Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-11
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

day. at New York by the United States
Steel Corporation that the untitled
tonnage on its books for the month
ending Dec 81 1911 was 5.0S4.S SCI tons.
The untitled tonnage on the books of
the company for the month ending
Nov 80. last, was All ,955 tons.
The death is announced in Montreal
Of Geo. X. Cooke. president of The
Dunlap, Cooke co. of Boston, St. John
and Halifax. Mr.. Cooke was born in
Halifax but resided in Amherst, \.
s., the greater part of his life. lie
was a prominent member of the
knights OF Columbus.
A passenger train of the Colorado &
Southern Railway, Which became
snowbound. Tuesday. was dug out,
Wednesday. II returned to Cheyenne.
distance Of 10 miles. A passenger
train on the same line is showed in
II miles north of Saratoga, hut the
passengers and crew have been taken
to Saratoga.
The Alice Rubber mill in WoonsoclS-
ct, r. L, and the Millville mill at
Millville, Iiass., OF the Emitted States
Rubber Co, where rubber boots are
tAiioSiNNiSs VIZ 80
on a e-days-a-week schedule. Notice
to this effect was given, Wednesday.
Dizziness of the rubber market is Civ
EN- as the reason. The Alice mill gives
employment to about 400 hands and
the Millville mill to about 600.
Mrs William H. Hill.@wife Of a Bos-
ton banker, was carried from a sick
bed, Wednesday. when fire damaged
the Hill residence at Brookline. Mass.
to the extent of $4,000. Mrs. Hill, who
is seriously i'll, was taken from a bed
in chamber ON the second floor roll
ed UP in a blanket and carried from
the burning house by Joseph Ford
the family eoaehman The fire was
caused by an dver-heated furnace.
The Paris Excelsior confirms
the report that j. Pierpont
Morgan has purchased from
Georges Hoentschel of Paris his coll
lection of enamels and worries. The
price paid, according to the. paper.
was $500, 0o0 The collection. however
does, not include the famous reliquary
of ST. Louis, in which that Kings
heart was brought from the Holy
Land The reliquary was abstractec
1 ffbHi Tile tttffiD DIT st. t'tiltS diid tdhSt
to England, where NJ. Hoentsehel dis.
covered it a few years ago.
Announcement was made at New
York, Tuesday, of the marriage o
Miss NJ A. Gordon, millionaire owner
of Brooklyn estate, aged 49, and P
harrington jennings a real estate
broker. % years old. The wedding was
celebrated in Washington several day.
ago, but the matter only became pub
lie. Tuesday. Mrs. Jennings, in con
firming the news Tuesday, said she
first met her youthful husband wher
he came to her to bargain for a plo
she owned.
Three men. who started for Littlt
Fire Island on hunting expedition
last Friday, are missing and probabl.
have persisted. They are Edward S
Bailey. an insurance broker of New
York, friend of his named Clements
and Charles Voltman, a guide Theil
power boat, empty, was picked III
adrift by the Fire Island lfesavers
at Bay Shore. n. Y. Tuesday. High
gales and intensely cold weather have
prevailed since the men left, and a.
there is little shelter in the wild re.
gion which they We're to visit, their
friends fear the worst has happened.
Glenn H. Summers, former president
of the First National Bank of Juneau
Alaska and Stuart G. Holt. former
cashier of the Juneau bank, Monday
entered pleas of not guilty to indict
ments returned against them by tn.
federal grand jury charging fraudu
lent hnnlxinp Summons ca,uro5
change of venue and Judge Lyons
took under advisement a milton by
Hollis attorney for continuance OF
MS case. Both men are at liberty I'M
der $1,000 bonds. The indictment
against the two former bankers con-
tains 5e points.
An important operation in eye sur
gerry, the grating of a human eernea,
mas been successfully performed by
TIE oculist, DIR. Magitot He shower
before the Academy of Science at
Pafis, Tuesday patient who had be
come blind by the splashing of quick
lime in his eyes. A thick lin formed
over the eornea. DR.. Magitot cut
small window in the Opaque mass and
grated a portion of the cornea from
the living subject. Adherence of the
tissues was complete in a week The
patients Vision is about one-tentf
normal-sufficient to get about safely
alone.
A snow pillow telescoped the rear end
of the 1.30 =. NJ train out of Boston
as It reached the Matthews. n. H..
station, Tuesday night. wrecking one
passenger car and the pillow. No one on
the passenger train was injured. but
the operator of the snow pillow, Jesse
Lyman CT North Conway. received
internal injuries and was taken to his
home. The collision delayed traffic for
i've holne. md neeeeeitatad sending q
special train from Mountain View to
take the nassengars and mails through