Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-24

that Juror Leavitt would have recov-
cred sufficiently from an attack of
appendicitis to resume his place in the
box
The most modern military airship
of the Zeppelin rigid system was taken
over by the German war department.
tuesday, after an endurance and
speed trial lasting is hours. The air.
ship developed a speed of 40 miles ar
hour and is considered the most
speedy dirigible in the world. Ii has
been ehristened the u ILL., and is to
be stationed at the fortress of Metz,
near the French frontier.
The transport Sheridan. arriving in
San Francisco. Tuesday, from Alaska
brought with her the body of Lieut..
5. S. West of the 10th Infantry. u. S.
A., who was frozen to death while on
the trail from Nome to an outside sta
ton in February 1911. His home was
in Concord. ~ H., and thus the body
will be forwarded there.
A gift of $4,000 was made to the
Catholic Church Extension Society at
Chicago, Monday night, by the Ancient
Order of Hfbernians and Ladies' Aux
iliary. The women gave $4,000 of the
amount The gift viii be used to
make permanent fund known as the
Hibernian fund to which will be add
ed the individual gifts by members
from time to time.
An inquiry has been instituted by
the governments of Canada, New
Foundland and the United States into
allegations that steam trawlers on the
coast waters are destructive in that
they bring up, immature fish and dam
age the gear of the hand trawlers Of
ficers VIII be placed on all steam
trawlens and fishing schooners.
Although general alarm has been
sent out. no word of Miss Dorcas ].
Snodgrass. the missing Mt. Vernon.
n. y, girl has been received by
either the police or the young wo-
mans friends. Miss Snodgrass was
engaged TO marry F. f. Schmidt, who
has been making persistent search
for his fianee since her disappearance.
President Fallieres of France, Tues
day, gave a luncheon at the Palace
of the Elysee in honor of the Prince
of Wales. who is about to return to
England after sojourn of over three
months with the Marquis and Mar
qiiise of BreteuiI. NJ. Fallieres pre-
scented the prince with the insignia of
the grand cross of the Legion of
Honor.
The question of home rule for Ire
land is one of the matters that will
come before the biennial convention
af ~
board of Erin, which began, Tuesday,
in Philadelphia with delegates in at
tendance from % states and three
provinces of Canada. 1t is expected
a resolution will be adopted pledging
>the support of the order to the Irish
parliamentary party.
George r. Hardness. real estate and
insurance broker of Sea Cliff. L. l.,
who was arrested after the shooting
of Mrs. Florence C.. Hopp of Lewis
burg, Pa, in the hotel York, New
York City, early Saturday morning
was released, Tuesday, in $4,000 bail
pending the inquest. Hardness adj
mitted having shot Mrs. Hopp, but
declared that the shooting was an ac-
cident
1TOunu Will pe UIpken III fuliddel-
pha, next month, for a church for
deaf mutes. Plans for the church and
parish house are almost completed.
The buildings win be financed by the
congregation of the All Souls Protest.
ant Episcopal church. The deaf mute
congregation numbers more than 250
members 1t now worships in a small
building at Franklin and Brown
streets.
Beginning on Monday next, 500 uni
formed Boy Scouts, with the cooper
alton of the street cleaning depart
ment and the department of health
of New York. will undertake the work
of clearing bits of paper, garbage and
refuse from the streets of the East
Side and other congested neighbor-
hoods of the city Ii is expected that
the undertaking will be repeated at
intervals throughout the hot season,
promoting good health in the sections
which suffer most from the heat. The
Boy Scouts viii work under command
of Spencer Lombard, Jr., director OF
the organization for New York city.