Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-08

checks, calling for s14 100000, paid out
| during the year and 4f42 packages or
| 15 100000 pieces of paper currency,
representing $4S,57S000. redeemed over
the counter, ABSORBED, counted and
Cancelled by machinery and the mutt
lated bills forwarded to Washington
The saving to The government by can
ceiling the money at the sub treasury,
it is stated, was more than $4,000 for
the year.
Pope Plus Y. made use of the wire
less, Saturday, when he sent a message
to Naples to Cardinal Farley on board
the steamer Berlin wishing him a safe
and happy voyage on his homeward
Journey The steamer hoisted her gala
| flags, giving special honor to the PapaI
| flag, an unprecedented compliment and
! one not paid to any other cardinal
within sight of Italy since the loss of
the temporal power Cardinal Farley
and his suite We're the center of at
| traction of a large crowd on their way
| from the hotel to the quay. Notwith-
standing that the day was cloudy, a
considerable number of prominent peo-
pie gathered to bid farewell to the
cardinal AS the steamer left hundreds
of friends and admirers waved their
hats and handkerchiefs in farewell.
| The police of San Francisco are
/ searching for a man who gave his
| name as J. w. Wilson, represented
| himself to be grand organizer" of
| the Ancient order of Kangaroos of
America" and who, it is said, collect
ed several thousand dollars in sup
posed initiation fees from more than
1000 prospective members of the or
der. Nearly 1000 men assembled in
front of a downtown hall, Friday
night, expecting to be initiated into
the order. After they had waited for
an hour and no one came to open the
hall they learned from the janitor
that the hall had not been engaged:
thea they dispersed.
The steamer Joseph W. Fordney,
Capt. Kay. left Boston, at 10 A. NJ,
Saturday, for Newport News, after be-
ing detained at Boston. "a hours, on
account of the longshoremen's strike.
The Fordney brought in a cargo of
raw sugar from New Orleans, and had
1850 bags still on board when the
strike was declared. The Fordney had
been chartered by u coal concern and
| it was anxious that she be delivered.
In this emergency Edward S. Booth.
the master stevedore, enlisted the SER
vices of several Of his friends. Friday
evening, q dozen well-dressed young
men marched down the pier, donned
overalls and began lifting the heavy
bags from the lower hold. They were
all clerks from banking houses on
State street, and they worked side by
side With dozen Negroes all night.
Several of the young men were for
mer football players.
Silas n. Phelps, who is at the state
prison in Charlestown, Mass, await
ing execution, was moved, Saturday,
from the death cell adjoining the cleo
trocution chamber, where he has been
confined since his arrival at the Jail
from Greenfield on Dec. %. The change
was made shortly before noon by or
der Of Warden Bridges and comes as
result of the respite given Phelps
until Jan. 20. Until Jan. 90, at least,
| Phelps will pass his time in a cell in
the Cherry Hill section of the prison.
| the section where the long-term and
| life prisoners are confined. His new
| quarters will be much pleasanter than
! the death cell and he will have the
| benefit of some real sunlight. In the
, death cell a little ray of light from
ventilator in the ceiling is all the pris-
oner can see of the outside world,
while in the Cherry Hill section the
cells are we'll lighted and ventilated
and allow the prisoners to look out at
the sky and bask in the sunlight.