Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-31

tons left ShermanS lines to attack
rebel communications south of At
lapta; expedition destroyed rebel saw
mills worth $4,000 at Grand Lake,
La; the administration would not ex-
empt the 100 days men from the
draft; Major Gen. James H. Butler has
resigned his commission as Major
General of the State Militia.
total of nine men have recently
been lodged in Jail at Pennington after
conviction of attempt to defraud their
employers of money and car fare ad-
vanced to get them from the cities to
the lumber camps of Frnaklin county.
Without funds the men are hired and
their fare is paid 10 their destination
They are also advanced money for
board and other expenses The en-
ployers claim that the men desert as
soon as they reach the woods and re-
fuse to work even long enough to re-
pay their fares and expense money.
Often they will secure work at a
nearby camp. Some years ago a law
was passed affording some protection
to the employer and it was under this
Gently been lodged in Jail. Two of
them have secured the cash to pay
up and have been released, but the
other seven are saving wood for the
county.
Steamer Virginia, plying between
Bath and Popham Beach, has a mas
cot in the form of clever dog belong
ing to Mate Fred Hodgkins. The mas
cot ran ashore Wednesday morning
and was haunting the city landing
verv uneasy in mind until the boat re-
turned in the afternoon. The other day
the dog was left at Phippsburg Cen
ter and chased the steamer to Parker
Head, but failed to get there IN time.
Then he returned to the Center and
caught her on the next trip.
Hiram, which will celebrate her CEN
tennlal August 18th, with about 1000
inhabitants boasts some so yoke of
oxen and nearly as many automobiles!
The record on oxen can hardly be dup
Heated elsewhere in Maine.
1t was an unusually pathetic scene
wednesday night in the Maine General
hospital, Portland, when Michael Null
kerrin knelt by the bedside of his
brother Patrick. who was dying from
the effect of three bullets fired into
his body by him during a quarrel, and
begged for forgiveness-the dying
brother, too weak to speak, signifying
his assent by nod of his head. No
wonder that the murderer fell fainting
across his dying brothers bed.
Frederick E. Chapman was visit
or in town Wednesday. says the Bath
Times. He has been passing sew
eral weeks at his summer home in
Damariscotta and is obliged to give
up his summer vacation to go to
Chicago to take charge of the Ma
tional Summer School of Music which
he has conducted for twenty eight
years. In the fall he returns to
Portland, Oregon, where he is di-
rector of music in the public schools
in charge Of the training of $4,000
pupils, with a corps of eight assist
ants and 1000 regular teachers. Mr..
is making a name in the musical
world. He stopped off in this city
today to see some of his friends and
for dinner at New Meadows Inn,
which he says is one, of the best things
east Of San Francisco.
Capt. John A. Lord of Ellsworth is
planning to take trip around the
world the coming winter. Capt. Lord,
who is 70 years old, says he has al
ways wanted to take this trip, and as
he will never be any younger. he has
decided to take ii now He has sailed
a good many miles of salt water in his
day, making foreign voyages, but has
never visited Pacific ports. He expects
to sail in January in the 1900 ton
steamship Cleveland, from New York.
The first stop will be Havana, then
Kingston, Jamaica, and to Colon.
through the Panama canal to the Pa
ciic. A stop will be made at San