Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-25
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The Industrial Welfare Commission
of oregon has adopted a ruling, made
public, Wednesday, which will become
law, Nov. 23 fixing a minimum wage
of 1928 a week for adult women clerks
who are not apprentices; defining eight
hours and 20 minutes as the maximum
days work and so hours as the maxi
mum for week and making p NJ.
the latest hour at which any woman
may be employed on any day of the
year in a mercantile establishments.
Terror reigns among the popula-
ton of Styria, Austria. arising from
the depredations of a lioness and her
cubs and number of wolves and
hyenas which recently escaped from
menaSerle, according to dispatches
reaching Berlin from Gratz The in
habitants will not above their children
| to go to school in the remote dis
trictS, in one of which a country
policeman has been missing for some-
time and is believed to have been
| killed
After mortgaging his house to make
up shortage of $1,000 in his accounts
as treasurer of Queen Anne county.
Louis II. PERKINS, 63 years of age
| of Centerville, Md, committed suicide
wednesday, by swallowing poison.
his term OF office expired, year ago.
The deheit grew of errors in addition.
II is declared, no intimation of fraud
being alleged against Perkins. He
lett packet of letters in one of which
| ne said; Il have never succeeded at
anything"
Bax e. Rernheimer, a widely known
brewer dropped dead in a sunreme
court room in Brooklyn, NJ Y. late
Wednesday. after concluding his testi-
meny III $4,000 suit brought by Gus
tave kens, Il painter against Bern
heimers brewing company Kens claim
ed his eyes were injured by acid from
watts in the brewery. Bernheimer was
seized with an attack of heart failure
apparently occasioned by the excite
ment of testifying.
\ sad blow to the travelling expense
account of American military officers
was delivered, Wednesday. by George
L. sDcwney, comptroller of the treas
ury t Washington, who decided that
army officers when travelling without
troops must pay for the transporta-
tion of their personal baggage out of
the seven cents mileage allowed by
the government. The decision, applica-
BILE alike to army, navy, marine corps
and revenue cutter service, abolished
long enjoyed privilege. The only bag
gage the government will pay for in the
future will be tents. clothing. utensils
and other necessary military aceoutre-
meat.
Military officials at Juarez Tuesday
night deported James J. Kenney of
Waterbury, CT, a discharged United
States soldier. who was arrested there.
earlier in the day. He was escorted by
"a military guard to the international
boundary at FL Pase and turned over
to the United States soldiers on border
patrol duty. Americans who arrived
at FL Paso. Tuesday. reported that
Sierra Majeda. Chihuahua, was cap
tured, several days ago. by rebel troops
commander by Colonel Cano after sew
erai hours fighting. The entire garrison
of 200 men was almost annihilated End
: Captain Mateo Chavez, the federal
commander. was killed in the battle.
Three trains carrying passengers and
federal troops arrived in Juarez, Tues
day night, from Chihuahua. The trains
will he loaded with provisions to re-
heve the famine in Chihuahua city
and will return south in a few days.
Seven Americans arrived on the trains.