Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-05

The condition of Mary Garden, prima
donna of the Philadelphia Chicago
Grand Opera Co., who has been suf-
fering with grippe and laryngitis since
Friday, at New York, was said on
Wednesday to be unchanged. She was
still confined to bed in her hotel.
slight fever which developed yester-
day continued Wednesday.
Foreign industrial combinations were
charged with maintaining the high cost of
living by Horace Stern, a Philadelphia
lawyer. who discussed the administration
antitrust bills Wednesday before the
House judiciary committee. He urged
that the sherman law be amanded to for
bid the selling agents of foreign trusts or
monopolies to dispose of their products
in the United States
The death Tuesday night of Mark
j. Worthley, a well known shoe man
ufacturer of Lynn, Mass, was an
nounced Wednesday. For 81 years he
had been engaged in the shoe busi-
ness of that city, after coming to
Lynn, Mass, from Antrim, n. H.,
where he vas born in 1S45. He was
one of the founders of the Lynn Ma
tional Bank and Lynn Safe Deposit
and Trust Co.
WEDNESDAY Night, MICH 4-1914
Gov. Pothier Wednesday recon-
mended to the Senate at Providence,
r. l., that Arthur G. Webster, who
has served 16 years of a 25year SEN
tence for completely in the famous
Portsmouth car barn robbery at New
port and who was also indicted on the
charge of numbering a policeman at
st. Louis in November, 1897, be par
doned. The governor says that Web
ster has reformed and educated him
self in prison so that he can now be-
come a useful citizen.
Henry Green, pioneer manufacturer
ef X-ray tubes, died at his home in
Hartford, Conn, Wednesday of car
einoma of the liver, induced by X-ray
poisoning. He was born in England 54
years ago. He developed the first To-
cusing tubes to be successfully oper-
ated. John L. Bauer, a glass blower,
who aided him in the development of
the tubes, died from thes anne disease
in 1906
Capt. Won Stahl. chief of works at the
shrapnel tube factory of the PutiIof
armament works at ST. Petersburg, was
murdered Wednesday by one of the fore
men. The murderer then threw himself
into the electrical machinery and was
crushed to death. There has been a
strike at the works for some days and
Captain Won Stahls attitude toward the
strikers is supposed to have been the
cause of the tragedy.
Judge George W. Turner of Spokane,
Wash. who came to Washington ter
ritory in 1854 as federal judge under
appointment of President Arthur and
who was elected to the United States
Senate by the Peoples party for the
term of 1S97-1903, made formal an
nouncement ednesday of his candidacy
for United States senator at the pri-
maries next September
OF the $500 stolen from the Adams
Express agent at Pennington, H.. an
Feb l., $563S were recovered Tuesday
night in an outbuilding near the ex-
press office. Express company detee-
tives were in Pennington when the
money was recovered and put Agent
Brown through a severe examination
but his story that he was beaten by
two unidentified men remained un-
shaken.
Ice fields extending 200 miles off the
Newfoundland coast were reported
ednesday by the steamer Riverdale
Aberdeen for Philadelphia, which was
forced to put in at St Jones. n. F., TO
replenish her coal bunkers. The River
dale was "a days in making the trip
during which she encountered tempes-
tuous weather and had her decks
swept repeatedly. 1t is seldom that
field ice has been found so far off
shore so early i nthe season.