Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-22


be made to induce the Spaniards to re-
main in their own country and turn their
! attention to agriculture
Thomas Walburn, 46 years, former
| ~ Of ToWanda, Penn, and well known
in motor circles, killed himself with a
| shotgun at his home at Detroit, Sat
urday. He had been seriously ILL., some
time.
john J. Rutledgc. a chauffeur for
Mrs. Haven G. Perham, was acquitted
| of nanslaughter, Saturday, at Low
| ell, and the case against him dismiss
ed. He accidentally ran over John
Iavary, a Lowell workman, on Jan.
S. who died of his injuries soon af-
| ter.
| The Yale University Museum has
received from the estate of the late
| Lieut.. Theodore Gruener, t. S. A..
who served in the Philippines a Gu
rious insurrectionary flag. 1t is made
up of various kinds of cloth, and
| large part of it is evidently construct
ed from a Filipino woman's dress
George Lock was killed, Saturday,
for alleged violation of the meningi-
It's quarantine at Buda, Tex, accord
at Austin, Tex. Lock stockman was
going to Buaa to see his mother when
he was warned not to enter the town.
He was killed on the porch OF his
| mothers home.
The cackling of gees at the Bcloit
Poultry and Pet Stock show prevent
ed Miss Caroline McGil, instructor
in political economy at the University
of Wisconsin, from giving a talk on
woman suffrage. After trying for Is
minutes to make herself heard Miss
McGill yielded to the geese. The lee
ture was given after the geese had
been removed.
Early Saturday morning the bot
Ting works of w l.. Freeman at Pea
body, Mass, Were totally destroyed
by fire, together with two large motor
trucks. The West Peabody chemical
responded To the alarm. but the fire
had gained too much Roadway. Tha
works are on the Newturyport turn
pike. some distance from any other
building. The loss is about $4,000.
Patrick Dunn, firemans helper for
the Woburn Power Co, was struck on
the head, yesterday. by lump of coal
and fatally hurt. He was walking be-
meath string of loaded ears when
part of the load fell on him. He died
half an hour later He had a sister
somewhere in Massachusetts, but his
parents live in Ireland. He was "a
years old
Two Attleboro women, Mrs. Laura
V. G. Mackie and Mrs. Samuel Hol-
man, have the distinction of having
been registered voters of Attleboro
for period of 81 years. These women
We're the frst to enroll their names
ON the voting list there and have
since been voters at each election
Both women are ardent opponents of
the Woman's right to vote.
Valentine Hahn who was arrested
recently Oh Il charge Of committing a
criminal assault on Miss Nellie Nee
han. a Sudbury school teacher, late in
November. pleaded not guilty at a
preliminary hearing, Saturday morn
ing. before city Judge f. g. Swimmer
ton. at Rutland Vt, and was bound
over to the March term in $1,000 bail.
State Atty. b. L. Stafford appeared
for the state.
The Naval Year Book, issued. Satur-
day. under the auspices of the Senate
committee on foreign relations, gives
the United States second place among
the naval powers. This government
has 81 battleships. one more than Ger
man. In armored cruisers, Germany
has Il and the United States T.. Tho
combined tonnage of battleships and
cruisers shows the United States has
7S7, 63S tons and Germany T6S,241.
rested, Friday. in Springfield on
charge of slashing Luciano Mansol-
lilo with a razor on Bloomingdale road,
Thursday. in Il row over the wages of
girl who recently came to this
country was arraigned in the district
court at Worcester, Saturday, before
Judge Utley and held in $1,000 bonds
until Jan. %, pending the condition Of
the victim. who is on the dangerous
list in the City hospital with "a
inch cut that extends from his collar
bone 10 his waistlinc
During an ice boat race on Bristol
r. l., harbor, Saturday. a boat in
charge Of Francis Herreshoff, son of
the yacht designer, struck buoy pro-
trudiug from the ice and Herreshoif
and comranion, Miss Christine Howe
of Philadelphia, were thrown out, Miss
Howe had both forearms broken, was
badly cut and bruised. and when
Herreshod, who was uninjured, reach
ed her side. she was in semi
seious condition. She was removed
to the Herresholf home where She was
a guest, and placed under the care of
physicians. The boat, the Cyrus g.
Powers was almost demolished. Miss
Howe is the daughter of Frank D.
Howe of Philadelphia.
Mrs. William e. Moore, seeing smoke
pour from the house Of neighbor,
Horace French, on Epping road, Ex-
eter, y. H., Saturday, ran over and
rescued its single occupant, Mrs.
Harmon French, wife of nephew OF
the owner. Mrs. French is a cripple
In May, 1903. her husbands home was
burned. and then. in the absence of
help, she seized her baby and crawled
from the house. Saturday mornings
fire. caused by a defective chimney,
destroyed the house with the greater
y.ef