Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-02

ippines having any interests in con-
Germs dealing with the government
must dispose of them at once, accord
ing to a war department order from
Washington Saturday. Officials e4-
planned that the order was not caused
by any evidence that officers had used
their positions for their own gain.
In an effort to clear Philadelphia OF
yeggmen, highway robbers, second story
men and other criminals, a special squad
of police early Saturday swept hrough
the Tenderloin district and arrested
about $50 men. No women were taken
into custody, but alleged dealers in CO.
caine. white slavers and others. whom the
police say have varied records were
among those captured.
Charles f. DeWoody, former super
intendent of the bureau of investiga~
ton of the department of justice in
Chicago, appeared Saturday before the
federal grand jury and denied he had
received money in connection with the
prosecution of Jack Johnson Tor al
legged violation of the Mann act. HIS
examination occupied the entire ses-
sion of the jury.
four Italians in one of the houses OF the
Standard Steel Car works at Hammond,
Ind. and riddled two men with bullets
and wounded a third. A fourth escaped
by hiding under a bed. The assailants
are not known. The police declared that
a feud caused the shooting. Jim Paloz-
zelo and Faro Evolo were wounded half
a dozen times each and are expected to
die Roforo Evolo, is, was shot through
the arm.
Protests against the Mcclellan cold
storage bill as far as II applies TO iish
were received in Washington Saturday by
the representatives from Massachusetts
from the Boston Fish Bureau. In the let
ter Pres George Z. Wiley says that cold
storage is essential to preserve until~win-
ter the fish caught in the summer and
that the bill would impose great hardship
on the fishermen of New England. He
adds that the quality of fish so stored
does not deteriorate and concludes that
the bill would cause hardship on the con-
sumner by raising the price of fish,
The battleship Kansas, with a rec
ord of 134,602, led in the navy depart
ment's engineering competition for
the six months ending Dec 81 last,
the department announced Saturday.
The Iowa was second and the New Jer-
sey last. The department regards the
steaming efficiency of naval vessel
second only in importance to accuracy
Of fire, and recently began standardiz-
ing and placing in competition the en-
gineering forces of the service. The
results thus far have been highly
gratifying
Margaret Middlemas, 20 years old. who
for a generation has lived by herself in
a lonely cottage on Grove street, West
Quincy. Mass, was struck and instantly
killed Saturday night shortly after 8
o'clock by an outbound passenger train
as she was walking over the tracks at
the Robertson street crossing in West
Quincy. Medical Examiner Jones viewed
the body and said her death was acct
dental and that probably the aged woman
became bewildered as she was crossing
the tracks in the heavy rain and could
not move from the path of the onrushing
train when she heard its approach. The
body was removed to the undertaking
rooms of John Hall, Quincy. The police
Saturday night made an unsuccessful ef-
fort to locate her niece. who is her only
known relative.
Fifteen Boston trains on the New
Haven Railroad were discontinued
Saturday because of the cancellation
of the traffic agreement between the
New Haven and the Boston & Albany
Railroads These locals have made
part of their runs into Boston over
the Boston & Albany tracks, but as
the Interstate Commerce Commission
and the department of justice disap-
proved of the traffic agreement from
a financial viewpoint the railroads
cancelled the agreement. The New
Haven trains will end their runs on
New Haven tracks, but good connec-
tons will be made with Boston & AL
bany trains. 1t is expected that
new traffic agreement may be made
on a financial basis more favorable
to the Boston & Albany and the
through service resumed. Traffic agree
ments on other lines where the finan-
cial ARRANGEMENT is equitable are con-