Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-22
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Kentucky Legislature. Wednes-
day, completed its Prohibition pro-
| gram, when the lower House passed
the bill making the county The unit
| IN local option elections. The bill now
| goes to Gov. McCreary, who is ex-
| pected to sign it. Both political pari
! ties declared for ii in their plat
| forms
| In accordance with decision by the
Court of appeals of the District of CO.
| lumbia, Nov. last. that the law pro-
hibiting conducting bucket shops In
| Washington, ID. c., was constitutional,
/ Louis and Angelo Celia of St Louis
| ad Samuel w. Adler of New York,
| Wednesday. surrendered themselves
to the federal authorities at New
York. They were held in $4,000 bail
each for examination in the removal
proceedings which have been re-
| opened.
| A mob that has been seeking
Negro murderer and his companion
near Brentwood Tenn, since Wednes-
day morning. had failed to catch the
two Negroes at noon. One of the flee
| ing Negroes shot and fatally wounded
MacVoit, superintendent of railroad
construction company when MacVoit
ordered him to go to work, Wednes-
day morning.
! James B. Duke. the former head of
| the American Tobacco Co., sailed,
| Wednesday, from New York on the
! steamship Olympic for England, where
he will become the president of the
British-American Tobacco Co. Mr.. Duke
said that the reorganization of he
American Tobasso Co had progressed
| very smoothly and was practically com.
| pleted.
With the understanding that he would
| return to China immediately Charley
| Chin, who was sentenced III 1904 to life
| Imprisonment for the murder of Wong
I. Jung, was pardoned by the Massachu-
sets Executive Council, Wednesday
| The murder of Jung occurred in Boston
1 Chinatown during a feud. There has
| always been some doubt as to whether
Chin was connected with the killing.
Two Sixth avenue elevated trains
in New Fork came together with great
| force, Wednesday, at the curve in the
line at SD street The wreckage caught
| fire almost Immediately blocking the
line for two hours. But one passenger
a woman, was injured, it was report
ed. misunderstanding of signals is
blamed for the crash.
| Experts working on the books of the
| American National Bank at Pomona
| Cal, finished their work, Tuesday, and
it was announced by the officials of
the bank that Bookkeeper Earl Stan
| dard's shortage of accounts amounts
to $4,000 instead of $4,000, as first
announced. The directors and stock
holders of the hank have made good
the shortage and have increased the
/ capitalization of the bank.
Hiram C. Gill, elected mayor of Sc
attic, Wash, two years ago, and re-
moved by the recall in less than a
| year, finished at the head of the poll
in the nomination primary for city
| officers, 1t was estimated early
Wednesday, that he polled $4,000 votes
and that his nearest competitor
Thomas A. Parrish. BUSINESS MEMS
| candidate. polled 1900 fewer voter.
The election will be held, March s.
Eleven persons narrowly escaped
| from being burned to death or suffo
Gated when a fire, believed to have
| been of incendiary origin. broke out i'll
( a dwelling house in East Dedham
street, South End, Boston, Wednes-
| day, Rags, saturated with kerosene,
were found in the rooms occupied by
two men who moved into the house,
| recently. Both the state and Boston
police are conducting an investigation.
The loss on the building was small.
| What Danpcyl,tapia I,o, 1ona 10
combat the spread of the chestnut
tree blight was told at the morning
session of the Interstate Congress on
Blight, at the capitol in Harrisburg,
Wednesday. The speakers included
members of the State Blight Commits
sion, professors of the University of
Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State
College, who are studying the pest,
and state foresters who are actively
engaged in field work.
The great Jungfrau Railroad tun-
| mel, which has a length of 81 900 feet,
was pierced Wednesday, as far as
the new station of Jungfraujoch,
Switz., which is at an altitude of 49,
900 feet above sea level. The railroad
is to mount another 400 feet to the
terminal station, which is to be con-
nected with the summit of the jung
frau by an elevator ascending 24i
feet The total cost of construction OF
this railroad, which is the highest in
Europe. amounts to $2,600,000.
John Armstrong Chaloner of Vir-
einia, lost his suit in tie United States
district court at New York, Wednes-
day, to have Thomas r. Sherman dis
charged as @ committee Of his per-