Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-22

/ Wallace Batchelder has received two
| commissions from the Lord High Chan
cellor of Great Britain to hear Witness
es on cases pending in England The
| cases are Lueius Beebc & Sons oil Bos-
| ton and the Abe Stein Co. OF New
| York. He has summoned the witnesses
| to his office Mt Bethel. VT, to report.
MAY p. 1t is understood the cases In
vclve thousands Of dollars
or the first time in % days. John Nor
ton, - years, of Alton place. Rex-
| barry, Mass, Monday showed signs of
| consciousness. having laid on a cot in
tue City hospital in q state nf agnia
over a month. Norton received d frs,c-
turcd skull as result of being struck
by an automobile, driven by J. j. Ken
ney of Boston, at cypress and Boyisfui
streets, Brookiine. The Injured man is
employed as swItchnian by tile Bog
ton Elevated.
The police of Moosup, CT. are iiayes-
tlgating the sudden death there, Tues
| day, of Thomas Douglas, 55 wears Old,
of Comfortable. r, L.. who wefltESte
| Moosup. Monday to collects rents on
| bis property. He was in compafiv.
| Monday night. with two men and, :.
| tuesday, his companions said they
| thought he was dying. A physician
found that the man was dead. Only 10
| cents was found in his pockets and in
the belief that much more money than
ibis was IN his possession before his
death the police began an inquiry.
Mayor Gaynor of New York, Thurs
day announced the appointment OF the
committee of 32 to arrange for d per-
manent memorial to those vii olost
their lives In the Titanic. The com
mlttee will meet at the Harvard Club,
June 3, next, for the purpose of or
ganizatlon. The membership OF the
committee includes: Gen. Taskcr H.
Bliss. L. S. A.; Joseph H. Choate. Rob
eft w DeForest, the Rev. Dir. Joseph
Silyerman, Cornelius Vanderbilt. Daniel
FTohman. j. Z. Morgan. Jr, Ralph pul-
itzer, Clarence Fl. Maekay f;eorEn j.
Gould and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler.
a bill providing Tor the leasitis.af tho
Boston e Maine Railroad to tllcs New
York, New Haven & Hartford Rail-
road was ordered TO third reading in
the Massachusetts, Senate, Tuesday, by
vote of 20 to g. The bill also provides
Tor the eiectrihcation of all railroads
entering Boston for q specified dis
aA'AaN Af1iti titet city, ibF Tie CONSTITUTE
ton of one or two tunnels to connect
the New Haven and Boston & Maine
systems in Boston and for the dissolu-
ton of the Boston Railroad Holding
Co., through which the New Haven
at present controls the Boston &
Milne.
AT the May meeting of the Yale Cor
poration. Monday. John w Edgerton.
secretary of the Yale Law School since
1905 was appointed professor OF mercan-
tile law at the school Jacob r. Schsef-
fer. a graduate of the University OF
pennsylvania, was appointed professor
OF anatomy at the Yale Medical school
The corporation announced the gift of
$4,000 In memory of Frederick john
lNlnfssbury. Yale 1916, for many years
member Of the Yah Corporation. from
his daughters, Alice f. Kingsbury and
Edith ID. Kingsbury. The fund was
given to promote the knowledge Of
American history.
Jewelry and diamonds valued at sea, "a
GOO were found. Tuesday, by the New
York. police in safe deposit vault az
the Harlem branch of the Colonial
Trust Co., which was rented by Bert
Curtis, the alleged burglar of the
Beau BrummelP' type. Curtis has re-
fused to make a statement. Scores of
men and women whose homes have
beer robbed within the last year, gath
ered 10 identify the hidden plumber
curtis claimed to have bought the jew
eiry for $500. woman in Curtis HAT
gave the key to the vault In the apart
ment diamonds and jewelry worth
more than $4,000, were found. Detectives
1ae, 9,a1 -,
opera house at least one night q week
Called, at Sparta, N. j. "the plucIiest
gtrl in Sussex county, Miss Emma
Spoolstra, l6 years old. the Daughter
OF Martin Spoolstra, the rural mail
carrier frequently substitutes for her
father and travels miles through the
widest and loneliest sections OF The
county. Often she is compelled to ira
verse the route after dark Spoolstra
hesitated long time before he let III,
daughter act for him But he found
that occasionally illness or business de-
inands and other emergencies made IL
absolutely necessary for him to get a
substitute. IT was hard. though to
find the right man. In fact, Spootslrst
tas at the end OF his resources in That
direction when his daughter volunteer
ed. She is a high school girl 3 anu
bright for her years. I'll, fc aqsie2iggs
Abner Hendee, one of the most paolni-
nent merchants in Connecticut. died at
his apartments, the Hotel Bishop, III
New Haven, Ct. Monday, after an illness
or 10 days. Mr.. Hendee was stricken
with Bright's disease and was found al
most in a dying condition in his room
Mrs. Hendee was abroad at the time and
was expected to arrive in New York.
Tuesday. Mr.. Hendee was born In IIe-
bron, CT, i'm 1859. He entered the feed
and grain business when a Young man,
and went to New Haven in 1871 and en-
tered the firm of d. B. Crittenden d Co
Mr.. Hendee soon became partner In
this firm, and on Mr.. Crittenden's death
became the head. He retired year ago
and had since been in business for him
self Mr. Hendee leaves besides wife
one daughter.
The crew Of the Boston police boa
Waterman Monday. recovered at Cen
trail wharf the body of James RutlIer-
Of