Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

George G. Greenough, brigadier gen
eral retired, United States army, died
at Charleston. S. c., Thursday. He was
SIS years old. Since retirement he had
made his home in Charleston.
News was received, Wednesday, al
Fairbanks, Alaska, of a gold strike in
Fox Gulch in the Innoko districts.
ManT prospectors are rushing to the
new diggings from Iditarod.
Roswell G. Colt. son of Col. Samuel
p. Colt of Bristol, r. l., was married.
Thursday, to Miss Dorothy h. Chan
man OF Winnipeg, at st. Paul's church,
Knights Bridge. London.
Drury Badgeley, a wealthy farmer
residing at Pleasant Hill, near Par
kershurg, w. Va, was attacked.
Thursday. by swarm of bees. which
settled III his hair and beard and stung
him to death before medical aid could
reach MIN.
The United States transport Sheri-
dan with four companies of troops for
st. Michael and Fort Davis. Alaska, is
still imprisoned in the ice which is
drifting toward the Arctic ocean. In
five DAYS the Sheridan has moved 100
miles, westward and may be carried
through Boring Straits into the Arc
tic.
The Pope. Thursday, ratified the Sc
lection of the Gonsistorial Congrega-
ton presented by Cardinal De Iai APP
pointing the Right Rev John j. Me-
Cort. now vicar general of Philadel-
phia, as auxiliary in the same arch
diocese. He win take the title of bishop
Of Azzotus.
Dorothy C. Taylor, daughter of b. l..
Taylor of New York. was married.
Thursday. to Claude Grahame- White,
the English aviator. at Widford. a
small town in Essex. Eng The bride
groom and a number of other ayiators
arrived at the church doors in aero
planes.
A contest for the $4,000 prize Of
fered by Edwin Gould to the inventor
of heavier than air flying machine
equipped with two complete power
plants, separate motors and propcllers,
will take place, July 4. at the Hemp
stead Plains. ~. Y. aviation field. The
object of a two-power machine is to
enable the aviator, should one motor
become disabled, to start his second
machine.
Baron Vincenzo. former cavalry
lieutenant in the Italian army. was.
at Rome, Thursday, sentenced to life
imprisonment for the murder of Prin-
cess Giulia Trigona Di SAINT Ella,
lady in waiting to Queen Helen. on
March Q 1911. The court ordered that
10 nj m calitaru
finement during seven years of this
term.
The 34th annual convention of the
American Library Association opened
at Ottawa, Ont, Wednesday. 1t is ex-
pected that 800 outside delegates will
he registered by Thursday. A special
train frcn Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago
and other Western points brought 125
delegates, Wednesday morning. About
100 delegates came on the special train
from Boston and other New England
cities.
According to incomplete returns re-
ceived at Grand Forks N. d., ]. A.
Buchanan, Progressive Republican,
has been nominated for governor as
the result of the state wide primary
held. Wednesday. Returns from 30S
out of s54 precincts give Buchanan
5487, l.. B. Hanna 4414, and C. A.
Johnson 1900. For the Democrats, in
dications are that George p. Jones.
formerly of Minnesota, has been
nominated for governor.
Ten thousand street railway and ele-
waited employees at Chicago are pre-
pairing demands for an increase in
wages and radical changes in working
conditions. The demands are to be pre-
scented, Aug. 1. Contracts between the
employers and the unions on surface
lines will expire at that time. w. d.
Mahon, international president of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees of De-
troit, is at Chicago to look into the sit
uation.
Thomas Bowling, policeman, was
shot and killed, Wednesday, at Phil
adelphia by Herbert Johnson, Is years
oi9. who was about to be arrested The
shooting occurred in pawn shop
where Johnson was trying to pawn
iewelry which the police say had beer
stolen. The policeman had been called
to the place by the broker and was
shot eas he entered the door. Johnson
was pursued for blocks by a crowd be-
fore he was overpowered and locked
up.
Several hundred canoes with their
furnishings and other contents of the
buildings of the Waltham Boat and Ca
noe Co., at Waltham, Mass. were de-
stroyed, shortly after midnight, Friday