Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-29

expert swimmer in a rowboat. Gold
silver and bronze medals will be
awarded the winners of the first three
places.
David Lloyd George, British chan
cellor of the excheauer is to be in
vited to open the Welsh Festival at
| Pittsburg, next summer. by a Welsh
| American delegation which arrived
here, Wednesday. The delegation is
to attend the Welsh National Eestedd-
fod at Wrexham, North Wales, where
Lloyd George presides. Wrexham is
the burial place of Elihu Yale, found
er of Yale University.
/ Millionaire residents OF the fashion,
| able colony at RoslYn, L. l.. were
| awakened, early Wednesday, by ire
at the S150.000 home of Thomas IL,
| Hastings, the architect. Companies OF
| volunteer firemen. after an hours bat
| tie with the blaze, saved some OF
Hastings antique furniture, but were
| handicapped by lack Of water. The
| building and most of its contents were
! destroyed. Hastings and his family
/ are abroad. The cause of the fire IS
| unknown.
The sinking of the mackerel fish
| ing schooner Shenandoah after COLI
| sion with the schooner Addie NJ. Law
| renee. became known, Wednesday,
| When Captain Cannon and the crew
Of is men of the Shenandoah arrived
at Vineyard Haven. Mass, on the
| Lawrence The collision occurred,
| early Tuesday, during a dense fog,
| near Nantucket. The Lawrence lost
her iibboom and headsails. The She
Nandosh registered n tons net and
| hailed from Gloucester. She was
| built at Essex. Mass. in 1890.
/ The American Press Association
and the Western Newspaper Union,
| recently enjoined by an agreed decree
| under the Sherman anti trust law,
from engaging in any unfair BUSH
ness methods, have filed with Attor-,
| ney General Wiekersham charges
that one another are, violating the
/ decree. If sustained the complaints
/ would involve contempt proceedings
The original move of the department
] of Justice was the outcome of bit
! ter trade war between the concerns
which furnish boiler plate" and
ready print" to an aggregate OF
about $4,000 small newspapers
| Wounded by six bullets, VIII
Wright, the Negro desperado. cap
| tured, Tuesday night at Fort Payne,
| Ala, was removed, Wednesday, from
the Fort Payne jail to hiding place.
/ He will be kept under cover untli
the temper of the crowd of 100o men,
/ who chased him two days and nlgh.s'
eools down. During his flight VIRGIN
| killed one and wounded several OF
his pursuers He began his campaign
of crime. early Sunday morning, by
robbing a store at Collinsville.
! The New Bedford Co-OperatiVe
Pink and the Acushnet Cooperative
| Rank of New Bedford, Mass, OF
which Edgar Lord now under arrest
charged with the larceny OF S4o,ooo
| was the treasurer, have served notice
nnon the surety company whlch
| bonded Mr.. Lord that they would ME
a claim for the full amount OF the
| bond 0.000. Outside of this and the
election by the directors of Charles
r. Price, the secretary. as temporary
| treasurer. Wednesday had no develop
ments. The Investigations thus fai'
| bava not determined the exact amount
of the defalcation but 1t is believed
/
hans something under that figure
The strike of 20 walters and other
| annloves of the Hotel Touralne, Bos-
ton. was settled. Wednesday, the
strikers voting to return to WORK,
| Thursday. The hotel management
/ made substantial concessions ana Tue
strikers, committee receded from It's
| original demands. Shorter worklii,
hours were granted the strikers, ALI
| of whom return to their old POSITIONS.
| Tho company. however, refused 10
1 ;ncraasa wages With the settlement.
80 the Touraine difficulty it was pre-
dicted the international Hotel WORK
| orc, Union. which called the strike'
md endeayor to obtain concessions
fro,,, other first-class hotels in bos-
| ton. =
Two knockouts were features OF Il
saries Of bouts, Wednesday night d.
| the st. Nicholas A. c., New ~.
| c,aoroe C. Kirkwood of st. Louis
| knocked out Tommy Houck OF fhiit-
delphia in the sixth round ar sciieu, !,
| ujed 1O-round bout with fieh'i'tne :
smash on the jaw. Arthur sinch u
| Passaic knocked out KID karter "
| New Orleans in the third round, inc
/ hest fight was q clean 10-round draw
| between Tommy Murphy and ole
| Brown. local lightweights. In another
10-round bout Willie Betcher OF Ne"
| York had much the better of Tommy
| Ginty of Scranton, Pa.
Carving as much ballast as posi-
Bile in the hope of making new
| worlds record. the three balloons In
| the Aero Club of America balloon
race for the Lahm and Antlols cup
made a good start, late Wednesday,
from Colorado Springs Colo, All the
bags sailed out of sight in a course
almost directly due north. There was
| very little wind and the going APP
peared to be slow. The first report
| received here of the balloons was at
$40 p NJ, when they were reported
| in sight at Balmor lake A short time
later passengers on a Denver and Rio
| Grande train reported the big bags
were following the railroad tracks
| toward Denver.
| A commission form of government in
| Of init lot nd raf-