Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-09

ern road. that 1t was premature to dis
cuss who will be Mr.. Fowler's success
sor until after the annual meeting
Dam No. rs, which had just been COM
pleted in the Ohio river near Galipolis.
Ohio by the federal government at
cost OF sl,50O,Go0. was washed away.
Thursday when the concrete foundation
let go. 1t is estimated that the damage
will entail loss of 100000 and that it
will take one year to rebuild the broken
dam
The statement of the Copper Pro-
dueers' Association for July shows an
increase in stocks on hand of 5,545, All
pounds compared with the previous
month. Production for July was 49,
Isl l2a pounds as against 122. 3l5,24
pounds in June.
Mrs. Mary B. Brokaw. who in 1910,
secured 4 legal separation from her
millionaire husband. w. G. Brokaw,
after a trial replete with sensations.
was. Thursday, granted permission by
Supreme Court Justice Van Siclen of
New York to serve Brokaw with the
papers i'm her suit for absolute di-
vorce Mrs. Brokaw names three cor
respondents
IT is stated in well informed circles
at London that the reason why Great
Britain has not yet accepted the invi
tation to- participate in the Panama
Pacific Exposition lies in the failure
of the United States to settle the ques-
ton of the Panama canal tolls. Should
the United States favor American
likely that Great Britain will decline
officially to participate.
Dajabon, san Domingo. has been cap
tured by rebels from Haitien territory.
according to state department advices
from Port Au Prince, The fight, which
resulted In the capture, lasted IA hours.
The wounded numbered 200. The Domin-
lean government claims the defeat of the
rebels with great losses. Rights of for
eigners are being respected.
The five English yachtsmen who were
arrested on Aug. at Eckernfoerdo ON
the charge of espionage. were released.
Thursday. They were accused of taking
photographs of important points along
the Schleswig- Holstein coast. including
the harbors and bays The police adj
only to have been guilty of foolhardy
photography.
Five women who, clad only in their
night dresses. were rescued from the
steamer James Gayley wnen that vessel
sank, Wednesday. off Manitou. after coll
iision with the steamer Renslaer, which
arrived, Thursday, at Duluth, MINI. They
are Mrs. Egersell, Miss Edith Russell.
Miss Stone and Miss White, all of Buff
falo, n. Y, and Mrs E. II. Meyers of
WATERFOWL. N. Y.
Geo Goodman. member of the city
council of Elyria. Ohio. was killed and
several others were injured, Thursday
night, when a car of the Southwestern &
Columbus Interurban system collided
with a Baltimore e Ohio accommodation
train about a mile from Elyria The
most seriously hurt of the passengers
were Joseph Smith, Elyria, several ribs
broken, and J. o. Rounds, Elyria knee
cap crushed.
kid Mccoy Norman Selby), the
American boxer. was brought up again,
Thursday. at Bow street police court.
London, on the charge of larceny alleged
to have been committed at Ostend. The
magistrate again remanded him for a
week, his bail being renewed at the re-
quest of his attorney. who desired time to
study the papers in connection with the
demand for extradition which arrived,
Thursday. at London from Belgium.
Cecil NJ. Barlow of 20 Columbia
avenue, Comerville, the 22year-old
foreman of the General Electric Co.
plant at Lynn. Mass. was instantly
killed, Wednesday. when he threw on
a switch to start the machinery over
which he had charge The eleetroeu
ton has not been explained as the
switch is safeguarded by every known
means, and Young Barlow was said
to be thoroughly familiar with it.
George Lorenz. with the top of his head
blown off, was found, Thursday. beneath
a pine tree 800 yards from the scene of
the murder of Kate and Ella Gould. sis
tiers. 10 and IS years old. whose bodies
were found. Wednesday. at their home at
Stelner's Flat, Cal. Lorenz, who was a
brother of the girls stepfather and had
been rejected as sutton by Ella Gould,
used a rifle in taking his life. The girls
were killed with an automatic pistol
W1tl1am j. tlynn, IN charge OF lHe
New York division of the United
States Secret Service, probably will
be appointed chief of the service, If
Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh
decides to fill at this time the va
caney caused by the appointment. two
wears ago. of John E. Will<ie. as SUI
pervising special agent of the Gus
toms service. Mr. MaeVeagh, Thurs
day. took up the question of the ex-
pedieney of filling Inspector Wilkes
place.
mo compromise was the de-
cision, Wednesday night at Homo
lulu. by each side of the strike
that has tied up the seven vessels
of the Inter-Island Steamship Co. Rep
resentatives of the steamship company
say the real principle involved is the
question of the closed shop rules in the
steamship business. The strike is cost
Ing the steamship company $4,000 a day.
Postal officials cabled. Thursday asking
instructions from Washington as to the
handling of the mails tied up between
Honolulu and the other islands because
of the strike.
The Massachusetts Homeopathic
hospital on East Concord street, Bos-
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