Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-31
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

with fellow employees, who gave him
a heating, Raymond Patch, a weaver
in the Monadnock cotton mills at
Claremont. Y. II, bought n revolver,
Monday. and killed himself Tho
shooting occurred between two stores
on the main street. Patch was IS years
old
Mrs. Max Rainig of Bedford Center,
y. H. is being congratulated in dis
covering the cause Of the depreciation
Of her large flock of laying hens. An
owl had been visiting her poultry
house nightly. Mrs. Rainig visited the
poultry house shortly after midnight,
Sunday night, and found the owl en-
gagged in slaughtering the fowl She
promptly killed tile intruder.
John Chandler of AsheVi!le, y. G,
q dog fancier, made discovery, sun
day Six months ago his log, Dan,
which has won prizes at bench shows,
was hurt and some skin removed from
his head. Chandler took the dog to
a veterinary surgeon. who plastcred
the spot with the skin OF an egg. EN-
erythire went nicely A fine iuZz be-
gan to grow on the spot, but it as
sumed such-a. peculiar aspec- thar the
owner went back to the veterinary,
Who was surprised to find that the sup
POSED hair was nothing more nor less
than buff Leghorn feather.
The bituminous coal miners at IN
dianapolis, Monday, rejected the pro-
posal by the operators to return to
the wake scale of 1904-1906, submitted
at the Joint conference of the miners
and operators of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio
md western Pennsylvania. The wage
scale Of 1904-1905 was 10feents ton
lever in Ohio and western Peansylva-
MIA and cents ton lower in Indiana
and Illinois than the present scale.
The wages for day labor We're : per
cent lower in the entire district than
those paid now. The operators had
demanded a general reduction of 10
cents a ton and one of % per cent. for
day labor, whereas the miners are de-
manding increases at the same fig
ures The conference was to continue.
Bella owens, age H. residing with her
father, john T. owens, at 1H jerks
street. Fall Rlyer. attempted suicide.
Sunday night. by taking carbolic acid
and is in precarieus condition. Herl
mother left home about two years ago
md since then she has been the house
keeper and taken charge of a young
brother. She had left a note and in 1t
vas Enclosed a lock of her hair braided
md tied with a ribbon. The note read:
Dear Pal am sorry for what l have
lone. but l will not have a chance to do
t again. You will live happy now that
,,.in ba whom
eceive this letter You will have TO get
somebody else to look after Johnny. /
Knew 1 would have to go, so [ have
,one.' The acid she took had been in the
house for some time, and it is supposed
hat its strength had materially deterior- |
tied. which explains why the effect had
lot been speedily fatal.
Walter S Sweeney, keeper of resort
n 31st street, New York, went to the
Monday, by way of the
Turkey Trot" He was convicted OF
a dance hall without a license
md sentenced to six months on Black
Wells island. Witnesses for the defence
we're in court ready to testify to the
harmless nature of the dance, and an in
;tructor, who said he taught the last
word in dancing to "socetS' volunteere1
With a woman partner TO exhibit TO the
,ourt the inoffensiveness of the steps N
10th the Turkey Trot" and the "GrizZly
Bear" The justice declined the offer
however: denounced the dances as indie
,ent and passed sentence on Mr.. Swee-
ley.
The taking of fuel from the n. y,
I. II. & H. r. r. at Providence. cost
me man his life, the police say, ana
MT quite a sum of money into the
tate treasury in fines within the past
A hours. An investigation by Chief |
# Police Daniel r. Herman of Grams
on disclosed it is claimed, that frltz
Iogland was carrying railroad tie
N his shoulder, when he stumbled on
he ice and fractured his skull when
lie struck the ground. Hogland was |
ound dead on the railroad tracks at
,uburn. late sunday night The chief |
avs the presence of the tie is explain
ID by the fact that the man had been
o a pile of old ties in the freight |
ard nearby, and got the timber to /
convert into fuel. Four railroad de- |
ectives made raid on men carrying |
,oal from the eompany's docks at |
and seven arrests were |
made. The officers assert that on |
some days three to four tons of rail |
Dad coal has been stolen. The pris |
,ners were Italians and Armenians |
ind they paid fines and costs amount |
ng to SIPS, in the East Providence !
district court, Monday.
A special message from Athens to |
he headquarters of the United Society |
If Christian Endeavor in Boston, re-
,eived, Monday, announces that the
Rev. DIR. Francis e. Clark, founder and
PRESIDENT of the Worlds Christian En- 4
ieavor Union, was received in audi I
nee by King George l. of Greece, that
lay. DIR. Clark has just completed an
extensive journey in Russia Poland,
Germany, Hungary, Croatia, Galicia,
he Bukowina, Roumania and Tran I
'ylvania in the interests of Christian
and has been spending sew
sral weeks in Athens. In a few days
ne viii leave Athens to follow the
quite of st. Paurs historic missionary
Quincy through Asia Minor and
europe.