Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-18

TO stand behind the men of Ulster in
order to wipe out the home rule enc
my.
town planning congress with 500 del
egates from the United States, England
and Canada opened Wednesday, at VIM
nipeg. Man. Mayor Waugh presided T.
II. Eres and w. II. Goshnel, delegates
from st Paul, MINI. invited the con-
gfess 10 have its next meeting In that
city.
James E. ChiIds, vice president and
general manager OF the New York,
. Ontario & Western Railroad, died.
"Wednesday at a hospital in New
York, OF stleart failure, following the
administration of an anaesthetic. Mr..
sChilds had gone to the hospital for a
minor operation and his death was
unexpected. He was GA years old
There was considerable lodging at
the North station, Boston. "Wednesday,
When naval prisoner bound for Ports
mouth. N. H, eluded his guards,
lodged several moving trains and es-
capped, while passengers lodged two
bullets from the guards. The prisoner
WIS sailor named Dennison and was
being taken from the Charlestown
navy yard with four other prisoners.
Engineermen. brakemen, fiagmen and
conductors of the PENNSYLVANIA Steel
Cos. yards system at Harrisburg. Pa.
struck, Wednesday, for an increase in
wages, practically the whole force re-
fusng to work The engineermen are
demanding an increase of seven cents
an hour and the others from to 4
cents advance. Crane men also struck
but We're persuaded to return pending
adjustment
FIRE broke out at the Glines & Stew
ems Co, wood working shop on EIkins
street, Franklin. N. H., Tuesday night.
Smoke was seen by William Masse
ana ne rung in an alarm from Box %.
The fire started near the boiler house
chimney and spread to a shed used for
storing finished lumber Several hum
ured dollars damage was done to the
stock by fire and water The loss was
covered by insurance.
The mercury climbed TO 90 deereas
at Pawtucket. r. l., Tuesday. and one
of the hottest days of the summer was
experienced. At the Berkeley mills
the heat was 50 severe that the order
to close for the day was given early.
90 but oht ptOSlfdllOH, MISS
Sarah Pearson, a saleswoman. who
was taken to her home on Cleveland
street Central Falls.
The marriage of Luther o. Weeks of
Chester. Vt, and Mrs. Urania p. Quinn
by of East Derry N H., took place,
Tuesday afternoon. at the parsonage
or the Second Christian church In Kit
terry, the ceremony being performed
by Rev. Arnaldo Natino. The bride
groom gave his age as 72, his occupa-
fion farming. and this as his third
marriage. The bride said she was 10
and that it was her second marriage.
Modern Woodmen of America Camps
cannot take money from their general
funds and use il to fight the proposed
rate increase even though a majority of
the members of any camp are "Insur-
gents" according to a ruling made,
Wednesday, by Judge Leslie d. Puter-
baugh in the circuit court at Peoria,
Ill. tA
The lower dam of the Hondon ir-
rigation project near Santa Fe., N.
NJ, was swept out by a cloudburst
shortly before midnight, Tuesday, a
2O-foot wall of water destroying
crops. wiping out fences, corrals and
small buildings. So far as known no
lives We're lost. No accurate estimate
of the damage can be given.
A loaded freight elevator truck on
which six men We're standing fell three
stories in the Puck building, New
York, Wednesday afternoon, injurinS
all the men. who were taken to a hos
pital. Edward Henderson, Eugene p.
Nolan Tea6nra csipaot, Carl rrro,,.o1
and David Posner were in a critical
condition. Mario Markowitz was not
seriously injured as the others.
Evidences that Colorado was inhab-
tied by race of human pigmies, not
easily distinguished from apes, have
been discovered. in the fossil fields of
F'loriZant. Colorado Springs, Colo, by
Prof. Harnsworth of the British Mu-
scum and Prof. Yalzishi of the Inn
peFial University of Toxic The bones
are so small that they could not have
belonged to a person over three or
four feet in height
An agreement with a Fresno Calf.
lawyer. To give him a third of his
share in the Russell estate if there
was a contest and an eighth If there
HSo iiosf Ndo Eslib VI llAt SNiutlltt Civ -.
en-, Wednesday, at Cambridge, Mass,
by the Fresno cclaimant to a share In
the estate. The hearing was again
before master, on the petition of the
North Dakota claimant, whose plea
was rejected after a six-months trial
The Board of Health will take hand
against the pollution of Gloucester har-
Dor by the discharge of oil and waste
from the porgy steamers and boats and
hereafter all crafts after landing their
fares will be obliged to proceed outside
before pumping out or cleaning up. Rep
resentative Knowles has submitted
proposition to the Gloucester city gov
eminent whereby the harbor and land
commissioners will continue the improve
ment of Harbor Cove to the town land
ing on Rogers street in the event the
city will maintain public float.