Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-29

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| After remaining stationary at o84 feet
| practically all day Wednesday and
| Wednesday night. the Ohio river began
| falling at Cincinnati, Thursday.
Tom Mann. the well-lsnown labor lead
| er, was. Thursday released on bail IN
| $1,000 al Stafford, Eng. after giving Il
written guarantee that he would not re-
peat his Indictment to the troops TO
mutiny pending his trial.
Max Freeman. an actor % years
old, committed suicide during Wednes-
| day night, by hanging himself in the
room OF Seventh avenue hotel New
York city He used a fire escape rope.
he police report, To end his life.
Evan Millick, his wife and their three
children We're burned To DEATH early
Thursday. when their home at Askam
near Nilkesbarre, Pa, was DESTROYED,
The entire family was aSleep wtfen' tire
fire starteds rMnnek NOS fsonsh mine
worker.
Col. r. p. Dickerson of Springfield. Mo,
Spanish War veteran and friend of Theo-
dore Roosevelt. has. shipped a b-months-
old lion 10 st. Louis to be presented to
the former President during his stay IN
African lion, weighs so pounds and is :!
feet high.
\ bill for the construction of Il
state penitentiary on thousand
acre lot. to be selected by the Gov
ernor and Council was reported in
the Massachusetts House, THURSDAY
by the committee on prisons The
bin provides for the removal of the
state prison from Charlestown.
Tile resolution placing Massachu-
sets in favor of the election of United
states senators by direct vote was
adopted hy the Massachusetts House
Thursday. by a vote of 167 To 81. The
resolve petitions Congress To call a
constitutional convention for the pur-
pose oil changing the present method
of eiocting senator's.
a double military tragedy, alleged to
be the result of the brutality OF an Of
ficer, occurred, Thursday, at Oste-
rode, in the province of East Prussia.
Private Eyrerste ben of the 18th In
fantry Regiment. shot and killed the
commanding officer of his company.
Capt Reetsch. and then committed
suicide.
John F. OMaliey, Maryland state au-
dtor-elect. was. Thursday. at Annapo-
lis. held for the grand jury on the
charge of attempting to bride William r.
SmaHwood member of the House OF Da!-
egates, to vote against the state vida
local option bill pending in the Legis-
lature. He was released in $1,000 bali
Smallwood alleged that o Mallev offered
him $3.50 for his vote.
Pleading guilty to the charge Of
conspiracy to dctraud the government
in making "Moonshine wislIeY" at his
farm in West otis. Mass and ship
ping it to New York as moasses and
syrup Nathan kalman. Thursday, was
sentenced to serve five months in the
jail, AT Springfield by Judge Dodge III
the United States district court al
Boston.
Fifty carloads OF Connecticut seed
oysters viii he shipped for Pacific va
tiers within the next few weeks. ac-
cordhg to statements made by New
Haven oyster grdSers. Returns of the
industry locally. for the PAST season
show that ii has been one OF The most
successful on record he shipments
already having amounted 10 odfAi6 GAL
Ions OF 60 carloads oi 'shucked'' oYs-
ters. hl-'s ss t5sit'
Rev DR. Benjamin Warren Atwell.
an Episcopal clergyman, died sudden
~, Thursday, at his home in New
ton, Mass. Rev. DR.. Atwell was
ABOUT 30 years old and for several
years had been retired from parochial
work. He was we'll known in Yer
mont. to which diocese he WAS at
taehea at the time of his death. His
degree of doctor of divinity was con-
ferred upon MIN by the University of
Vermont.
The death is announced of Ezekiel NJ.
Ezekiel, formerly prominent in the coun-
ellis of the Democratic party of the state.
Mr. Ezekiel died at his home in Spring
| field. Mass, Wednesday. He was one
of the founders of the Young Mems
! Democratic Club of Massachusetts and
had been the party nominee for secre-
tary of state He was born in Rich
| mond. Va in 1912, and served in the
Confederate army. He was brother of
Sir Moses Ezekiel, the sculptor.
A bronze tablet bearing Lincolns Get
| tysburg Grafton, surmounted by a minia-
ture bust of the great Liberator, was
unveiled in Doric hall of the State House
at Boston, Thursday. The tablet was
presented to the commonwealth by the
| Massachusetts department Womens Re-
| lief Corps, the department president.
| Mrs Fannie L. Wheeler of Boston, max
| ing the presentation address. Governor
| Foss accepted the tablet in behalf OF the
| state.
The German Federal council, Thurs
| day. at Berlin. approved the army
| and navy bills presented on March Y.
| These provide for an increase of ~
| 900 men in the peace footing of the
| army and for an increased personnel
| of the navy by IS officers and 1900
| men annually until 1920. over and
| above the ordinary increases provid-
| ed for in the existing naval law. The
| naval bill provides for an extra bat
! tie squadron for which three addition
| al battleshps>and two cruisers are TO
| be constructed before 1920
I Robert Bacon. United States am
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