Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

BY agreement of opposing counsel at
Los Angeles, the case of Clarence S.
Darrow, indicted for jury bribing. will
remain at a standstill until Saturday.
The agreement was announced,
Wednesday, in court.
The court of common pleas at
Pittsburg, Wednesday, granted Il
charter to the Pittsburg Athletic Park
Association, which is TO maintain a
team representing Pittsburg in the
new United States Baseball League.
Favorable action looking to the cree
ton of a monument to the soldiers and
sailors of the Spanish War. in the
State House grounds, Boston, was.
taken Wednesday. by the Massachu
sets legislative committee on State
House and libraries. The committee
voted in executive session to report
fayorably on a resolve appropriating
$4,000 for the purpose.
Mayor William Thompson of Detroit
ard the Detroit Board of Commerce,
Wednesday, gave the American Auto
mobile Association an invitation to
start the national tour of 1872 from
made to New Orleans via Atlanta The
tour OF 1909 started from Detroit. Ii is
estimated that not less than 100 cars
and 500 persons will participate, this
year.
Willie Hoppe won his 2000-point 1871
baik-line billiard match with Harry
Cline, Wednesday night, at Philadelphia.
Hoppe won the afternoon game 400 to 3O3.
His high run was SO and his average
20 9-l7 Cline's high run was 81 and his
average IS 5-12. In the night game Cline
could put together only 2S9 while Hoppe
was gathering 400 points. Hopes hig
run was 81 and his average 10 1926.
Lines high run was CT and his average
II HES
The annual statement of the Cor
nell Athletic Council, just issued,
shows that Cornell ran behind, last
year. on its athletics and had to re-
sort TO a sinking fund to meet the
expenses. Football and baseball We're
the only sports which made money.
The crew lost $4,000 and the track
contingent $1,000 Football profits We're
5000 and those from baseball $1,000.
The total disbursements for the year
were ST., 10s.
The substitution of one central
union of shoe workers, for the three
existing national bodies-the Knights
of Labor Cutters. the Boot and Shoe
Workers Union and the United Shoe
Workers of America, and numerous
Independent unions, was recommended
in report submitted by committee
of local shoe workers, Wednesday. at
Lynn. Mass, Nineteen unions in that
city were represented at the meeting
at which the report was made
Old documents stored away in the
marble tomb of Gen. Z. s. Grant on
Riverside Drive. will probably have
to be resorted to to supply missing
records of the Grant Monument Asso-
citation. which had charge of the cree
tion of and now cares for the tomb.
1t became known. Wednesday, at the
annual meeting at New York, of the
association that all its historical data
and records We're burned in the recent
fire which destroyed the Equitable
Life Assurance Society building. Not
even the roll of members of the as
ISOLATION was saved The records were
in the safe of Henry w. Hayden. sec
rotary of the organization. in tho
Equitable building.
Mrs Johanna Husbenor an aged wild
ow. was murderously attacked. durne
Tuesday night, In the Harlem apartment
where she lived alone, beaten into insea