Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-08
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known French Aeadians of New
Brunswick. died. Saturday, at his
home in Cocagne. n. e. through Il
carriage accident. Gogain was a lead
ing politician and for several years
was member of the provincial Par
/ lament. He was So years OF age.
The British exports for the year 1911,
as shown by the board of trade returns
Mt London reached = record total of 81
! 271,f12,3o0 or an increase of $119, 4SS, 40
over 1910 Manufactures and food ac
count for almost the whole of the in
crease, cotton textiles alone being $1,000
coo. Imports for the year totaIled s., 402
1850 which is $ll51o. 10 over 1910
-Four men walked into the Central Ho-
! tel in New York. early Saturday, poked
| their revolvers in the faces of Henry
Douglas, night clerk, and his assistant.
looted the safe of So tied Douglas and
his fellow clerk back to back with stout
ropes, and fled. one of the holdup men
made off with a quantity of solid silver.
This is the second holdup within a week
| south of Fulton street, the dead line
below which crooks are warned not to go
under paril of arrest.
| The discharge of 1loo temporary clerks
in the census Office at washington and
the addition of n half-heur To the work.
ing day of all other employees was an
nounced, Saturday, by Director Durand.
The new order becomes effective Jan. 10,
| and is made necessary by the shortage
of funds for the completion of the census
compilations. All privileges of leave
have been withdrawn and it is said that
several branches of the census work will
have to be dropped.
Harry Y. Atwood, Who made a fight
across the country from st. Louis to the
Atlantic coast and several days ago had
a fan in the East, is To quit flying. On
| his arrival at Akron, O., Friday, it was
| announced that the aviator was to en-
| gage in the manufacturing business. \
| company with capital of 500 geo is now
| being organized at Akron and, although
secrecy is being kept, it is understood
that the concern will manufacture a new
/ machine to be patented by Atwood.
w H. Taber. president eff the American
| State Bank, was arrested at Terre
FIaute, Ind. Saturday on warrant
charging him with embezzlement of the
| banks funds. He was unable to give
bond in $4,000 and was taken to jail.
| The bank is in the hands of receiver
and Taber's shortage is reported by state
| examiners at SOS, goo. Loans ON valueless
! securities, alleged to have been author
lied by Taber, will make the banks to-
tai loss $50oo0. The depositors will be
protected. it IS understood, but the stock
holders will be assessed the fun amount
of their holdings.
The United States submarine boat F--3
| was launched, Saturday, from a Seattle
| shipyard, where three other craft of the
| same class are to be constructed. EX-
| traordinary secrecy has been maintained.
| Construction work has been done in an
| enclosed space and photographers have
been barred The equipment and batter
| les of the F-3 are not 10 be divulgetl
BY the use of kerosene to generate power
| for heavy oil engines, the F-3 viii have
| a radius of action of $500 miles. which is
| greater than that travelled by any other
| submarine in existence. She viii carry
IS men.
| A statement was issued from the ma
| tional headquarters of the United Shoe
| Workers of America at Lynn, Saturday,
| by General Sec. Michael Tracy, TO the eff
| feet that documentary evidence has been
| secured proving. in their opinion that
| the Boot and Shoe Workers Union sent
| strikebreakers to Cincinnati to take the
| places of the Goodyear operatives who
| have been out there since last November.
Mr.. Tracy claims that this interference
would justify the United Shoe Workers
in invading the territory of the Boot and
| Shoe Workers Union. Some 80 operatives
| of Goodyear machines struck in Cincin-
natl, last November. In sympathy. 800
other employees went out.
| Wholesale registration irregularities in
volving probably 20 per cent. of the Dem
| ocratic voters of Acadia parish are al
| legged in series of 500 suits, the filing
| of which is under way in the circuit
| court at Crowley, La The suits pray Tor
| a mandamus writ directing Registrar of
| Voters Lormand to strike the names of
| the alleged Illegal voters from the rolls.
| The suits Were filed by II. L. Bowden, a
| citizen. The charges in almost every m
| stance are based on an alleged failure
! to comply with the educational clause Of
| the state registration law, which requires
every applicant for suffrage to fill in his
| own application blanks. No criminal
| charges is involved.
| Efforts were made by Councilman Ern-
est Lothrop OF Somersworth. N H., Sat
| urday, ON receiving Il telephone message
| from Wolfboro that Charles II. Ballard,
| president and general manager of the
| w. r. Manufacturing Co. of that city,
| had been drowned in Lake Winnipesau-
| kee, to verify the report. but meagre in
| formation was obtainable. Mr.. Lothrop,
| who was to Join Mr.. Ballard. Saturday
| morning, at a camp at Wolfboro for a
| day at eusk fishing, is convinced that
| drowning was his friends fate. Mr.. Bal
| lard was a citizen of Portland, Me, but
| since his manufacturing enterprise was
| started at Somersworth. last year, he
had been spending most of the time in
that city. He has a wife in Portland
DIR. ]. II. Theriault of Claremont. \.
| H.. whose trial was held at Woodstock
VT, during the week, and who was con-
victed of criminal operation by the
| jury, which returned, late Friday eve
ming, after being out "a hours, will not
| be given a sentence until sometime next
week. In the meantime DIR. Theriault