Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-24
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Willie Jones of Brooklyn in a To-
round bout, Tuesday night, at Al
| bany. y. Y.
| William y. Bishop. formerly of Bridge
| port. CT, died, Tuesday, at his home in
Seacliff, L. l.. after a lingering Illness
| Twenty-Five years ago he accepted the
| position of secretary of the New York,
| New Haven & Hartford Railroad.
| Clarence English, who claims the
| welterweight championship of the
| North and South, knocked out Young
| Nitchie of New York in the fourth
round of scheduled 10-round bout.
Tuesday night, at Atlanta, Ga.
David Newcomb, aged 10. son of
| Rev. r. H. Newcomb of the Plymouth
| Congregational church of Framing
ham, Mass. while eoasting, Tuesday
on School street, received injuries
(which caused his death few hours
after the accident.
The Federation of Cotton Spinners held
meeting Tuesday, at Manchester, Eng,
| and decided that in view of the settle
ment of the weavers' dispute and the re-
sumption of work at the mills it was un-
| necessary to continue to run on short
| time at the spinning mills any longer.
| An official communication. Tuesday. at
| The Hague confirms the report that the
! hopes of the birth of an heir to the
throne of the Netherlands had been shat
tered. The condition of Queen Wilhelmi-
ma, who has been indisposed for some
days, is now stated by the physicians IN
| attendance to be satisfactory.
Former Rep Edward D. Collins of
I = 1.
chusetts House, Tuesday. to fill the va
cancy in the third councillor district
caused by the resignation of John Quinn,
| Jr Action by the Senate was delayed
until Wednesday.
The 25 cutters at the Lowell Shoe
| Co at Lowell. Mass, who went on
strike about week ago on account OF
1 the operation of the new 54-hour law.
returned to their work. Tuesday. This
action was taken as result Of con-
ference between themselves and the
management at which a new schedule
/ of prices was fixed.
! A suicide pact was discovered, Tues
day. at Pawtuel<et, r. l., when the bod
les of John C. Lang and his wife Jennie
were found in the kitchen of their home
with the four gas jets in the room emit
ting poisonous fumes. Just above the
/ head of the woman on a shelf an insur-
| ance policy was found. and everything
! indicated that the act had been well
planned.
Fire, Tuesday night, at Montreal,
partly destroyed the Hotel Richelieu
and the Hotel Riendeau, adjoining
| downtown hostelries, together with
the building occupied by the Trades
Publishing Co., and two stores, causing
| loss of more than Sl25,000 The fire
| fortunately broke out before the guests
| had retired and all escaped without
! injury and saved most of their posses
! sons. The damage was confined mostly
| to upper floors.
| The Standard Oil Co. of New York
was fined $4,000, Tuesday, by Judge
Hazel in the United States districr
court in Buffalo, N. Y, for 143 viola
tons Of the interstate commerce law
I in accepting rate concessions in 1904
/ and 1865 from the Pennsylvania ana
/ New York Central Railroads on ship
ments of oil from clean, \. Y, to Bur
/ linging, VT. The company, which was
| indicted jointly with the railroads,
was found guilty by federal jury,
T.. D.
| been fined.
Word was received, early Tuesday, at
| Lowell, Mass, of the death of Rev. John
! J. Harkins, a well-known priest, at the
Carney hospital. Boston. Father Harkins
i was for 10 years curate at st. Angus
| tines church, South Boston, and was IA
I years old. He went to Lowell, two years
! ago, and was assigned to the work of
creating new parish. and in this was
| exceptionally successful, having erected
a church which has a large attendance
He was born in Newton and was grad
/ uated at Holy Cross College and in his
early days was well known as a bali
player. Two brothers, physicians in Bos-
I ton, and a sister in Newton, survive.
/ Efforts are being made by attorneys
representing the Canadian government to
| expedite the trial at Mexico City of
| George I. Ham, Canadian who was
I formerly president of the United States
Banking Co. in Mexico and who has
been in prison since his arrest, on Feb
90 1910, on a charge of breach of trust,
and who is alleged to have been respon-
sible for the failure of the bank The
British minister at Mexico City has been
/ asked to use his influence to that end.
Statements that a demand has been made
| for the release of Ham are unfounded.
They are denied by the British minister
and the Mexican foreign office. j
| The southbound six-masted schoon-
| err George w. Wells of Boston was
| discovered at anchor, Tuesday, with
| in a mile of Wasaue shoal on the
south side of Martha's Vineyard, and
more than rs miles off her course from
| Boston to Norfolk She was so close