Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-11
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Miss Mabel Crawley, an English act
ress playing in Boston, died, Wednesday.
at a local hotel, following few days
Illness. Miss Crawley was born in Lon
don 26 years ago.
The lockout of wool combers at
Bradford, Eng has been averted
The lockout was expected to follow "a
strike of 1900 combers and would have
involved t2.o0o men. The strikers,
Wednesday night. decided to return
to work on the masters terms.
Phillips L. Goldsborough. the first
Republican to be elected governor of
Maryland in 10 years and the second
since the Civil War, was inaugurated,
Wednesday. at Annapolis. Md in the
presence of a large assemblage. mill
itary and civic parade followed the
inaugural address.
American rifiemen are to compete
abroad this year with marksmen of
the world. 1t was decided, Wednes-
day night. at the annual meeting of
the National Rifle Association of
America in Washington, d. c.. to send
teams to Buenos Ayres, Argentina,
ottawa, Canada, and to the Olympic
games in Sweden. this summer.
1t has been decided by relatives of the
late Alfred Tennyson Dickens son of the
English novelist, that the body of Mr.
Dickens shall be buried in New York
1t was placed in a receiving vault at
Trinity cemetery after his recent death
in New York City and as soon as weather
conditions permit il will be buried. Trim
ity church has offered n plot in its GEM
etery and the offer has been accepted.
Governor Eugene n. Foss. Wednes-
day. announced that he would submit
To the Executive Council the petition
for Communication to life Imprisonment
or the death sentence of Silas y.
Phelps of Monroe Bridge, convicted of
the murder Of Deputy Sheriff Emmett
f. Haskins, in time for the Council
to act upon it, next week. The respite
granted Phelps by the Council, last
week, will not expire until midnight.
Jan. 20.
That Miss Lucy Lambert. % years
old of Westford, Mass, died, Satur-
day night of poison, the nature of
which and the method of administra-
ton has not yet been determined, was
the report made, Wednesday, by Medi-
cal Examiner Buckley to Dist. Atty.
Higgins. The state police have been
asked to investigate the case. The wo-
man gave birth to a1child a few days
before her death.
An explicit statement on the course of
Russian diplomacy in the Monaghan con-
troversy was made Wednesday night. at
St Petersburg, at the direct instance of
NJ. Kokovsoff. the premier and minister
of finance, who is the author of Russia ;
announced policy with regard to that
province. The alleged distorted account
of the Russia's action as given out at
Pekin, which affected the Bourse unfa-
vorably. FASTENED the publication which
is tantamount TO the recognition of the
Monaghan government.
Two fatalities, the result of coast
ing accidents, occurred, Wednesday.
in New York suburbs. Loring Green,
IL years of age. son of David F. Green,
Jr New York commission mer-
chant, was instantly killed in East
Orange, y. j., when he lost control
of his sled and was hurled against a
tree. At Tarrytown, Chauneey Gould
Stone, the H-year-old son of Howard
Stone of Montreal, died in hospital
as result of the bob which he was
steering colliding with a horse drawn
vehicle.
a Caxton edition of Chaucer's Can
terbury Tales" dated 1477. which was
the fourth or fifth book printed in
England, brought $4,000, the highest
price for any book at Wednesdays SEES
sions of the Hoe library auction at
New York. George ID. Smith of New
York bought the book. w NJ. Hill of
ed in Rome in 1896. and Julius Sond-
helm, a German dealer, paid $1,000 for a
copy of Cicero's "Epistles to Brutus,"
Chicago paid $3.50 for Caesar print
ed in Connecticut "A Confession of
Faith" by Elders of the colony at
Saybrook in 170S, went to a New York
publishing house after spirited bidding
for $500. The days bids amounted in
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