Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Mrs. q. H. Kendall of Nashua, presi-
dent of the New Hampshire Woman S
Humane Society, gave an adress at
Hancock, \. H. at the O'Clock meet
ing She told of the work of her
society in rescuing animals and chill
drendren. Mrs. Kendall will speak in
Franeestown, Sunday.
Mrs. Mary j. Warburton, ~, widow
of Thomas Warburton, died at her
home in Washington street. Exeter,
N H.. Sunday night. She was born in
dillingham;. Derrill being her family
name and had long resided in Exeter.
-yun. Charles A. ard a daughter,
Miss Mary f. Warburton survives.
The case of Alfred Coppola, charged
with bisamy. was tried before d Jury
| in East New London, was killed, Mon
| Fsitehburg. Mass. = Coppoia acted as
his own attorney. During the testi-
mony wife No. 1 and wife No. sat
together The jury, Monday afternoon.
returned a verdict of guilty in the
case.
John lilies, 10 years old, who resides
in East New London, was gilled. Mon
day afternoon. when a Central Yer
mont passenger train from Palmer
collided with a coal train on side
track about mile north of New Lon
den. CT. The train from Palmer, known
as No. 4. was approaching union sta
ton at about 10 miles an hour and
the signals, it is alleged, showed the
main line to be clear
Seven hundred children under IT,
who have been employed in the mills
! at Lowell Mass. will be discharged
| Sept !, unless some arrangement can
| be made by which they can work eight
| hours day under the new law. The
| agents of the different corporations
| have been considering the plan since
| the law was passed some months ago
| Thy have not yet decided which is the
better plan under which boys and girls
| affected by the law can work.
The series Of daylight robberies in
! Maiden, Mass. that began about a
week ago was continued. Monday
when the apartments of four families
We're broken into and iewelry and mon
| ey ras taken. The homes robbed were
| those Of Ira C. Nye of II Webster
| street in the Maplewood district. James
| +. Wood In the same house, j. II. F.
Currier at % Spring street in the cen
ter of the city and that of Edward
Crook in the same house.
| The news af the truce between the
| Militant Suffragettes- and the British
government evidently has not reached
the districts outside London as fine
country house in the suburban town
OF tInchley, to the north of London
was burned down early Tuesday
morning by Sulfragette sympathlzers,
VINO left d quantity of Suifragette lit
erature among the ruins. The place
was occupied only by a caretaker, the
family having gone away for the
summer.
! Joint reunion of the Society of the
United states Telegraph Corps and
the Old Time photographers and His
torleal Association was begun, at De-
troit, Mich, Tuesday, with old-time
photographers in attendance from all
parts of the United States and Cana
da. 1t is the sd reunion of the tele-
graph corps and the 32d meeting of
the old time telegraphers. Among the
leading members of the old timers and
historical association are Andrew Car
negie and Thomas A. Edison.
| An effort by four friends to pay the
expenses Incidental to a game of cards
at Boston hotel by flyer in Read
ing, In the panic year of 1907, and
STOCK transactions totaling more than
sloeo,oo0 that grew out of the incident,
are all related in detail in the report
of the auditors filed, Monday, in a suit
| brought by Frank G. Macomber, Jr.,
| against his brokers to recover back
losses of more than S1l 900. Macomber,
who lives in Marbehead, Mass, is
engaged in the insurance business
with his father on Milk street, Boston.
The auditor in the case is Charles f..
Sbattuck. and the brokers involved are
BAH & Whicher of New York, who
have an Office in Boston The audi
tor finds the firm is not liable for Ma
comber's losses, which are figured at
l$11.05i.