Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-01

with wife heaters, he said. and accord
ingly he sentepced heI 10 three months
in the penitenfiary.
The repeal OF the Canadian reei-
proeity act will be offered as an
amendment to each tariff revision bill
brought up in the Senate. according
to plan announced, Friday, by Sem
ator Gronna of North Dakota. Mr..
Gronna, who contends that the reei-
proeity bill is iniquitous and that it
was passed by the Democratic party
assisted by stand-pat Republican sem
ators" said he proposed to give those
who voted for it an opportunity to
purge themselves and to give the
President the same opportunity.
The opium merchants of India say they
are threatened with ruin by the alleged
disregard by China of the existing tfea-
ties. and they have appealed to the gov
eminent to save them. They assert that
the Chinese merchants refuse the deliy-
cry of opium which they have purchased
because the provincial authorities decline
TO admit ii. Consequently the stocks of
opium in India are accommodating to an
unbearable degree. Al the same time
the protesting ones complain that the re-
sumption of the cultivation of opium in
China is unchecked and that in several
of the most important provinces the free
and unrestricted cultivation of opium is
in progress.
With his mother dying in Bellevue
hospital, his father convaiescent from
stab wounds received several weeks
ago, his sister suffering from heart
disease, and his elder brother home
with a broken wrist Martin Dunn, a
1-year-old Second avenue, New York
city lad. added to the family's misfor-
tunes. Friday night. by losing his life.
The hoy had just left home on an err
rand and while stopping to take part
in a street game of baseball. was
struck by an automobile. Oscar Wal
don, the chauffeur, hurried with him
to hospital. but the boy died before
he could be placed on the operating
table.
Three children were killed, Friday,
as the result of an attack by a rat
tlesnake on hen house on. the farm
of George Adams near Greenville. n.
G. Two boys, the oldest eight years
old. We're bitten by the snake. and a
third child, one year old, was drown
ed in a wash tub. The mother of the
children was washing clothing in the
ward and ordered the older boy to
quiet a disturbance in the hen house.
He tried to throw hen from her nest
and was bitten. The second boy fol-
lowed him and he, too, was bitten.
When the mother discovered that a
snake had bitten the boys, she hur-
ried to help them and while she was
busy the baby fell into the wash tub.
Lloyd Jackson's unsuccessful mode
of paying court, led to his killing at
Houston. Tex. Thursday, according
to a statement made. Friday. by Miss
Hazel Moody. whose father faces n
charge of murder. Jackson was killed
II Miss Moody's father after the
Young man had climbed to the second
story veranda of the Moody home
and engaged Miss Hazel in CONVERSE
ton. In his dying declaration Jack
son said he and the young woman
were about to elope when a bullet
from Moodys gun upset the romance.
Miss Moody denies this. She asserts
she was not engaged to wed Jackson
and that his coming to her home WAS
an entire surprise Jackson climbed ia
her window. she says, and begged her
to elope. Then her father appeared
and there was an alteration The
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