Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

decree niSi was granted by the oil
vorce court at London. Tuesday, to Mrs.
George Corvallis West. formerly Lady
Randolph Spencer Churchill, a daughter
of the late Leonard jerome of New York.
Kansas experienced Monday, the
highest temperature of the year. liz
degrees being recorded at Clay Cen
tci AZ Coneordia and Jetmere, 10 de
grees were registered. St Joseph. Mo-.
reported 101 degrees.
Miss Billie Burke. the actress, has
recovered from slight Inflammation
of the eermiform appendix, from which
she had been suffering for several days.
according to an announcement made by
the doctor in attendance at Carlsbad.
Germany. She has not been operated
upon.
Joaquin Mendez, Guatemalan minis
ter and acting Monduran minister. Sc
iected building locations for the two
countries ut the Panama Pacific EN-
position site 1T San Francisco, Mon
day. G.. w. Guthrie. ambassador to
Japan. attended the ceremonies, which
included Il review of the preside gar
rison.
The Paint Creek Galleries Co. OPP
Grating nine mines on Paint Greek,
near Charleston, W. Va, signed the
agreement of the United Mine Work
ers of America, Tuesday, and the
miners strike on that creek is ex
peeted to be called off at once. \
strike is still in force on Cabin Creek
which adjons.
Former President Aristide BRAND
t,,f Itr,u,, I'D e ~,
| French Carnegie Hero Fund Tues
day, by President Poincare He takes
| the place of the late Deputy Edouard
AWARD who died suddenly in the
Chamber of Deputies, June %, as he
was about to deliver a speech.
\ motion picture campaign for the
| purpose of reaching people who do not
attend churches was decided upon, Mon
day. by the 1000 delegates attending the
| convention of the International Bible
| Students Association at Springfield
| Mass. It was veted to give motion pic
! lures and stercopticon slides passed by
| the association as wide publicity through
out the world as possible
Barnes Newberry. son of former Seere-
| tary of the Navy Truman II. Newperry,
was fined 500 and costs in the district
| court at Westerly, r. l., Tuesday. Tor
speeding his automobile. Newberry crash
| ed into the automobile of Judge Alfred Z.
| Coke of New York. a justice of the Unit
| ed States circuit court. last Friday night.
The Judge and Mrs. Coke were injured.
A strike of 80 carpenters, which has
been in effect at Portsmouth. n. H., Tor
the past two months. was settled Tues
day night, by compromise. The master
builders conceded the first class carpeh-
| tiers an advance of 90 cents day, with
graded increases to other workers. Inc
men asked for general advance or 20
cents a day. with Saturday afternoons
off. with pay. They will work all day
Saturday under the new agreement.
While playing around bonfire near his
home at Camden, n. j., Tuesday nish''
prss,on slaughter. eight years old was
killed when bullet from a cartridge
| throwp into the flames by another boy
MERGED his heart Harry Smith. Il yaers
- 600 was taken into custody. charged
with throwing the cartridge into the hfe.
h,,t was later paroled in the care of his
parents.
! The World Sunday School cenVen-
| tion which has been in session at hu-
| rich Switzerland, for the past "eeh'
came to a close Tuesday. More thah
5000 600 has been subscribed during the
| convention. Delegates from all parts oil
| the world, of whom many were Amer
| leans. were in attendance. Ihe soNei-
eipns of the European countries sent
| their fluctuations.
| Marion Capps, a preacher convict
ed of burning his three children TO
| death has been granted 4 new trial by
| the s,,preme court at Fort Smith, Ark.
| The iury's failure to state the degree
| of murder of which Caps was guilty
| and tie ALLEGED afdaTits OF his Ia
| ycar-old daughter Bertha, and his l.
yearold son, Ellis that they had testi-
fed falsely against him at his trial
we're stated as the ground for granting
the new trial. The testimony of the
children convicted their father.
| Brayton Gardner. Is years old. of
North Adams, Mass, who, Monday
morning. announced that he had found
| $35.500 in "A leather bag on the tracks
of the Boston & Maine railroad. Mon
day night. refused To tell the police
| where he put the money. Il have hid
/ it in a good safe place said he. and
| if someone claims it | will produce Il
| Immediately AS far as can be learn
ed. Gardner is the only one who has
seen the money.
| The Barnstable. Mass, police. Monday
| were searching for Bangs Howes, who
| Sunday, twice stabbed his brother, Post
master Marcus Hall Howes. during a dis
pute. The postmaster's wounds are il
/ the breast and apparently made with .
dirk According to members of the post
| masters family Bangs Howes, who Is
so years of age and unmarried, has suf-
| fered from mental troubles for severa
years, and at times 1t has been necessary
| to keep him under restraint. He was con.
sidered quite harmless until the stabbins
| affair.
Fear that John Wurster would at
tempt to assassinate Mayor Carter n.
| Harrison of Chicago led, Monday, to
his detention pending an inquiry into
his sanity. He wrote several letters
to the mayor asserting that he was
under hypnotic influence of woman