Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

decided to suspend the quarterly diy-
| idend on the preferred stock rms
stock is a Z per cent. cumulative IS
sue, but has been on a ! per cent. pa-
sis for several years. The last quar-
terly dividend was paid in October
last.
Congressman Frank &. Guernsey rec
| commended TO the post office department.
| Tuesday, the name of Freeman II.
! Dearth for reappointment as postmaster
! in Dexter Postmaster Bearth's term
| expires Dec. II. He has held the Office
for u years The Office was recently ad-
| vanced to the second class and the sal
airy is now $1,000 per year.
The purchase by the Massachusetts
| Northeastern Street Railway Co. Of
the Haverhill. Plaistow and Newton
| Street Railway Co. the Citizens Elec-
| trio Street Railway and the Hampden
| Beach Railway, was approved, on
| " ednesday, by the Massachusetts
| Railroad Commission, The purchas-
ing company was formerly known as
the Southern New Hampshire Railway
| Co.
The London militant Suffragettes de-
oided at a recent meeting To resort to
the use of explosives in the event of
the government refusing to incorpo-
rate womens suffrage in the forth
coming franchise bill according to a
statement issued, Wednesday, by u
London news agency. Volunteers are
to be called for to use bombs both
inside and outside the House of Com
mons.
The Boston & Maine Railroad,
through President Mellen, filed pc
tition with the secretary of state at
Boston, Wednesday, requesting the
next Legislature to permit the build
ing OF a four-track line through Sa-
lem, and the electrifcation of the Bos-
ton q Maine to Beverly. The petition
also includes the abolition of the Sa-
lem grade crossing.
The appointment of Benjamin r.
Pollock of New Haven as general
manager and C. n. Woodward. also
of that city as general superintendent
OF the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad, to take effect in a few
days. was announced, today by Vice
President II. ]. Horn. Mr.. Pollock has
been connected with the New Haven
system since 1898. Mr.. Woodward has
been superintendent of the Shore Line
division for several years.
Councilman Toppam, eontending
that constant tickling by hat plumes
is as exasperating aid menacing as
the stabbing by hat pins, Wednesday.
had before the Los Angeles city al
dermen an amendment to the hat
pin" ordinance to lessen the length of
millinery plumage. He declares that
large plumes worn by women tickle all
near them.
The New York Public Service Com
mission, Wednesday. granted the APP
plication of the Fitchburg Railroad
Co for authority to issue 100000 in
20-year 4 y per cent. bonds. The
bonds are to be issued to the Bos-
ton & Maine Railroad Co. in payment
for expenditures made for various i'm
provements along the Fitchburg line
George Button, a 4-year- old bog,
Wednesday, fatally shot Ray Adams.
same age, a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Adams, at Mills. Pa. The Adams boy
aimed pop gun at his companion.
who in turn fired a revolver that had
been left on a table in the room where
they were playing. -he bullet enter
ed the Adams boys mouth and pass
ed through the lower part of his skull.
Dexter Goad. the only officer of the
Carroll county court, who lived
through the fusilade of the Allen
clansmen, last March, was a witness.
Wednesday. at Wytheville. Va. at the
trial of Sidna Allen. the leader of the
elan, charged with the murder Of
Nf,,R, ttxfe,a oil h E'n0far
Goad's testimony was to refute tho
theory that the Aliens fired in self de-
fence thinking they were attacked by
the courts officers.
Henry Schoellkopf, young attor-
ney, formerly star football player n
Cornell and later player on the
Harvard team, attempted suicide, on
Wednesday, at Milwaukee, Wis, by
shooting himself in the head at his
office. He was found unconscious and
removed to u hospital, where his con-
dition was pronounced critical. He
had been Respondent for some time.
Schoellkopf is president of the Inter-
national Dairy Show.
DR.. c. II. T. Atwood entered plea
of guilty in the federal court at Port
land, Ore, Wednesday, to a charge of
using the mails in violation of the
law This case resulted from the
drag net which the postal department
threw across the country, last month,
for the purpose of arresting physi-
clans, druggists and others who, ii Is
alleged, were using the mails to ad-
vertise nostrums contrary to the law.
Five arrests We're made in Portland.
At the lunch hour. Wednesday,
strikers and their sympathizers stop
ped workmen from the Gilbert knit
ting mills at Little Falls. n. Y. and
a general fight was in progress on the
Hanson's Island bridge when a squad
of police reached the scene. The po-
lice experienced much difficulty in
clearing the bridge. At the same time
the police in clearing a way through
the massed picketers in front of the
Phoenix mills, arrested several per-
sens. among whom was Miss Helen
Schless, formerly the district nurse
of the city
Events moved speedily, Wednesday,
at Lisbon, Ohio, in the trial of Mrs.
Richard Burrows and John Cobourn.