Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-23
TO keep from oorlIding with a dredge OF

day, the gunboat Nashville stuck her nose
in the mud. She remained in the mud I'M
iii nearly p. NJ, when with the assist-
ance OF three powerful tugs from the navy
yard she was pulled back into deep wa
Ter. The Nashville was bound to Guam
tanamo with supplies for warshps ordered
10 Mexico and was endeavoring to make
her way through a network OF vessels at
anchor off Lambert's Point awaiting coal
After being hauled off the fats the gum
boat proceeded to Hampton Roads. She
probably will put to sea- Wednesday,
DR. Hamilton Wright Mabie. who Is
about TO start for Japan 10 lecture for
the Carnegie Foundation in the interest
of international peace. was, with Mrs
Mabie given a farewell dinner, Tuesday
night at New York President Nicholas
Murray Butler of Columbia University
presided and the Rev. DIR. Henry Van
Dyke, Consul General humane Of Japan
and others We're speakers. DR. Mabie
said he had no sympathy with the belief
in an impossible barrier between the
East and the West. If there were any
barrier he added IT was that of ignor-
ance. What he called the International
frame of mind" was breaking down.
Twenty-Five members of the Teach
ers' Union of Paris were sentenced by
the correctional court, Tuesday. to the
payment of SO fine each and all costs,
for refusing to disband by order of
the government. The court ordered
the dissolution Of the union. Because
of the action of the Congress Of
Teachers Societies held at Chambery.
last August, when resolutions approx
ing militarism were adopted. the
projects of the various departments
under instructions from the govern
ment ordered the societies to disband
before Sept. 10. All but the Paris
Union obeyed this order.
Anna Nolan, youngest plaintiff on rec
ord at Rochester. n. Y, perehed primiy
on the edge of chair in supreme court
Tuesday afternoon, and gazed with the
wide-eyed interest of years and 10
months at the jury in her action against
77-year-oId Elizabeth Bryson for 5000
damages for assault and battery Annals
father and Mrs. Bryson are neighbors.
The complaint alleges that the defendant
turned the stream from a garden hose on
the child as she was being wheeled past
the Bryson house; that the baby had con-
WILSON'S and could not walk for six
weeks. The defence is that Mrs. Bryson
was sprinkling the lawn and few drops
fell on the baby
Six hundred men, comprising the unions
of the maehinists boilermakers steam fit
tiers and blacksmths of the Delaware &
Hudson Railroad shops In Waterviet n
Y, struck. Tuesday. At a meeting. Tues
day evening, it was voted to call out,
Wednesday morning. the union men in the
shops at Oneonta, Carbondale, Binghamton.
Saratoga, Whitehall and Piattsburgh. J. II.
Manning. superintendent of the shops says
the men demanded the discharge of three
machinists who did not belong to the union
and upon his refusal to comply with their
request the strike was called. The union
men, however. say that they have other
grievances. and that the company has been
repeatedly violating the agreement made
by the officials of the railroad and tho
unions.
The University of Illinois Council of
| Administration at Champagne. Ills,
| Tuesday night. dismissed two students
| for completely in riotous attack on
| the opera house, Saturday night. dur
| ing a celebration of the university's
victory over the University of Indi-
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| Anna, H., Sophomore, was perma
nently dismissed for being ring lead
| er; V. II. Halperen of Chicago. a
Freshman, was dismissed for one year.
| his punishment being reduced because
| of his youth. Announcement was made
| that an investigation is being con-
| Quoted by Thomas Ankle Clark dean
| of men. and that 1t is likely that more
| culprits will be punished. Suits
against the city of Champaign for al
| legged failure to provide sufficient po-
| lice protection will be instituted by
the manager of the musical comedy
company, three chorus girls of which
were injured during the riot.
United States army and navy off,
Gals in Newport, K. l., made a holi-
| day, Tuesday, with Capt Frey and
the crew of the German cruiser yic-
toria Louise on the occasion of the
| birthday of the Emperess of Germany
A salute was fired from the forts in
Narragansett bay, from the naval
| training station and from the battle
ships Virginia and Arkansas, and the
| German flag was flown from the main
mast of all United States war vessels
| in the harbor. including the fleet of
| tpTpeuODOdI ueStFONtTS. AuOaru stHc
| German cruiser, the crew was muster
| ed on deck and then participated in
anniversary exercises. during which
| Capt Frey delivered an address.
| Shortly afterwards the commanding
officers of the United States army and
, naval station here visited the Vic
toria Luise and paid their respects to
the German commander. The German
cruiser has been at Newport several
weeks with naval cadets on board.
Federal investigation of the opera
tons of the International Harvester
Co. will begin in New York, Tuesday,
before Robert S. Taylor. special ex-
aminer for the government. The gov
| eminent will be represented by Ed
ward P. Grosvenor. special assistant
| to the attorney general, and Joseph X.
| Darling, special agent of the depart
ment of justice. The case of the
| defendants will be in the hands or
| William ID. McHugh of Omaha, who
| succeeded Edgar A. Bancroft, when
| the latters health broke down, last
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