Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-11

the Dram oil Well-deYeloped child, not
| understanding the fact that he was nam
ed as one of the greatest experts in the
| country on heart diseases 1t weighs
nearly 20 ounces less than the brain OF
| Daniel Webster, Scientists there con-
slider the light weight OF the brain Of DIR.
Musser extraordinary. but they explain
it by saying he developed along one line,
not broadening out in all lines. Dr.
| Musser was one of a little group of sci
entists who agreed to leave their brains
to the Mister Institute of Anatomy and
| Biology.
The Easter offerings at the Church of
| the Advent, Boston, We're sl7.7O0, the
largest collection ever taken up there on
| that day. OF this amount slle00 viii be
added to the endowment fund. The re-
| port WAS made at the parish meeting at
| the home of George i. Gardner, 1S6 Bea-
con street. Paul NJ. Hubbard was added
| to the corporation to fill vacancy caus-
ed By death during the past year Her
bert I. Chandler was made a member or
! the vestry The wardens, clerk and
treasurer We're reelected.
Ralph NJ. Jacoby, who for u .-ears
has maintained Offices in Wall
| street building, was arrested in New
York. Tuesday. on the charge of us
ing the mails to defraud investors
Seven mail bags filled with letters and
conservative investment literature
| ard prospectuses Of companies which
he had organized, were seized. Jaeo-
| by was held in $500 bail for examina-
ton. According to the postal inspec-
| tors. Jacoby advertised that his po-
/ cff ion IN 10 Ia i'm, IN,
| raise all kinds of capital from s5No0
up. but has insisted upon fee from
| 500 TO $500 for Incorporating pro-
| posed company before anything WAS
| done. Complaints have come from all
| over the country and an investigation
ard his arrest resulted. The inspee-
tors say his operations have netted
| him at least $3.50, 900.
| Leon Mcintyre aged %. Il linenlan
of the Passumpsic Telephone Co.
| VINO was sent To st. Johnsbury Vt.
Tuesday. from Newport was drown
| ed at 245. that afternoon. He and
| Harold Dow were crossing the Pas
| sumpsic river just above the Hast
| ings street bridge TO fasten guy
| rope used in replacing pole which
| had been washed out in the high wa
| ter of Sunday. rs it was a pole bear
| ing the tran,z lire wires il was i'm
! portant that t be repaired at once
| The boat IN which they WIRE cross
| ing was eapsized Both men were
| thrown out, but Dow was able To
| swim To STORE. Mcintyre Was heavily
| burdened with climbers on his legs
ard a belt around his body bearing
| all his tools and went down. His body
| was recovered. at $50, about 100 feet
| below where he went down. lie was
/ not married. He had worked for the
| Telephone CO. for eight months.
| BY decree Of the federal. bankruptcy
| courts the mill properties of the Rhode
| Island cotton mills, Spray wooden mills
and American Warehouse Co. all of
Spray, \. G., were sold at public auc-
| ton Wednesday, at Greensboro, n. G..
! for $432,t0o. The German-American mills
/ and Lily mills. also sold by court de-
| cree, brought S4S5, geo. All were bid in by
| the Thread Mill Co. of Monticello, Ind, a
| subsidiary company of the Marshall
| Field Co. of Chicago, principal creditor
and large bondhoder of the bankrupts,
| The trustees viii recommend that the
| court confirm the sales. The statement
was authorized that the Marshall Field
| Co. would continue operation of the five
| mills without the loss of day and that
| large improvements We're contemplated,
| representing total investment of -ap-
proXimately s2o00,0oo.
/ The California supreme court, Wednes-
| day reversed Il decision of the lower
court which held invalid the Claus
| Spreckles will involving AN estate of 49,
Goo000. John y, and Adolph Spreckles
attacked the win in the superior court.
| These proceedings were n victory for
Adolph and John p. Spreckles.
I'm the last few days Wholesale bees
prices at Denver, Col, have advanced q
per cent, To the highest price paid for
beeg in Denver within the last 10 years.
Indications, it is said. point to fur
Their rise in prices. Steers at the Den
yer stock yards, Wednesday, brought
$3.50 to $3.50 per hundred
y fire which started at noon in the
warehouse district in the southern part
Of Butte, Mont, had caused loss 81
more than 100000, at / o'clock, and wa
| spreading nerthward into the business
| section famed by "a high wind. -Four
business blocks and 80 residences were
| on fire.
a shipment OF penguin eggs from
| South Africa, dclicacies intended to
please the palates of the epicures OF
| the country. have been refused en-
trance at New York by the customs
officials. AS the eggs were intended
for food, not for breeding purposes
| they could not lawfully be admitted.
Edward kinsman of Boston, one OF
the men who took part in the recent
$4,000 taxicab robbery in New YORK.
was sent to Sing Sing prison. Tuesday,
for three years and six months. He
turned inforncr ON the others in the
robbery. and because of this he re
|ceived a light sentence.
Bartomolo Neri supposed TO be a
member of a gang of Black Handlers
who have been eXtorting money from
slate workers in Fairhaven and Poult-
ney. VI, was found guilty in counts
court at Rutland. VT, Tuesday after
noon. of extorting money from ono
frio Cayino with the aid of revolver.
Instructions have been received at
Montgomery. Ala, by passenger and