Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| 1t is believed that precedent is estab
lished in municipal affairs of the countr!
| by the appointment of a woman as city
comptroller in Atlantic City, n. J. Miss
Bessie Townsend. "a years old, received
the appointment. Monday. at a salary OF
$500 year She will have care of over
| So 10000 and the sale of all the city's
bonds. The young woman's signature will
be necessary for every cent paid out by
| the city.
Counsel for d. f. Lowe & Co. flied
liens against homes of 116 union hat
tiers in the town clerks office at DAN
bury. CT, Monday. The hatters were
defendants in a boycotting case
brought by the Lowe Co. against the
United Hatters of North America. A
jury in the federal court returned d
verdict for s250,000 and costs in favor
of the company. The hatters will re-
tain their homes until their appeal is
heard by the supreme court, next
month. A movement TO save them from
sacrificing their homes by levying an
assessment on all members of the
United Hatters of North America has
been started.
Matthew Newell committed suicide
at Lawrence, Monday afternoon, by
shooting himself through the throat
with a 32-ealibre revolver at his home,
81 Washington street. He was unmar-
ried and lived there with a housekeep-
err. Miss Louise Pickles. She heard the
shot and notified the police. Mr.. New
ell was born here So years ago, and
had been a driver on an express wagon
ard later driver for a fish merchant.
Some months ago he was thrown from
his wagon and sustained injuries to his
head, from which he never fully re-
covered.
Captain Herbert NJ. Knowles, su-
perintendent of the Narragansett Bay
life saving district, reported, Tuesday,
that several pieces of wreckage were
found on the beach at the Green Hill
station, due north of Block Island
There were seven or eight pieces of
timber, some of which were about 20
feet long and looked like the plank
ing from a coal barge With the tim
Der were several pieces of old bed
clothing. 1t is not believed by the
life savers that the wreckage has any
with the reported burning
of a craft off Block Island, last Fri
day night.
Raymond Harris of Sturgeon Bay,
Wis, whose brother, E. ]. Harris, is
editor of Green Bay Ga
zette, is believed TO have been muir
dered, together with a friend some-
where in the Everglades of Florida,
Monday. according to advices receiv-
ed. Tuesday, at Green Bay. Harris
and friends were returning in
gasoline launch from Miami. Their
boat was found deserted on the Kis-
simoe river. Harris friend was found
about miles from the boat and marks
on his body indicated he was MUIR
dered. Harris body has not been
found. His father lives in Florida and
is conducting an investigation.
The Rhode Island assemblymen and
other state officials, who have for
years Travelled on a free pass from the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad, will cease to have that priv
ilege, Wednesday, Jan. 1, when the
practice of issuing free passes will
become unlawful. The Public Utilities
Commission, however, may vote to al
low persons in special instances TO
accept passes. Heretofore, it has been
the custom for assemblymen to ride
free on the railroad and collect from
the state eight cents mile for trav-
cling expenses.