Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The contract for the annual supply
of $1,000 pounds of butter for the navy
will be let by Secretary Daniels in
Washington next Tuesday.
Robert Thelen, German aviator,
Tuesday made what is said to be a
worlds altitude record for a fight in
an aeroplane with four passengers. He
attained a height of 1850 feet.
Seven persons. five men and two
women, tried to kill themselves in diff
ferent parts of New Orleans Tuesday
night and three succeeded. The two
women are among the four who will
recover.
Mrs. Florence Dawson Post, wife of
Former Assemblyman Ira c. Post, and
mother of Melville Dawson Post, the
lawyer and author, died Tuesday night
in her home at Temple Moor, near
Clarksburg, w. Va. She was a de-
seendant of Daniel Davisson, the first
settler.
II. F. Coggeshall, superintendent of
the Indian school in Santa Fe, n. NJ,
was suspended Wednesday by G. 3.
Tucker, inspector of the department of
the interior. He Is charged with in
subordinatien for refusing to make af-
fidavit to a statement he submitted to
Tucker.
To relieve the somewhat congested
condition in its present quarters. a
new building is to be erected at Wash
ha of
estry. The building will be nine stories
high and will be erected directly
across the street from the department
of agriculture building.
Franklin r. Phillips, who establish
ed nationwide reputation as me-
chanical steam and hydraulic engineer,
died in his home at Newark, N. J.,
Tuesday night of pneumonia AS stroke
of the famous Triton Boat Club six
cared crew some years ago, Mr.. Phil
lips made a reputation as an expert
oarsman.
Six hundred men, women and chill
dren-150 families-were driven to the
street in the snow by a four alarm
fire which wrecked five-story factory
building in East 54th street, New
York, early Wednesday. The building
is in the heart of Corcoran Roost and
surrounded by tenements, all of which
were emptied. The loss was about
$1,000
It became known Wednesday that
Supreme Court Justice Giegerich in
New York had granted an attachment
for $4,000 against the Boston & Maine
Railroad, in the first suit brought by
a holder of one of the $10,000,00
worth of notes that became payable
Feb. 3. A majority of the holders
agreed on an extension to June 3, but
the executors of the estate of Rebecca
S. Blumenthal decided to bring suit.
Adolfo De La Lama, Mexican min
lister of finance, sailed Wednesday from
Cherbourg for New York on board the
Kronprinzessin Cecilie. Before leaving
Paris he said he was returning to Mex
leo to devote himself to Provisional
President Huerta's administration. He
had a plan to meet all the Mexican
national obligations which he was
convinced could be done.
Purchase by the government of the
colossal statuary known as THE In
dian Buffalo Hunt" would be provid-
ed for at a cost of 100000 under a
bill introduced Wednesday by Rep.
Rainey of Illinois. The group would be
cast in bronze and suitably mounted
and located at an appropriate place
in Washington.
Progressive ideas on antitrust leg
seto ton, hn no a
judiciary committee Wednesday. Her
bert Knox Smith, former commits
sioner of corporations, William Drap-
er Lewis, dean of the Law school at
the University of Pennsylvania, and
D. B. Richberg of New York were the
principal witnesses, House Progress
sives have bills pending dealing with
the various phases of supplementing
the Sherman law.
A confession by Elmer Rushlow and
William Dennis that they were the
slayers of Chin Kim, Chinese store
| keeper, was announced by the police
| of ST. Adams. VT. Wednesday. Kim
was found dead in his store last FRI
day, his head having been battered in
| A glove left in the place is said by
| the police to have furnished the clue
| which led to the arrest of Rushlow
and Dennis Tuesday night.
A request for Is per cent increase
in wages and better working condi-
tions for track men employed at the
| North Union station and the yards
extending into the suburbs was pre-
sented by the Boston & Maine Track,
men's Union Boston 10 officials Of fhs