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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-08

been granted, but because the ad-
vances made do not fulfill the de-
mands or expectation of the workers,
or because certain working conditions
Objectionable to the operatives have
not been remedied by the mill own
ers. Ten per cent. Is the rate of in
crease generally granted by the tex
tile interests of New England, and in
most of the mills where the advance
does not equal this amount, the OPP
eratives are dissatisfied. In Fall
River, where a general increase of 10
per cent. to the textile operatives pre-
vented a strike of 10000 persons, the
300 firemen have voted to go ON strike,
tomorrow morning, unless the 100
mills involved grant fiat wage rate
of 90 cents an hour in place of the
present sliding scale of from II to 20
cents. Their demands have been
granted by several of the mills.
The strike at the Lancaster mills in
Clinton, where 1900 persons are in
VOWED and which has been on for
the fines system.
The striking employees of the Hud-
son Worsted Co. at Hudson, number
plan for adjustment offered by the
company, because it does not amount
to the raise which the strikers say is
the least they will accept.
A new wage schedule which will be
posted within a day or two is expected
to settle among the employees of the
Warren Cotton Co., in West Warren,
where nearly a thousand workers have
been on strike for several weeks
A branch of the textile industry little
effected up to now by the agitation-car-
pet making--is involved in a threatened
strike. tomorrow morning, of 500 EN-
ployes of the Roxbury Carpet Co. Tho
workers there demand a general wage
increase of 10 per cent. and the renstate-
ment of three women employees recently
discharged. The demands and strike
in support of them have the support Of
President John Golden of the United
Textile Workers.
Unless the advance of 10 per cent.
which the j. & p. Coates Co. LTD an-
nounced as having been granted to GER
! tain of the operatives in the five mills
| in Pawtucket, r. l., is made general
within a few days. strike. OF 1900 EN-
| ployes is threatened. Unrest Is evident
! in number of other places in new Eng
land where the increase granted amounts
| only TO 5 per cent. or to something be-
! tween that and 10 per cent, but in many
| Continued on Page Two.l
4
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-08
Stock Market Reaches the
Highest Level Of Year.
Movement Due to General Rather
Than Special Causes.
Belief in Coming Expansion Of Bust
ness Is Growing.

New York, April 1.-THE stock mar
ket, last week, advanced to the high
est level of the present year. General.
rather than special causes seemed to
coming expansion of business and
industry grows, and is encouraged by
the progress already made. Imme-
date factors in that belief are most
potent in the metal trades, especially
copper, but bank clearings, railroad
earnings and mercantile reports also
indicate q forward movement. Conf
denee is buttressed by the great
strength of the financial position of
the country, its freedom from imitation
in any direction and the low stocks of
merchandise.
The special strength of the copper
market lent it's influence to the specu-
lative advance. The rapid rise in the
price of copper grows out of the
awakened domestic demand, added to
long sustained export demand. The
belated effects of restriction of output
also are seen. The result has been the
removal of one of the most depress-
ing factors against an advance.
The copper movement has had a
sympathetic effect on the iron and
steel market in the matter of hard
ening prices, although at the expense
of new orders. More speculative in
fuence was eXerted by the high per-
centage of capacity active in the
Pittsburg mills and the pig iron fur
mace production OF April l, which was
at a rate above any yearly output II
the eountry's history. The sale al
bonds of the United States Steel sub
salaries, which was effected during
the week, was suspected of having 6
bearing on the active condition of thai
stock in the market.
Speculative sentiment seemed te
view the labor situation with satisfae-
ton Resumption of coal mining IN
Great Britain radiated cheering Ell
feet through all markets. The soft
agreement begot confidence in an
anthracite settlement and the vote OF
the railroad engineers in favor of a
strike. and the textile strikers Were
ignored in the stock market.
Floods in the central valleys die
substantial damage. interrupting traf
| fic and threatened delay and possible
cutting down in the cotton planting.
OF little restraint to speculation was
| a rise in call loans to per cent. tht
/ Continued on Page Two.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-08
WINooskI RIVER RAGING.

Montpelier VT, April Swollen by
heavy rain, the Winooski river over
flowed its banks, today. Main and
State streets in this city are inundat-
ed and the business section of Barre.
six miles below here is reported under
three or four feet of water. The river
is still rising rapidly.
The ice went out of the Winooski
river and the Worcester branch here.
yesterday, and it was believed that all
danger had passed. The temperature
rose early, today, however, and the
snow, which in some places at the
headwaters is still several feet deep.
melted rapidly. During the afternoon,
it commenced to rain and this added ia
the volume of water.
The river first broke from its bounds
at Barre and the water rushed through
the streets in torrents. overlooking the
sidewalks and flooding cellars to the
level of the street. So far as is known
no damage other than water damage
stock and stores has been DONE
1t was not until, this evening, that
he flood struck Montpelier Then the
water poured over the. Main street
bridge and down through Main and
tate street has a number of resi-
'ences. As in Barre. cellars were soon
flooded and the streets made almost
impossible.
The flooding of the cellar of the
building occupied by the Western
Jnion Telegraph Co. in this city put
Continued on Page Two.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-08
A Sorrowful Party.

Ii MS 4 sofrowful party that Sher-
iff richardson led from the Poole house
across 20 state street and down To the
Jail, Where her friends and relatives
took THAR farewell of the woman
who now stands indicted under charge
Of having committed one of the most
brutal murders that has occurred in
Kennebec county for many years. A
short distance in advance of the par
~ walked the sheriff, while just ahead
of Mrs. Raymond, her husband and
little daughter, Were her husbands
brother, Nathan Raymond of Read
field, and Thomas T. Poole of this city.
Tie party arrived at the corner of
state ard Court streets at 2.3S =. NJ,
and as they turned down to the Jail
entrance several snapshots were talk
en of The party. Mrs Raymond, who
wore for an outside garment black
fur coat and had on hat of dark ma
tcrial. with black feather, when she
observed that camera was being
aimed at her fell behind her husband,
rs they We're going up the Jail steps.
Mrs. Raymond is now rs years of age.
of light complexion and more than or
dinarily good locking. She shows to a
coESiuefdple deSTte, IuNeNet, tHe
mental strain that she must of neces-
sity have been under, even if absolute
ly innocent, while the hearing has been
going on.
Mrs. Raymond said farewell to her
husband and little Evelyn in the sher-
IFS office. she sobbed when the baby
was taken from her and appeared to be
deeply moved Her farewell to her
husband consisted only Of Il parting
kiss and a strong grasp of the hand.
She was at once placed in one of the
three rooms in the women's depart
ment at the jail, which will be her
home until after the October term of
the supreme judicial court. The supe-
rior court of Kennebec county has no
jurisdiction in murder trials conse-
quently her case must await the next
term Of the supreme court for trial.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-08
10000 PEOPLE HOMELESS.


Thirty thousand persons homeless
2000 square miles Of country inun-
dated, 80 persons drowned and a finan-
cial loss of $1o,OOO,90o constitute the
result of a two weeks flood in the
Mississippi valley. These figures were
arrived at. last night, by government
engineers and officials of state levee
boards engaged in combating the
ravages of the Mississippi from places
in Illinois to threatened places in Mis-
sissippi and Arkansas.
Water is pouring into Arkansas
through three new breaks in the levee
south of Memphis. These gave way.
yesterday, and several hundred square
miles are subjected to flooding.
Railroad traffic in these sections is
practically paralyzed.
Hundreds of persons are still men
aced by the river at places in lower
Missouri, Northwest Tennessee and
Arkansas. They are marooned on
house tops, in trees and on anchored
RATS directly III the current of the
rampaging streams. Conservative
judgment at Memphis, last night. was
that the great majority of these un-
fortunates will be rescued.
The most dangerous point in the
flood situation, yesterday was at
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-08
About 1000 Square Miles Under Water--3O Persons
Drowned Loss Already About $1OOOO0OO--
WinooSki River Out Of Bounds Montpelier
And Barre, VT, Swept by the Waters.

Golden Lake. the Arkansas levee re-
sisting the pressure of the Mississippi
Had this embankment been preached
II would have added to the tide al
ready sweeping through northwest
Arkansas. At o'clock. last night, the
Golden Lake levee held end danger ii
the southern part of the valley in
creased. As long as the flood remains
in the levees north the strain on the
Hourly the danger zone works
southwark. In the upper reaches the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers are prac-
tieally at standstill This means that
the floods crest now is exerted on the
bikes from the Missouri line south
ward.
There has been suffering among thou
sands of refugees gathered in the high
land towns in the flood districts. How
ever, this situation cannot continue be-
cause officials of the state and federal
governments are working to carry food
to the homeless.
State and levee board officials in the
districts south of Memphis have been
laboring all day to top the threatened
levees. Mississippi state officials think
their entertainments will hold. Neverthe-
less the menace to states bordering the
Mississippi south of Memphis will not
have ceased until the great rivers angry
waters have poured into the Gulf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-08
GENERAL FEELING OF UNREST
EXISTS IN TEXTILE CENTERS.
In Spite of Increased Wages Many Opera
tives Are Still Dissatisfied and Sever
al New Strikes Are Threatened.
And in Various Industries.

Boston, April despite the wave of
wage increases which during the next
II months will swell by more than $l2,
100000 the pay of thousands of textile
workers in New England, dissatisfae-
ton is manifest still among the OPP
eratives in a number of places. Strikes
are now in effect, or are threatened
during the week beginning, tomorrow
morning, unless certain demands are
granted in nearly dozen textile CEN
tiers or mills Except in Lowell, where
$4,000 operatives are out of work. the
number of operatives involved is com
paratively small. 1t is generally be-
lieved that the strike and lockout in
Lowell will be ended, this week,
through the expected action of the
manufacturers in granting an increas Sc
of 10 per cent. instead of that of be-
tween and s per cent, already an
nounced.
The settlement of the Lowell stu
alton, however, apparently is not going
to mean the end of activity in New
England by the Industrial Workers of
the World the organization which has
assumed responsibility for both the
great Lawrence struggle and that at
Lowell, as well as several others. In
an address at meeting in Lawrence,
last night, William e. Trautmann, at
present in charge of the Industrial
workers in New England, declared
that while this (the LowelD strike is
going on, other strikes in New Eng
| land are being prepared He would
not amplify this statement, but to
persons who have interested them
selves in the plans of the organiza-
| ton it was coupled with previous
statements by Trautmann and other
| leaders in which strikes We're predict
ed in Manchester. N, fl, and in Wor-
cester in the near future. AT Manches-
ter, where nearly so thousand persons
are employed in the textile industry. a
| 54-hour working week. instead of 56
hours as at present, would be the is
sure. the mills having granted wage
| increases of 10 per cent. or over.
A strike in Worcester, leaders of the
| T. w. w. have said. would be direct
| ed against the wire. steel and iron
factories and foundries employing
about 10000 persons. Increased wages
| and modified working conditions,
Trautmann and other leaders say, are
| demanded by leaders in these places.
/ In most of the cases in which the dis
| satisfaction of the operatives has been
! shown in strikes or in threats of
/ strike 10 take effect. tomorrow, the
unrest is not because no increase has
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-08

The kennebee county grand jury
reported. at l p NJ. Saturday. a spe-
eial indictment in the Matte Hack
EFT case. charging Elsie Hobbs Ray
mond of Poland with the murder of
Matte Hackett on August H. 1905, at
Eeadfield. Tie exact form of the in
dietment is as follows:
The Indictment.
kennehec IS,
At the superior court begun and
holden at Augusta within and for the
county of Kennehee. on the first Tues
day of April. n the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and
twelve
The jurors for said State, upon their
oath present. that Elsie Hobbs Ray
mond, otherwise known as Elsie RAY
mond, of Poland. in the county of An
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-08

when arrested. She showed some emo
ton when placed under arrest but
was by no means wholly overcome.
Her little f-Year-old daughter Eve
lyn, who has been her mothers con-
slant companion while the hearing
before the grand jury has been in
progress. elung to her mother and
seemed to understand that some evil
WAS impending, although She was. OF
course. too young to understand the
import Of the arrest.
The prisoner. under the custody of
the sheriff was allowed after her ar
rest to go to the home of Thomas P.
Poole, whose wife is relative of her
husband, Bert Raymond. at 113 Grove
street where she had been stopping
during the hearing
Sic WAS allowed to eat her dinner
there. the last meal she was to eat
surrounded by her friends and rela-
tiVes. and gathered few articles of
clothing. which she had left there.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-08
MATTE HACKETT

OF Readfield. for Whose Murder hy
Strangulation, Aug II, 1905 Mrs. Elsie
Raymond Was Indicted. saturday.
droseoggin, on the 18th day of Au
gust, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and five, at
Readtield, IN said county of Kenne-
bee, in and upon the body of Matte
Hackett, feloniously and wifully. and
of her, the said Elsie's malice afore-
thought, did make an assault, and her,
the said Matte Hackett. then and
there, feloniously and wilfully and of
her, the said Elsie's, malice afore-
thought, did kill and murder.
AS will be seen from the indictment,
nothing is specified by the jury as to
the manner in which the death of
Matte Hackett was accomplished,
The Hackett case was the first mat
ter to be taken up by the grand jury
when that body assembled, Tuesday,
and large number of witnesses We're
called by the State, including some
who had never testified at previous
Investigations. So much was printed
in the various State and Boston pa
pers in regard to the progress of the
investigation that on the second day
County Attorney Williamson. Judge
Bean had the newspaper men called
before him and admonished them that
he should in the future regard such
reports of grand jury proceedings in
contempt
1t was rumored, Friday, that there
was a possibility of an indictment be-
ing reported on that day, but the trial
was somewhat delayed by the faint
ing of one of the witnesses. so that
| it WAS not until Saturday noon that
an Indictment was finally brought in.
Mrs. Raymond Arrested.
a few minutes later Sheriff Rich
ardscn placed Mrs. Elsie Raymond un-
| der arrest. Mrs. Raymond has been
| in the city the greater part of the time
since her husband has been here as
4 witness before the grand jury and
was in a corridor OF the courthouse
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-08
THE WEATHER.
FAIR AND COLDER.

Washington, April forecast for
New England. Fair and colder, Mon
day: Tuesday, fair with rising tenn
peratnre; brisk west winds, diminish
ing. Ia
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-08
No Bail VIII Be Received.

Sheriff Richardson stated. Saturday
afternoon. that hail would not be re-
ceivad in this case, no matter what
the amount offered. Only in one
case in recent years in this county
Continued on Page Tenn
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Boston Forecast.

Boston. April Forecast; Monday,
fair and colder; Tuesday, fair with
rising temperature; moderate to brisk
westerly winds.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-01

A. Vogier lras sold 7. c. Blades lots
Il and y in block. 81, Grandview adj
dition, for $3.50 The sale was made
by the Newman Investment company.
An additional permit for improve
ments on the new WigWam theater
was taken out Friday morning. 1t is
for reinforcing the construction by
making the walls heavier and calls
for an outlay Of $4,000 more than the
original permit. This viii bring the
total cost of the new building up to
$4,000.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-01

So, 500; J. NJ. Pollard TO R. L. Holiday,
8 lots in block 1, Bishops subdivis-
ion of East Ell Paso, $1,10O; A. B. Nun
nelly to J. c. Huff, lots p to 50. block
123, East FL Paso, S1525; W. T. Far
row 10 W 1. Field, lots in block 81,
Government Hill, S420; Watson, Pit
man and Austin to A T. Threadgiu
jr., and John W Philips. lot 8. block
1T" HagUe's subdivision off Govern
ment Hill, S225.
J. W Phillips to F. Z. Pearl, lots
II, is, 10. block Y, Government HILL
$500; J. w Phillips and A. 7. Thread
sin jr- to T. =. Pearl lot 8, block II, -
Hague's subdivision of Government
Hill S2S5; John w. Phillips to Mrs.
Maggie LanzendOrf, lots 10 and II,
block AZ, Government Hill, S425; ]. c.
Richly to o. A. Danielson, lots / to 4,
block SO, East Ell Paso, $500; N.
Faust to A T. Threadgill jr, lots 13
to II, block "a, East Ell PasO. sI,715;
a. T. Threadgill jr-, to J. c. Wilmarth,
lots 10 16, II and 10 feet of lot IA,
block "a, Government Hill $1,000; Aus
tin & Vance to Mrs Byles, lots %
and q, block L." Hague's subdivision
of Government HILL $500: Harris
Krupp to NJ B. Wesson. lots to 9,
block /, Golden Hill, $4,000.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-01
WAREHOUSE AND
G0RRALs AGCEPTED
Occupy Solid Block; Save
City $4,000 a Year in
Rents and Convenience.

Covering a solid block, consisting Of
p lots, and costing, complete, the sum
Of $4,000. the city warehouse and cor
rails which have been under construc-
tion at the intersection Of Dorchester
street and Magoffin avenue. for the
past six months, are completed, and
Were officially accepted by mayor c. f..
Kelly and the clSy council from Herbert
G Num- city engineer, Friday after
noon
Designed and executed from the plans
furnished by the city engineering de-
partment, the entire plant, from the
concrete warehouse down TO the stalls
IN the corral, represent mOCern ideas
that visiting engineers have said are
euualled in few cities in the country.
The warehouse comprising one story
and a basement is built OF red brick
and concrete. Reinforced concrete col
umns support the building. On the
first floor is the spacious office Of the
foreman and the store room There are
5000 square feet Of floor space In the
building. calculated 10 accommodate 20
cars OF tOOdstufts for the teams OF the
city. Sixty cars of hay and 10 cars
Of grain VIII 90 into the building
without any undue crOWdlng. A SIX
inch concrete floor, estimated to bear
the weight Of b0O pounds per square
foot, forms the ceiling for the base
ment There are four steel rolling
doors on the first floor which lead
lIGll ul4Qd0Lll5 concrete pa
8 by 100 feet The scales and ele-
vatOr which establishes connection with
the basement, are on the first floor A
concrete stairway leads from that floor
TO the lower one The walls of the
building, which are IS inches thick, and
in which there are 1910 perch Of stone,
are supported and fastened together
with steel trusses placed across the
ceiling Of the first floor.
An oats bin which viii hold a max
imum car load of oats, and other space
for grain. is located in the basement Of
the building. In the basement is FIVE
inch concrete floor.
In proximity TO the warehouse are
two unloading platforms, each 20 by
so feet One is on each side OF the
spur track which runs TO the unloading
platform Of the warehouse.
The COrrals.
The corrals proper, which cover
space 40 feet wide by 400 feet long,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-01
dERGYMAN'S son HAD
TUBERCULOSIS; NOW WELL

People who have Consumption are Of
ten filled with bright hopes Of recOv-
cry, only to realize that Improvement
is but temporary Consumption is
dreaded by everyone. Those who had
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enlargement My father, who is
clergyman, heard of Eckman's Altera-
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Pastor Presbyterian Church
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-01

Everybody now is planning new
things to wear, so it will not be amiss
to remind you that there are. also, new
things TO eat. In our grocery and deli
catessen departments we are receiving
new goods daily. Some of the new ar
rivals in the grocery department are:
New California Walnuts.
New soft shell Almonds.
New Brazil nuts.
New filberts (Naples).
New shelled Valencia almonds.
New shelled Jumbo almonds.
New shellsd pecans-
New crystalized cherries.
New crystalized pineapple.
New crystalized assorted fruits.
New Franco-Ameri plum puddings
We have also gotten in new dried
fruits, the 'Sunkist" brand.
Some Of the new arrivals in the deli
catessen department are:
Handcut sauerkraut-
Stuffed sweet peppers and cucumbers.
Spanish queen olives.
Smoked white fish.
Smoked Finnan haddies
Heinz sweet mix pickle
Heinz sweet gherkins.
Nations Neat & supply Co. Adv.