Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-21

w. Butler Duncan, railroad man and
banker and prominent for decades in
the social life of New York City. died,
Thursday night, from pneumonia. He
was 50 years old. The funeral will prob
ably be held, Monday, and burial will
be in Providence, r. |. Mr.. Duncans
OLE home. At the time of his death.
Mr. Duncan was chairman of the board
of directors of the Mobile & Ohio Rail-
road, place he had held for rs years,
and was director in many other cor
poraticns.
Eighteen persons We're injured
Thursday night, at Boston, when two
electric cars, operated by strike break
ers, collided on Washington street,
rear Northampton. The motormen.
John Smith and John Duffy, were ar
rested charged with intoxication. A
panic followed the collision. BY the
time Tie police arrived several hun
!red people had gathered and threat
ened one of the motormen, who, it i9
alleged, was trying to escape. armed
with his controller handle.
Consul Holiday at Santiago has report
ed to the state department at Washing
ton that the property of the Ponupo
Mining Co. at La Maya, near Santiago,
on the Guantanamo & Western Railway.
has been burned by Cuban rebel band
1t is thought that the reported sudden
departure of the gunboat Paducah.
Wednesday night, from Santiago for an
unknown destination may have been con-
nected with the pillaging of this prop
erty.
rIa Of IL.
Trenton, n. j.. Thursday, by vote of
Q 20 5, granted new trial in the case
of Allis Mcfarland. who was convict
ed in Essex county court of having
caused the death of his wife by placing
poison in a place where medicine was
usually found. The trial was made
sensational by the introduction of
bunny letters" that passed between
Mcfarland and a woman with whom
he WAS IN love.
Luther Maynard Jones, former law
partner of the late William G. Whitney
and the first secretary OF the Yale
Alumni Association, was found Thurs
day. in Streatham Infirmary, London,
after disappearance of three years,
due To loss of memory caused by alb
scesses ON the brain. Mr.. Jones went to
London several years ago in connection
with an importat law suit, but was
compelled to give up practice owig no
brain trouble. ]. r. Quain of Ottawa.
life-long friend. found Mr.. Jones as
the result of a years search.
A savage attack on David Lloyd
George. chancellor of the exchequer,
wa emade, Wednesday, by a small
band of Suffragettes outside of Caxton
Hall, London, in the Westminster dis
trict, but beyond knocking off the
chancellor's silk hat, the women did no
damage. \ number of detectives who
were following the minister seized and
held the Militant Suffragettes while
Mr.. Lloyd George jumped into taxi
cab and drove Oft The women were
then released.
1t was announced, Wednesday. on
behalf of the special committee of the
Merchants Association at New York.
appointed recently to investigate the
anthracite coal situation in its rela-
ton 10 increased prices and that city's
supply. that the committees inquiry
Will be suspended temporarily. The
proposed investigation on the same
| subject by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, together with possible
further investigation by the depart
ment of commerce and labor. is re-
| sponsible for the decision of the Mer-
| chants Association.