Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-20
CAPITAL JOTTINGS.

Steam ploWs and their equipment
now extensively used in the United
States will not be admitted free of
duty in their entirety as in the case
with agricultural implements of am
| imal traction, according 10 a ruling,
Friday, of the treasury department.
Five Washington laundrymen were in
dicted by the federal grand jury, Friday.
on conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment by shutting off competition in the
laundering of towels used in the govern
ment departments 1t was alleged that
bids for the work were double those of
last year
Several wholesale merchants of New
York City, Friday, attacked before the
Interstate Commerce Commission a re-
cent advance by the trans continental
railways of Is cents a hundred pounds
for the transportation of hops from
California peints to the Atlantic sea-
board. The existing rate is s1.75 on car
loads, and s2.25 on less than carloads.
The shippers demand rates of s1.50 and
81 respectively.
Naval Constructor John C. Sweeney,
who mysteriously disappeared from the
o,
1910. was. Friday, officially declared a
deserter by an order issued by Acting
Secretary of the Navy Winthrop. 1t
waa at one time believed that Sweeney
might have met an accidental death,
but information reached the depart
neat that he was in calgary, Canada,
last month.
The Interstate Commerce Commission,
Friday, ordered d comprehensive inVesti-
CATION of the rates. practices. rules and
regulations governing the transportation
OF eoment, iron ore. iron and steel and
their products. The investigation will
cover all points and roads east of the
Mississippi river and NORTH of the Ohio
and Potomac rivers, known as official
classification territory. No dates yet
have been fixed for the hearings
Thinking that the men rounded up in
keifhebunk. Thursday night. by Deputy
Sheriff Fred ]. Whicher might be some
of the prisoners who escaped from the
Cumberland county Jail and who led the
officers long chase in the woods near
Gorham, Sheriff MoutenT early Friday,
sent Turnkey Sawyer ofs tife Jail to York
county to see If he colud identify the
men, but 1t was found that none of them
We're found 10 be those sought by the
Cumberland county officials.
II. c. Gilbert, employed at Brackets
mill. Kennebec street. Portland. was Sc
riously injured there, at 11.55, Friday, and
is in a dangerous condition at the Maine
General hospital Gilbert was at work and
in some way came into contact with a
rapidly revolving circular saw SO that
'shis face was cut deeply from a point be-
ginning at the base of the nose to the
middle of the top of the head. He was
unconscious when the first person who
came to his assistance reached his side
and did not regain consciousness.
What will probably he the most com
plete collection of its kind in the world
is being prepared at the Smithsonian In
stitution under the direction. of Paul
Brockett, librarian. 1t is a, history of
the graphic arts. beginning with the
earliest. forms down through the ages
Or Japanese color work, medieval Hum
nation. wooden block printing. engrav-
ing, photography and monotype work to
the most modern forms of depicting ideas
on paper. Hundreds of magnificent spec
linens of the bookbinders' art are in the
collections which will occupy the entire
building formerly used by the Smithso-
nian until the completion of the Nation
al Museum.