Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-25

IGeOfSia, TO make a search Tor dld :
mond brooch valued at $4,000, which
she lost, Saturday. last, at a ball at
the Navy Yard. The ornament was
set with 80 diamonds. Miss Smith
| told the police she remembered dis
tinetIy having it on her gown at the
ball and society people are now en-
gagged in trying to ferret out the pres
ent possessor of the gems.
Louis. Saxon of New Britain, was
sentenced in the superior court at
Hartford, CT. to be hanged on April
| II, 1913. Saxon shot and killed Anna
Spelansky, his common law wife, and
mother of his three children, last No
vember, at New Britain. Charles Olaf
fey pleaded guilty to murder in the
second degree and was sentenced to
life imprisonment. He shot his wife to
death at their home in Windsor, last
September.
An effort is 10 he made by the New
York state labor department 10 settle
the strike of the Little Falls Cotton
Co. Commissioner Williams, Tuesday
directed the State Board of Mediation
and Arbitration to make a thorough
investigation Of the strike and to con-
quot such public hearings in connec-
ton Herewith as may be necessary
These hearings are to be completed by
January.
The United States army received pos
sible accession TO its aerial force Tues
day, when Paul Rene Loubet, % years
old, a French aviator, took out his first
naturalization papers and enlisted at Chi
cago Loubet says he was connected with
the French army as an aviator for %
months. He came to the United States
a year ago Loubet asked to be assigned
to duty at one of the army aviation
schools.
A report received at the office of the
general manager of the Central of
Georgia Railroad, at Savannah, Ga,
said the Seminole, Limited. bound
from Jacksonville to Chicago. was de-
|railed, Tuesday morning, near Amer
|icus and that eight or 10 persons were
slightly hurt. Bad alignment of the.
track was given as the cause of the
wreck. Three sIeepers left the rails
but did not turn over.
Four men We're rescued with the
breeehes buoy by life savers, Tues
day, from the two-masted coaling
SCHOONER Copy. bound from Greenport
Ito New York. light which went
ashore during the snow storm near
Eaton's Neck point. Long Island At
tempts to launch boats from shore
We're ,unavailing. Lines We're sent to
the Copy. One at a time the crew,
three men. We're brought to land. The
Copy, Tuesday night, lies hard
aground and in danger of being
pounded to pieces.
Three million dollars were appropriated
Tuesday, by the directors of the port of
Boston for the construction at South Bos-
ton of one of the largest drydocks in
North America. The drydock will accom-
modate a ship 1000 feet in length and 800
feet in breadth. The directors action fol-
lowed the reading of letter from p A.
S. Franklin, vice president of the White
Star Line. Mr.. Franklin expressed the
willingness of certain steamship compa-
MES 70 unite in paying $4,000 year for
20 years to provide. for drydoek at that
port capable of receiving a steamship of
the largest size.
Mayor Henry J. Arnold. on trial for
contempt of court at Denver. Co. was
acquitted, Tlesdsys ny District Judge
Greeley Whitfefd The contempt eta
ton charged Arrfofl With failure to
recognize the civil Service Commits
sion. when he ordered the issuance of
Christmas pay checks to city employees
against the wishes of the commission.
The judge held that the mayor had
recognized the commission and that
it was not the province of the court
to employ contempt sentence to
force the MAYOR to carry out the COM
missions order
Edward Petre, well-known English
airman. was killed. Tuesday, near Red
Car, England, while undertaking con-
unuous flight from the Brooklands
aerodrome to Edinburgh. His mono
plane ran into a heavy gale and was
dashed to earth, the motor falling on
Petre and killing him. Petre narrow
ly escaped death near Aldershot, Oct.
"a. when he was plotting a monoplane
which was undergoing a. war office
test. On that occasion the airman ran
into a dense fog and lost his bear
ings. At the same time his motor de-
veloped defects and caused him to
land violently. His machine turned a
somerssult. but Petre escaped with a
few scratches