Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-16

York and Newport defeated Miss IIilda
Williams of Boston, 6-3, 81.
First returns in the election of Off
GERS of the International Topographic
cal Union Indicate that James Nj.
Lynch carried Chicago. The vote OF the
first "a chapels counted, Wednesday,
gave Lynch 55s votes and his opponent,
Fred Parker of Spokane, 209.
Representatives of the International
Paper Co. and its 5000 employees have
signed two-years agreement recog
nzing unions but not obIging the
company to employ only union Nmen.
The agreement comedies certain adj
vances in wages and time and a half
for overtime. A system for arbitra
ton and apprenticeship system is
provided for.
In the presence of men and women
prominent in the business and social
life oof the city, members of the city
government, school officials, and others,
the cornerstone OF the new public IL
brary building was laid, Wednesday,
afternoon, sat Brockton, Mass, with
appropriate ceremonies by Hon. JohA-
than White, 90 years old, the oldest
brary is a gift of Andrew Carnegie.
Brig Gen. Charles f. Allen, chief of
the Signal Corps of tl1eNUnited States
army. made spectacular flight in a
hydro aeropiane, Wednesday after
noon, down the lower bay, New York.
past Governors Island and around the
Statue of Liberty. The craft was guild
ed by Aviator Charles G. Wilmer. Il
dipped into the water from great
height, rose again and dropped once
more, finally landing near the statue.
The Industrial Accident Commits
sion, which will act as a board of
judges in dispute over the enforce
ment of the employers liability law
was appointed. Wednesday, by Gov
ernor Eoss as follows: James Il. Car
roll of Springfield, chairman; Dudley
NJ Holman of Taunton; David 7.
Dickinson of Cambridge, Edward i.
insolvency of Boston and Joseph A.
Parks of Fail River.
Three men were asphyxiated in bed
in one room in boarding house at
bridgeport, Conn, Tuesday night, UNI
der conditions that have caused the
strict investigation. Gas was flowing
into the room from a fully opened
gas cock. The men were Joseph
Kalosi, aged 80; Andrew Fedor 80,
and John Bubna, %. They were
Hungarian laborers, and had families
in Hungary.
DcForest Moores and George S. VIII
son We're held for trial Ia the superior
court at Stamford, CT, after hearing
in the city court, Wednesday. on the
charges alleging embezzlement of
nearly S5s,00D of the funds of the SIAM
ford trust Co, where they were en-
nloyed Up to Tuesday. when the ar
rests We're made. Wilson was taken 20
The Bridgeport Jail in default of $4,000
bail. Meores bond was fixed at $4,000.
Ills friends expected to secure it.
The loan negotiations between the Chi
nese cabinet and the bankers represent
ing the six powers-the United States.
Great Britain, Germany. France, Russia
and Japan-were practically concluded,
Wednesday at PelSin The $4,000, 600 is
to be advanced by the end of October
and the expenditures will be under the
supervision Jointly of foreign and Chi
nese auditors. Afterwards there is to
be a loan of 500 100000, under supervision
similar to that exercised in the Canton
Kowleon Railroad loan.
The Austrian PREMIER Count
Stuergh, was suddenly stricken with
blindness. Wednesday, at Vienna. The
attending physicians say that he is
suffering from disease Of the retina
mr., a
er his sight The Emperor has asked
the minister of the interior, DR. X.
Heinold D'udynski. to act as premier
in the interim. The premier's retire
ment will probably involve a cabinet
crisis.
Raising q curtain in his bedroom so
that he might more clearly see his dead
wfe's photograph he had placed before
him on a table, and over whose death
in October. 1909, he had been brooding,
Andrew Benson, IS. a former member
of the city council. killed himself by
shooting with an old s2-calibre revolver
at his home. lis Layden street, South,
Brcckton, shortly after daybreak.
Wednesday morning. His body was dis
covered soon after by his son, Edmund.
who lives in an upper tenement of the
House.
While searching for bait along tire
bank of the Warren river at Darlington,
K L., "Wednesday. John and William
Dickerson, two young men of Warren.
found the body of Albert Mereier, a Bar
rinEton carpenter. lying near the shore
in about two feet of water. a super
fetal examination by Medical Examiner
Horace ID. Seymour disclosed no evidence
of foul play and he decided death was
due to accidental drowning 1t is be-
lieved that the man may have fallen
from a bridge nearby. MERCER was s.
years old and a widowcr.
SALEM, Mass, May 15.-John J..
Breen. a member of the school COM
mittee of Lawrence. Mass, Wednes-
day was found guilty of one OF the
three counts of the Indictment in which
he was charged with planting dyna-
mite during the recent textile strike
in that city, by a jury in the Essex
county superior court at Salem. SEN
tenoe was deferred. The count on
which Breen was found guilty charged
that he intended to injure the strikers
in the conduct of their strike. The Sec
ond and third counts, upon which he