Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-29


into the Niagara river, Guy b. Moore,
day. at Buffalo. ~ " that probably no
body could be held criminally liable for
the catastrophe. ut was established
said Mr.. Moore, that the dock went down
because 1t had rotted and because there
were too many people on it,
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was sued, Thurs
day, in the supreme court of New York
by Alvin L. Strasburger for $40 for jew
elry bought for her in December, 1909,
from Robert Aeker. who is now bank
rupt.- Strasburger was appointed trus-
tee in bankruptcy by the United States
court. Mrs. Thaw was served with the
summons and complaint in White Plains
Charles w. Eliot, president emeritus of
Harvard University, was, Thursday, re-
eeived in audience by the Emperor at To
kio He was presented TO his Majesty by
the American ambassador, Charles Page
Bryan, and was the Emperor's guest at
lunch. Mrs Eliot and Miss Ruth Eliot
will be presented to the Empress, ON
Saturday.
The New England Steamship Co. of
New Haven, which is controlled by the
j Is,
Railroad. has filed in the office Of the
secretary of state at Hartford, Ct, a
certificate amending it's charter and
increasing its capital stock from $751;
SIS to Sc 100000. The certificate is sign
ed by c. s. Mellen. Charles Brooker. d.
\. Barney and William Skinner, a
majority of the directors.
Word was received Thursday, that
William G. Biles, formerly of Springfield,
was murdered in Riverside Inn. Mon
treal, after midnight. last Thursday
Biles was a member of the Eagles and
order of Moose. He was a waiter. He
went to Hartford, Conn, about two years
ago and thence to Montreal. 1t is charg-
ed Wentworth Moseby stabbed him In
quarrel over the quality of pepper used
at the hosiery in which Biles was em-
ployed A wife and two small children
survive
Clara LaE'lashe, aged Is. is detained at
the home of the police matron at Nash
ua, N H., at the request of her family,
who live in Stockbridge, Mass She was
found at the house of a family named
Grandmason, 8 Nevada street, Thursday
night. She came here. Wednesday, and
an application for a marriage license for
her and Henry French. aged p. also of
Stoekbridge was filed with the city clerk.
Such an application has to lay five days
under the present law before the license
is issued. If she is under 16, as her lam-
lily say. such marriage cannot be le-
galiy made except on an order from a
court of record, on the consent of the
parents of the party under age
Damage estimated at $4,000 was
caused by a fire, early Friday, at Mon
son. Mass, that destroyed the straw
hat factory Of Hermann Lichten,
whose main offices are in New York
CITY. For a time ii was feared that the
fire would destroy several nearby
houses. but the blaze was put under
control after the factory had been de-
stroyed and one house badly damaged.
Starting from an unknown cause the
fire spread with great rapidity. The
factory was a four-story wooden strne-
ture and contained fairly large stock
of hats.
Bernard Sousa, thrifty fisherman
residing on Taylor street. Gloucester,
|reeeived quite a jolt. Thursday morn
ing, when he discovered that a bank
been stolen from his trunk at his
boarding place. A watch also was
missing. He received a further sur
prise on learning from the cashier OF
a Gloucester savings institution that
the money had been withdrawn, evil
IDENTITY by some one having imperson-
ated him. City Marshal Poland has
commenced an investigation and
thinks he has a clew.
A forest fire which endangered
many suburban homes ragged in the
rear of Forest Park in Longmeadow,
Springfield, "A hours, and was fought
by 100 men. 1t was under control,
late Thursday. The fire burned over
nearly lGe acres of sprout land own
ed chiefly by ID. +. Burbank of Long
meadow. The houses of Myron Gould,
George Stoddard, DR.. John +. Graves.
Thomas Hannifin and John I4anders
appeared doomed for a time, as the
flames came within 20 feet of the
buildings.
]. A. Howard, the Negro member OF
the Canadian Olympic team, the am
nouncement of whose dismissal on the
charge of INSTRUMENTATION was made by
the teams coach. w. Knox. on Wednes-
day. was officially reinstated, Friday, at
London J. C. Merrick, secretary of the
Canadian committee, who accompanied
the team, says that Howard became such
a nuisance to the team that it was de-
cided to send him back Upon Howard
pleading to be retained and promising to
place himself absolutely under the
coach's orders and not to interfere with
the other members of the team 1t had
been agreed to give him another chance
The team will leave, Friday, for Stock
holm.
Or. Fournier d'Albe lecturer on
physics at Birmingham University
demonstrated. at London, Thursday,
at the optical convention an instru-
ment called the optophone, which is
designed to enable those who are to-
tally blind to locate and estimate
light by means of the ear. The in
| strument is based on the property of
| selenium Of changing its resistance
when ii is illuminated. This change
| is made to cause current which,