Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-24
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The condition of Senator Overman Of
North Carolina, who was operated on at
Washington, Saturday, for appendicitis
was reported Monday, to be very good
by his physicians. a prompt recovery
is expected.
An automobile. said to be owned by an
American banker named George Munroe
and to have been occupied by MRS. Mum
roe and her daughter, Monday, knocked
down and killed an aged French working
man while he was crossing the Avenue
Champs Elyses, Paris, France, len The
chauffeur was arrested, but later released
on the ground that he was not responsible
for the accident 23I - ie{f3
The first match between the Amer
lean and English teams for the inter-
national polo trophy will be played
at Westbury. L. l., June 10 next. The
second game will be contested four
days later. The schedule was made
public, Monday night, at New York, in
a letter from the American Polo AS
ISOLATION to the British challengers.
The date for the third game, if one is
necessary, will be decided during the
match.
An unidentified Negro was shot and
instantly killed while attempting to rob
the crew and passengers of the st. Louis
& San Francisco train No. Az, Oklahoma
City to Kansas City, shortly after the
train left Chandler Okla, Monday night.
1t is claimed the Negro had killed an
| other Negro before boarding the train.
The bandit was shot by an operative or
detective agency who was passenger.
Solicitor General Rullitt filed in the SUI
preme court at Washington, Monday, the
governments brief asking for the revers-
| al of the. decision of the Massachusetts
federal court dismissing four of the I've
counts in the indictments returned under
the Sherman antitrust law against the
United Shoe Machinery Co, This brief,
the contents of which We're made public
last night, marks the opening of the le-
gal fight over the criminal pros ecution OF
| the alleged trust. The case will be argued
Jan. 6, after which the supreme court will
take the issue under advisement.
BY defeating Columbia, Monday, in
| the 21st annual intercollegiate chess
| tournament. Harvard made a long
stride toward ultimate victory. Yale,
which. Sunday, lost to Harvard. de-
feated Princeton, 3 to 1. The team
| captains decided that Princeton could
not put in a substitute for Van Welt.
who is ILL., and that Columbia. Har-
ward and Yale should get a point by
| default at his vacant board. Play in
the third round, Tuesday, will find
Columbia paired against Yale and
Harvard against Princeton.
Cities must not tax telegraph COM
panies for sending messages, if the
companies have accepted the terms
of the act of Congress of 1866, making
them governmental agents under Ger.
tain circumstances, according n to 2
decision made by the United States
supreme court. In the case of d. G.
Williams agent for the Western. Union
| Telegraph Co. at Talladega, Ala. who
| was fined $25 for sending "a message
without the company first having OBJ
| tanned a license for such business. it
| was held that the tax was invalid.
| The United States supreme court,
after announcing several minor decis-
| ions. Monday, recessed until Jan. s,
without giving a decision as to the
rights of Union Pacific stockholders
| in the distribution of the Southern
Pacific stock held by the Union Pa
cific Railroad or making a decision in
| the state rate cases.