Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


been employed by the Draper Com
pany of Hopedale, Mass, for nearly
40 years. A wife, Il daughter. Miss
Eva Mahon, three sons, Walter, Her
bert and William Mahon. and a sis
ter. Mrs. Mary Cash. of Fairhavcn,
Mass. survive.
The Masten Park High school. one
of the three leading High schools OF
Buffalo. N Y. was destroyed BY fire,
Wedr esday The blaze was caused by
an explosion Of chemicals in the lab
oratory on tile fourth floor. The
school alarm was sounded and the
boys and girls, numbering more than
1000 filed out in perfect order. As the
| last Of the line was leaving falling
bricks hit several pupils.
Missouri Chief Josephine II. has fin
ished a six months butter and milk
test in which she bestea the record
of her mother, the worlds champion,
by 336 pounds. Josephine II. holds the
state record She was bred at and
is owned by the University of Mis-
souri,. The records show 1895 pounds
for Missouri Chief Josephine II. in
six months, while her mother produc-
ed Sol pounds of milk in the same Pc
riod at the same age. The milk pro-
duction of the average Missouri COW
is 1900 pounds a year.
Max OlIhorn, twenty years old, of
No. lis Second avenue, New York, Gle
vator operator. in the tive-story apart
ment house at No. 1903 East Fifty
sixth street, WAS crushed between the
floor of his car and the wall of the
A
O'Clock, Wednesday afternoon, and
died instantly. Max had taken Frank
Sorenson, a grocery boy. to the fourth
floor to deliver packages and stood
waiting in the hallway for Sorenson.
In some way the car started to ascend
and Max reached in to reverse the
lever. His arm was caugb. and he
was dragged upward. His head and
body We're crushed.
Harvard College is facing an cpl
demic OF dlphtheria, which unless
drastic measures are used, may re-
suit in a spread of the disease through
the whole college confines. Seven
cases were reported to the Cambridge,
Mass. Beard Of Health. Wednesday
morning, by DR.. Marshall l.. Bailey,
medical adviser to- Harvard. Profess
ser Kendall X. Smith, Instructor in
Greek and Latin. was the first to be
stricken. Eddie Graustein, the
football player, and John p Carr, of
the law school. a former Varsity
baseball player, are other victims.
The authorities suspect that the dis
ease was communicated to the stu
dents through impure milk, as all the
afflicted dine i'm "a ~ n f.nlIa0a
dining hall.
The S0th annual banquet of the Ma
tives Of Maine was held, Tuesday
night, in the State Mutual building, in
Worcester, with Elmer A. Stevens and
DR.. David n. Beach, president of the
Bangor Theological Seminary. as the
principal speakers. Both, with DR.
Melvin G. Overlook, the famous tuber-
culoSis expert, were introduced by
Albion S. Clements, president of the
Worcester branch of the association
Addresses of native sons were on
THE Moral and Religious Aspects in
Maine as Regards Recent Liquor
Laws" DR.. Overlook told the natives
of Maine many ways and means of
preventing The increase of tuberculo-
sis
There will be no further investiga-
ton by the House of Lawrence, Mass,
textile strike. and, as a result, no in
CURRY into the so-called Wooden
trust" Representative Henry, chair
man of the Rules committee, an
nounced, Wednesday, that the COM
mittee had concluded not to report gu.
the resolution of Representative Will
son, chairman of the House Labor
committee, or that of Representative
Berger, the Wisconsin Socialist. pro-
viding for a general Investigate of
the strike. Mr.. Henry said the COM
| mittee was convinced that nothing
was to be gained by general in
quiry. especially since the strike had
ended satisfactorily to ahe strikers.
Representative Wilson has accepted
the decision of the committee Mr.
Berger is not in Washington.
The steel trust has borrowed $50. :
100000 from j. p. Morgan & Co. to be
used in extending it's plants and In
creasing its working capacity. The
loan was made 81 per cent bonds in
Guiding S15,000000 secured on the In
diana steel plant at Gary, Ind. $40
100000 on the Lorain steel plant at
Lorain, o., and $5.500,000 debentures
of the Illinois Steel Company. In the
official explanation of the transaction.
it is stated $50, 100000 will be spent
for extensions of property generally
and the remainder used for working
capacity and to keep the cash ON hand
up TO the amount shown at the begin
ming of the calendar year This money
is raised in this way, it is explained.
instead of by the former method of
approprating it from the net earn
ingS.
The inability of Charles Il. Williams
to get living prices for the produce of
his truck garden. even in these DAYS
OF high cost to the consumer, was the
cause of his suicide in Glendale, L. l.,
Wednesday. according to his widow.
who declares that their little farm.
though cultivated and within the citv
limits at the doors of the big city mar
ket, could not be made to pay despite
the hardest kind of work Right over
in New York. he was accustomed IN
tell his wife, they complain because
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