Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-02

The Young Mems Christian Assoeia-
ton of London has received a cable
gram from Lord Kinnaird at Cairo,
saying that j. Pierpont Morgan has
promised to give the last $40. 600 neces-
sary To complete the total of 100000,
which il was expected to collect during
the 12-days campaign, last month.
Harry k Thaw, Thursday, complet-
ed four-years incarceration at the Mat
teawan Hospital for the Criminal In
sane. where he was sentenced after
the second jury which tried him Tor
the murder of Stanford White, found
him insane. No special incident in the
routine of Thaw's life marked the an
niversary, but, Wednesday. he was
visited for two hours by Detective
Roger O'Mara, who has acted as his
trustee in civil proceedings. 1t mas
been recently reported that Thaw VIII
soon make another effort TO gain his
freedom by habeas corpus proceedings.
State control of universities as dis
cussed by speakers at the 18th annu-
al reunion and dinner of the Assoeia-
ton of the Sons of Brown University
in Boston and vicinity. Thursday
light, at Boston. Richard Olney, pres
ident of the association. who presided,
said that he believed in state control
and his views We're shared by Presl-
dent w. II. 2. Faunce of Brown, ex-
cept that President Faunee declared
that he would not want the public
completely barred from contributing.
Pew. q clifford, ID. D., "A, was elect
ed president.
While large sled containing 200 young
men and women was descending a steel
hill on West 4th street. Wilmington, Del,
Thursday night, the steering gear gave
way and the sled smashed into a fire
plug with serious results. Robert Nc
Farland, aged 20 years, the steersman.
was fatally hurt. The sled was being
run over a measured mile course. 1t had
covered the distance repeatedly in less
than half a minute.
President Charles F. Thwing of West
ern Reserve University announced,
Thursday night, at the annual dinner of
the New York Alumni Association of the
institution the completion of the $40 900
endowment for its medical school, to
which John d. Rockefeller promised $3.50,
49,
the remainder be raised in two years
A resolution to petition the United
States government TO pension the unem-
ployed and aged was introduced, Thurs
day at the convention of j. Fads How $
so-called hobos at Cincinnati. Among
other resolutions introduced was one urg-
ing that the revenue from import duties
be distributed among wage earners.
Raisin seeds are.of commercial val
ue and the 5000 or 1000 tons of them
which annually are thrown away IN
California may be utilized as valu-
able bv-product of the fruit industry.
Experiments conducted by DR.. Frank
Rabak of the bureau of plant indus
try in the department of agriculture,
have demonstrated that syrup, OIL
tannin and meal, all of them of value,
can be made from the seeds.
Fifteen-year- Mary Russell, said to
be the daughter of a wealthy contractor
of Hazelton, Pa, who died, leaving her
$4,000, admitted in court, Thursday in
New York mat she ran away from Beth
lehem, Pa, with her sisters husband,
Christopher Annica, IS years old, and
manager, 1t is said, of large steel plant
there. The pair was arrested, Thursday,
in New York City, in an East Side apart
ment after having been trailed for a
week by private detectives. The girl was
turned over to the Children's Society,
and Annica, who claims to be member
of the Italian nobility and former Uni
versity of Pennsylvania student, was
held ON a charge of abduction.
| Seven railroad presidents have been
made a committee by representatives OF
the Eastern roads. 1t was learned, Thurs
day night at New York. to discuss wit,
the general managers of the roads the
demand made by the locomotive engineers
for higher wages. 1t is proposed that the
general managers take up the question of
FAN advance with their own men, respec-