Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-24

ordered jury panel of 50 men for
Feb % to try the Lewis case.
As a result of action taken by a |
mass meeting of 400 glove cutters at |
Gloyersville. y. Y, Thursday night. |
40 cutters walked out of the factory of
the Elite Glove Co, Friday, refusing
to work on doe skin at the wage fixed |
by the Glove Manufacturers Assecia-
ton of the United States. to which or
ganiZation all local concerns belong.
Fears are felt that the trouble VIII
spread to other shops.
The liner st. Paul, from Southampton,
made port at New York, Friday, glis-
tening in coat of ice from stem TO
stern. For two days the vessel was
raked by giant seas which continuously
buried the main promenade decks six
feet or more under water. Even the
hardest sailors remained under cover
during this period. Three sailors who
ventured to walk the boat deck We're
swept to the rail by great wave and
narrowly escaped drowning. During the
blow, the captain said. the weather was
intensely cold and the water froze on
everything it touched.
The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
announced. Friday, that the Cresson gold
medal, the highest honor of the insti-
tute, had been awarded to nine distin-
guished scientists, namely Alexander
Graham Bell and Samuel Wesley STRAIT
ton of Washington, ID. C.; Albert A. Mi
chelson of Chicago; Alfred Noble of
New York: Elihu Thompson of swamp
scott, Mass: Edwin William Morley of
West Hartford, CT; Johnson Friedrich
Adolph Won Baeyer of Munich, Germa-
ny; Sir William Crookes and Sir Henry
Roscoe of London Eng.
Newman Erb financial associate Of
the late Edwin Hawley, was Friday,
elected a director of the Pere Marquette
Railroad and chairman of its executive
committee, a change in the management
of the road which apparently confirms
recent reports that Mr.. Erb and others
formerly associated with Mr.. Hawley
had obtained stock control of the road
from J. p. Morgan & Co.
Anna Hughes is dying of hydrophobia
at her home in Struthers, Ohio. The
disease, her doctors say, was caused by
anti-toxin administered some time ago
for dphtheria. The family physician is
said to have learned that the virus was
taken from horse which was afflicted
with rabies For days the girl is said
to have been slowly dying. Her suffer-
ing Is most affecting, manifesting itself
in her barring her teeth and neighing.
More than 1000 Princeton graduates
united, Friday night. at New York. in
dinner said to be the largest ever
given by Princeton men, to John Grier
oil
the university. The Graduate Council.
which had.the function in charge, had
succeeded in gathering more than
tenth of the number of Princeton
alumni now living. representatives
frona all classes, attending. At least
10 states were represented, New York
lealing with a list of over 500 men.
Edward Hines, millionaire lumber
man, declined, Friday night, at Chi
cage to discuss a published report that
he was expelled, Friday from the
Union League Club, as a result of his
connection with the Senator Lorimer
case. Officials of the club also refused
to affirm or deny the reports of Hines
expulsion
A challenge from the Aero Club of
France for the International cup won
fer America by c. 4. Weyman, in
England last year, was received, Fri
day. by the Aero Club of America by
cable The French Club announced
the entry of three aeroplanes for the
international contest to be held in the
United States at date and place as
yet unfiXed.
Robert X. Stuart, for 90 years an
engineer ON the Illinois Central Rail-
road, was discharged, Friday, be-
cause of the wreck at kinmundy, Ills,
| in which j. L. Harahan, former presi-
dent of the road, Vice President Melch-
| er Of the Rock Island and others We're
killed. Stuart had never before had a
wreck John H. Brainerd, conductor,
and Henry J. Broecker, fiagman, also
were discharged.
| The effort to obtain an annual APP
preparation of $4,000 for the Boston
! Art Museum from the city of Boston
failed Friday, so far as the legislative
committee on cities is concerned, as
| the petitioners for the movement were
given leave to withdraw The report
| of the committee was a surprise, as
| no one appeared in opposition at the
| hearing on the petition while the COM
mittee heard a number of prominent
citizens in it's favor.
| The Italian Chamber of Deputies,
| Friday night, passed the bill for the
ANNEXATION of Tripoli by Italy by @
| vote of 431 to 3S. The large majority
given the measure was greeted by en-
! thusiastic cheering on the floor of the
Chamber and the public in the gall
lery Afterwards the members who