Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

ton Mass. was struck by Il train and
killed. Friday, at the North Winning
ton railroad station. Lamb with his
wife. drove up to the station ard in
attempting to cross the tracks is sup
posed TO have become confused by
the approach of two trains going in
opposite directions. Mrs. Lamb es-
capped unhurt.
1t would be illegal for the city of
Boston to compel contractors to en-
ploy only union labor, according to an
opinion submitted. Friday, to Mayor
Fitzgerald by Corporation Counsel
Babscn. The question arose over the
advertising for bids for the erection
OF the annex to City hall.
Twenty-Five pieces of valuable fur@
consigned from Dejardin & Co. OF
Montreal to customers in Boston, were
seized, Friday, by the Boston customs
authorities for non-payment of duties
The customers claimed that they pur-
chased the furs with the understand
ing that Dejardin & Co. We're to pay
the duties 1t is expected that the case
will go to washington for adjustment.
Lewis Keyes, colored, q years old,
was sentenced, Friday in the superior
court at Pittsfield, Mass, to life inn
prisonrnent for the murder of Ernest
HAYES on Nov. q last. Reyes killed
HAYES in q quarrel and pleaded not
guilty to an indictment charging MUIR
der in the first degree. Later his plea
of guilty Of murder in the second de
gree was accepted by the district at
tornev.
steamer was SUNK
with all hands near Swansea, Wales.
during Thursday night, owing to
collision with the Cunard line steamer
Veria from Liverpool. The Neria,
which arrived at Swansea with dam
aged bows, cruised for several hours
following the collision about the spot
where II occurred but she was UNI
able to find any trace of survivors or
of wreckage. The lost vessel was a
small one. probably carrying crew
of about dozen men.
A law admitting women to all pub
lie offices on the same conditions as
men was voted during Thursday
nights sitting of the Norwegian
Storthing. Exceptions, however are
made in regard to members of the
cabinet and ecclesiastic. military,
diplomatic, and consular offices. The
Norwegian government has appointed
w. Johannessen vice consul at Bilbao,
Spain. TO be secretary of the legation
at Washington.
What is believed to have been the
first demonstration in court of jus
tice of the Munsterbers theory OF
criminal detection by heart pulsations
occurred, Friday, at Watts, Cal The
demonstration ended in the discharge
of Arthur smith, a metal worker
from Tacoma. Wash, who had been
arrested as a suspicious character.
Monsignor Aleender Bavona. the Pa
nal nuneio at Vienna, died, Friday
night.
The biggest verdict ever rendered il
Bristol county was returned at a SUI
perier court session at Fall River,
Mass. Thursday night. when jury
in the case of the Cornell Andrews
Smelling Co. of Attleboro against the
Boston & Providence Railroad found
for the plaintiff in the sum of S49oVo.
The suit was an action by the Smelt-
ing Company for damages to its prop
erty caused by the working OF the
grade crossing changes in Attleboro .
few years ago. 1t was the third trlal
of the case n verdict of $4,000 having
been returned the first time and a YER
dict of $4,000 at the second trial The
Boston g. Providence road is part OF
the New Haven system.
An extension until Feb. of the time
in which exceptions may be filed TO
the verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree returned against Bertram
G.. Spencer of Springfield for the kill
ing of Miss Martha B. Blackstone, was
granted, Friday, by Judge John c.
Crosby in the superior court at Pitts
field, Mass. The motion for an ex-
| tension was made by Attorney Rich
ard Stapleton for Spencer, on the
ground that the lawyers for the de-
fence needed additional time in which
| to go over the great mass of evidence
introduced at the trial. District At
torney Christopher 7. Callahan did not
oppose the motion.
Employers of labor may combine for
protection against strike without VIC
! lating the law, according to a decision,
Friday of the appellate division, New
York, in a suit brought in 1906 by the
| Werther- Rausch Co, and the Sackett
e. Wilhelms Lithographing and Print
! ing Co, against the National Associa-
| ton of Employing Lithographers. The
action was brought by the two firms
! to prevent the association from at
| tempting to negotiate their notes ag-
gregating $4,000, alleged to have been
given in payment of dues and as a
forfeit against the employment of
union labor and the adoption of the
closed shop.