Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-29
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General Hitchcock. The first issue
| will be on sale in a few weeks.
| Jules vedrincs, the French aviator
| expects his machine &c accomplish a
| speed of 1876 kilometers tabout 121
| miles, an hour in the race for the in
| ternationaI aviation cup at Chicago
| in September. He is credited with
| this statement in an interview.
Tuesday nights storm which ragged
| over northwestern Wisconsin, wrecked
buildings in many villages and dam
aged farm property to a large extent
| besides demoralizing the telephone
| and telegrG PHI service over large
territory 1t is said that the storm
extended north about 80 miles
Fifty of the leading astronomers of
the United States are at Pittsburg,
Pa. to attend the annual meeting of
the Astronomical and Astrophisical
Society of America. The sessions Of
the society are being presided over
| by Prof f. C. Pickering of Harvard
observatory.
William f. McCombs, chairman Of
the Democratic National committee,
who has been i'll for several weeks.
left New York. "Wednesday, for the
Adirondacks. He will remain at the
camp of a friend, for time, in the
expectation that complete rest viii
benefit his health.
Miss Susan Helen Wixon, author
and widely known as an educator.
died. Wednesday, at her residence, Alb
High street. Fall. River, Mass, at an
advanced age. She was member of
the school committee of Fall River
for "a years In 1908, she was APP
pointed special commissioner by Gov
ernor Bates She had travelled widely
and leetured on her travels.
The hearing before special exam
liner in the governments suit charg-
inc the United Shoe Machinery CO.
with being an unlawful combine in
ljrestraint of trade, will be private, ac-
cording to a decision handed down,
Tuesday, in the United States district
court at Boston. The government
asked for a public hearing The date
of the hearing has not been set.
Water dripping through the ceiling
from broken water pipes. early
Wednesday, drowned 3-year- old Will
lis t3dfDeE III HIS tliD III DiOchiS IL
The sound of the dropping water
awakened the child's father and in
vesiigation showed that a tiny stream
had been playing on the little ones
face When Mrs. Barber snatched the
child from its crib il was dead
Benjamin F. Taylor of Boston, who
has served % years of Il life sentence
for shooting Wilder Hutchins. a Bos-
ton stable keeper, was pardoned,
Wednesday, by Gov. Foss and the
Executive Council. Taylor's story
| convinced the members of the Council
that the deed was committed in self
defenct.
Five hundred Chicago men who
know no other home than the lodging
house. are to be given a free auto
mobile ride and picnic at Riverside
Campground. on Labor day. by the
| Bible Rescue Mission This "hobe
| picnic" is for the purpose. of giving
| the men a days outing and food and
| to induce them to listen to speakers
who will tell them how To regain self
| confidence and get on their feet again
Sun Vat Sen proposed, Wednesday.
that China borrow nothing from the
six powers group of bankers, accord
| ing to a London news agency dispatch
| from Tien Tsin. AT a meeting of Chi
nese ministers at Pekin. Sun Vat Sen
declared it possible for China to OBJ
| tain funds from other sources with
out vexatious conditions.
To escape the heat of the city of
| Salt. Lake City. Utah, the Trans
Mississippi Commercial Congress held
| two of the three sessions. Wednesday,
at Salt Air Beach on the Great Salt
Lake. Only a brief session was held
| in the assembly hall, at which time
resolutions were introduced and re-
Iports of the various committees will
! be heard Louis w Hill did not at
tend the Congress but his speech on
See America First. was read.
victorino Tatascriore, aged 81, was
arrested Wednesday, at Meriden.
Conn.,. suspected of knowledge of the
| mruder of Mrs. Ann Morner and her
three children at Blooming Grove,
Rensselaer,, n. Y. on Dec. Ia last, and
of robbery of 800 from an aged ltal-
ian at Ossinging. N. Y, shortly there
after. In the murder case there is a
| Reward of 5000. lids
| Enrique Maza, the Cuban Journalist,
who, Tuesday night. at Havana, as
saulted the American charge d'affaires.
Hugh S. Gibson. and who later was
released despite the protests of the
| diplomat, was re-arrested, Wednesday
| afternoon, by Chief of Police Aguirre
and arraigned in the correctional
| court on the charge of wanton assault
on the representative of foreign
| power. The prisoner was committed
| to Jail without bail, to await ihdict-
mont.
The Pope is about to create a new
| American cardinal, who is to reside
| in Rome, according to a special des-
| patch received at Paris, The Ameri-
| can cardinal will occupy similar po-
| sition to that of the prelates repre-
senting France and Spain in Rome.
1t is also stated that the Pope will
| later create a cardinal in Central
| America, probably Mexico.
| Baroness Won Uchtritz, formerly
Viola Lyttle. daughter of ]. r. Lyttle,
of Delaware, died Wednesday, at Co
| lunhus Ohio at hospital from