Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-19

membership in the city committee. He
was IS years old and unmarried.
Serious loss of life was probably avert
ed in a collision between the ferry boat
Astoria and AN ocean-going tug, the y
J. Hudson, in the East river, New York
City, Thursday night by the bow of the
tug being kept firmly impedded in the
ferry boats side. exectually plugging a
five-foot hole torn in the larger boats
hun. Interlocked, the vessels were tow
ed into the ferry slip on the Manhattan
side of the river and the ferry boat,
which was well filled with passengers,
was prevented from sinking. No person
was injured.
Voluntary withdrawal by the West
ern & Southwestern Railway lines of
proposed advances in the freight rates
on livestock, particularly cattle and
calves, induced the Interstate Com
merce Commission. Monday, to va
cate its orders suspending the in
creased tariffs. This means the inves-
tigation proposed will be abandoned
and that the lower rates will continue
in effect.
New York is TO have new $4,000
900 county courthouse to replace the
Tweed structure in City Hall park,
which the city authorities have de-
cided has outlived its usefulness. This
was determined upon, Thursday, when
the board Of estimate voted to con-
denim as site for the new building,
property bounded by Leonard, Lafay-
etee, Baxter and Park streets, which
is just north of city Hall park.
The application by William ]. Burns
for the reward of $4,000 offered by
the California State Assembly for the
arrest and conviction Of the Los An
ge!es Times dynamiters, was rejected,
THURSDAY. by State Controller Nye,
because he said. there was not $4,000
in the Assembly contingent fund"
Nye suggested to District Atto' iey
Frederieks of Los Angeles that Burns
proper source was to have claim Dill
introduced in the Legislature, at the
next session.
The first retirement on account OF
age in the army Signal Corps for sew
eral years was recorded, Thursday
when the name of Colonel Richard F.
Thompson was stricken from the ac-
tive list. Colonel Thompson was born
In Maine in 1S4S and during the CiVli
War was appointed to the Military
Academy from Rhode Island. AT Inc
outbreak of the Spanish American
War he was assigned to the volunteer
service and served during the cam
paign. At the end of the war he went
back to the regular establishments
with the rank of major
President Taft will begin his 1912
trim New
Haven to attend a dinner of the
Chamber of Commerce and meeting
of the Yale Corporation. He will pass
Friday night in New Haven and after
the Yale Corporation meeting, Satur-
day. will go to New York, where be-
tween Z p. vi. and midnight, when ms
train will leave for Washington, he
is scheduled TO attend three banquets'
those of the New. York Bar Associa-
ton the Society of the Genessee and
the Twenty-Four Karat Club.
on the recommendation of coro-
ner's jury Eta Futterman, middle
aged spnster, was held, Thursday, az
New York, for the grand jury on
charge of homicide. She is charged
with killing her father. Isaac, so years
| old. and her mother, Rachel, y, nose
bodies We're found in their little apart
rnent on the morning of Jan. Z, horrl-
| bly nutilated. Several witnesses testl-
| fed that they saw the daughter ABOUT
| the premises shortly before the boaies
were discovered.
| A plea of guilty of murder in the
second degree was entered in the Mid
| d!esex superior criminal court al
| flr, Thursday
] Frank e. Ryan of Boston, indicted for
| murder in the first degree and Juoge
| John D Mclaughlin, who was presid-
ing, sentenced Ryan to life imprlson-
| uent In the state prison. On the day
after Christmas Ryan went to Somer'
| Vile, where he shot and mortaliy
| wounded his young wife. Georglanha
The young woman died a few Gays
| after the shooting.
The burned and disfig1ired body of An
| ME McDevitt. aged about 40 years.
laundry employee. was found, late Thurs
day, among the charred timbers of tn
Revere House, partially DESTROYED by fire
!! early Tuesday morning. Workmen nav
i been digging in the ruins for three day
in the belief that the bodies OF possibi.
two victims of the fire would be found
The search, Thursday, revealed the bod,
later identified as that of Miss McDeyitt
| who had occupied room at the top 0
the hotel in the burned section. TIL
lower part of the body was burned away
but the features were sufficiently pre-
served to be recognizable. The authori
ties believe that still another body vii
be found that of Miss Susan Doherty
also an employee of the hotel laundry.
The question of whether the alien con