Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-11

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


church at Keene. y. H.. was badly
damaged by fire. Sunday The loss is
about $4,000. The blaze was caused
by an overheated furnace
Sir Reginald Lister, British minis
ter to Morocco, since 1908, died, sun
day, at Tangier. He was born, in 1866
and had served in many of the British
embassies and legations.
A eablegram was received at No
gales, Ariz., Sunday, announcing the
death, Sunday morning, in Paris, of
Ramon Corral, formerly Vice President
of Mexico. All the members of his
family were at his bedside
Joseph r. Capablanca, the Cuban
chess champion. easily proved his su-
periority in his three-game match
with Charles Jaffe, the New York ex-
pert. With the match concluded. Sun
day, the score stood Capablanea, two
games; Jaffe none; drawn one
No special election Will be called IL
fill the vacancy in the I'd Congression-
al district, caused by the death of the
late Cong. George ii. Utter of Wes-
terly, Gov. Pothier has declared that
gresham in that district will have ne
decisive effect on party representation
in Congress and the present session
has not much longer to run, there is
no need of putting the state to the
expense of a special election.
Max Levy dropped SO, 5000 worth of dia-
monds through the bathroom drain in
his apartment at the Alexandria, Los
Angeles. Saturday, II of his most beadti-
ful gems, the choicest of the collection
which as a diamond salesman he carried
out of New York. They were wrapped IN
a little chamois bag. So highly did he
value them that he did not put them with
his ordinary stock that went to his bath.
He carried them around his neck. Even
when he bathed the stones stayed right
with him.
Deserted by her husband. with no sup
port for herself and 7-year-old boy twins,
and i'll in the Johns Hopkins hospital,
Mrs. Ethel Brown of Baltimore gave up
quantity of her blood in order to OBJ
tain money for their support. This sac
ifice of the mother became known, Sat
urday, when Detective Quirk returned
from Vineland, n. j., with Charles LEROY
Brown, the husband and father. who has
been indicted by the grand jury at Bal
timore for deserving his wife and falling
to provide for the support of herself and
little ones.
Charles Jones, policeman, was
shot and killed, Sunday. at Chicago,
in attempting to break up a gather
ing of West Side Hoodlums, among
whom the police say were number of
former associates of the murderers. of
Fred Gtelzo. truck gardener. stab
hed to death by young highwaymen.
The boys ran away when the police
man ordered them to disperse. but
one of them shot Jones twice in the
right side and he died on the way to
a hospital. Eight arrests have been
made and the police are searching for
the other members of the gang.
Elisha l.. Palmer. a member OF the
firm of Palmer Bros, cloak manufac-
turers, and a well-knewn art collee-
tor, died, sunday, at his home in New
London, CT, after "A short illness. aged
"a. He was lieutenant in the 9TH New
York Volunteers in the Civil War. He
was captured by Mosbys Guerillas,
t1StSoiile, lNo NCdlS III i&lbpy ia iSotl. ~
late years he had Travelled extensive
ly abroad. He was member of the
Players Club, the National Art Club.
the Army and Navy Club and the 10y
al Legion. A widow, two daughters and
a son survive.
Two hunters, attacked by a huge
caribou bull in the waters of Lake
Crescent in the Olympia mountains,
Washington, narrowly escaped with
their lives. Two of the men. John Tay-
Tor and S. II. Townsend, were in a
boat rowing across the lake for sup
plies. William Parr, on shore. saw a
bull caribou swimming out after the
boat. 10 attract the attention of the
men in the boat Parr shot at the car
ihou with his rifle. striking ii in the
body. The Infatuated animal made a
plunge and landed with it's forefeet
in the boat going through the bottom
and upsetting it.
A $27 100000 raise in their years wages,
it was given out. Saturday, is to be ask
ed of the Eastern railroads by their EN-
ployes when the arbitration board meets
within the next two weeks, to consider
the wage scale. These advances are
sought by the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen and the brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers The arbitration board
consisting of representatives of both
sides, and also the Interstate Commerce
Commission, was scheduled to meet II
New York, but it has been about decided
that it would be more convenient to All
narties to the controversy to hold the
conference in Chicago. What the tram
men want is sliding scale OF WAGES
based on the size of the trains.
A rat terrier saved Edna Browning
70. daughter of Mrs Lydia Henderson
No. 1884 West Ninth avenue, from Sc,
rious injury when she was attaekeu