Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

A den of boy thieves has been dis
covered at Lakeside, Long pond, by
the police of New Bedford. Many of
the cottages had suffered from depre-
cations and the police first searched
the pawnshops. Nong of the loot being
found they visited a cottage where
certain schoolboys Of New Bedford
belonging t. good families We're ac-
discovered the property missed from
the other cottages
The cost of living was given anoth-
| er boost. Saturday, when new prices
| for meats-20 TO 30 per cent higher
were stamped on the menu cards in
Chicago. Nearly every restaurant ID
the business district adopted the adj
vanced price schedule. Peter de
Jonghe, in whose restaurant steaks
that sold for 80 cents. last week, were
listed at $1.20. Saturday. said the
scarcity Of beef had caused an advance
in the price he had to pay for raw
meat.
The right of the city of Lowell to build
a comfort station beneath the sidewalk
and street ON Paige street will be test
ed In the superior court An order to
restrain the contractor from building
the station has been served on Patrick
Cohlon, the contractor. and a prelimina-
~ hearing will be held before Judge
Pratt, next Tuesday, in the superior
court at Lowell The municipal council.
| this year. voted to borrow $50 coo for the
erection of the station public hearing
was granted early in the year and there
were no remonstrants.
Prompted by the recent developments
| in Turkey. delegates representing prac-
| tically every Armenian organization
| IN the United States and Canada. as
sembled in the Church of our Savior
| at Worcester. Saturday, The meeting
| Is the first of its kind ever held in the
| United States and is said to he the
| most representative Armenian assem-
| blage in years. The conditions of Ar
| nlenians in Turkey was discussed and
| plans outlined to protect and assist
| item. The convention also considered
| methods Of lettering conditions Of Ar
| meniah immigrants 10 this country.
| Judge Mccall, in the federal court
at memphis. Tenn, Saturday, sentence
| ed II. c. Wynne, eX-president of the
All Night and Day Bank at Little
| Rock, Ark; +. L, Hendrey, ex-presi-
dent of a similar institution in Mem
| phis; II. Brooks a Memphis lumber
man and former director OF the Mem
| phls Bank, and Abner Davis, ex-
| president CT the All Night and Day
Bank Of Oklahoma city, to five years
| in the federal prison and fined each
| S200e. The sentence was based on two
counts i'll the indictment charging
| them with using the mails in a conspi-
racy to defraud in connection with the
| failure OF their banks
Lillian Kerns, 10 years, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Kerns of 20 Perkins
place, Broekton, was a lost child all dav
Friday In the morning she was sent
out with IS to pay the coal bill Filled
with a burning desire to see the moving
picture shows of New York. which her
Imagination pictured as vastly superiar.
to those whose allurements she had ex-
hausted in Brockton, Lillian boarded a
train headed in that general direction
Realizing when she got to Providence.
that her roll would not carry her much
| farther she was found by a policeman
crying on the street. She is being cared
for by the police of Providence, and
viii be claimed by her parents.
The directors of the port of Boston
Saturday. signed the agreement which
they made with the Hamburg Ameri-
can Line, and which the steamship
line officials had already signed The
line agrees to start a passenger ser
vice between Hamburg, the channel
ports and Boston, on May /, next.
and TO continue this service provided
The managers find that it does not en-
tan too great a loss. In that case they
may stop the service on six months
notice. The port directors retain the
right 10 eject the line from Common
wealth pier, in case they believe the
line is not giving passenger serviee
such as contemplated in the agree.
ment,