Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-18

Mr.. Hitchcock 10 forward to the writer
bicycle In return for the cancelled
stamps.
Robert s. w. Dove, collector of Gus
toms at Eagle Pass. Texas. has been
removed from office by President Taft.
on charges, the ma ture OF which GUS
toms officials decline to divulge James
A. Harvin has been appointed to sue
coed him. ~
William v. Collier. formerly managing
director of Hudd & Collier. Ltd. Of
Bristol, England was arrested in stone,
ham. Mass. Tuesday, on a charge OF OBJ
tanning under false pretences leather val
ued at $4,000 The concerns from which
Collier is alleged to have secured the
leather are Samuel Barrow & Brother,
Limited, and George Angus & Co.. Lin
tied. both of Bristol Collier pleaded
not guilty before United States Commits,
sioner Hayes and was seid for hearing.
Friday. The federal authorities said that
Collier had been working in a tannery in
Stoneham for the past 10 months.
As a result of the recent street car
strike in Boston, an indictment charge
ing coercion was returned. TUESDAY,
by the Suffolk county grand jury,
against the Boston Elevated Railway
Co. The indictment contained four
| counts charged the coercion of John
j. Van Wart and Frank J, McGuire
! into an agreement to become members
of an organization of loyal employees
| as 3 condition to their continuing In
| the employ of the corporation. The
| third and fourth counts charged that
persons whose names were unknown
| to the jurors were coerced into an
| agreement not to join q labor union
as a condition of securing employment
| with the company.
Miss Julia Wood daughter of Henry
| c. Wood of the navy department.,
| Washington. Is believed to have been
suffering from melancholia, Sunday
night, when she fell from her window
| on the seventh floor of an apartment
| in New York. Her father reached New
| York, Tuesday, from Washington and
| it was not until his arrival that he
knew of his daughters death. Mr..
| Wood came In response to a telegram
| signed by his daughter asking him to
| come at once. Mr.. Wood said his
daughter had been in New York for
more than a year engaged In literary
work and had spent the summer in
| Maine. His daughter. Mr.. Wood de-.
clsred, had never given any indica-
tions of committing suicide though
she had shown signs of dependency
after the death of her mother. s,i.':.s
| Twenty leading British motor man
| ufacturers discussed campaign to
| oppose the American invasion. at a.
| luncheon given, Tuesday, at London
| by Ralph D. Blumenfield, editor Of
| the London Daily Express, which Is
| promoting a movement against Ameri-
| can automobiles The formation of a
big British corporation or the combi-
| nation of existing companies and the
| establishment of protective tariff
| were the definite plans proposed
| While a majority of the manufacture
| ers expressed confidence that the Brit
| ish firms had firm grip on the bust
| ness in high class cars, they admitted
that they could not under present con-
ditions compete with the United States
in marketing cars selling at $l00e and
| $3.50.
H. X. Robine, formerly a barber Of
Council Bluffs, Iowa. Tuesday. pleaded
guilty in the federal court to having
been a party to swindling operations
aggregating s10.600, in which JIG. Ma
bray and his associates were princl-
pals. Judge Smith withheld sentence.
Robine admitted having tricked three
men of their money on fake wrestling
matches. The swindles were accom-
plished in the fall of 1905. f. C.. Moore,
alleged to be a partner of Mayray aud
of "Millionaires." will be brought to
trial, Wednesday, after two-years
fight against extradition from Cali
fornia, the supreme court having de-
cided that he must stand trial. Moofe
will be the last of the alleged ring
leaders of the Mayray swindlers to be
tried The swindlers got s2.OO00O0 from
| their victims. -