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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-12
DRESDEN.

Walter Rittall of Richmond was
visiting his parents here Sunday.
Miss Olive Rittall and Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Averill of Richmond are guests
of Mrs. Nathan Rittall.
The same pastor, Rev. Herbert
Brooks, will return to his parish for
the coming year.
Mrs. Sybil Houdlette is visiting her
daughters at Winnegance.
MILLS-The annual prize speaking
contest of the students of b. A. was
held in NJ E. church Friday. The pro-
gram consisted of music, prayer,
music. THE Red Jacket" Susie
Bailey; Annie and Willie's Prayer"
Venice Thayer; music; Duties of
American Citizens" Laurence South
ard; christmas Eve at the Gulch,'
Helen Ham; The Cross of Gold" John
Brown; music; "Spartacus to the
Cladiators," Edward Prindall; Sims
Little Girl" Ethel Bailey; music; de-
cision of judges; benediction. The
music was furnished by Mayors or
chestra and at the close ice cream was
on sale. The prizes were won by
Ethel Bailey first; Laurence Southland
second Helen Ham third. Credit
should be given Mr.. Southland as he is
only Freshman.
Edgar White, who has been in Con-
necticut where he has been employed
by the telephone company for the past
few months called on his grandmoth-
er on his way to Waterville, where he
is now employed.
DIR. and Mrs. Louis Bickford, former
ly of this place but for the past few
years living in Milwaukee, are at his
old home. He is in quite poor health.
Frank Call and Fred Carlton were in
the village Sunday enjoying rides In
their new autos.
Rev. Herbert has returned to this
charge for another year.
The Star Club met Thursday after
noon with Mrs Nellie Pushard.
An entertainment will be held in
Pownalboro hall Friday evening, May
Is. Mrs. York will help furnish en-
tertainment and all who know her
ability cannot miss the opportunity of
hearing her again. A dance will fol-
low the entertainment good music.
Work began Monday morning on the
Masonic hall preparing the cellar for
the masons.
H. A. Bickford made a business trip
to Wiscasset Saturday.
Carlton Ware of Alma has been in
the village buying potatoes to ship
away.
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B. & NJ. employees
APPEAL DEMANDS
TOPRES. MCDONALD

Boston, May 11.-Negotiations be-
tween Manager Pollock and General
Superintendent Tyler of the Boston
& Maine Railroad and committee rep7
resenting the engineers and f1remen
of the road regarding the latter's de-
mands for adjustment of grievances
were terminated by the committees to-
day. An appeal was taken to President
Mcdonald Of the railroad to have him
consider the matter. officers of the
unions said that reference to the rail-
road president was the last resort
prior to taking poll of the men,
bers on the question of declaring a.
strike.
The committee had been in confer
ence with Pollock and Tyler for near
ly a month on grievances, the princi-
pal of which were alleged violations
by the road of an agreement govern,
ing the number of working hours and
the length of runs.
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wich. where she will have permanent
mornings off Mr.. Pynchon's house.
At Greenwich other members of the
syndicate, George Lauder, James B.
Ford, E. Trowbridge Hall. George d.
Barron and Thomas C. Durham, will
have a chance to look her over. Mr..
Ford was at the launching today.
Oscar, the Mascot
On the deck of the yacht beside the
launching party, were Captain s. b.
Howell, his mates, half a dozen of his
seamen and small boy, Oscar
Witchards of Highlands, n. j., his
mascot. Oscar is thoroughly convinced
that the Defiance will show her stern
to every competitor, including the
Shamrock Nv and there were few who
sat in the warm May sunshine today
and saw the hope of Bath take her
initial plunge. who did not agree with
Oscar.
Among those who made the trip TO
Bath to see the launching were Mrs.
E. S. Webster and Miss Webster, Miss
Cobb, Miss Elizabeth Almy OF cam
bridge. Secretary George A. Cormack
of the New York Yacht Club. Henry A.
Morse, Mr.. and Mrs. Chandler How
ey, Samuel A. Braman, Joshua Holden.
Theodore Jones, A. s. Cobb and r. t.
p. Storer of Boston, r. LaMontagne of
New York: Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Fletcher and Miss Fletcher of Provi-
dence and Miss Jarvie of Brookline,
Prof c. H. Peabody of NJ. /. T., and
Measurer H. A. Everett OF the Eastern
Yacht Club
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BeaChey and Barney
Oldfield to Race

New York. May lit will give New
York more thrills In three days than it
has seen since the Dutchmen drove their
first bargain with the Indians" is the
message sent by Lincoln Beachey to this
city yesterday. The bearer of the mes
sage was "Redoubtable Bill Pickens,
manager for Beachey, Barney Oldheld
and De Lloyd Thompson.
AT the McAlpin last night Pickens tried
to describe the volutions that Beachey
will put his machine through at Brighton
Beach on May %. % and "a, rain, shine
or cyclone. Within two minutes after
he started the atmosphere of the room
was highly charged with vivid. shrieking
adjectives. Mr.. Pickens toyed with such
expressions as death defying. soul
shriveling," spine chilling, hair rails
ing and daredevil with reckless
abandon, and finished by gasping out.
Its no use-I can't describe it,
The substance of it all was that Lin
coin Beachey and Barney Oldfield will
compete for the championship of the en-
tire solar system during the three days.
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ARREST OF LIEUT..
MAICNE WHO WENT
AMONG MEXICANS

Washington, May 11.-First Lieut..
Charles NJ Maigne, U. S. A, retired,
who went through the Mexican lines
at Vera Cruz in the capacity of cor
respondent for a Washington newspa-
per- was arrested today upon return
ing to Vera Cruz. Advice of his ar
rest reached the War Department from
General Funston.
Maigne's arrest was ordered from
Washington.
Orders had previously gone out for
Maigne to cease writing newspaper
stories and when General Funston re-
ported that the retired officer had
passed through the Mexican Federal
lines, the order for his arrest followed.
Officials here took the view that
Lieut.. Maigne, although retired, still
is subject to the jurisdiction of Sec
rotary Garrison, it would be difficult,
if not impossible. to satisfy the Mex
lean Federal commander that the Of
fieeps presence within the enemy's
lines was in his purely civil capacity
as a newspaper correspondent and not
as a United States military spy.
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SAYS RooSEVElTS TALK
AND HEARST'S ARE ALIKE

London, May 1.-THE Pail Mall Ga
zette poured home hot shot at Theo-
dore Roosevelt and w. r. Hearst Sat
urday, saying: I'VE can quite under
stand that the ex-President sees a
favorable opening for scoring the
White House, but it is regrettable that
he cannot resist the temptation of
sweeping the whole problem of Anglo
American relations into the torrent of
party jingoism.
There was time when Colonel
Roosevelt put himself forward as an
advocate of the square deal If the
plain words of the Hay Pauncefote
treaty are to be repudiated because
America sees a profit in breach of
faith, Colonel Roosevelt's moralities
will sound less impressive, we are
afraid, in future. His manifesto from
Para is scarcely distinguishable in
tone or substance from the rawlings of
Hearst, and, significantly enough, it
reaches the American people through
the Hearst newspapers"
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Urge Building of
New Prison in N. Y.

Albany, Ny, May 11.-Immediate
abandonment of Sing Sing and the
construction of a new prison, mainly
by convict labor, within a convenient
distance of New York, is among the
recommendations in a preliminary re-
port Sunday by the Commission on
Prison Reform.
This commission was created under
the executive law, and consists OF
George w. Kirchwey, Howard j.
Mosher. George w. Perkins, Miss Mary
Garrett Hay, Edward A. Bates, Mrs.
Hannah Blue, Miss NJ. u. Doty. John
B. Riley, Thomas Mott Osborne and
DIR. E. Stage Within.
Some prison reforms suggested by
the investigators follow.
Build the new institution on an am
pie area of farm and forest land, and
acquire more land in the neighbor-
hood of other state prisons, so that
convicts may follow agricultural and
other outdoor occupations.
Subject all prisoners to medical ex-
animation and segregate and treat the
mental detectives and those suffering
from disease.
must impose intermediate sentences,
without maximum and minimum linz
it's.
Establish local advisory boards of
pardon and parole for investigation OF
all applications.
Abolish the women's prison at Au-
burn and send all female convicts not
suitable for the reformatories at AL
bion and Bedford to the state farm at
Valatie.
Vest the courts with power to send
all female first offenders more than
10 years old VINO have been convicted
of felony to the Albion and Bedford
reformatories.
Extend the honor system. Repair
highways with ablebodied convicts.
Offer instruction in technical as
well as elementary branches of study
and increase the Libraries.
That aid may be given discharged
and paroled prisoners, the establish
ment Of an employment agency in
connection with the state prison de-
partment was urged.
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SEVERE PENALTY
FOR ATTACKING HIS
BEDFORD GIRL

Manchester. n. H., May 11.-Ernesc
Cook, 20 years old, today received the
most drastic state prison sentence imA
posed in superior court here in several
years, when he was given the maximum
penalty of not less than Is years or moro
than 30 years for brutally assaulting
Miss Elsie Hoyt of Bedford on April II. =
The accused youth heard the pro-
nouncement OF his doom from Judge
John E. Young. supreme court justice
sitting in superior court, without emo-
ton other than grin.
After maltreating the young daughter
of his employer. Cook escaped to this
city. where he registered under his own
name at local hotel.
He was arrested there by Manchester
policemen. He had loaded revolver uny
der his pillow.
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES

Decatur Axtell, vice president of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. while
crossing the street near his offices at
Richmond. Va, Monday, was run over
by an automobile which backed sud
denly. His scalp was badly cut and
he suffered severe nervous shock.
The Texas statute providing that a
person should not act as freight
railway conductor without having had
two years experience as freight
brakeman, except in cases of emergen-
cy, was Monday annulled as unconsti-
tutional by the supreme court at
Washington.
William Gilday pleaded not guilty
of manslaughter in connection with
the death Monday of Philip Loughrey
and was held in $4,000 bail for hear
ing May 10. Loughrey's death result
ed, according to the police, from in
juries received in a quarrel with Gill
day Sunday.
The latest Zeppelin airship, the LIZ
"a, built for the German navy. made
her first trial trip at Friedrichshafen
| Monday.
investigation of the fire that destroy
ed the Melvin apartment house ir
| Allseton, Mass, with the loss of eight
lives month ago. Among the &c wit
nesses summoned were Mayor Curley
Building Commissioner O'Hearn anC
Fire Chief McDonough.
The fishing schooner Gladys and Nell
lie reached port at Boston Monday
with flag at half mast for two mem
| bers of the crew lost at sea last Fri
| day. One of the men, Wilfred Stoddard
was drowned when the schooner fouled
and upset the dory in which the man
was fishing. The other man, Ambrose
| Griffith, was lost in the fog while
fishing from a dory. 1t is thought that
Griffith may have been picked up by
some other vessel
a marked improvement was report
ed Monday in the condition of Jacot
| A. Riis. who collapsed Sunday while
on his way from a sanftarium at Bat
tie Creek, Mich, to his summer home
| ia Barre, Mass. Mrs. Riis said that heI
/ husband was much better Monday
and in no immediate danger, although
his condition was considered serious
| The journey from Michigan, she said
proved too much of strain on his
weakened heart.
r. T. Subota, Japanese ranch hand
was probably fatally injured Sunday
at Los Angeles, Cal, as the result OF
his first flight without an instructor il
an aeroplane of his own make. Al
the height of 500 feet he lost eontro
of his machine and shot straight fol
| the earth.
Joseph o. Proctor, Jr., ]. A. Lowell
Blake and Ralph S. Wentworth of Bos
ton were appointed receivers for the Ma
gee Furnace Co. of Chelsea by Fedora
Judge Morton Monday. An involuntar!
petition in abnkruptcy was filed by sew
eral creditors last week The estimated
liabilities are about S375.000
! Volunteers from many surrounding vii
| lagos, coming to the aid of the men o
Wexford. r. L.. succeeded Monday il
getting under control forest fire tina
had burned over more than 800 acres o
| timber and farmland. Scores of mel
| fought the flames throughout the night
4 Much damage was done to cut wood ant
F! standing timber.
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in his district to Secretary Bryan.
The Consul arranged for the depar-
ture from Aguascalientes of more than
a hundred American refugees, whose
train was later held up by an infuri-
ated mob at Encarnacion, Jalisco. He
said that, although many threats We're
made against the refugees. no violence
was done. Later he left with smaller
party on a train which suffered no in
convenience en- route to Vera Cruz.
Mr.. Schmutz explained today that
his party was not arrested and i'm
prisoned in a smelter at Aguascalien-
ties, as reported but was segregated in
the smelter for protection while prep
arations were being made for the trip
to the coast. He estimated that prob
ably about $50 refugees, of whom 1876
We're Americans, had left his consular
district.
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NEW ENGLAND'S
DEAD BROUGHT
ON TUESDAY TO
CHARLESTOWN

Boston, May 1.-THE cruiser Mon
tana, funeral ship of the men who lost
their lives at Vera Cruz, is expected
to deliver New Englands dead at the
CharlestoWn navy yard some time to-
morrow. Uncertainty as to the hour
of arrival and the possibility that the
ship might not arrive until dark, re-
suited in decision to make the eere-
monies at the yard simple. Final ar
engagements will be made by wireless
tomorrow. Captain Dewitt Coffman,
commandant of the yard, with other
officers in full dress. will receive the
three bodies. That of Corporal Daniel
A. Haggerty of Cambridge will be sent
to his home at once. Those of Pri-
waite Rufus +. Percy of Concord, N.
H., and of Seaman Walter L. Watson
of Orleans. Mass, win be held for train
connection to their homes. Each will
be escorted in transit by a guard of
marines from the navy yard.
Cambridge completed it's arrange
ments tonight for the reception of Cor
poral Haggerty's body. Trimountain
garrison, No. ., of the Army and Navy
Union, was delegated by Mayor Tim
othy w. Goode to act as guard of hon
or for the body until inferred. 1t is
planned to have it kept over night in
the Haggerty home, and to have it lie
In state at the armory from Wednes-
day afternoon until the funeral on
Thursday.
The service will be held in the
morning. Col. Randolph Dickings,
commanding officer of marines at the
CharlestoWn yard. will be chief mar
shall. Governor Walsh and his staff,
Mayor Goode and members of the city
government, Congressman Frederick
w. Deitrick Commandant Coffman,
Col. Frank A. Graves and his staff Of
the eighth regiment, M. N. G. bat
talions of marines and militiamen,
companies of the cast artillery corps,
bluejackets from the battleship Rhode
Island, patriotic and civic societies will
march before or after the caisson
bearing the casket. Joseph Husband,
wireless operator on the Montana. a
chum of the dead marine, will also be
in line.
Schools will be closed all day, and
the children will be massed in front of
City hall to sing as the cortege goes
by. Business will be stopped during
the hour of the funeral. Flags will
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DEFIANCE RIDES WAVES
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docks a couple of steamers under re-
pairs, and the tender Irolita were
dressed in honor of the event.
A Northwestern from out the softest
of mid May skies snapped the signal
flags which had been strung over the
deck on two jury masts, from the
trucks of which flew the burgee Of
the New York Yacht Club and Mr..
Pynchons private signal. At the bow
was the starry Blue Jack, while astern
the American yacht ensign hung over
the taffrail.
The rear end of the cradle had been
tilted up bit, but couple of jacks
gave it another lift and at 1.55 p. M.
the tackle hawsers were severed.
Slide into River
The yacht started easy and before
she had gathered any great Roadway.
the bow had struck the water. In an
other moment she was afioat and slid
ing out of thes lip into the river. There
was no sudden drop into the water
as was the case when the Resolute
was launched, but moderately rapid
slide into the river, like big brown,
NIilt-betleu uuCh LANES the WdtSI.
The Defiance ran a couple of hun
dred yards out into the river so that
the multitude could have good
square view of her afloat Then she
was towed back and hauled up along
side the steel crane. The mast on the
wharf was half rugged and the top
mast was on end, and even while the
crowd was pouring out the big yell
low mast was on end Before dark it
was stepped and presented an unus-
ually lofty appearance for so small a
yacht. In fact the tall rig is one Of
the features of the Defiance.
When she was hauled alongside the
dock Immediately after launching the
Defiance was eight inches above her
lines, but when the mast was in place,
she had gone half way down to near
ly her waterline measurement.
Leaves Bath Saturday
1t is expected that the Defiance will
leave Bath on Saturday for Marble
head, where she will be inspected by
the Boston members of the syndicate,
Oliver Ames, J. c. Cobb. F. c. Fetch
er, Charles Hayden. f. z. Peabody,
Eliot Wadsworth, E. S. Webster and
Henry Taggart, agent. All but Mr..
Ames and Mr.. Peabody were at the
launching today.
No effort will be made to test the
sailing qualities of the yacht north of
Cape Cod. After a day or two at Mar
blehead. she will be towed to Green
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Did he call on these financiers and
try to remove the opposition to tho
New Haven?'
oh yes" The witness said he saw
Charles H. Innis about once a week
during the time of Mr.. Innis' employ
ment by the road, and his counsel es-
pecially was sought regarding the
workingmen's compensation act and in
matters relating to taxation. He said
Mr.. Innis was paid $4,000 year at first
and later was given more.
No Other Special Advisers
Were there any other special ad-
visers employed by your"
Il do not recall any"
Professor Bruce Wyman, Mr..
Byrnes said, was employed at $4,000
annually. His duties consisted in goH
ing before the interstate commerce
commission whenever it was necesI,
sary in rate cases. Mr.. Folk then in
CURED about members Of Prof. Wy
mans family who were on the New
Haven payroll.
Il only employed Prof. Wyman." said
Mr. Byrnes. "but he employed his father.
a brother and brother-in-law, A. J..
trade boards and other organizations I
do you know anything about 100000
paid e. d. Robbins for moulding public
opinion?"
II do not know anything about 1t.
Mr. Byrnes was shown a number of
vouchers for payments made to various
persons which had been signed by him.
but could not recall what many of them
were for He explained that Arthur
Prussell, an assistant attorney in the le-
gal department of the New Haven iR
Boston, frequently had arranged pay
ments to different people for publicity
work or other services and he had apT
proved the voucher when they were
handed to him by Mr.. Russell. -,
Mr. Folk exhibited voucher showing
payment of 1882 made in March, 1872.
to H. C. Page of Worcester, Mass, and
read a letter dated March 20. 1912, writ
ten from the New Ravens Boston Of
flee to General Auditor J. NJ. Tomlinsop
of the road, in which it was stated that
in reply to an inquiry regarding the
voucher for s435. it was 'in connection
with the Expenses of legislation for the
requirement of the Massachusetts, trolley
lines
1t was signed SET. Byrnes."
"Is that your signature" the witness
was asked.
Mr.. Byrnes studied the writing closely.
1T is not my signature he declared. I
Mr.. Polk then asked him to write his
name, which he did
THE resemblance is Close remarked
the chief counsel.
The inquiry will be continued tomor-
row, when Mr.. Bqrnes will resume tbs
stand.
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M'Dougal Betters
Contract Speed

Rockland, Me-, May 1.-THE torpedo
boat destroyer McDougal exceeded
contract speed requirements during
her run from Bath to this port today
for her builders acceptance trials,
which will begin tomorrow The Nc
Dougal made over 81 knots in several
stretches, and averaged that speed for
the full run. The contract for her con-
struction called for 301a knots an
hour.
The destroyer will be put through
tests designed to standardize her pro-
pellers and show her efficiency In
steering and turning tomorrow. Speed
and fuel consumption trials will fol-
low
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SHOOTS WIDOW AND SON.
Man, crazed by Jealousy, Then Turns
Revolver on Himself.

Plainfield, N. j., May Thames
Fillmore, crazed by jealousy. Sunday
morning fired two shots at Mrs. Cath
crime Sites, widow, at her home in
West Sd street. inficting injuries that
are likely to prove fatal. After MAX
ing an attempt on the life of her son,
Louis he sent a bullet into his own
brain. He died Saturday night in the
Muhlenberg hospital. Two bullets were
removed from Mrs. Sites jaw. The
son was slightly wounded IN the arm
Fillmore, who had been forcing his
attentions on the woman, was ordered
by the magistrate last month to keep
away from the Sites home. He enter
ed again as a guest Of a boarder, and
when ordered out by the son was mad
dened into an attack.
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MEXICAN SITUATION
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that the explanation would make 1t plain
that there had been no violation of the
armistice and that the commander OF
the Dixie had done only what was neces-
sary to insure the safety of shipping.
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt said the
Dixie and the destroyers went to Lobos
island only because 1t was a convenient
place to coal and that the lighthouse
keepers apparently quit their posts In
panic at the appearance of American
warships. The lighthouse at this point
ne added was essential to safe naviga-
ton, and when it was deserted by its
keepers it became the duty of the Dixie
to keep 1t in operation.