Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

A bill for the thanks OF congress 10
Col Geo. w. Goethals and to authorize
the President to appoint him major
general in the army, was introduced
Wednesday by Senator Lorge.
Cabinet officers and their wives will en-
tertain the President of Mrs. Wilson at
dinner Friday evening, which marks the
anniversary of the first meeting of Pres
ident Wilson'S cabinet.
Mrs Woodrow Wilson was recovering
Wednesday from the shock of rail- on
the White House floor last Sunday. She
sustained no injuries and expects to be
up and about in a day or two
Louis o. Margols. manager of. the
Eastern Tea & Coffee Co. of Boston
and New Bedford, Wednesday was
sentenced to IS months in jail for con-
cealing assets in bankruptcy. He fail
ed recently for $4,000.
Two sheds of the Louisiana Railway
& Navigation Co. on New Basin canal
New Orleans, containing 1900 bales of
cotton and several freight cars. We're
destroyed by fire early Wednesday, eaus-
ing a loss estimated at s25o,00o.
served at the head of the Oblate Or
der in America for six years, begin
ming in 1898, died at Lowell, Mass,
Wednesday morning. aged 10 years. He
was born at St. Constant, Que.
Fire early Wednesday at Third and
Locust streets, ST. Louis, Mo-, caused
property damage estimated at 100000
and resulted in the serious injury or
one fireman. 1t was the third big fire
of unknown origin within radius OF
four blocks during the last four days.
Former Chief Justice r. NJ. Wallace
of the superior court of New Hamp-
shire was reported Wednesday to be
seriously i'll at his home at Milford,
N II. He was appointed to office in
1901 at the time the superior court was
created by the supreme court and re-
signed Nov. l last.
The first vessel in a direct Portland,
Ore, to Alaska service sailed from Port
land Wednesday. She is the Thomas l..
Wand, flying the flag of the Poetic
Steamship Co. The round trip is expected
to take IS days and three vessels will
give Portland weekly service
street, one of the oldest business build
ings in Brookline. Mass, was badly dam
aged by fire Wednesday, the estimated
losses to the owners and occupants being
s75,0O0 The fire is supposed TO have
started from an electric wire.
The government authorities Wednesday
suppressed a new Vera Cruz, Mex, paper,
Ell Moniteur, and arrested the entire staff
of six editors, who were consigned to the
fortress of San Juan De Ulua. They
were charged with circulating false news
calculated to excite popular animosity
against the United States.
A blaze in Classical High school at
Worcester, Mass, wednesday did 5000
damage to the buildings and caused
a suspension of classes. Dust accumu-
lations in a hot-air ventilating box
were ignited by steam pipes. The 700
pupils in the school got out in l "a
minutes in response to signal for
fire drill.
The 22d annual convention of the Ma
tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers Asso-
citation opened for a two-days session in
Buffalo Wednesday with an attendance
of nearly 400 delegates from all parts of
the country. The annual address of
President Nelson Fl. Walcott of Provi-
dence and reports of various officers oc-
cupied the attention of the delegates dur
ing the day
That the Philadelphia canal barge
Saturn was lost in Pimlico Sound dur
ing the recent coastal storm was es-
tablished Wednesday when wreckage
was found by life savers of the Hat
teras Inlet station. The fate of the
crew is unknown. Eleven hatch cover
ings and a pilot house supposed to be
from the Saturn, have come ashore
near Leggins Reef.
Professor Raymond Dodge, it is an
nounced at Middletown, CT, Wednesday,
has declined the appointment recently
rendered MIN by the directors of the
Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory at Boston.
He has been absent for a year on leave
doing research work at the laboratory,
but expects to resume teaching here in
the fall.
Hordes of starving wolves driven
from the Appenine mountains by the
heavy SHOWS descended "Wednesday
into the valleys of the Azruzzi prov
inces, Italy, and in the vicinity of
Rome and devoured hundreds of sheep.
Parties of armed peasants have gone
to hunt them and, according to the lat
est reports, have killed a large num-
her of the animals