Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05

Following q dispute over money mat
ters. Jos. e. King. Il, chauffeur at
Lowell Mass, sunday. attempted 10 kill
his wife Lena by shooting. and then turn
ed the weapon upon himself with fatal
effect The woman will recover.
Arthur p. West, chairman of the reor-
ganization committee of the United Wire
less Telegraph Co, announced. Sunday
night. at New York, that he had received
cablegram from the managing director
of the English Marconi Co. suggesting
that the two companies be consolidated
and requesting him to come to London
with full power to close Il contract,
John Nowak, murderer, whom a Jury
at Elmira recently refused to convict
refused TO plead guilty to murder in the
second degree. He is willing to plead
guilty to first degree, saying he wants 70
die. The state cannot accept this plea
and the authorities are at a loss 10
know how to dispose of the case.
Three passengers and As men of the
crew of the Hamburg American liner
Allegheny, which was sunk by the
British steamer Pomaron off the Vir-
ginia capes, Friday, were safely land
ell at Newport News, Va, Saturday.
by the Pomaron, which took them off.
The Pomaron left for repairs.
Six oystermen are believed to have
been drowned in the Choptank river,
Maryland. when their boats were car
ried into the open water in the ice jam
that began to move, early Sunday
morning. with the gale that swept
over Tiighmans island. The ieeboat
Annapolis up to a late hour had found
no trace of the boats or men.
Detectives, Saturday. arrested Platt
Wickes, until recently a coupon clerk
of the Knickerbocker Trust Co., at
Uew York, on a charge of larceny and
forgery. An officer of the company
states that Wickes has taken over
$4,000, and his thefts cover a period
of 10 years. Wickes pleaded not guilty
and was held in $4,000 bail on each
charge.
William Baldwin Smith, vice presi-
dent of the Puritan Trust Co. of Bos-
ton and member of the firm of Bra
man, Dow & Co. of Boston, died at his
home in Cambridge, Mass, Saturday,
at the age of IS years. Death was due
to heart trouble He was a 32nd degree
Mason and prominent in fraternal cir
cles in Cambridge and Boston. Mr..
Smith was born in Bath, Me, where
'ihe win be buried, Tuesday
The jury at Seattle. Wash, in the
case of Mrs. Linda Burfield Hazard,
accused in the Kitsap county superior
court at Port Orchard of having starv-
ed to death Miss Clare Williamson,
wealthy English patient at the Haz-
zard starvation Sanitarium,'' return
ed a verdict of manslaughter, Sunday
night. The verdict carries an indeter-
| inmate penitentiary sentence of from
one to 90 years.
After going through the Civil War
as Lees orderly without receiving a
wound, Col. Beverly Winifred Wrenn
, lost his left leg in New York, Satur-
! lay, as the result of stubbing his toe
q month ago. Blood poison set in and
| IL was found necessary to amputate
The limb just below the thigh Despite
his advanced years the colonel stood
the operation well and it is believed
he will recover.
In spite of strong opposition and a rec
ommendation on the part of Mayor DAVE
OConnell of Worcester that man be ap
1 pointed, Chief David A. Matthews has
made acting appointments of two womef
, as chief clerk and assistant to take
charge of the clerical work of the police
department. Miss Helen G. McDermott
who was an assistant to former Clerl
George r. Matthews, has been appointed
to fill his office, and Miss Sarah !
Downes, who held the highest rank OF
! the civil service eligible list, has beer
/ appointed her assistant.
y site for the memorial to Abraham
Lincoln in Potomac park at Washing
! ton, near the Potomac river, was Sc
leeted by the Lincoln Memorial Com
mission at a meeting in the White
House offices, Saturday, at which the
! President, Speaker Clark, Senator
Cullom and Representative Cannon
and Representative Mccall of Massa-
chusetts were present. No design fol
the memorial was chosen. Congress
has authorized the expenditure of ST.
0co,000 for the memorial. Several either
sites were considered. That selected il
ON the same axis as the United States
Capitol and the Washington monu
ment.