Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-17
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

CON DENSED DiSPA ICHeo.
All grades Of refined sugar were 10
vaneed 10 cents IA hundred pounds, Fri
day, at New York.
Arguments on the demurrer filed n%
the several officers of the United Shoe
Machinery Co, indicted under the pro.
visions of the antitrust act, We're M
ished. Friday. at Boston. Judge Putnam
permitted Special Attorney General
Gregg until Wednesday 10 file a speciai
brief in answer to the arguments OF
counsel for the defendants Upon Judge
Putnam's decision will rest the question
OF the trial.
Fred X Law. u young New Yorker.
who jumped with a parachute from the
appraised arm of the Statue of Liberty,
not long ago. performed similar ieat'
Friday, in a leap from the brooklyn
bridge into the East river, New York,
The parachute did not open fuzzy ana
Law hit the icy water with Smash,
but he came up quickly and was haulei
aboard a tug. Law avoided the police oy
going out on the structure in taxicao
and springing over the railing before
anyone could interfere
Three oyster vessels. drifting in great
ice foes in the Chesapeak bay, We're re-
ported, Friday, to be in a desperate con-
dition calling for quick assistance. The
revenue cutter Apache was ordered %
their relief Two OF the vessels are II
Tangier Sound, below Real island, and
the other in the vicinity of James island.
Plans Just completed by Colonel ". NJ.
Black of the Engine ering Corps OF the
United States army, Will call upon Con-
gress TO spend $40 000 for the improve
ment of the East River channel between
New York City and the Long Island
shore. The plans recommend the remov-
al of all the rocks and reefs in the cham
mel and the widening and deepening q
the river AT Little He'll Gate and the
Harlem Kills. where the current is nos
SO swift as to be dams erous.
+. E. Brghtman, a manufacturer, shot
ard instantly killed David Kimball, -.
a transfers, early IFrid ay, who was try
ing to enter Brightmaa's home at San
dusky, Ohio. Brightman, aroused from
his sleep by the burglar. who was try
ing to raise a window, drew revolver
from under his pillow and fired. Kim
ball had wife and eilild. Brightman
did not know he had killed Kimball I'M
Ill the police found ais body in the
snow.
Hundreds of excited depositoTs
mostly foreigners, Atormed the private
bank of AdoIph Mendel in livingstone
street New York City. Friday.A de-
handing their money. Nearly $4,000
had beer withdrawn early F.-iday aft
ernoon. and the run was still in pro-
eress. Mendel said that he he'd ample
funds to meet all demands and is at 4
loss To explain the run. one theory Is
that Thursdays taxicab robbery in
which $25,060 of a banks was stolen.
made East Side depositors re stless.
The police believe that crooks Giro Mat
ed false rumors in order 10 pick p EEK
cts while depositors were in line.
An executive session for the tre.n-
saction OF. business occupied the atten-
tion, Friday afternoon, of the del =
gates to the convention at Lynn, Mass
of the Massachus etts branch. of the
National Congress of Motehrs and Par
ont Teachers ASS ociations. No report
of the proceedings was given out ex-
cept the announcement that Mrs. Mil
ton p. Higgins Of Worcester had been
Eiecteu pfcSlu0gt To Ill out the ulleA-
pred term Of Mrs Walter Merriman
OF Haverhill, who had resigned on ac-
count Of the press of household duties
Elections in the organization are bien-
NAL and do not come until next years.
The reports Of state departments. pre-
scented at the afternoon session, show
ed the Organization 10 hc in a prosper
Gus condition
That he originated the idea of the
Montana copper combine which resulted
in the formation OF the Amalgamated
was the statement made. Friday, at Bos-
ton, by Albert c. Burrage AT a hearing
before a United States commissioner in
a suit. against the Parrot and Anaconda
companies by two minority stockholders
Mr.. Burrage said that While the idea
originated with him, he shared the re-
sponsibility for the formation with the
late Henry II. ogers. He further testi- |
fled that the id ga of the amalgamatian
Of Butte properties was 10 obtain as
much interest as pos sible IN the mines
there and that he would have liked to
have acquired the emit re Butte hill. M. |
Burrage stated that he had no idea as
TO the price paid for the various subsid-
iaries taken by the A nalgamated, nor
died he know who deter mined the price.