Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-03

ticaliy wrecked No one was injured.
1t is believed that revenge by politi-
cal and personal enemies was the
| cause of the blowing up of the house.
With both feet frozen and almost
famished, Mrs. Clara Sommers
young woman of Pittsburg. Kan, in
II ale attire and accompanied by her
husband, Enoch Sommers, was taken
in charge, Tuesday, by the police at
Lafayette, Ind The couple had not
eaten for three days She said she
dressed in mems clothing SO she could
better travel with her husband and
Beat her way home on freight
trains"
The total of $7.174,6OO was added to
Boston's valuation for 1911 as the re-
suit of the December warrant which
was made up by the Board of Assess
ors. according TO their announcement,
Tuesday night. 1t is the largest single
months increase in the history of the
city. The increased inventory will give
the city an additional s117,633i4 in
taxes if all is collectable.
On receipt Tuesday, OF instructions
from Secretary of the Treasury Mae
Veagh. Collector of the Port Edward
L. Curtis of Boston notified 10S of the
employees who serve under him that
their salaries had been increased. He
was also compelled by terms of the
Washington instructions to notify 80
others that their salaries had been re-
dueed
a plot of ground at the corner of
Fourth avenue and Vine street, Gin
cinnati, on which stands the ingalls,
building, which at the time of its con-
struction was the largest concrete
building in the world, was sold, Tues
day, by President TAT, to M. E. In
gals. former president of the Cleve-
land, Chicago. Cincinnati & st. Louis
Railroad Co. A deed recorded named
the consideration as 1000, 600.
Fire which broke out, Tuesday night,
for the second time. today. in the pack
ing house buildings of Swift & Co.. in
the heart of the Union Stock yards, Chi
cago, adjoining the scene of the disas-
trous fire of a year ago, threatened tho
whole Swift & Co. plant and many adj
joining structures. The first blaze did
about $4,000 worth of damage to a ware
house. Tuesdays nights fire, driven by
a cold wind drove the firemen back and
made certain loss of 100000 to $50O.O0o
A threatening fire broke out late.
Tuesday night, in the asylum in Lon
don, Ont, the largest in Ontario
province, containing 100 inmates. The
firemen We're successful. however, in
combining the blaze to the amusement
hall, where it originated, the loss be-
ing estimated at about $4,000. All
the patients were safely removed from
the burning section of the building
and the danger zone adjoining
Dangers of the streets of New York are
thrown into strong relief in the annual
report of the Highway Protective Society
made public. Tuesday, showing that
street accidents resulted in the killing of
42s persons and the injuring of 2oo4 in 1911.
During 1910 there were 376 killed and $50
seriously injured by vehicular traffic In
the city's streets. The automobile has
not yet outstripped the horse and wagon
as a slayer of pedestrians, the report
shows, the tally standing 1f2 fatalities for
motor and 172 for wagons. Trolley cars
killed 100 persons and injured e04.
Advices received, Tuesday, at Du-
luth, Mimi, from Winnipeg and the
Canadian head of the lakes are that
the car shortage problem is becoming
serious and that a tie-up in traffic is
probable. The actual number of cars
moved daily is said to be less than
200. Much of the meat which is now
held at Fort William and Port Ar
thur for shipment to the seaboard
cannot be held over until spring with
cut considerable loss.
President Taft, Tuesday. committed, to
expire at once. the life sentence of Arthur
Adams and Robert Sawyer, two Negro
British subjects convicted at Whining
ton, N. c., in 1906, of murder on the high
seas. In confession before his execu-
ton, Henry Scott, another Negro, con-
victed of and hanged for the same
crime, completely exonerated Adams and
Sawyer. Originally Adams and Sawyer
Roosevelt committed the sentences to life
Imprisonment.
Capt. Griffith of the three-masted
water-logged schooner Mary S. Esk-
ridge. abandoned off the North Caro-
lima coast, finding that there was on
ly six feet of water in his vessel.
Tuesday, declined wreckers' assist
ance and said he would sail the ship
into port. The British steamer This
tleroy, from Galveston to Liverpool,
ashore at Cape Lookout, was, Tuesday,
full of water and there now remains
only slight chances of saving her.
Wreckers believe they can save her
cargo of cotton, however, which is
valued at more than 100000
Because he feared that he was to be
dropped grade in school when it OPEN
ed, Tuesday, at Amherst, Mass, follow
ing the Christmas recess Harold T..
Hubbard, Is years, a pupil at the High
school, took his life by chloroform. His
body was found in his bed. Tuesday, at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Il. Bes-
ter, who had brought up the boy since
his parents deserted him in Gloucester.
dozen years ago. The lad had been
disconsolate over his study. He purchas-
ed the chloroform, last Friday night, at
an Amherst drugstore. saying he wanted
to use 1t to kill chickens.
George Gould and his financial as
sociates will be ousted from the con-
troll of the Wabash Railroad Co., now
in the hands of receivers, If the plans