Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

lion oscar 10ufteiiotte, Il former STATE
senator who was for 40 years judge OF
the district court of North Grosvenor-
dale, CT, died at his home. SATURDAY.
night, of Bright's disease. after five
weeks illness. He was y years old and
for five years had been retired. He Wa
for p years a seleetman of Thompson
y wife and three sons survive.
What is said to be a record size for
eggs produced by white leghorn hens in
the United States is an egg found b.
Mrs. r. NJ. Boyd, a chicken fancier In
Racine Wis The eggs measures 81 b.
6! inches. and is said 10 be larger than
any egg on record for this particular
Specie sof fowl
Ada Louise Smith Comstock, dean Of
women at the University of Minnesota
and also a professor at that institution.
las accepted the call to become dean OF
Smith College, Northampton Miss
Smith was graduated from Smith in 1881
and received the degree Of NJ. y. from
Columbia University
The police of the southern district. Fail
River, are securing the city. seeking
trace of the assailant of Joseph Kitch-
IL AAeNd I'D Va - i3difiiilOil SlI tftf =
weaver. vino lies at the point of death
At st. Anne's hospital. Kitchen is SUI
fering from two knife wounds. one in
his right shoulder and the secon
through the right lung.
Mrs. Moses Hart celebrated her 101st
birthday, Sunday, at Stamford, Conn.
at the home of her daughter, Mrs AL
tert S. Scefeld at Trinity Lake It
was quiet celebration. owing to the
illness of her son-in-law She is sur
prisingly strong and well, and use
IF all her faculties remains. Mrs. Hart
was born in New York City.
Pope Plus X. will have TO pay $50
inheritance tax under the laws of
Wisconsin on $500 bequest left him
by Johanna brand. Milwaukee. who
died, Jan. 7. 1911. OF this 800 is ex-
empt, the tax being per cent. of $500.
Probate Judge John c. Karel made
the ruling on application of Rillin b.
Mallory, public administrator
The Genesee valley at Groveland,
". Y, is an enormous lake, the water
Icing the highest in 30 years, accord
ing to residents. The temporary bridge
there has been carried out and houses
on the flats are likely to go at any
time. The crest of the flood is not
expected at Rochester, N. Y, until
Tuesday or Wednesday.
Another assassination was added to
the bloody record of the Lewisburg
. ,strict near Birmingham Ala. Mon
day. Felix J. ElIard, one of the best
known men in the district, who has
recently made an effort to have law
lessness abolished in the vicinity, was
shot from ambush and instantly kill
ed. Officers have no clue to the guilty
parsons. About % persons have been
murdered in that district, in the past
IS months, but there have been no
convictions for the crimes.
Tilton, n. H., promises to become q
marriage center if the newly-electad
town clerk, Willis r. Morrison. makes
his pet project work Mr. Morrison an
nounced, Sunday, that he would grant
marriage licenses at bargain rates. Here
tofore the standard price has been 81 for
each license, but the new town CLERK
says that lac will grant six licenses fog
IS. provided all the applicants come al
tIle same tiile. IL is expected tflat MS
offer will be taken advantage of by a
number of young men before leap year
is ended. it being claimed that the mark
down viii cause the girls to propose IL
haste.
Matilda Moisant, sister of the late
John Il. Moisant. narrowly escaped
her brothers fate at Shreveport, La
Sunday, when in descending after ar
exhibition flight there, her monoplane
struck the ground at too steep ar
angle, bounded into the air and turned
turtle. Miss Moisant fell few feet
| just as the body Of the machine drop.
| ped. She was helped from the wreck
age unhurt. The iron support of tht
| guy wires at the top of the machine
| held the heavy motor from the ground
| and but for this Miss Moisant prob
ably would have been crushed t
| death. The monoplane was damaged
| badly.
| The Laetare medal, which is con-
ferred annually by the University q
J Metre Game. Ind, on a distinguished
layman of the Catholic church. ha:
| been awarded. this years to Thoma.