Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-04

Max y. Rosenbloom, vice president of
the firm of Menter & Rasenb'oom, owner
of a string of department stores through
out the country, wandered away from
the hospital at Rochester, y. y, where
he was recovering from an operation.
and was found drowned in the Genesee,
Wednesday morning
The marine firemen on the New
England Coal and Coke Cos steamer
Newton went on strike in connection
with the general movement when
that vessel arrived. Wednesday, at
Boston from Baltimore. The Cape
Cod Steamship Co, operating several
excursion steamers. came 10 terms
with The union, during the day.
In the bribery trial of Clarence s Oars
row. Wednesday, at Los Angeles. Cal.
two tentative jurors in the Mcnamara
trial, A. j. Kruger and Frank r. Smith,
told of futile efforts by Bert II. Frank
lin to brbe them. The wife of Robert
F. Bane. the first jurer sworn to try
that case, testified to her part in the
corruption of her husband by Franklin.
whom Darrow is alleged to have en-
ployed.
The formal concert work and sing
ing competitions of the 23rd annual
Saengerfest of the Northeastern
Wednesday night, at Philadelphia,
with the contest for the Kaiser prize.
-Four societies sang for the trophy
statue of The Minnesinger," pre-
scented by Emperor William of Ger
many.
Mark M. Pomeroy. assistant cash
Ter of the Citizens National Bank Of
Port Allegheny, Pa, was arrested at
that place, late Wednesday. by Il
United states deputy marshal charg-
ed with embezzlng between $4,000
and $4,000 of the banks funds. The
alleged speoulations are said to cover
a period Of from sin to eight years.
Tie Information against Pomeroy
contains Il counts.
A German Arctic expedition under
the leadership of Lieutenant Schroed-
er-Stranz, will star in June. 1919, from
Berlin. for a B. to 4-years trip of eX-
the water route nerth of Europe
and Asia between, the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. The Northeast passage
was first explored in 1859 by Nor
denakiold, i'll the Vega.
Clois Oulette, an unmarried carpen-
ter living in BilIerica committed sui
cied, Wednesday morning, by placing Ii
stick of dynamite in his mouth and
touching it off with a slow fuse. The
force Of the dynamite was such as to
blow II large hole in the floor directly
below him, us wen as to instantly kin
him by blowing off his lower jaw and
tearing open his chest.
The nomination of Former Congress-
man William S. McNary of Boston as
a member of the State Board Of Har-
Dor and Land Commissioners was sent
to the Executive Council by Governor
Foss, Wednesday. The Governor also
re-nominated several officials. whose
terms expire, this year. including
Chairman Mcleod of the Railroad
Commission, Chairman Des Lascasas
of the Metropolitan Park Commission,
and Chairman Sprague of the Metro
politan Water and Sewerage Board.
One thousand miners and laborers
went on strike, Wednesday. in the
Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania. Five
hundred men employed by the Sus-
quehanna Co., at Manicoke, went out
because a number of men refused to
join the union. The union men have
issued an edict that if underground
workers want to enjoy the benefits Sc
cured from the operators by the
United Mine Workers they must join
the union. AT the Butler colliery,
Pittston, 500 miners quit work because
the foreman discharged slate picker.
4 An explosion in the cab of a locomotive
attached to a Portland-bound freight
train as it was passing through Reading
Mass, Wednesday night, blew Harry
Austin, the engineer, through the win