Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Havemyer reiineries of the
American Refining Co. in Williams
burg, \. Y. have been shut down
and 5000 men have been thrown out
Of employment. over production is
said to have caused The shutdown
The offices of the company are be-
sicged with employees begging for
work. isS
". *. Tabcr. president of the
American State Bank at Tcrre Hautc,
md, whose alleged shortage Of $40
900 was discovered by the State Bank
examiners, who closed the institution.
has assigned TO the bank property
valued at about $4,000. Among his
assignments are his home, automo-
bile and his interest in real estate.
Taber has not been arrested and has
made no statement.
A large number of children, togeth-
or with their teachers were killed aud
manned by the collapse of the build
ing Of a private school at Seville.
Spain, Friday. 1t is not known how
many pupils We're in attendance at
the time of the catastrophe, but the
dead bodies of the head master. three
ApIiieil Itdtllt'GS anu Iliiet CfllldIGIi
have already been extricated from the
ruins ard it is believed that many
more are buried beneath fallen ma
sorry.
General Francis Tillou Nichols,
former governor of Louisiana, who
was credited with putting to an end
tie Louisiana lottery is dead at Trib-
a1auX. La. He was brigadier gener-
al in the Confederate army and left
| the army minus one eye, one arm
and one leg. He was the first governor
| of that state after the reconstruction
| He was also former associate jus
| tfce of the state supreme court and
later chief justice. being retired ON
| full pay.
An, early morning fire. Friday. which
| for a time threatened the destruction
of the grandstands, exhibition hall and
other property of the Brockton Agri-
| cultural Society, valued az soc, 600,
badly damaged the old car barns on
Belmont street, opposite the fair
| grounds. The loss will reach $1,000
| The heavy wind famed the blaze and
a second alarm was sounded soon
after the arrival of the firemen be-
cause of the proximity of the fair
| buildings. After an hours fighting the
| fire vas put under control. The build
| irg contained wires. repair kits and
| wagons of the Bay State Railway Line
department. Two employees We're wax
| ened in time to escape from the barn.
The price of eggs, nice and fresh,
| dt opped two cents a dozen, Thursday,
| in New York, on news from the sub
| urbs that the hens were getting ready
| for Easter. The price is now IS cents
a dozen wholesale, with prospects of
further reductions unless the rest of
| the winter is terribly cold. The hens
| liz New York state, including Long
| Island. and in Connecticut and Penn
| sylvania are now laying 1,0000o0 eggs
4 day. 1t is said 2SS.0U0 cases of eggs
went out of cold storage in New York
| City in December, leaving f67 900 eases
| Of 50 dozens each-60, 120. 900 eggs-iE
| the coolers. on New Years Butter,
| too. is a cent pound cheaper in an
| ticipation of spring and vegetables
are one-ifth cheaper than during the
holidays. Poultry is down a cent or
two u pound Beef is up cent
Mrs Julia Curtiss Lawrence COM
planned to the supreme court i'll New
cork, Thursday, that although she
was heir to more than $10,O0o,O00 from
the estate of her aunt, the late Mary
| c. Pinckney. she was in actual pow
erty at the present time. Mrs. Law
renee asked the court to have the es-
tate divided. There was more than
| 81, 100000 due her Immediately. she
said, the result Of the recent sale of
part of the Finckney estate, the total
value of which is estimated at be
tween $30, 0o0.0 900 and $40,000o00. The
suit was brought for Mrs. Lawrence
by Elmore S. Banks, who was APP
pointed by the probate court of Fair
field, CT. as committee of the prop
erty of Mrs. Lawrence, at that time
Julia Curtiss. The court held that she
WIS incompetent 10 manage her al