Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


Canadian steer Tuesday, won the
worlds championship at the Interna-
tional Live Stock Exposition at Chi
cago. The winner is Glenmarnock Vic
tor. a 2-year-old grade Angus steer.
raised and exhibited by James d. Nc
Gleggor of Brandon, Manitoba.
cry of fire" which followed the
bursting OF a broken steam radiator
caused slight panic in moving picture
theatre at Revere, Mass. Tuesday night.
Several women suffered minor injuries
and few tainted. The theatre was in
darkness when the radiator burst and
sent forth a volume of steam.
Early returns from Tuesdays cleo
ton at Los Angeles, Cal, indicate that
the proposed new charter, providing "a
commission form of government for
the city was defeated by vote of 2 to
/. The anti-free lunch ordnance. de-
signed to Danish the free lunch from
saloons, was defeated by heavy vote.
Canvass of the vote on the initiative
measures voted upon in the November
elections In Montana shows that the
proposal for a direct primary law was
adopted by majority of 33,558. The
measure limiting campaign expendi-
lures to Is per cent. of the salary for
one year of the office to which candi-
dates aspire and that for the direct
election of United States senator's were
also carried.
Arturo Giovannitti prominently con-
nected with the textile strike at Law
renee Mass. has been asked to go to
Homestead Pa. and address the steel
strike and have thrown out upwards
of 10000 other employees. A new eie-
ment was introduced into the strike
trouble. Tuesday, with the Industrial
Workers of the World. Addresses were
made urging the men to strike in
every department. E.tih
The government in its suit to dis
solve the International Harvester Co,
Tuesday, at st. Louis, began the In
PRODUCTION of testimony in an effort to
prove that the Harvester Co. had
driven hundreds of implement dealers
out of business for refusing to handle
only it's output. B. A. McAleer, Okla
homa City; George A. Weyland. Boon
vile. Mo-. and p. G. Griggs. Topeka.
Kan, were implement dealers who
testified regarding contracts with the
, International.
The steamship Tabaristan. loaded witt
cotton valued at sS2s.o00 IN Liverpool, n.
S.. Is still on fire. nearly a fortnight aft
er fire was discovered on the vessels
voyage to Europe. and. Tuesday. heroic
measures to save her from destruction
were taken. The Tabaristan's voyage
Europeanward was interrupted when she
was fastened to Halifax, the nearest
port for aid. Sea valves were opened
16 feet below the present water line and
$4,000 worth of cotton in holds 2 and )
is being flooded at a rate of one foot an
hour. For II days steam was forced into
No. 3 hold, where the first was fiji st To-
Gated. This had no apparent effect
The United States remains in third
place among the naval powers of the
world, and as result of the curtail-
ment of the naval construction pro-
gram at the last session of Congress-,
France becomes a more formidable Ri
val for the position which this coun-
| try now holds. A chart just issued by
the Office of naval intelligence of the
navy, department names the naval
powers of the world in the following
order. the position of each being based
upon tonnage of warship built and
building: Great Britain. Germany,
United States, France, Japan, Russia.
Italy and Austria. &.