Ihe
barge had broken adrift and capt
Welsh was making fast steel nav
| Ser to the barge, when the barge sag
| ged back and the donkey engine
| aboard the barge started to haul in
| the line Capt. Welsh's leg was
| caught in loop in the .hawser when
cut the limb off just below the mp.
| He bled to death before doctors could
| reach him. A widow and large fam
| lily survive.
| With five sworn jurors in the box
and two talesmen passed by both
sides, neeessitating five more talesmen
| before the third round of peremptory
| challenges can be exercised. the at
torneys in the Mcnamara case, at Los
Angeles. Cal. forscok court AFFAIRS.
| Sunday, for the mountains. The exam
| nation of veniremen will proceed,
| Monday. To date, 495 have been call
ed and about five hundred names still
remain in the jury wheel. To hasten
the trial Judge Bordwell viii open
court about O'Clock each day and
whenever it appears yenire is about
To be exhausted he will call another
1 90 90 ~ have enough on hand for eX-