Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| CONDE NSED DISPATCHES.
Gen. S. Lockwood Brown. who serv-
| ed as commissary officer during tho
Civh War, died in Monsoon, Mass. FIJI
day night. He formerly lived in Chi
cago and went to Monson. three years
ago.
| Capt Gwynn r. Hancock of the United
| States Coast Artillery and a grandson
of General Winfield Scott Hancock died
suddenly of heart disease. Friday. at
! Fort Strong, Boston. Captain Hancock
was SO years old and a native of Mis-
sissippi.
! Rev. DR.. Stephen n Newman, Friday,
| was inaugurated as president of Howard
| University at. Washington, in the pres
| ence of President King of Oberlin Col
J lege and Scarborough of wilberforce
University and representatives of many
i of the universities and colleges of the
I country.
Tic royal assent has been Civ
! en- 10 a bill just passed by Par
| Lament at London instituting fog
! ging as the penalty in case of
| convictions of White Slave traffic
| The Scotland Yard authorities are
! now organizing a special staff of plain
| clothes officers, who will enforce tile
: law.
j. w. Griffin. president. and r. II.
| McCrary of the Athens Banking and
/ Trust Co., of Athens, Ga, pleaded
guilty there Friday, to charges of vio-
| lating the state banking laws. They
| were sentenced to serve five years
each on the chain gang. The men were
| charged in 10 indictments with sys-
| tehaticslly wrecking the bank.
| A recount of votes cast at the city cleo
| ton at Newburyport, Mass, Tuesday,
| failed to change the eity.s stand on the
| license question. The recount was held,
Friday. and at the close the registrars
/ announced that Newburyport had gone
wet by six votes. Tuesdays count
| gave a majority of three for license. The
| city has been dry for seven years.
Santa Claus Is to be barred from New
| York-unless he is fire-proof. Fire Com
missioner Johnson so ruled, Friday To
! enforce his ruling, the fire commissioner
( started out inspectors to visit every store
| in the city which has a Santa Claus and
| to make sure that his whiskers and cos
| tune are non-infiammable.
The days of the Ku kiux Klan We're
revived. Friday. at Dalton, Ga, when
a band of masked men took John
| Watkins from his home to the center
| of the town where he was severely
| whipped. Watkins then was given three
| DAYS to leave town. The action is said
| to have followed Watkins refusal to
| get rid of several alleged disorderiy
| white women living in one OF MS
| houses.
60. ria
years prominent in the affairs OF Ply
mouth county and former state senator
and representative, died, Friday, at his
home in North Hanover Mass Mr..
Dwelley was rs years old. Death was
due to old age Mr.. Dwelley was county
commissioner for q years, part OF the
time as chairman, was selectman OF Han
over for 80 years, and was sent to both
branches of the state Legislature tor
/ several terms. He recently completed a
! history of Hanover. A daughter sur
wives.
The appellate division of the New York
supreme court, Friday, unanimously az
firmed the conviction of Daniel O'Reiiy,
LAWYER and former assistant district at
torney, who was convicted in June, 1911,
! of receiving stolen property. o Reilly
was sentenced to serve eight months in
the penitentiary He has already served
/ about six weeks. O'Reilly. the testimony
| showed acted as agent for the thieves
| who stole $4,000 in securities from Aaron
| Bancroft, an aged broker, in March, 1911.
Suit to compel Burton w. Gibson to
| surrender a bank book showing deposits
| aggregating $4,000, made by Mrs ROSA
| Menschik Szabo in a local savings BANK
| was filed, Friday, in the New york SUI
| preme court by Fritz Fischerauer, the
| Austrian consul general. Gibson, VINO
| was Mrs. Szabos attorney, is now In jail
| at Goshen, ~ Y, awaiting trial for the
! second time on the charge OF numbering
Mrs. Szabo on Greenwood lage, July 16
, last
| Susan Lincoln Mills. founder of
Mills College, the first college for wo-
men on the Pacific coast, died. in Oak
| land, Cal, Thursday night, at her
home on College Campus. Less than
| q month ago, she celebrated her S7th
| birthday. Mrs. Mills was born in
| Massachusetts in 1926 She was grad
| uated from Mount Holyoke Seminary
in 1845, where she taught until 1849.
With her husband, the Rev. Cyrus 7.
! Mills, she went to Benecio, Cal, in
1855, and purchased a young ladies'
seminary In 1871 the present site
was obtained.
| The seventh annual triangular debate
i between Williams, Amherst and Wesley
| an, which was contested, Friday night,
| at Williamstown, Mass, resulted in a
| three ornered tie. The home team OF
debaters, unfolding the affirmative side
of the question. won in each case. The
question debated was: Resolved, That
State Judges Should Be Subject to Recall
by a Majority Vote of the People Vot-
ing at the Last State Election Will