Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-03
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

4 morning, of pneumonia. lie was presj-
! dent of the New London Savings Bank
and "A prominent philautlropist. one OF
his gifts being s2O0.oOo Ia found the man
ual training schookof New London.
The Brown University endowment cant
+; paign brought two 5000 gifts. Thursday,
one from Miss Rosa Gtosvenor and Tho
other from "a Friend Darius h. Golf
and Darius l.. Golf. ,Ir the Pstwtueket
manufacturers, gave $2le9 The subscrip-
tons for Thursday were $1,000 with a
total of s657. o45. Many sloo gifts are COM
ing in from all parts Of the United
States. wherever Brown graduates have
settled.
Mrs. Marcia Hancock, aged g. wife of
Capt Gwynn Il. Hancock t. :. A., com
mauder of the Portsmouth ARTILLERY Dis
trict, died at her Home at Fort Stark
Newcastle, n. IL, Thursday night, after
! brief illness of acute Brghts disease
! she was native of Washington, u. c.,
the daughter of Mrs Marcia MacLen-
nan. Besides her husband she is survived
by her mother The body win be taken
to Washington for services and burial
The unusual spectacle OF divorce
suit being interrupted to allow a mar
riage ceremony to proceed was Wit
messed. Thursday, at Butte, Mont. z.
j. Maxwell. 26 years old, and Miss Mar
garet Marshall. % Of Boston. secured
\ marriage license. Then they. asked a
deputs clerk if judge could not be
| secured to perform the ceremony at
| once. Judge McClaren who was en-
gagged in hearing a divorce ease. left
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and wife.
Leading officers of the navy are still
figuring to check desertions among the
men of the service The latest orders
direct that commandments of stations and
commanders of ships offer a reward of
$50 for deserters. SIS for stragglers, the
same figures as offered By the army Re-
Gently the government advanced the re-
ward of SIS for descrters, and finding
this did not lessen the runaWays the hu-
reau of navigation raised it to $50. The
money given to the civil authorities for
the arrest will be taken from the pay Of
the men.
Frank A. Abbey whose appearance
was said to be strikingy similar to
that of William jennings Bryan. is
dead at his home at Manchester, CT,
at the age of IS years So great was
hie resemblance to the Nebraskan thar
about three years ago while on the
way from Washington to New York
when he was seen standing on the
platform of i train at Il station where
4 crowd was waiting for Colonel Bry-
an he was mistaken for the latter.
Abbes carried out the deception by
started He was IL native of Manches-
ter. CT, and a family survives.
The proclamation OF neutrality of the
United States in the war between Italy
and Turkey, signed by President Taft,
on Oct. "A. is reproduced. Friday, in
the Tribune, published at Rome. The
newspaper, in commenting on the
Proclamation, evidently aims at COM
pairing the correctness offs America
with the different attitude of other
countries. It says. President Taft 5
message is worthy fof the great na-
ton which from its own force freely
interprets it's international duties,
which are accepted not only in theory.
but also in practice, thus forming
kind of magma charta of all man kind.
Charles Carlson of the Forge River
Life Saving Station OH Fire Island
beach. is every day crossing the five
mile stretch of ice on Great South bay
in an aeroplane scooter. which he de-
signed and built himself. and is de-
livering governmental dispatches and
other mail matter more quickly than
could be done in any other way. Carl
sons aeroplane, the propellers of
which are driven by a six horsepower
motor, has proved such a success that
the attention of the life saving service
department at Washington is To be
called to the value of this sort of ice
craft. The machine is equally as avail
able on open water as on ice.
Daniel d. Whitney arrived at his
grocery store, 90 Fulton street, Brook
lyn, at $ O'Clock, Wednesday morning,
a half-hour later than his usual time
The half-hour "layoff' was in honor of
his 93d anniversary. Tuesday. he an
nounced he intended to refrain from
work. Wednesday, but found fdleness
too irksome. He declared young peo-
pie nowadays are given to lives Of
pleasure and luxury and "overtax their
stomachs." Mr. Whitney saws he has
now and then a glass of wine. He does
not smoke. He reads without glasses.
and until recently, never used a cane.
John Hamilton, Gloucester fisher
man who became lost in a snowstorm
and drifted helplessly in dory for 80
hours off Nantucket Light, was brought
INTO New York, Thursday. on the Ger
man steamer Iserlohn, in good health.
but destitute. AS one of the crew of
the fishing schooner Thomas ]. Car
roll of Boston, he was hauling travis
Jan. 20 when a sudden snow souaII
prevented his getting back to his boat
Without food and water, he was tossed
about in violent storm until the
lserlohn sighted him and hauled him
on board with line, exhausted and
almost In.