Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-13

Petersburg of the Monaghan delegates,
who are expected to ask the Emperor
to recognize the complete independ-
ence of Mongolia.
/ A $780, 900 suit against Governor Eu-
/ gene N. Foss of Massachusetts by
Charles r. Peacock for injuries re-
ceived by being struck by one of the
Governors autos has been settled by
the payment of $500. The Governor
will not have to pay this amount, as
he was insured.
| Herbert Hensel whose family
| wife and baby-had five cents worth
| of rolls as their Thanksgiving day
dinner, was handed a purse of $50 by
three justices in the court of special
sessions in New York, Wednesday.
when Hensel stood before them await
j ing sentence for stealing a $25 over
coat. He was given a suspended SEN
tence and allowed to walk out a free
man, with a job assured him. to join
the two for whom he stole
Daniel H. Rickart of Los Angeles.
Cal, Thursday, was shot and killed
by Martin, mis- 13-year-old son, while
whipping an older son. The boy con-
fessed, saying his father had been
brutal to his mother. The shooting, he
said, followed family quarrel, in
part, when the father sought to chas-
which the mother had taken the boys
part, when the father sought to chas-
tise them for not having obeyed orders
to bring in firewood
Returning from rabbit hunt,
Thursday, William Potts, % years old,
shot and killed his 17-year-ol wife and
probably fatally injured his mother
in-law, Mrs. Edward Slater. The
shooting is said to have been the re-
suit of a family quarrel Potts at
tempted to escape on a freight train,
but was captured and lodged in Jail,
in Coatesville, Pa, Thursday night.
Mrs. Slater is in a hospital with a
bullet wound in her thigh and is not
expected to live.
The steamer run down and sunk by
the British battleship Centurion in the
English channel, Tuesday. was as has
now been almost certain established.
the Derna whose crew consisted prob
ably of about Is men. She was for
merry known as the Girgenti and was
owned in Genoa, Italy. The Derna
passed Dungennes. Dec. g. on the way
to Port Talbot in Wales. from Memei
in the Baltic sea. a boat marked Der
ma containing the body of a man was
picked up, Thursday morning, off the
Isle of Wight and the how light found
on the Centurion after the collision
has been identified as belonging to the
Dernd.
Luring his sweetheart, Miss Jennie
Liner, IS years old. into the depths
of a mine near Harvard, Idaho, Jesse
Dillman shot and killed her and ia
tally wounded himself late Wednes-
day night, according to messag
which, Thursday, reached Palouse,
Wash. Men entered the mine to in
vestigate the cause of the two shots
they had heard, but Dillman opened
fire on them and drove them out. Dill
man crawled to the mouth of the tun-
mel, Thursday, and surrendered, al
lowing the miners to bring Miss Lii
ner's body to the surface.
Only one witness. Mrs Kate NJ. Eager,
was summoned. Thursday, to testify be-
fore the suffolk county grand jury at
Boston in its investigation of the oper-
atoms of de luxe book agents in that sec
ton Two New York lawyers, Clifford l..
Bearle and Phillip w. Carney, who came
to Boston with information regarding
the alleged swindlers. were demonstration
with the county authorities. The attor-
neys represent four women who had
business with the book agents One of
the women, who lives in Saratoga
Springs. n. Y. claims to have lost $780,.
600 The grand jury later returned five
secret indictments. the nature of which
We're not disclosed.
If two divorces for which she has APP
piled are granted her by Judge Tuthin,
Saturday, Mrs. Ina Hentz Downey- Klatt
will have created a record for divorces
in the Chicago courts, as there has never
been an instance where two DEGREES were
granted to one person on the same day.
the woman's first husband was Will
liam L. Downey There was a separa-
ton after II days and she says that she
understood shortly afterward that he
had obtained a divorce. Then she mar
ried Emil Klatt, with whom she lived
for five years. Suit was brought against
Klatt about the same time the complain
ant heard that she had never been legal
ly separated from Downey. She asked
the court to give her two DEGREES at
once to save time
Forfeiture of the charters of the New
York. New Haven & Hartford Rail
road and two subsidiary lines, is asked
fer in suit filed in the supreme court
at Boston, Thursday, by Patrick j.
Banaghan of Brooklyn. N. Y. The de
PENDANTS are the New Haven
Road the New York, Provide1 e &.
Boston and the Providence g. For-
cestcr which was taken by the
Providence & Worcester Rail
Road for freight yard pur-
poses by right of eminent domain The
action of the Providence & Worcester in
taking the land was recently affirmed by
the supreme court, but Mr. Banaghan
maintains that while that road was leas-
ed to the New York, Providence & Bos
ton, the subsequent lease of the latter
road to the New Haven was never au-
thorized or ratified by law. The suit
will be heard, Dee. II.
AUGUSTA LOCALS.
Hon Ira c. Hersey of Houlton and T..