Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-03

| for in Pittsburg, Jan. 8. Il and IL,
| George sutton having challenged ora
| Mornngstar of Pittst 8, ptesehe
| holder.
Edwin smith, noted astronomer.
| who fer nearly half century was
| connected with the coast and geedetic
| survey. died, Sunday, in Washington,
in his 61st year. He was "a native OF
| New York.
The cotton exporting firm of w w.
| Espy, maintaining offices at Savannah
and Cordele, Ga, and oeler cities, has
failed with liabilities amounting to $780,
900 and assets of about sl25,09O according
to a special dispatch from Coruele to the
| Atlanta Constitution.
W. G. Seibert of Lura, Va, who had
been accepted as a juror, Monday, at
Wythevi!le, Va, in the trial of Sidna
Allen, leader of the Hillsville gunner,
but later excused because of Illness
dropped dead at the depot from
apoplexy. He was about to board a
train to return home.
| ]. Frank Hickey, confessed 10y
murderer, personally entered a plea of
| mot guilty" to the indictment eharg-
ing him with the murder of Joseph Jo-
seph, the 7-year-old Lackawanna boy,
Oct Il, 1911, when arraigned before
Justice Charles II. Brown, Monday, in
special term of the supreme court at
1 Buffalo, n. Y. His trial was set, for
| Dec. 16.
| Although the steel plants at Home
| stead, Braddock and Rankin, Pa,
agreed, Monday, to grant an Increase
| in wages to the $50 striking trainmen,
| they refused to take up the question
| of reinstatinG three men who were
discharged. The strike of the train
men has thrown about 10000 men out
of employment.
| According to the Michigan secretary of
state, Congressman J. M. c. Smith, Rep,
| of the 3rd district. was reelected by a
ymaiority of 127 votes over Claude =.
| Carney, Democrat. Until the returns
were compiled in the secretary of states
office, it was generally thought that Car
| ney had been elected. 1t is said Carney
| will contest Smiths election.
Michael H. Lamb of Mission, Texas.
| testified. Monday, at ST. Louis that as
| agent for the international Harvester
I Co he spent $500 or $500 in 1908 to kill a
bill pending in the South Dakota Legis-
lature, which would have authorized the
| manufacture of binding twine in the
state penitentary Mr.. Lamb testified at
| the opening session of the st. LOUIS hear
| ing of the governments suit to dissolve
| the company. Testimony was taken be-
fore Special Examiner Robert Taylor of
| Duluth.
Unable to secure jury to try the case
against Mrs. Richard Burrows and John
| Coburn ior the murder of the woman 5
| husband, Judge James G. Moore, late
| Monday, at Lisbon. Ohio, appointed a
| jury of II men and attorneys statements
made began late Tuesday. During the
| conference between attorneys for the de-
| fence and prosecution an offer was made
| to the prosecution that Coburn would
plead guilty to a charge of manslaughter
if Mrs. Burrows was freed, The prose-
cution rejected this offer.
Art connoisseurs from all parts of
| the world are looking forward to an
| auction sale, which will probably be
held in London, next year, and which
| should prove the most wonderful dis
| posal ct art treasures in history. The
| articles to be offered to bidders are
| nothing less than the treasures of the
! Imperial palaces of China, The coll
| lection, which includes the finest spec
| imells of every form of Chinese poree-
| lains and ceramics is unique and its
| value is enormous. 1t is said that the
| disposal of the treasures has been
| practically decided upon by the lm-
! perial family.
- A nj frI Ipun A =
| ISOLATION" has just been organized in
| New York for the purpose of placing
identification bands on wild birds.
| This is said to be the only practical
and reliable method by which orni-
biologists can study bird movements
and tell where and how far they fly.
In the majority of cases aluminium
bands will be placed on the legs of
young birds, unable to fly in nests
The bands will not njure or impede
the birds progress. on each band
will be the words Notify American
| Museum, New York"
differences between Governor Lee
Cruce and members of the State Board
of Education of Oklahoma City, Okla.
three of whom We're dismissed by the
| Governor, but who refused to recog
| ME the authority Oh the 1ONetIot III
| ordering their dismissal, will be
| threshed out at a special session of the
Oklahoma Senate, which Will con-
| vene. Tuesday. The Governor alleges
that the members discharged permitted
political influence to be brought t
bear i'll the selection of faculties for
state schools and in letting SS.O0100
| worth of schoolbooks contracts. The
| special session of the Senate was call
ed to affirm the appointments of those
named as successors to the three mem
bers dismissed by the Governor.
Charles G., Revell. assistant attor-
ney general of Missouri. arguing.
Monday, at St. Louis, before Special
| Commissioner panisl Dillon in the suit
to Dust from the state the St. Louis
Dressed Beef and Provision Co, and
the Hammond Packing Co. of st Jo-
seph, declared that the National
Packing Co, of which. the two small
er concerns were a part, was merely
a Shadow corporation and. a cloak
for the weekly meetings in Chicago
of the Armour. Swift and Morris in
| ta fN r1ricas and control trade