Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-03
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| morning, by cutting her throat with
a bread knife. Her husband could as
sign no reason for the womans rash
act.
I'm autopsy performed ON the body
| Of Alonzo ID. Hussey of East Provi-
| denee, r. l., who died in the New Lon
| don, Conn, police station. Monday
| night. seems to indicate that the man
| was murdered. The injuries are sim
| liar to those that would be inflicted
by loaded sandbag
George Slosson defeated Kali va
| mazda, the japanese champion. 400 to
| go. Monday night, at Philadelphia. in
! the opening game 81 a round robin
| 1872 balk line billiard tournament
| Slosson, Yamada ana Willie Hoppe
! Will meet each ether in two games in
| the tournament, Which will 'continue
the rest Of the week.
Mrs. Elizabeth Edmunds, under in
| dictment FOR having shot Albert G.
| zach. district attorney of Richmond
| county staten Island. Aug 10. last.
pleaded guilty, MONDAY. al New York,
| to a charge of assault in the first de-
| gree She was remanded for sentence.
Friday Mr.. Each has fully recovered
|
Earle Moore aad Thomas Conroy.
while at work en- a swinging staging
at the new shoe factory of the w H.
MeElwain Co., at Manchester, y. H.
Monday fen Jmee stores. Moore was
killed and Courey is IA 4 critical con-
dition. The mon Were at work an an
elevator web when CeaFoY lost his
balance Moore ui5 ;a save him and
in doing 50 fell with him
Because The master BARRIERS OF Hav-
erlliH tefused Ia sign an agreement To
pay them 81 per cent commission Of
thc amofnt above s. of the weekly
wages they receive and close their
shops, at 8 O'Clock Wednesday exc
nineg, nearly 100 ieurncymen BARRIERS
went ON strike. Monday. Eight of the
80 union shops signed the agreement.
Tie Boston < Maine Railroad, Mon
dav. sent to State Treasurer Charter
a Concord, n. H. checks ag2reGating
| $727. 27..52. in payment Of the taxes as
| sesse6 against the corporation and its
leased lines in New Hampshire for the
wear 1912 by the state Tax Commission.
The tax is paid under protest and in
making the settlement the road does
not waive It's right 10 appeal ia the tax
board for a re-hearine, or to the SUI
nreme court for an abatement
Edwin G. Eastman Of Exeter. George
r. aioulton of Lisbon and James r.
French of Mbultonboro. commissioners
appointed by the New Hampshire SUI
rreme court to assess damages for
land taken by the state by the right OF
eminent domain in the requirement of
the famous White Mountain 6Cfaw-
forG) Notch, have filed their findings
They fix the value Of the soft wood and
timber on the land named in the petit
ton at S27,250. and the value of the en-
tire tract. including hard wood and
excluding soft wood, at $4,000.
George Telias, otherwise known as
George Douglass. IS probably fatally
wounded as the result of a quarrel,
Monday. with fellow operative, Mike
Pappas. otherwise known as Mike lis
| gourakos. in the Appleton min a Low
ell, Mass. T'olias is suffering from
| hem2r2Laees of th6 lungs and intes-
| lin s, caused Is seauh-n@. Pappas is
he'd p-ndins the outcome the IN
iuries te Telfa.=, f4tlrls @Is arcs te,l
IN Lawrence.
4 total Of l2N2 unions in AIassachu-
SeSs have 1871 e3S members. accord
ing TO report just issued by the
Bureau of Statistics. OF the nearly
100000 workers who are members of
labor organizations, 1889 are men
and 49, 1919 are women. The oceupa-
ton having the largest number of
organized workingmen in 1911 was
boot and shoe making, including 81
512 organized employees in 10t local
unions. Carpenters ranked second
with a total membership OF 1880,
followed by textile workers, with H.,
S63 members.
Following Il movement i'm Aassa-
ohusetts where bills have been filed
in the Legislature proposing the pur-.
chase of the Boston & Maine Rail-
road by the state, Rep. Brewster of
Portsmouth, y. H., has prepared n
bill Of similar import To be acted upon
| by the state Legislature. MIR. Brew
ster proposes that New Hampshire
| acquire such portions of the Boston
& Maine system as lie within the
| state. More than i00a of the 2291
miles operated by the Boston *
Maine are in New Hampshire. accord
| ing to Mr.. Brewster, While but Isl
miles are in Massachusetts,.
Leroy Morgan, alias Clinton Harris,
| wanted in Norwich, ct, as an Access
tsory before the fact to the alleged
murder OF AGness Watt. through an
| Illegal operation. was arrested. Mon
DAY night, by tie Boston police. Nor
gan is alleged To have taken the Watt
| girl to a place where an illegal OPP
Grafton was performed which resulted
! in her death, oct ). He is 80 years
! old and lived in Norwich. Some two
| months ago, he went to Boston and
was employed in that city and Cam
bridge as a paper hanger. He will he
| taken to Connecticut Tuesday, by Of
licers from that state.
1t was reported in New York. NJ m
| day. that an investigation into the
alleged fayoritism shown Charles IL
Hyde, former city chamberlain, now
/ confined in the Tombs, following his
conviction, last week, on a bribery
/ charge, will be made by the Deccm-
her grand jury at the nstiGation of
the district attorneys office. Deputy
Commissioner Wright of the depart
ment of corrections, Monday, denied
1 statements that he was extending UNI