Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Alfred Deakin, leader of the opposition
| in the commonwealth House of Repre-
! sentatives at Melbourne, Australia, re-
signed that position, Wednesday, acting
under the orders of his doctors He an
nounces his intention of retiring from
public life at the dissolution of the pres
ent Parliament.
An official bulletin. Wednesday af-
ternoon, al ottawa, Ont, said that the
Duchess OF Connaught, wife of the
governor general of Canada, is suffer
ing from a{Ieeurrence of peritonitis
and Il has been deemed advisa BILE TO
remove her to the RGyals Victoria Hos
pital, at Montreal. 3fH
The marriage took place in Lon
don Wednesday, of Max Green, chair
man of the Irish prisons board and
formerly private secretary to the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland and Miss Jo.
hanna Redmond, youngest daughter OF
John r. Redmond. leader of the Irish
Nationalist party. The bridal pair
received many handsome gifts from
members of the Irish party and other
members of the House of Commons
Chinese robbers, Wednesday, shot
and killed John, The infant son of the
Rev. r. G. Jolliffe of the Canadian
Methodist Miss on. The child was
with a party of missionaries return
ing by boat 10 the town of Tzeliut
sing. The missionaries were attack
ed by the robbers between Cheng- tu
and Smuggling. one OF the robbers
! was captured. but the rest took tu
flight
Complete Official returns Of the
| strike ballot taken during the past
week by the clerks employed by the
! New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad Co. show that the vote was
1857 to IS in favor of 4 strike AL
though conferences are being held be-
tween the officials of the road and the
clerks. the company has not yet grant
ed the demands. which include an in
! crease IN wages and an s-hour day.
The rear coach of Chicago and
Oak Park Elevated train at Chicago,
became derailed. Wednesday, and fell
from the elevated structure to the
street at the Fifth avenue and Van
Buren, street curve of the Union Loop.
/ Two men who We're in the car escaped
| injury by jumping into a forward car.
! The train had just discharged a load
| of several hundred passengers.
Miss Mary Louise Welter, % years old
of l3 Woodside avenue. Jamaica Plain
Boston, stenographer in the office OF
Henry j. Ide. an insurance man in the
Oliver building. 141 Milk street. was
crushed in an elevator there as she was
/ alighting at the fifth floor. Tuesday aft
ernoon. She died shortly afterward
| Francis j. Walsh of 3 High street place,
j Brookline, who was in charge of the ele-
vator, was arrested on charge of man.
slaughter
| American coal owners are prepared
! to furnish British consumers with coal
] at lower prices than those fixed by the
coal producers of The United Kingdom.
! according to statement published.
| Wednesday, in the London Shipping
| World. David A. Thomas. the head of
| the Welsh coal combination, will sail
| for New York, Jan. II, to visit the
| great coal fields on the Atlantic sea-
board and it is possible he may put
the matter to practical test.
A petition for statewide sena-
/ torial Proficiency primary. Feb. 6, was
| filed in the Massachusetts, Senate.
| Wednesday, by Arthur d. Hill. one of
! the Progressive leaders in the fall
campaign The petition asked that the.
| vote for United States senator, sched-
| uled for Jan. IA, be delayed until all
| parties can learn the preferences of
| the electors. and that the members of
| the legislature vote on the men secur-
ing the first, second and third posi-
tions in the ballot.
a sword presented to Capt. John
| Percival of the United States frigate
Constitution by the Sultan of Muscat
in lS45, after Capt. Pereival had saved
tho Sultan's life in an attack by pi-
rates off Tripol. was awarded by
Judge Marcus Morton. Wednesday, in
the superior court, to Miss Susan
MINIS of Louisburg square, Boston.
! Miss MINIS lad brought suit to recov-
| er the sword from its present posses
! sor. Chester A. Reed, an attorney. Of
Dedhain. representing PercNal Cas-
sett United States consul at Iquique,
Chilli
| Jockeying over the seating of GER
tain delegates from district leagues
and the National League became so
| protracted at the session of the Wo-
| mans National Democratic League at
! Washington. Wednesday, that the
| election of officers had TO be postpon
| ed until Thursday. An amendment TO
! the constitution providing for the
formation of committee of 90 prom
inent men to act as an advisory coun-
| ell, is expected to cause much debate,
| Thursday.
The manufacture OIL maple sugar as a
I Vermont industry faces brighter future
! than at any time in recent years, ac-
| cording to reports presented, Tuesday, at
the 10th annual meeting of the State Ma
pie Sugar Makers Association. The sec
retary's report showed the organization
has nearly tripled its membership in the
past year Pres. a. A. Carlton of West
! Newbury in his opening address pointed
out that the farmers of Vermont have in
| their sugar groves an asset returning