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

snip Arkansas, was put in commission,
Tuesday at Philadelphia, with the us
ual simple ceremony.
,el Glenwood at Lake Bomoseen,
Rutland VT, was burned. Tuesday. No
one was injured. The hotel and furnish
ingsi were owned by w. II. Wyatt of
Troy, n. Y, and were valued at $4,000,
An increase in wages of one cent
an hour effective, Oct. /, has been
granted the motormen and conductors
of the Fail River division of the Bay
State Street Railway. The new rate
will range from 22i4 cents to 27ll cents
an hour. The agreement calls for a
further increase of one-half cent an
hour on Oct. l, 1913.
Chicago newsboys who went out in
sympathy with striking pressmen,
May 10 last, at meeting of their
union. Monday night. decided by
unanimous vote to return to work, i'm
meGiately. There have been only a
few stands in the downtown district
since the strike and these have been
qua, ded by the police.
For the fourth time within a year
jury in the criminal court of Cook
county, Chicago, Tuesday, declined to
return verdict of guilty against a
woman charged with murder. Mrs
Elizabeth buchanan, white wife OF
a Negro. was declared not guilty oil
the murder of Josie Rice, Negress
who was shot and killed, May 1, al
her home
Eluding the posses of deputy sheriffs
and citizens securing the hills and
swaps of Clearfield and Somerset coun-
ties since Sunday in search of him, John
Keller, the teamster who murdered John
w. Rossner and wounded three of his
clerks in Rossner's office at Clearfield
Pa. Saturday night. walked into Clear
field, Tuesday, and surrendered.
George S. Wilson. former teller of
the Stamford Trust Co. of Stamford,
pleaded guilty in the criminal supe-
rior court at Bridgeport, CT, Tuesday,
to a charge of embezzling SAG, 600 of the
company's money. He was sentenced
to not less than two and not more
than seven years in state prison.
Mayor Gaynor of New York was
served, Tuesday. with Il summons in
a 100000 libel suit brought against
him by Alderman Curran, chairman
of the aldermanic committee investi-
eating graft in the police department.
Curran alleges that hte mayor made
remarks derogatory to his character in
connection with the investigation
Charles n. Kirkbride. an attorney o,
San Mateo. Cal. and a lieutenant In the
18th Co. Coast Artillery Reserves, known
as the Millionaire Company was shot
and probably fatally wounded, early
Tuesday. by young highwayman. who
robbed two cars of the electric line be,
tween San Mateo and San Francisco
kirkbride grappled with the robber and
received bullet in the body. The bandit
escaped
Georges LIE Gagneux, French aero
maui, established a new worlds rec
ord for altitude, Tuesday at Villa =
coubly. France, his machine attaining
a height of over $500 metres Gs, 766
feeO. The previous holder of the
worlds altitude record was Roland G.
Garros, who, Sept. 6. assembled in n
monoplane at Houlgate. France, and
reached a height of 1920 feet
charged with the murder of his broth
err. John NJ. Grace. the wrestler. at
Walden, n. Y, was arraigned, ues-
day, before Coroner Buss at Walden.
but was net called upon to testify. On
the demand of his counsel, Wilton
Bennett of Port Jarvis, Grace will be
arraigned before Police Justice HoI-
brow of Walden. Sept. q, and will
have a public hearing.
The official declaration is made at
Rome that there is no foundation for the
assertion published in the Paris Temps
that the Italian government Is negotiat-
ing loan of 6o0000,0OO france for Tur-
key.
The German Maritime Vocational AS.
ISOLATION, Tuesday. at Bdemen adopted
rules approved by the association. Sept
IA. to govern German shipping. with a
view to greater safety at sea. The new
regulations apply TO shipping in the At
lantic and the Pacihs and are the out.
come of the Titanic disaster.
Somebody has been foliing the boys Of
Texas. Postmaster General Hitchcock.
mail was overtaxed, Tuesday, with pack.
ages mailed from Texas towns, each bun,
die containing 1906 cancelled postage
stamps neatly done up in hundreds. Ac
,companying each was a letter requesting