Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-10
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Prosecution under the child labor
laws was instituted, Monday, at Osh-
kosh, Wis, by the state of Wisconsin
against the Diamond Watch Co. Vio-
lations to the number of ga are al
legged and lay the company liable to
maximum fines aggregating $22, 400.
/ A rumor is current in London that the
Irish crown jewels which We're mystic
riously stolen from Dublin Castle in June
or July. 1907, have been as mysteriously
! replaced intact in their original position.
1t has been impossible to obtain corrobor-
/ alton of this report.
The American Cavalry Commission
with Brig. Gen. Edward ]. McCler-
| nand at it's head, visited the war Of
| flee at London, Monday. They were
| welcomed by Maj Gen. Z. P. HI. AL
| lenby, colonel of the 5th (Royal Irish)
! Lancers and inspector of cavalry.
They were subsequently the guests at
luncheon of the war office staff.
/ While the thermometers registered
i 10 degrees, members of the Boston
Opera Co., including Nine. Evelyn
Scotney White, were driven from the
Putnam Hotel ON Huntington avenue,
Boston, by fire early, Monday. No
one was injured. The fire, which was
caused by crossed wires, was confin-
t ed to the basement. The loss was
! samll.
When a squad of policemen, headed
by Sergt. McBrien, visited the base
ment of the building at $40 Washing
ton street, Lynn, Sunday, they discov-
cred q Cinnamon gambling. Most of
them were among the %, who were
arrested, week ago, and some of
them have been present every time
that raid has been made, during the
past three months.
/ The bodies of Mrs. Barbara Rapke
of Newark and Ludwig Palmer of
South Orange the woman murdered
and the man suicide, according to
the coroner We're found in an unoe-
cupied cottage on the shore of Swarts-
wood lake, at Swartswood, N. j., Mon
day, three days after the couple left
their homes Both had bullet wounds
in the head. Palmer, contractor, was
married. Mrs. Rapke was widow
with two children. They had been ac-
quainted about a year, according to
the police.
!
/ toria, residing at 2122 North Main
street, Fall River, are at the City hos
pital suffering from burns. Manuers
condition is critical and he is not ex-
pected to recover. He was trying to
/ pour some oil into a lamp that rested
on the kitchen stove. When a portion
= of the oil fell on the stove the lamp
. exploded. Manuel was terribly burned
about the face, head and chest and
was unconscious when brought to the
hospital. His wife was badly burned
about the hands and arms. She will
recover,
! A gun of 14-inch calibre, the largest
and newest type built for the United
States government, at the cost of $4,000,
exploded at the Sandy Hook proving
grounds, Monday without causing su
much as a scratch to the men around 1t.
The two-ton breech block was blown
quarter of a mile. the muzzle was hurled
still farther away and fragments spread
in every direction, but Ordnance officer
! Michael Brennan, who was standing on
the temporary disappearing carriage, was
not hit, although that structure itself
was wrecked Brennan was thrown many
other officers and men in charge Of the
firing were behind bomb proof wall.
The cause of the explosion has not been
determined.
Development of port organization
and uniformity of methods of admins
tration will be undertaken along At
lantic and Pacific seaboards and in
Gulf and Great Lakes harbors by the
National Association of Port Author
tiles, organized, Monday, in New
York by port officials and other dele
gates from many American cities hav-
ing water front problems. Welcoming
addresses We're made by Mayor Gay
nor and Dock Commissioner Calvin
Tomkins. and a permanent organiza-
ton was formed, with ]. ]. Dwyer of
san Francisco president, and II. c.
eahd of Cleveland secretary. On
Wednesday,, most of the delegates will
inspect the pert of Boston and, Thurs
day. that of Philadelphia
Rev. DR. Benoni l. Ives. an intimate
friend in their days of Abraham Lin
coin, Horace Greedy. It. De Witt Tai
madge and other eminent men, died,
Monday. at Auburn, N. Y. He was 81
years old. DIR. Ives was a Methodist
and when a young man his ability as
revivalist was so pronounced that
he was given special relation to the
Methodist Episcopal church and tour
ed the United States and Canada. In
eight years he established and dedi-
Gated 2050 churches. He was a char
ster trustee of Syracuse University. DR..
Ives was a member of the platform
committee which drafted the first Re
publican platform for New York state,
He stumped the country for both Lin