Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-09
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The supreme court of the United
States. Monday. adjourned immedi-
ately after meeting because of the
funeral in Canton. Ohio. Monday, of
Mrs Day wife of Associate Justice
Day. No business was transacted.
While temporarily insane, Clarence L.
Racine, a l7-year-old boy at Milford.
Mass. Monday, Killed his mother, Mrs.
Louis Racine, with a butcher knife, set
fire to the house and then fatally slashed
himself The blaze was extingushed by
fremen with little loss.
The schooner Mary T.. Palmer, bound
from Newport News for Portland, which
has been anchored southeast of Hand
kerehief lightship for four days, was
taken in tow, late Monday night. by the
revenue cutter Aeushnet, supposedly for
Vineyard Haven. The nature of the
schooner's troubles is unknown.
Mrs. Adeline Rowland. said to be the
oldest suffragette in Massa chusetts, died
at her home in Worcester. Mass, Mon
day. at the age of Sc years. She was Il
daughter of Joseph Henshaw, president
of the Worcester Ant-Slavery Society.
Death was due to old age.
Moustafa Assim Bey, the former Turk
ish minister of foreign affairs, categori-
cally denies the reports that peace S
possible between Italy and Turkey with
in an early date. according to an inter-
view in Brussels Petit Bleu. He declares
every means will be taken to oppose
Italian naval action in the Aegean.
The state department, Monday. cabled
American Minister Young at quito to no.
tify the Ecuadoreau government that
during unsettled conditions there Ameri-
can lives and property must be fully
protected and that Ecuador will be held
responsible for any illegal act committed
against Americans or their property.
a statue of Andrew Carnegie is to
be erected in Dunfermline, Eng, in
recognition of the iron masters bene-
factions to his natal city. The de-
eision was reached at Mondays meet
ing Of the town council of Dunferm-
line and the proposal was greeted
with much enthusiasm.
A mass of snow and ice slid down
Il hillside in Blacksmith Canyon, %
miles from Logan, Utah, Monday,
and covered four men taking out logs.
One of the four managed TO dig out
Of the slide The dead are: John +.
Miles. Jr, Fletcher Morris and George
Ellis.
Concerted advances in the freight rates
on soft coal made by the railroads of the
Western Trunk Line Association, effec-
tive Jan. IS, Monday. We're suspended by
the Interstate Commerce Commission un-
til May Il. The proposed increases aver
TIaatr
will be investigated by the commission
with a view to an equitable adjustment.
Suit was filed. Monday, at Macon,
Ca, in the federal court for the east
ern division of the southern district of
Georgia to dissolve the American
Naval Stores Co. and subsidiary cor
porations which has its principal Of
fees in Savannah. The officers of this
concern already have been indicted.
Two persons were killed and thousands
of dollars damage was done by the sleet
and rainstorm which swept Atlanta. Ga,
and surrounding territory, since Sunday
night. John Whites, Russian, was in
stantly killed when he stumbled against
a fallen live wire An unidentified Negro
fell against telephone wire and met in
slant death.
The income of the American Federation
of Labor from all sources for the last
quarter of the year just ended was s42
ga, making a total with the balance in
hand of $2S2. PA, according to a report
submitted to the executive council Mon
day. by Secretary Frank Morrison. The
total membership of the organizations al
filiated with the federation for the month
of December, 1911, was 1,s31.57S. an in
crease of 1858 over the corresponding
month for 1910.
Fire, Monday. badly damaged the five
story brick building Nos. 322-SS4. West
Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md. The
loss is placed at between $4,000 and
100000 divided among various concerns,
including the Brockton Shoe Co. The fire
department. ambulance, hurrying to the
scene, "skidded' while turning corner,
dashed upon the sidewalk and seriously
injured three men, and a fireman fell
from the second floor of the burning
building, receiving severe injuries.
Senator owen of Oklahoma an
nounced, Monday, that if President
Taft sent to the Senate the nomina-
ton of Judge w. c. Hook as a mem
Der of the supreme court, he would
fight confirmation indefinitely SEN
ator Owen also said that he would in
troduce a resolution calling upon the
President for copies of all of the in
dorsements of Judge Hook The fight
against the naming of the Kansas
jurist has grown out of his decision
in the Oklahoma two cent fare cases