Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-22
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The rite discount of the Bank of
England remained unchanged at IL
per cent, Thursday.
Joe Iogsden, a farmer, was killed
and two children in the family of j.
II. Hatfield were injured. Wednesday.
by tornado which destroyed 50
houses in and about the town of
Granfield, Okla.
When shown, Thursday, at Atlanta,
Ga, a statement credited to his wife
in Philadelphia that My husband
knows who shot him and will vindi-
cate me at any trial" Eugene H.
Grace said: Yes, l do know who shot
me; it was my wife" Graces condi-
tiou was apparently unchanged.
John +. Early. the leper, has de-
cided to accept the offer of President
Taft of a position at the Port Town
send quarantine station, Wash, and
so notified the county authorities.
Early's salary. with his pension. will
provide him an income of $50 month.
After three days spent in organiZa-
ton the first session of the Arizona
Legislature. Thursday. at Phoenix got
down to real business. The Senate
passed the recall amendment to the
constitution, the resolution granting
women equal suffrage and the income
tax amendment to the federal consti-
tuition, all ON first reading. without a
dissenting vote.
Equal suffrage was granted to the
women of China, Wednesday. by the
Parliament at Marking, according to
a cablegram received, Thursday. at
San Francisco. The law will become
effective Immediately. Yik Yuan Ying,
who has been called the Mrs, Park
hurst of China, was elected a member
of Parliament from Canton province.
She is college graduate,
The Berlin Tagliche Rundschau says
that the Emperor has invited the impe-
rial chancellor. DIR. Won Bethmann-Holl-
veg, to visit him at Corfu. The paper
also asserts that il has learned from "a
dependable source" that the chancellor
offered his resignation soon after the
Reichstag election and the Emperor re-
fused to accept it. The Emperor will
leave. Friday, for Vienna.
Scores of lives were endangered
and many thrilling rescues were made
in a fire. which, early Thursday. de-
stroyed the barracks of the Northwest
Mounted Police, at Regina, Sask., the
drill halls, stables and other build
ings. One hundred and fifty men were
asleep in the barracks when the fire
broke out. Many of them were over
come by smoke and only heroic action
by comrades saved their lives The
loss is $4,000.
The Democratic wool tariff bill, levy
ing a duty of 20 per cent ad yalorem on
raw wool, introduced, Thursday, by
Democratic Leader Underwood, will be
reported, Friday, to avoid a caucus and
thereby dodge trouble with advocates of
free wool. The measure is identical with
that passed by the House, last summer,
and after revision by the Senate, vetoed
by President Taft.
In a Rose law election held, Thurs
day, Miami county, Ohio, voted to
continue without saloons. The official
ma jority for the "Drys' is 1913 OF rs
counties that voted dry under the
Rose law, three years ago, nine coun-
ties have recently re-afiirmed their
stand for county prohibition. Seven
teen counties have voted to return to
the Wet" clumn.
Plans for a school boy stadium and
big athletic arena in the Back Bay
approximately in the rear of the Bos-
ton Art Museum, were presented,
Thursday before the Boston Munich
pal Athletic Association and Mayor
John f. Fitzgerald. The field will pro-
vide for four baseball diamonds, three
football fields and quafter-mile
track outside of the stadium The
stadium proper, will be partly sunken,
with a 16-foot wall surrounding it,
according to the plans, and will be 1850
feet long and so feet wide, aceommo-
dating 1880 people. Phe cost is esti-
mated at 100000.
Rear Admiral James Rufus Tryon,
retired, former surgeon general of the
United States navy, died in the United
States Naval hospital, Brooklyn.
Wednesday night. Death was caused
by tumor. Rear Admiral Tryon was
born in Coxsackie, n. Y, in 1887 was
graduated from Union College and
entered the naval service as assistant
surgeon in 1853. After service in
Washington and at sea for many years
under the surgeon general he was him.
self, in 1898. made surgeon general
and chief of the bureau of medicine
and surgery After retirement with
the rank OF rear admiral, he was for
six years in charge Of the hospital at
Sailors Snug Harbor, Staten Island.