Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-22
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Monday evening, TO pass a few days as the
guest OF the Hon. John Hubert Ward and
MIS-. Ward, who Miss Jean Reid
daughter of the American ambassador
The Butte. Mont, Miners Union, Nom
day. decided to submit to a referendum vote
two of the one days pay from each mem
Der for the benefit of the striking mem
bers at Bingham. Utah The assessment. If
it carries. will mean that the Butte miners
will send $24.so to the strikers.
For the first time in many years the
United states supreme court, Monday.
let the initial decision day pass without
announcing single opinion. Decisions
were expected in the hard coal case"
! the Union Pacific merger case" or the
state rate cases.
The schooner L. NJ Dantzler was
boarded and searched at Mobile Ala.
| Monday, by United States revenue off,
GERS, and although government officials
| refuse to make any statement, it was
| said upon good authority that munitions
of war, destined for Mexico, were found
on board
Amelia Leonard. 2S years old. an al
legged fugitive from the hospital for in
sane at Worcester, Mass. was arrested,
Monday night, at a New York hotel,
where she had been employed for the
| past week as chamber maid. The wo-
man will be arraigned, Tuesday.
William H. Lewis of Cambridge. Mass,
the Negro assistant attorney general. whose
membership in the American Bar Assoeia-
ton caused a lively fight which resulted
in the defeat of an attempt to Gust him.
| because it was not known he was a Negro
when he was accepted. was, Monday. admit
ted to practice before the United States
supreme court.
The Pennsylvania Railroads flyer, due
IN Wiliamsport, Pa, at 40 A. NJ. crash
ed into a box car that. In switching at
Newberry, had been shunted upon the main
track. The flyers engineer. David Getkin.
was instantly killed. Others of the train
crew escaped and none of the passengers
were seriously hurt, the only damage
done in the collision was TO the engine.
Eugene V Debs Socialist nominee for
President. addressed a large outdoor gath
erng on the lower East Side New York.
Monday afternoon and made plea for
votes for Meyer London Socialist eandi
date Tor Congress in the 18th district. A.
he was leaving the platform. Debs came
lace to face with an old comrade he had
not seen for years. He leaned forward and
greeted him with a kiss
Rev. Thurston Vaughn, former superin
tendent of the South Carolina Odd Fellows
Home and member OF prominent fam
lily, was. Monday. al Greenville, 5. G. in
dioted by special grand jury on the
charge of assaultiAg three girls of the in
stitution and performing an Illegal opera
tipn on one. last MAJ. GOV. Blease had APP
pointed special judge and ordered spe-
cial term OF the court OF general sessions.
and no time was lost in placing Vaughn
on trial. Two jury panels had been sum
moned. but 1t is believed other venremen
viii be necessary before Jury is obtained.
The two candidates for the Republican
nomination for Governor OF Massachusetts
expended total of $50. 223.42 in the re-
cent state primary campaign, while the two
candidates for the Democratic nomination
paid out but Si75o.9o. according TO sworn
statements of campaign expenses filed.
Monday. with the secretary of the COM
monwea1th, at Boston. Gov. Eugene \. Foas.
who secured nomination from the DEM
oerats, spent S2250.9o, while his opponent.
District Attorney Joseph G. NPelletier. ex-
pended $4,000. Speaker Joseph Walker Sc
cured the Republican nomination at a cost
Of Sf2.I05.96, while his unsuccessful oppo-
nent Col. Everett c. Benton. expended SIS
l17.46,
I'm spite of the large gifts which Yale
has recently received, the university
stands face to face with a deficit unless
a considerable Increase in its productive
=. to
was the statement given out. Monday
night. after the October meeting of the
Yale Corporation. Monday. The meeting
was largely taken up with a discussion
of the university budget for this year.
which calls for an expenditure og ST.
$4,000. Announcement was made that the
preliminary university registration show
ed Increases in the entering classes in
most departments. This Is specially
marked in the college and in the law
school.
To discuss various questions affecting
the administration of the navy yards of
the United States which Secretary OF the
Navy Meyer desires to have operated
uniformly as far as possible, the COM
mandants of all the yards assembled at
Washington, Monday. for a weeks ses-
sion. One of the important problems to
be taken up will be to whether me-
chanics in navy yards should be placed
under civil service. Most of the meehan-
les are anxious to have the civil service
extended to them. but 1t was learned
Monday from an authoritative source
that it is doubtful that such recon-
mendation will be made. sthe belief OF
navy officials being that better service
is secured under present conditions with
just as much protection to the men.
However, the report of the. commandments
on this point will not be made public un-
til it has been passed upon by President
Taft.