Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

An investigation of 1eoal prices In New
England was begun, Tuesday, at Boston
by the federal authorities. The investi-
cation was started following the receipt
of Instructions from the attorney gener-
Iais Office at Washington.
Because three cases of bubonic plague
exist at Hile orders from Washington
were received, Tuesday that all vessels
from the Hawaiian islands must be flu
migated ON arrival in San Francisco I'M
less they have been similarly treated be-
fore leaving the islands.
Minister of the Interior of Mexico
Hernandez, Tuesday, denied officially
that the rebels had taken Casas
Grandes and Ascension. He. said the
government forces were removed from
these places owing to the necessity
fer the use of all available troops in
the campaign in the southern and
afiddle states.
The Bourne mills, Tiverton, r. l.,
Tuesday, gave SIS operatives a Christ
mas gift in the shape of a 8 per cent.
dividend on the wages earned by thep
for the six months ending Nov. 80
This is the 46th semi-annual profit
sharing dividend declared by the cor
poration. The officials decline to say
just how much the sum paid out
amounts to. Some 700 operatives are
employed in the factory.
The examination of Henry Delferro,
a young Anarchist who recently at
tempted to commit suicide rather than
caryyg out a mission imposed upon him
by the Anarchists to assassinate King
Victor Emmanuel, was held in Rome
Tuesday., 1t revealed the existence OF
a deep laid plot to kill the King. Five
rother Anarchists have been arrested
for alleged completely in the plot.
Three years in the penitentiary
was tle sentence passed upon State
Senator Cetone. Tuesday. at Column
bus, Ohio Senator Cetone was con-
victed recently of having accepted a
bride of 5000 during the last session
of the Legislature. His attorney will
probably appeal the case.
Heavily armed and defying arrest,
an unidentified Negro. who, Tuesday
night, shot and killed Deputy Sheriff
Bussey Wight, is barricaded in a
house, eight miles from Columbus,
Ohio, while a posse that has the
house surrounded is awaiting REIN
forcements from this city. No details
of the killing have been received.
Samuel Mathews Robertson, 60, for .
years member of Congress from the 9th
Louisiana district, died at his home at
Baton Rouge. La, Tuesday night Mr..
| Robertson never fully recovered from an
operation performed two years ago. For
the last several months he had been con-
fined to his bed. On his retirement as a
representative at the end of the 18th Con
gress he was thesranking member of the
ways and means committee of the House.
Morris Mansfield reported under
indictment at Chicago for white slav
cry. was arrested in Canton, Ohio,
Tuesday, in company with Gussie
Stein. said to be a wealthy Chicago
woman. He was lodged in Jail, pend
ing removal order from federal
judge Day here. Federal officers say
that Mansiield's trip to Canton with
the woman while out on bond pend
ing his trial in Chicago constitutes a
lsnew offence.
Town Marshal w. H. Arendall, Mil
lard Duke and an unidentified Negro
Were shot and killed, Tuesday, at
Tutwiler. Miss, when Willard and Al
fred Duke. brothers, opened fire on
the Negro, who was under arrest, and
i the fire was returned by Arendall.
| The Negro. it is charged. had insult
ed a young woman of the Duke fam
lily. Posses are in pursuit of Alfred
Duke.
The police of Washington, Tuesday,
We're asked by Miss Lucy Hoke