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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-18
! CHOLERA AMONG euLeARIANs.
Mortality Percentage High as Disease
Progresses in Macedonia.

Saloniki, June 17.--Cholera is maxi
ing alarming progress among the Bull
garian troops stationed at various
points in Macedonia. Hundreds ni
cases are reported at military hos
pjiaIs and the mortality percentage is
high. The civil population of the dis
tricts is also much affected.
The Moslem inhabitants of the vii
lagos occupied by Servian troops in
Macedonia are volunteering in great
numbers for service with the Servian
army.
Dispatches reaching from Patritch
state that the Bulgarian regu'as
troops in Macedonia are volunteering
IN great numbers for service with the
Servian army.
Dispatches reaching here from Pc
tritch state that the Bulgarian reg
mar troops arrived there from Tcha-
talja and Bulair have pillaged all tAe
Moslem houses in the town and mas
sacred the inmates.
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head east To Beaufort Sea. 1t is re-
ported that continent exists north
of the sea and the Karluk will steer
due north and seek land on which
Stefansson and his main party may
establish base, the karluk returning
to Herschel Island for the winter. The
ice in Beaufort Sea may lay hold Of
the Karluk and carry her toward
Greenland. or it may crush the ship
into bits. The explorers are prepared
for either event If the Kafluk is
able TO make its way north through
the supposed location of the continent
and no land Is found, ii will, If possi-
BILE, make its way east to Prince
Patrick Island, and winter there with
the purpose of making winter sledge
journeys north and east.
With Stefansson on the Karluk, in
the northern party, will be Captain
Robert Bartlett. Peary's old sailing
master and picked crew of British
ers; James Murray, oceanographer;
w. r. Mckinley, magnetician. Uni
versity of Glasgow; George Malloch
Canadian government geologist, and
specialist in stratagraphy.
Most of the scientists will join the
southern, or Victorialand party on the
Alaska. From Point Barrow, she will
hurry westward, hoping to reach
base on Simpson Bay, Victorialand
before winter sets in. In this party
will be r. M. Anderson, zoologist
commanding; Fritz Johansen. U.
government biologist J. b. ONeii
mining geologist, member geological
survey; Kenneth Chapman, and J. K.
Cox, Canadian topographers; Henri
Beauchat anthropologist. Paris Dr.
Jennis ethnologist; DR.. A. FORBES
Mackay, Shackleton's antarctic ex-
petition surgeon of Edinburgh Uni
yersity, and photographers and cine
photographers. thorough scientlhc
exploration will be made of victoria
land, which is supposed to contain
great copper deposits. Visits Will
also be paid to the blonde Eskimos on
the mainland. There Is tradition
among the continental Eskimos that
yictorialand. about which little Is
known. is inhabitated by Eskimo
tribes.
Stefansson and Anderson are thor
oughly familiar with the country De-
tween Point Barrow, Alaska, ana Il
point far to the east of the Macken-
zie River, that having been the scene
of their earlier explorations IN
their former journeys they were sep
arated most of the time, and each man
lived alone. except as they fell in with
bonds of Eskimos. Stefansson says
there is no fear of starvation, Tor
there is plenty of fish and game IN the
North. Except for some daih,ies'
which the ship will carry, the party
Will subsist as the Eskimos do On
flesh of wild animals, with a few per
ries in the summer. Both Steiansson
and Anderson speak the ESKIMO
tongue. They know all the. Eskiihos
upon a long stretch of coast and VIII
obtain dogs from them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-18

| Southwestern: the Missouri Pacific;
the St. Louis. Iron Mountain and
Southern: the Wabash the CHICAGO,
Milwaukee and st. Paul, and the Chi
| cago and Alton. For the present the
rates will not become operative on
the ST. Louis and Hannibal: the Kan
sas City. Clinton and Springfield; the
Chicago Great Wester the Quincy,
Omaha and Kansas City. and the st.
Joseph and Grand Island.
The court refused to accept the valua-
ton placed upon railroads in Missouri
by the states assessing board as a ba-
sis for fixing the fair value for flgur-
ing whether the rates conscated prop
erty. Justice Hughes took the case or
the Burlington and showed that by APP
plying the assessment value multiplied
three times as was done by the federal
court in Missouri to the whole system,
a result would be $ll5,0O0.Ov0 in excess OF
the capitalization of the system. Be
Sides he said there was nothing to show
upon what the assessors fixed their valu-
alton nor was it demonstrated that the
assessors avoided the mistakes criticized
i'm the Minnesota rate case. The appor-
tionment of property between interstate
and intra-state passenger and freight
traffic. according to gross revenue, was
Minnesota rate cases" Coming to an
apportionment of expenses, Justice
Hughes said the plan adopted by the
lower court of applying the revenue basis
was open to the same objection as In the
Minnesota eases.
However. as to the ST Louis and
Hannibal and the Kansas City. Clin-
ton and Springfield, he said the ex-
perts of both state and the railroads
united in stating no basis could be
found upon which the proposed rates
would yield an adequate return. AS
to the Chicago Great Western, he said
the errors of valuation and appor-
tionment were not sufficient to warrant
reversal of the finding of the low
er court, that the rates We're confs-
catory. The rates as to the Quincy.
Omaha Kansas City and the Joseph
and Grand Island were annulled be-
cause of stipulation between the
state and railroads that the finding as
to the Chicago Great Western should
control them.
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| Mrs. Ralph Baxter went Wednesday
! to WaterIille and entered the hospital
| there for surgical treatment.
| Mrs Roy Call underwent surgical
operation for appendicitis at her home
| last Tuesday and is getting along nicely
| She has a trained nurse from Lewiston
| Mr.. and Mrs. G. f. Gilmore and Rufus
Gilmore returned, Tuesday. from an auto
| trip to Augusta, where they visited at
| the home of c.. f. Purinton.
Mrs Mary Smitberg returned. Satur-
day, from Watervlle, where she has been
the past three months.
Mrs Norman Thurlow of Portland has
arrived for a visit at the home OF Mr..
Thurlow's mother. Mrs. George Berry.
Mrs. Helen Sanford OF Hartland is
visiting at the home of her parents, Mr.,
and Mrs. Wesley Hunt -
Mr.. and Mrs. Erastus Braley recently
purchased the Frank Hunter farm at
Twitchell's Corner. and are nicely settled
in their new home.
George Kinney and family of Caribou
are visiting his brother, II. f. Kinney.
The schools in town will close this
week for the summer vacation
The condition of Eli Twtcheil. who re-
at Portage Lake, is much improved.
Mrs. Hester Morse is visiting relatives
and friends in Morrill,.
John Hart is spending few weeks at
Temple Heights
The appearance of Burnham hotel Is
being improved by a coat of paint.
The many friends of Mrs. Mary
Haynes, wife of Truman Written. Were
shocked and panied to learn of her death
which occurred recently at the Massachu-
sets General hospital, Boston. where she
went for surgical treatment about one
month ago. She had been i'll at her
home here, for some weeks previous to
going to the hospital She was AZ years
old. Mrs. Written formerly lived in
Haverhill, Mass, but came to this town
with her husband about 10 years ago and
had won the esteem of large circle of
friends Since she has lived here she has
taught school most of the time, follow
ing her vacation of former years. Be-
sides the husband she is survived by two
children, Mary and Louise. The funeral
services and interment were made at her
former home in Haverhil.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-18
Democrats Will Ask Public
Opinion on Currency Revision.

/ that while the Democratic party had
made up its mind what ought to be
! done on the tariff, currency reform was
practically a new question to it and IL
would be impossible to predict how
| long the House would take for de
cision of the bill. 1t would take some
time he added, for members to near
from their home communities. lie
would not venture a guess as to whetn-
er approval or disapproval of the bill
could he reached in month or longer
and took the position that the cur
reney situation could only be solved
bv the attitude which the nation re-
yealed when the bill. was debated thor
ougnly. tf@}4
The bill in its present form embraces a
system of regional reserve banks with
local governing boards, all under control
of n federal reserve board of nine MEM
bers at Washington. Elasticity OF the
currency is to be secured through the is
suance of United States notes to these re-
serve associations, and by them to the
local banks. upon adequate security, IN
Guiding commercial paper of qualified
class. The local banks making up each
reserve association will be required TO
keep a specified amount of their reserves
in the association vaults.
No present issues of treasury notes or
gold or silver certificates are to be dis
turbed by the new currency, but the bill
would require the gradual retirement OF
all national bank notes within maxi
mum period of 20 years. The new cur
rency system would become operative
July l, 1914.
A more coneiliatory spirit toward the
currency plan prevailed among members
of the House committee. Monday, FOL
lowing a visit to the House by Rep. l'he-
Ian. Pennsylvania, one of the seVerai
members of the committee who nave
felt that they should have been consulted
or advised about the currency.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-18

Washington, June 17.-Public opin-
ion, the sovereign voice in law making
is to decide whether there shall be
currency legislation during the pres
ent session of Congress. This was
the view which Rep. Oscar Underwood.
the Democratic leader in the House.
took after a conference, late Monday,
with President Wilson at the White
House.
In the face nf conflicting express
sions froin prominent Democrats in
Congress as to the necessity for cur
lcHcy reform curing the present ses-
+. .On it is the avowed purpose of the
administration to launch currency
bill in the House and Senate before
Friday of this week, which will be
accompanied or followed by the
Presidents message, describing what
he believes to be the necessity for
banking reform. Then, according to
Mr. Underwood. the plan of the
House will be To rest on its oars. thor
oughly discussed the new banking
proposals and await the expression OF
the newspapers of the country and
the opinion of bankers and business
men SeneTitly DIS 10 tile httii.' - -
Democratic proposals. Should the DIS
cussion of the bin in Congress be
backed up by an insistent demah
from the country at large for an I'M
mediate revision of the currency sys-
TEN, it is the belief of the administra-
ton that senators and congressman
will yield their pleas of personal DIS
comfort in the approaching hot
weather
The President believes strongly that
the country will back him up in ms
view that the currency system ought
to be reformed so as to alleviate any
stringency that might follow the pas
sa ge of the tariff bill.
Representative Underwood after ms
conference with the President saio
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-18
WEEKS MILLS.

Miss Georgia Clark of Boston, Mass,
is visiting her half-sister. Mrs. May
Miller.
MIR. and Mrs. Chas Giddings' grand
daughter of Waterville. who is visiting
them, is quite ILL.,.
Mr. and Mrs. Addison Seekins have
returned from Connecticut. where they
have been, for some time.
Mrs. Stella Brown wishes to thank
her friends for the shower of postal
cards which she received while ill at
Biddeford.
Mir. and Mrs Will Shuman and Mr..
and Mrs Perley Dodge visited Bert
Sproule of Bangor, for the weekend,
They made the trip by automobile
The Busy Bee Society held supper
at Harry Reeds Hall. Saturday. June
a. A number were present ana a pleas
ant time was enjoyed by all. The sum
of $l1.06 was taken in.
Miss Edna White of Augusta visited
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Hubbard
White, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank House of South
China passed Sunday with Mrs. May
Perkins.
Mr.. A. C. Doe of Branch Mills was
calling on friends in town. Saturday
Mrs Eugene Hewett will entertain
the Busy Bee Society, June 25. Wednes-
day.
Mrs. Hugh Mosher and her mother.
Mrs Eugene Hewett visited Mrs. Fred
Plaisteti of South China, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gardner visited
| South China, Sunday.
| Mrs Harry Reed and Mrs.. Welcome
Reed visited Augusta, Saturday. for
| the purpose of seeing the circus.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-18
Entry on Work Book Brakes
OF Dougherty's Train ''No Good
Features Inquiring Into Wreck.

that he thought the place he had writ
ten it would Indicate that general
ovefhauling was necessary.
Interesting testimony was given by
Joseph j. Cash, a mechanic in the
stamford roundhouse, who said that
while he read the entries made by
Doherty he had done nothing with the
air brakes, as when he looked at them
they appeared all right. He thought
Doherty might be mistaken. He said
nothing about the matter when the en-
gino er took 1893 out of the roundhouse.
During the afternoons testimony, john
Fl. Dillon of New Haven, brother-in-iaw
of Engineer Doherty. addressed the cor
oner. charging that during the question:
ing by that official "of the light-haired
Young gentleman of the Adams Express
Co" the witness had not answered until
he had glanced at the gentleman on my
right. and when the gentleman on my
right nodded the witness answered yes
The reference to the gentleman ON
my right" was to Mr.. Spock Of counsel
for the railroad. The coroner asked Mr..
Dillon to furnish him with the name OF
the witness that he might put the proper
questions to him. The incident created
considerable of a stir in the court room.
The hearing lasted until late in the att
ernoon. being adjourned subject to the
call of the coroner Tomorrow, Coroner
Phelan will be a passenger on the train
which Is to make test run with the
same equipment and engine as tnat
which colided with the first section OF
the express at Stamford. On Wednesday.
he will attend the Interstate Commerce
1,tY IT, r;I art
will probably resume his own inquest the
Inter mart of the week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-18

CLINTON.

NORTH-Bert Goodrdge of Oak
land passed Sunday with his sister,
Mrs. Clark Dixon.
Walter Duffey, who has been work
ing in Harmony, is at home.
Master Wayne Gerald, who has been
sick for the past week, is better.
Little Miss Rita Call of Pittsiield,
passed several days last week with
her aunt, Mrs. Alice Gerald.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Gerald passed
Sunday in Benton, guests of Ole Ger
aid.
Charles Kicker was in Fairfield
Monday.
A severe shower passed over TINS
place. Monday evening, following
very hot day. The lightning was
vivid and a large amount Of rain fell.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Gowen and MISS
Jennie Webb passed Sunday in Wins
low with Mr.. Governs cousins. Mr.. and
Mrs. George Gowen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-18

Stamford. Ct. June 1.-THE produc-
ton by the railroad company of tile
Stamford roundhouse work book COM
tanning the entry under date of June
TO- by Engineer Charles ]. Doherty
that the brakes on his engine. No. 1898,
were mo good statement by Doher-
ty that he had been told by Travelling
Engineer J. F. Carroll, last Tuesday,
that the guage cocks on 1888 were out
of order and that the brakes did not
hold, and a charge by John II. Dillon,
brother-in-law of Engineer Doherty.
that one of the witnesses had waited
for direction from Attorney Il. l. Speek
of the New Haven Railroad before an
swering a question put by the coroner
were features of Mondays inquiry by
Coroner John j. Phelan into the wreck
of the Springfield Express. last Thurs
day, on the New Haven railroad.
The coroner prefaced the proceedings
with a few words to the newspaper
men in which he said he had been mis-
quoted on several instances, citing two
cases in particular and stated that be-
cause of this he had been subjected u
unmerited censure both in the state
and out of it, and hoped the newspaper
men would exercise a little more eau
ton in the future
The workhouse book is bound vol
ume of blanks with spaces for entry py
engineers of needed repairs 10 then
engines While Doherty had made sew
eral entries and directed that certain
parts be examined, he had not mads
any entry under the head Air Brakes
at the bottom of the page. however. he
had written: Brakes no good. rms
was under the head "Other repairs
needed" He explained this by saylne
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-18

Boston. June 17.-Col. Theodore Roose-
welt charged up Bunker Hill, early To-
day, leading a brass band and Dig
crowd of Bunker Hill day celebrators
in the face of battery of nashiishts.
When the flashlights went off seVerai
women screamed. crying Hes shot. lie s
shotr' and created considerable excite
ment for a moment. The colonel waved
his hand towards them ana shoatea
back:
Its only miss. I've faced worse
than that"
Colonel Roosevelt officially opened the
13Sth anniversary celebration of the Ia
nous battle with a patriotic society at the
Outing Club in Charleston. at midnight,
and then at the base of the monument
spoke for another 10 minutes.
Before taking part in4the opening of the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-18
Miners Industrial
War Is Again On.

Charleston, w. Va. June 17.-With
the renewal of industrial war in the
Paint and Cabin Creek mine districts
universally reported, the Senate strike
committee, Monday, continued it's ex-
animation of witnesses. During the
day. miners. detectives and agents of
the mine operators came down from
the strike region with tales Of a new
strike declared and the district again
thrown into disorder.
The local union of the United Mine
Workers of America, No. II, has not
called a new strike on Paint and Cab
in Creeks, Thomas Haggerty. a mem
her of the International Miners board
declared, tonight. {S
but we cannot be sure of the men
who are working up in that field he
said. "Thc operators have not liveo
up to the agreement under which the
men went back to work and which
was drawn by Gov. Hatfield. We have
tried to prevent further strike bu
are convinced the strikers up there
have decided not to continue undel
the conditions that prevail there
Meetings were held in the creeks
yesterday, and the men expressed dis
satisfaction with conditions. They de
cided to strike and the union canno
control them" Il
A committee of miners from tn
Cabin Creek section came to Charles
ton, Monday, to urge the United Min'
Workers of this locality to officiall!
call a strike. They bore the instfuc
tions of a mass meeting held in tn
hill. yesterday.
The testimony presented to tn
Senate committee, Monday. was large
" routine and cumulative.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-18
Col. Roosevelt Opens Bunker
Hill Celebration with Big Crowd.

festivities of the day he visited the
Press Club reception at Boston, speaking
briefly to the members. He said, spean-
ing of the recent libel suit:
My best witnesses at Marquette were
newspaper men. l wanted men who could
tell the whole truth impartially. / knew
newspaper men. for they were my best
friends in Washington"
Among the other speakers at the BAN
auet of the Outing Club. at which Col.
Roosevelt spoke, were Secretary OF the
Navy Josephus Daniels, Lieut.. Gov.
Walsh, Congs. William f. Murray OF
Massachusetts and Upton Sission Of Mis-
sissippi and Mayor John f. Fitzgerald.
Secretary Daniels outlined the plan OF
Secretary of State Bryan for fnterna-
tional peace. Nearly all the speakers
dwelt upon the subject of international
arbitration.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-18

New Haven, Conn.,. June l7.-John
Goglik, aged 16, stared death in The
face for 4 hours, Monday night. in an
unusual battle with the swift incoming
tide in West river, under the Congress
Avenue bridge. He had been SWIM
ming and his leg was caught in one
of the great tide gates that prevent
the water from overlooking the
meadows.
Desperate efforts were made TO re-
lease him, but without avail. Inc IRE
and police departments were calieq
out and a crowd of more than oo0o
persons gathered. A rubber tube vas
inserted in the boys mouth as me
water passed over his head, that lie
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-18
euLcARlA's ACCEPTANCE.
Austrian Paper Tells Of Agreement
Reached Toward Den1obiiization.

Vienna, Austria, June 1.-THE Bull
sarian government has accepted the
rehabilitation proposals made py
Seryia and Greece, according to the
Meme Freie Presse. The condition Is
made. however, that joint garrisons
composed OF equal numbers of the
soldiers of the states concerned be
placed in the disputed territory III
Macedonia and elsewhere before de
mobilization& begins. Bulgaria also
demands that all the parties submit
TO arbitration of the Russian emperor
on the basis of the treaty existing De-
fore the Balkan war broke out.
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ne must treat them as persons VINO
had done a very serious injury TO pup
lie peace and who must be restrained
from doing further mischief and maze
TO some extent an example to others.
After passing sentence he said:
lone of the counsel has suggested
that the time for leniency has passed
and do not think that you VIII meet
with quite the same treatment as
have the others. | am bound TO aao
that if the home secretary consults
me. as he often consults a judge,
snail take upon myself the RESPONSE
bilify OF saying to him that the ring
leaders among you, at any rate, should
not be let out of prison under any
circumstances"
<~&Then We shall die together, ex-
s.e1aimed Miss Kenney.
/ The judge-"If you, in the WORDS
sof BUR great poet, violate the erea'
hanon the everlasting has fixed agains'
Aelf slaughter. you will have to recon
eile such action with your conscience.
| Miss Kenney-.I am quite prepare'
10 do that"
Miss Barrett, excitedly. We sha'
all hunger strike" :,
Mrs. Saunders McKenna VIII
hot keep me in prison against my
will"
Miss Kenney-"T They have got TO le
me out or kill me. ! think your sum
Inning up was most biased and I'M
lair. You ought TO be ashamed o
kourself to receive six Thousand
bounds year for bounding women.
A large crowd had gathered out
side Old Bailey to witness the depar'
2ture of the women for the prison. nu
there was no demonstration.
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New Haven, Ct, Boy Saved from
Terrible Death by Heroic Efforts,

might breathe. The last rites of til
Catholic church were administered by
a priest.
trolley wrecker succeeded in
smashing one of the six tide gates and
this allowed the water to rush over
the meadows so that the boys head
was again out of water. A special
apparatus was then rugged up and TIE
gate forced just enough to release the
leg.
He was brought up on the bridge
by fireman, while the crowd cheered.
He collapsed, but was revived and TAX
en-, to his home. Despite the great
pressure on his leg. it was not
broken.