Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-09


annual meeting of the American chaJn-
zeal Society. A dinner to, the. council
and business meeting, Monday night,
was Mondays progrsnN General f,as-
ness meetings Of the sections viii open,
A mail bag from New York City.
opened in the Rochester ". Y, post
Office Monday morning, was found 10
contain under the mail matter a cat
sabd four newly born kittens The
Lmdifer of the quartet was nearly
dead. but was resuseitated with a sau-
Ger OF milk, All of the kittens were
,9liVe ana apparently uninjnred
The 18th General Assembly of the
brotherhood of Rainters, Decorators
and Paper Hangers of America re~
sumed it's sessions. Monday. a. Roeli-
ESTER n. Y. withfa discussion of con-
ditions in variodsa cities: Committee
reports on resolutions. one of which
provides for the establishment of a
tuberculosis sanitarium. were expected
to occupy the afternoon session.
Eleven scientists. most of tlfem from
European educational centers. are in
San Francisco on their way to the
Yosemite National Park on the inter-
national photographic excursion, an
American tour devoted to the study
of the geography of plant life. DIR.
Adolph EngIer, head of the department.
of botany at the University OF Berlin.
a Well known authority, is leader of
The party
The 18th biennial convention Of tho
Amalgamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees eaf America
opened. Monday, at salt Lake CITY. with
about 900 delegates and guests in at
tendance from all parts OF the United
States. w -. Mahon of Detroit, inter
national president. saia that the eorisen-
! ton probably would he ins session for two
weeks Among the impdrtaft' work to
be taken up will be readiustnent of its
pension system and the probable organ
ization of a woniaai's braneh..- sis
Aroused by the suffocation Of eight
Negro conviets in an underground cell
al tile State prison farm at Richmond.
Tex, Saturday night. the governor of
Texas. the attorney generals depart
nent, the prison commission and 10
cal police authorities. Monday, hogan
an investigation. The Negroes were
among dozen who had been placed
in the underground cell as a punish
ment for alleged laziness exhibited il
the cotton field Wednesday, has been
set for the hearing of the three guards
arrested in connection With tho inves-
tieation.
Herbert ,Myrick of Springfield. pub
fisher of the Orange Judd Northwest
Farmstead, and James NJ. Cunning
ham. circulation manager, were fined
5000 each by Judge Merton in the
United States district court at Bes-
ion, Monday, for conspiracy to de.
fraud the government ,in an atternpt
10 secure second class mailing privi-
leges forst the publication.' Both we're
convicted, on, two indictments. based
ON two attempts to secure second class
PRIV HesesM HHwas charged that false
stateifiehts regarding the number of
SUBSCRIPTIONS We're made 10 the postal
authorities. fes4 ia fsi
u Al Bort Muir, an expert accountant.
who spent from Saturday until Mon
day in q rolice station at Chicago,
while detectives investigated serious
charges brought by his Wife was re-
klenseds Monday upon signing peace
bond MniI.fi declared hisn wife's jeal
lousy caused his arrest and that her
stories. which he called hystericak
prevented his getting bonds. Muir was
arrested. Saturday on a chargp Of dts
orderly conduct. Later Mrs Muir
charged that he was insane and he
was examined as to- his sanity. Ply
sicians found him sane. MRS. Muir al
so asserted to Police Captain MeaSher
that Muir had conflded TO her Tint he
had killed his first wife. When detec-
tiVes had assured themselves there was
no truth in the assertion he was re-
LEASED.
All but $73. 900 of the 400. 900 estate OF
katherine Alien of Worcester. filed
Monday at Worcester, Mass, is dis
posed of in public requests. Worces-
ter Polytechnic Institute and Memorial
hospital as residuary Iegafees received
about 100000 each. Miss, Allen was
the daughter OF Hon. Charles Allen,
for many years chief Justice OF the; siis
peror court of MASSACHUSETTS, snd eall
ed by the late Senator George F.aaaoer
the founder of the RepublitHA fftfty.
Among the public hequests IA san
lens will proyides.g Massa cbusetts So
ciety for Prevention of Cruelty tei AMI
mails. American Uni arian Association.
$4,000 each Hampton Institute Hasnpe
ton, Va, Tuskaee Industrial School in
Alabama, $4,000 each: American Anti
1uarian Sociefy. M00a. Many Worces-
ter institutions also benefit by the
will