Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-02

Thursday, Tor probate, are requests OF
$4,000 to Beres College of Kentucky anc
$1,000 to Phillips-Andover Academy. Be
quests are also made to several Congre
gational missionary societies.
The strike of the twisters at the Amer
lean Thread Cos plant st Fall River
Mass over the 54-heur law has ended
The majority of the strikers have re.
turned to work and others Will be taker
back as soon as the machines can be
put in operation. The mill management
made no concessions.
The failure of the cotton brokerage firm
of L. H. Hardy & Co. at New Orleans
members of the New Orleans and New
York Cotton Exchanges. was posted OF
the floor of the local exchange, Thursday
afternoon.
Lieut.. Gen. Baden Powell visited Bos-
ton, Thursday, and held several inter
views with leaders of the Boy Scout
movement in Massachusetts. in which &C
hero of Mafeking is greatly interested.
Gen. Baden Powell emphasized the fac;
that the Boy Scout organizations We're
not formed for military purposes, but foI
the development of youths along prac-
tlcdl DlSS OUTDOOR lie.
Henry Wolf was killed and Valentine
Hamanp was probably fatally injured il
an automobile accident at Summit, y. ).
Thursday They We're returning in q
machine owned and driven by William
Woestendiek from a dinner party at {
hotel of which Woestendiek is the pro-
prietor. Going down hill the machine
became unmanageable and struck ar
electric light pole, throwing out all three
occupants. Mr. Woestendek landed in 8
pile of snow and escaped without Sc
rious injury.
Edward Throckmorton, the state
principal witness in the trial at Fort
Worth, Texas, of j. b. Sneed, charged
with the murder of Capt. A. Ct. Boyce,
died late.- Thursday night. anna, I've
been doped," he said, addressing his
wife. lust before he died. Throckmor-
ton. son of former governor OF Tex
as. became suddenly and mysterlousiy
ill. Tuesday night. He had been seen
that day in company with two strans-
ers. said to have been detectives con-
rected with the case. The grand jury
is Investigating.
Ralph Sauer, a New York b-year-
old schoolboy, was so overcome with
grief Thursday when he found that
he had accidentally shot and Killed
Arthur Schaefer a playmate, OF his
own age. with a revolver with which
he was playing that he tried to Kill
himself and had to be restrained. Tne
Schaefer boy was shot through the
heart when the revolver was discharg
ed as young Sauer was showing him
tho weapon.
Mrs. John A. Dix. the governor :
wife, took charge of a fight against
fire, Thursday night, at the home OF
her niece. Mrs George w. G. Low, al
Albany, n. Y. Drawing the dangers OF
roms filled with suffocating smoke and
tearing down costly curtains and drap-
cries which might have proved easy
fuel for the flames, which started from
a defective heater. The damage was
mostly by smoke.
A woman later identified as Mary Nc
Laughlin, living with a Mrs Rafferty, a
Ill sd street. Everett, and aged between
50 and 20, was found lying unconsciou
on the roadbed of the Boston e Alban.
Railroad, about 100 feet west of the Ev
erett avenue crossing, Chelsea. Wednes
day night. John Murphy, the CROSSING
tender at Everett avenue, discovered her
A short time before a freight traii
passed. and it is supposed the woman
Willie walking the tracks, was strucl
and knocked to the roadbed. Murphy no
titled the police, and the woman wa
taken to the Frost hospital She has
fractured skull, several broken ribs am
| her left leg lis fractured. Her recover.
| is not expected
case of smallpox discovered. Wednes
| day, in the steerage of the Canopic a
Boston, in from the Mediterranean an
Azores, resulted in the liner being de
| tained in quarantine. Later in the after
noon the ship berthed at Charlestown an
| her saloon and second cabin passenger
| were permitted to land. Genera Grasso
| q, who boarded the liner at Naples, wa
! cause of the ships detention. -Four day
after leaving the Italian port Grasso com
, planned of Illness, which was diagnose
as chickenpox. He was isolated and pas
| sengers were vaccinated. DIR. It. X
| Crawford the port physician, Wednes
| day. declared Grassos ailment to b
| smallpox in mild form.
1 According to information at Londoi
from an authoritative source, at {
| meeting at Dover. Eng. Tuesday.
reported by the Paris newspaper Eek
celsior, between Ex-King Manuel ant
the Portuguese Pretender Don Migue
| of Braganza, the latter voluntarily of
Tered to help in every way In his powe
to restore, Manuel to the Portuguese
throne. The reconciliation btween tn
two branches OF the House OF Bra