Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-20

lege at South Hadley Mass, Thursday.
announced gift of $500 toward an en-
doWment fund for department of zooi-
ogy from Mr. and Mrs. Norman w Har-
ris of Chicago. Mrs. Harris is grad
uate of Mt. Holyoke Another gift of
$4,000 from "a friend was announced,
to be applied to the endowment of de-
partment on the Il. Nevins Rodman
foundation. These gifts assure the adj
ditional half million dollar endowment
for which Mt. Holyoke has been working
since June, 1911 The fund for the stu
dent alumnae building. which is to cost
$125,00O, has reached S1H5.000 and efforts
are now being directed towards securing
the other $4,000.
Two witnesses, both directors of the
Standard Oil Co. of New York. much
wanted by counsel for the Waters-Pieree
Oil Co. in defending the action brought
| by Standard Oil interests to obtain con-
| troll of the company cannot be found, 1t
| developed in testimony taken. Thursday.
at New York The men are c. NJ Hig-
gins and w. r. King, whom Samuel Un-
termyer, counsel for the Waters Pierce
Co, is anxious to examine to determine
to what extent the Standard Oil Co. of
New York completes with other subsid-
iares of the dissolved Standard OIL Co
of New Jersey. Mr.. Untermyer contends
that the dissolution of the Standard oil
Co. of New Jersey was a farce and that
no real competition exists. Higgins and
King were described on the stand, Thurs
day. by r. C. Veit, secretary of the
Standard Oil Co. of New York, as men
who solicited business for that company
in competition with the Standard OIL Co.
of Ohio and Indiana
Frank Savage. aged q, of Wilkesbarre
Pa, shot and killed Margaret Kreage g.
at her home near White Haven, Thurs
day night. Savage then sent a bullet
through his own brain. killing himself
instantly. Her refusal to marry is sup
posed to be the reason for Savage's act
lgnatz Seminicuk. Russian aviator.
flying at the aviation meet in Grant
Parh, Chicago. was rescued mile our
| in Lake Michigan. late Thursday by
motor boat after his hydro-aeropIane
had been blown to pieces by an expio-
sion of the radiator and just as he was
| sinking with the last remnant of the
| framework. He was badly burned about
Mrs Albert A. sprague. Jr.. of Chicago.
! Thursday, reported at Chicago that a
appeared while she was travelling from
Boston to Chicago on New York Cen
trail train The necklace disappeared
from small channels bag Mrs sprague
Wore about her neck
The body of a man found in a West
End lodging house at Boston. early
Thursday, was identified tonight. as
that of Frank A. MeNeeley of At
bany, n. Y, said to have been prom
inent in National Guard circles in that
state. Death was due to asphyxiation.
Gas cocks in the room were found
open when the body was discovered
The man registered, Wednesday. at
the lodging house as -. MUS" Med
ical Examiner McGrath said that the
case was an indetermlnate one as to
whether death was due to suicide or
accident,
A dispatch from Constantinople
says that a serious engagement has
occurred at Rerani. near the Monies
negran frontier. between Turkish
troops and religious Maliseri tribes
men. Fiftyseven Turks and over leo
tribesmen were killed.
The financial agent. named Hiddink.
who has disappeared from Amster-
Ontvang En- Betaalkantoor Bank are
to be the subject of a judicial inquir.
was the representative at Amsterdam.
Holland. of United States and Mex
lean company. Hiddink had carried on
satisfactory dealings with the bank.
for 10 years. These transactions for a
time were broken off on account of
the banks dissatisfaction with one of
them. Some months ago the relations
were renewed when Hiddink present
ed drafts amounting to ss7. 800. ac-
companied by certificates of shares
sold in New York. for which he re-
eeived cash. The drafts were return
ed from New York unpaid the cer-
tiffcates having not been accepted.
being either, ii is alleged. worthless
or not as valuable as had been rep
resented. Hiddnk fled.