Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-20

uOH, SAYS IHaC III all pfODaDll1ty Ut.
Bernard Drachman of New York will
be invited to become chief rabbi of
the British Empire.
An automobile ambulance speeding
through City Hall square, Fall River,
Thursday night, struck and killed 49,
year-oid Adrianna Neader as she
stepped from a car. The chauffeur
Charles H. Bryant, was arrested on a
chai sc of manslaughter.
The naval wireless station at New
York had not heard, Thursday, from
the revenue cutters Onondaga and
Seminole, which started, Wednesday
evening, to an unidentified vessel re-
ported in distress off Diamond shoals
on the Hatteras coast.
Amelia Woodward Truesdale, at one
time national secretary of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, died,
Thursday, at her home in Oakland
Cal, at the age of "A. She was known.
last summer, as the oldest coed reg
istered at the University of California.
Prof. Hiram Bingham, head of the
Yale Peruvian expedition, which has
been conducting Archaeological expe-
dition work in the interior of Peru,
reached New York, Thursday, with
other members of the party, on the
steamship Santa Marta from Colon.
Lee Temple, II, the Negro charged
with attempting to criminally assault
the 7-year-old daughter of his en-
ployer, T. f. Quoton, in Shelby coun-
ty, was hanged at the state prison at
Nashville, Tenn, Thursday. The Negro
died without making Il confession.
The gold medal of the Italian Geo
graphical Society at Rome was pre-
sented to Capt. Ronald Amundsen, the
polar explorer, Thursday. Amundsen
lectured at the College of Rome before
the King, the Duke eff the Abruzzi
and other dsting dished personages.
The steamer Philadelphia from
southampton arrived in New York,
Thursday, "A hours late, with 5000
sacks of Christmas mail, the largest
amount ever brought to New York on
one steamer. Westerly winds, which
at times reached hurricane violence,
delayed the steamer.
Because woman complained to the
mayor of Boston that a city official
blew smoke in her face when she Wis
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| fees, Mayor Fitzgerald issued orders,
late Thursday, that there be no more
smoking in any of the department Of
fees at City hall.
| Discomfort among the railway en-
ployes in Spain is spreading anew.
The men charge the companies with
failure to fulfil their promises and it
is feared that general strike, on
Jan 1, is inevitable. The government
has recalled all soldiers on leave and
| is Fastening the organization of the
recently created railway battalions.
The constitutionality of martial law
in West Virginia was upheld, Thurs
day, at Charleston, w. Va, by the
supreme court of appeals. The court
refused petition for writ of habeas
lcorps in the cases of two prisoners
sentenced to the penitentiary during
a recent proclamation of martial law
in the kanawha coal strike district
Miss Violet Asqufth, daughter sot
the British premier, sailed from LiV-
ierpool, Thursday, on board the Celtic
for America The Countess of Aber
deem, wife of the lord lieutenant o
Ireland and former governor genera
of Canada, will join Miss Asquith OF
larrival at Queenstown. Both ladies are
to be the guests of Ambassador and
Mrs. Bryce at Washington.
Another militant Suffragette, Norah
Lacley of London, was sent 10 jail
lThursday, for giving false fire alarms.
The sentence melted out this time was
one or three months imprisonment
and the magistrate of the Westminster
police court admonished the defend
ant that she would be even more Sc
lRerely punished if she repeated her
offence. The prisoner is only q years
old
John D. Rockefeller. who, for several
years past, has been q golf deVotee
| played the best game of his life, he
| says, Thursday afternoon, on the links
| at Pocantico Hills, n. y, covering the
| ninc-hole course in as. The oil mag
| nate has played golf every fine day
| since he has been at Tarrytown and a,
| the close of Thursdays round he said
| he never felt better in his life. 1t
| seemed as if he was getting younger
| every day, he declared.
| one hundred and twenty-five in the
| shade is the record put up by the first
| heat wave experienced in Australia
| this summer. This was recorded al
| Eucla II station on the South Austria
| liam border At Poma, in Queensland
| the mercury stood at 40; While 81
| Newcastle, the hottest spell for II
years has been experienced, together
| with dust and wind storms. In Sydney,
| the thermometer went only to 80. No
| deaths are reported.
| Governor Blease of South Carolina,
| whose revolutionary utterances concern
| ing the Constitution disturbed the recent
! conference of Governors at Richmond
| now threatens to empty the prisons by
pardons The Governor declares that I'M
| less the Legislature enacts measures re-
! forming the penal system he will free ev-
cry convict in South Carolina He has
sent telegram congratulating Governor
| Donaghey of Arkansas on the latter
| action in issuing 800 pardons.
Prince Henry of Prussia as protec-
| tor of the committee of the national
aviation fund, announces that the fund
| has reached more than $1,T5o,000. An
appeal was issued, last April, asking