Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-01
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, Is dead at his home in Warsaw, N Y
\ aged 81 years, He was a graduate Of
4 Amherst College, class of '53.
An explosion of gas, sunday, caused
| great damage in the Academy of Fine
| Arts, at New York. A number of pic
l lures, including several which receieed
| medals at the Worlds fair at Chicago,
We're burned.
! The Sultan of Turkey has reap
| pointed Said Pasha, grand viZier. and
| he is endeavoring to reconstruct the
1 cabinet. The previous cabinet, of
which Said Pasha was the grand
| vizier, resigned, Saturday.
! 'Adolph Butt of Montreal, sunday.
closed a service of Is years as general
purchasing agent for the Grand Trunk
| Railway. and retired on the company S
pension fund. John II. Guess was pro-
| NOTED TO the head of the department.
The congregation of the First Bap-
| fist church of Greenville. S. c., Sun
| day, extended a call to the Rev DR..
| George w. Quick of Newport, r. L..
as successor to the Rev. Dr. H. T.
Cody, resigned DR.. Quick is ma
tive of Virginia. 1t is understood he
will accept the call
The body of Jonathan Morrison the
S2-year-old farmer, who lived alone in
his house. nine miles from the Centre,
Moultonboro. N H., was recovered
Saturday, from the ruins of the fire
which caused his death and destroyed
all the buildings on the place. Several
nearby houses caught fire but were
saved. The loss is estimated at $4,000
John, the S-year-old son of Anthony
Garcfola, of SIS Harvard street, Cam
bridgeport, Mass, was looking into
the barrel of his fathers revolver,
Saturday afternoon, when a .32 car
fridge exploded. blowing hole
through his head. He died instantly
The accident occurred in the back
yard of the Garofola home. The boys
aunt, Mrs. Annie Assanano, heard the
report of the pistol, but when she
reached the boy. he was dead.
The coal dealers of Lynn. Mass,
have refused to grant increases of 80
cents a week TO the drivers of their
sngle-horse wagons. which has been
asked for by the Lynn Transfers
Union. There have been several con-
ferences between the dealers and the
agent of the union. Both sids have
agreed to submit the case to arbitra-
ton and 1t will go before the State
Board, next Thursday.
Even a minister of the Gospel has
10 eat and wear clothes. can't work
without money" was the declaration
of Rev. Clarence III. Wheeler, pastor
OF the Warren Avenue Baptist church,
Sunday, at Brockton, Mass, when he
read his resignation from the pulpit
He said the combination of the in
creased cost of living and the failure
of congregation to pay his salary was
too much for him. Dr. Wheeler came,
three years ago. from New London,
n. II. The minister has not received
another call.
Mrs. Rene Morrow, wife OF the late
Charles B. Morrow, was arrested.
sunday, at Chicago, when investiga-
ton of Morrow's death was re-opened
after coroner's jury had returned
Il verdict of suicide. Morrow, a for
mer wealthy inventor, was found shot
to death on a rear porch of his home.
on Dee. IS. Mrs Morrow was the prin-
cipal witness at the inquest. She said
her husband had been Respondent
Mrs. Morrow attended her husbands
funeral, Sunday, under guard. She
is considerably younger than her hus-
band. who was 81 years old.
Mile Helene Dutrieu made IA flight
of 254 kiiometers Q5S miles, in hours
So minutes. Sunday, at Etempes,
France thereby winning the Femina
cup and beating all women's records
1. IL
fered for the longest continuous flight
made by woman during the year. 1t
was won. last year, by Mile. Dutrieu
who in that competition, covered 167
kilometefs. At Campiegne, Mile Jeanne
Hervieu, in competition for the Fem
ina cup, covered PAS kilometers Q54
miles) in hours. Al minutes.
Mining activities in Alaska, with the
exception of coal, showed a large adj
vance in the present year, according to
estimates by the United States geological
survey. The total of the territory's min
eral production for 1911 is placed at $780,
S70,000 OF this amount $I7,150,000 worth
was of gold, as against gold production
last year of SIG, 12s, TAG. This year. Alaska
produced q, 900,O GOO pounds of copper, more
than five times the output in 1910. The
coal, silver, tin, marble and gypsum min
ed in the year was valued at only $3.50, 900.
Of Alaska's mineral production since 1880,
when mining first began there, the total
value is SOS, 100000. The gold production
was worth $l95, $4,000. Since copper min
ing in Alaska began, 10 years ago. $1,000
600 pounds have been taken out, 40 per
cent. of this amount being this year.
F'iremen succeeded, Sunday, in ex
tinguishing the fire which, late Sat-
urday night, threatened to destroy the
whole of the city of Washington Court
House, Ohio. An entire business block
was wiped out by the confiagration
and damages conservatively estimated
at $422, 500 was done. This is less than
one-fourth of the amount the loss was
expected to reach. To help combat the
flames, fire apparatus was rushed
there on special trains from Columbus,
Wilmington and Greenfield. The Ma
sonic Temple, valued at $4,000. is to-
tai ruin. but will at once be rebuilt
by local Masons.
Cornelius Lathrop Kingsley, de-