Daily Kennebec Journal (Newspaper) - May 20, 1907, Kennebec, Maine AUGUSTA MAINE MONDAY MOVING MAY 20 W J i T i r n A m H Jill I s That She Did Not Die from Natural Today Lewiston Me May body of Mary Ferris ft New Auburn aged about 67 was found today on road leading to the Lewiston poor farm un- der such circumstances as to give rise to a suspicion that murder was com- The clothing was badly torn and otherwise disarranged and the fact that after a post mortem was made the physicians who made it refused flatly to say a word in tion with the case strengthens thi Mrs Ferris who was lived with her daughter at Auburn and tore ar excellent reputation except for he fact that at she partook of liquor and on such occasions sometimes stayed away from home two or three days Friday night she disappeared but no search for herl was made until The search proved without avail Sunday the body was found on a lonely stretch of road leading to tile poor a way from place she was known to frequent Her clothing looked as though she had been assaulted and had made a ate struggle This Doctors Garcelon and Shield made a pest mortem tion but they ref to discuss the cuse and nothing is known of the re- sult of the examination their refusal strengthening the suspicion of foul play An Inquest will be held at 10 tomorrow morning r i r cOL anc a Sunc ay V V I 1 I ai egates j Represented Makes Theatre Through ally Captured Atlanta Ga May performing lion escaped from its cage at a theatre last night made its way through the stage entrance to street in the center of the city and caused ment on the street for two blocks be- fore it driven into a basement and Captured by its keeper I After escaping from its cage the lion on the stage while he curt tain down and then made its way out the stage entrai ce to the street The street was crowded and people in panic One nian shot at the beast and slightly wounded it before it was ally captured AS YOU The of Christian closed witn large mass afternoon in Augusta hall through nt and in- discussions were on the program The was larger on Friday and line church with Lie the evening The of the association that the tion was a most one in all TO DEFEND PREBLE Bath Firm Retained for the ham Murderer Bath Me May is reported that tie firm of Staples Glidden hava retained to defend K the boy now in Auburn jail awaiting for the murder of Heath Mr on being asked by a reporter the murder It Is true that the boy hns expressed n desire to have us represent him Staples was yesterday arid lijan n long conversation with Preble and has been In correspondence with one of the justices of the court in regard to certain legal questions which may arise Of course no formal assignment of for the boy will be made until the August term of our court but we shall to act for until then ami will without doubt conduct hie defence Both members of the firm to nny statement as to the nature of the defence at this time Judge Staples an It wonld hardly be proper for us to say anything at this time Indeed wo as yet had no opportunity to be- come acquainted with all the facts I rap only say that all necessary ana and i the hour devoted to work them proved one of most interesting convention After the oj ening by man a paper on The of the Y 31 Student was read by Guy Von Hates and the discussion was led by K K Marrow irf ly the the Y M C A at Ohio evan College iton S Cooper secretary of Now long worker in the student field spoke ly on Bible Study and i the Chandler of the University of Maine and Mr of Bates along the same line The story of last year's student conference at was told by Wayne G dan of Bates who will be Maine's next Rhodes scholar to Oxford Mr of Mr Chase of the University of and Cecil M Of the secretary of the and students work were also speakers at this conference The Saturday session was devoted to a conference of the ries and other active workers and was over ty Charles K Ober of NRW York The first speaker was Wm Cooper of Springfield Mass who discussed place of business as leaders in Y M C A work in the cities Ex-Mayor of erville had a few valuable suggestions along the same line Claude C Smith of Presented By the University of Maine I Dramatic Club In Brewer Orono Me May University of Maine Dramatic Club Friday evening presented j As You Like in the City hall at Brewer Although Friday evening was the first time that the Club has made its ance then play was acted in line style and thoroughly enjoyed by the ence The club goes to Ellsworth on Monday May 20 and on Wednesday of Junior week May 22 club will present the play in the gymnasium Wednesday ng will be the last time that the play will be given and as it is to be one of tures of Junior week everything sible Is being done to make it a cess ARTHUR HUTCHINS Young Norway Drowned from Canoe In Lake B C CiF NEW YORK Speaker at Sunday's Meeting for Men aril are especially of and v ith thir and with every detail ER to by the committee of The of delegates fi in places in lor i will be by tlie Stall Hunts and assure him a square rival j Heine as to the truth of the re- port printed In a dispatch to a Boston paper to sel put forward a defence of In- sanity Judge Staples There is rjo present such a rumor As to that or any course which may be taken by tho wu shall do nothing until liave made a thorough of hoy's life and the whole history of the case When we are ot all facts we shall do to us for the best Interests of the boy anU to a dis of the work among college were by the cers ami the ing lie the State during fee The loading com- report ivas that of the State ex- Chairman Horace C- pay of Auburn The ing men were elected the State com- for -a Horace J LIEUT JOHN B ROSATTO One of Boston's Best Known Policemen Dies from Cancer Boston May John Batto of the North police died at his sumnler home in East krica yesterday afternoon froni cancer of the lungs He had been ill tor about two months but he bore his affliction with exemplary patience Lieut wa's in Boston Jan 13 He was appointed a re- officer in and a permanent patrolman in was assigned to Division 1 and remained there out his connection with the ment He was promoted to a sergeantcy in and a year later was made a lieutenant position he his efficiency as ah officer which ranked him among tlhe mdst capable In pie department He figured In a number pf cases Lieut whose home was In is survived by two sins and two daughters He was a member of the police relief i L I At the Tobacco in London some women made at rate of 120 in thirty May for Monday Tuesday for Fair in west showers in fast tion Monday followed by clearing and cooler Tuesday fair fresh West to northwest winds Boston Boston May for ton and Fair Monday and Tuesday cooler Monday night and Tuesday westerly winds 3D N CARVER Chairman the W AMICK OF Treasurer ot State Committee of the county work now being on in a line of activity recently by the M C A in Maine and one in which Mr Smith successful to a J M Dudley of treal he international of the Y M C A told of he wi rk done branch of tho work According to the latest figures arn now of this branch of whom about 500 to the land association Dudley was lowed by Albert tary of the army department at McKinley who spoke the 250 Y C A among thei in land harbor and of the work there A good delegation of these soldier boys have been ance at the convention closing feature of the afternoon by Butler a on The Forward in anil it was p promise and prophecy of the future extension fft Y M C A work in this State Conditions and General Forecast Washington May has been finite generally east It tha Mississippi river since Saturday bat the eastward movement from the Northwest of a high pressure area or considerable strength resulted in Clearing and cool weather In the It is also much cooler over Northern west ot the mountains where rains In tho Lake region At- s it will be fair Monday Tuesday Ir will be warmer Monday fresh die toast to west south Atlantic to fresh and mostly southwest Come See Tie The part s program in Siring Sack Salts e Are Isn't a Young Kan In JTown Who Wants snappjr clothes that we can't please with these Pack Suits at to Sit They are from all other suits fort young as you can see and will appreciate upon and trying them on Every suit Is a marvel of perfection and fully worth from J2 to more than we ask a CHEAPEST INVESTMENT FOR Health is No traveller er household should it Deo fnr twelvs HUt IM le tho iff was wen all Were are rew on the committee Thomas reward by an address of of Bar Harbor another new interest Mr Smith s art member Ivas elected for a one-year secretary formerly a local T BII i1 Secretary in Iowa whose work Trof A W of him the world and he is i very that part of the speaker Before the address demoted Mine there were songs by Mr mic a MA of telegram of and the presence of tions was read from the state each of the Maine Overcoat you've seen our great assortment of styles and coatings and the parable values we will elye at to arer o speaker Before the address ro -A U I Tl I t Continued on Page Two Opp Cony Augusta urn i Suffering rj i S i n ence r air Jrw Thi Littli I i m ft of tue krea s y Fifteen Millio Families Madrid May the i heir to Spanish throne of who was born May 10 took el of at noon Saturday The ceremonial at the baptism was that con- with the first presentation of the roval chapel at the ace had been richly decorated In the center was the font of- San to de before the high with gold embroidered tries for sponsors The starting oP Hie from the royal apartments to the chape announces i by a flred a tery of artillery f labe carried in its nurse's arms Boston May less people must die and is not improbable that four times that her will is the en- in a report on the famine situation inj China made by Rev John agent of the American Bible at Shanghai The report was made public tonight Mr says with the funds at present at hind and in sight the relief tee can keep persons alive the end of June when it is hoped will have at least a partial crop Mr reports as The country has denuded of every green thing Roots of grass and weeds have been dug out of the frozen ground for food and the bark stripped from trees and eagerly devoured The more fortunate are able to buy bean cake ordinarily sold as a fertilizer or a mixture of leaves and sweet toes for which they pay more than the price of flour ir normal times animals cats dogs and cattle are devoured as soon as they die Children are offered for sale or de- by their parents arid starve A missionary reports -a case where a little girl years was by her father for two bowls of rice and of cent Others tell of parents throwing their children into preferring to see them rather than suffer the pangs of sure starvation land Hie s have found lying dead in the opening The sufferings A very of the population of area The cause of the famine was excessive rains r Turbine Camden Me May oody of Arthur years old was re- covered in 1 i The young man gone out canoeing alone last nig-ht and upon hW failure to return a searching party went up the lake today ei ic Career Best Ki own lor His Heroic Action in Boxer Outbreak Cal May Jlon Edwin minister to China died afternoon at his home here Few Americans have a more prominent than E II Conger in the of tlie nation's prestige abroad have parsed through ex- varied in the rublic Conger was born in lynox county Illinois 7 was educated in Lombard sity graduating in the class of 1862 On the the war he enlisted in the Illinois Volunteer Infantry and with distinction earning the brevet of major when peace was de- Jlc took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar at III where he practiced until he stock raising and banking He served terms as state urer elected in to the Congress and ivis twice re-elected He was appointed of the United Stater to in 1890 by President He was one of most acceptable en- voys to the Brazilian government that has ever been accredited from this try a id himself pleased with his life and duties there He remained until Win and was again later given the same mission by dent from which he was trans- ferred lib to China In tie terrible days ot the Boxer out- breaks In 1900 the devoted American Ister his wife and daughter arid a M'ss Mary Conger Pierce were among the penned up In the Brit- inh in awaiting the doom that appeared certain at the hands the Chinese Rumors that they too hrid fallen victims to the Boxers shocked country from time but were unfounded the of the party knew no If Mr Conger were for a time for s gning the agreement by foreign ministers it did not cause him to lose the confidence of the at liis to tbe Mexican legation Bath Iron have turned out one ot the finest turbines afloat is the unanimous of all who have studied the performance of the Camden on her first trip to Boston The jubilant at the works are satisfied that Camclen will prove the fastest her class as did the steamer City of Lowell the United States monitor the United States torpedo boat Dahlgren and the United States ship Georgia all products ef Bath's skill arid Industry The Camden arrived at her dock i shortly after daybreak this morning Boston where she went klay to haul out and have her bottom painted The steamer left Boston a few minutes before 4 o'clock yesterday and at 10.30 o'clock her heavy anchor was resting on Parker flats at the end of her voyage down was most gratifying to the officials on board Only natural draft used and the steamer made an age of 10 knots i From the dry dock to the wharf yesterday afternoon Capt Charles A Blair who had command iof Camden gave ah exhibition Bul handling of the big craft which ed tte eyes of the Boston captains Ho backed the Camden for over a mile in and out of a large fleet of and navigated her fromi the after hurricane She steered perfectly It is that the Camden will be given an official trial trip over the port course In about a week ton police Woodbury night watchman at a Mass j teli was arrested Sunday ing to the message received Boston he is wanted there on a change of ery and of embezzlement of ROD from the United Construction Supply Co He is said to have admitted that i he is the man wanted In Boston According to the police said he needed the money to defray of his mother's funeral which took place three months ago the Pope and twas followed by the royal household the King and the members of the royal the representatives of the foreign powers including Prince Arthur of representing King Edward Prince Frederick Leopold of In behalf of Austria representing Em- Francis Joseph and the Duke of Oporto representative of King Charles of Portugal Then caine the ambassadors and to the court of Spain the inet ministers great state and others all had reached their places In the chapel the the mace bearers and four men at arras took their alloted positions the whole ing a brilliant picture The ceremony of giving names to the royal child fonso Pio Christine Eduardo cisco Guillermo Enrique Eugino Fernando was only of short duration the practice the and returned to the royal the child taken Majesty SANDWICH'S GLASS INDUSTRY Has Been Revived After for About 25 Sandwich Mass May est industry ot this little Cape Cod and the greatest industry of Cape Cod as well the manufacture ware has been revived after having virtually been abandoned for 25 years Sandwich was once known as the glass manufacturing center of the ed States andj the products of the Sandwich glass works went to all the globe but past ter of a century in a1 state of wich was concerned All this has now changed The big furnaces have beto lighted the into glan the fashion their form and the cutters and decorators beautify it The ended saw the revival of- the industry In Sandwich the of the flaw workers trade have one generation to another than three-quarters of glass i here in 1825 company operated its own line and courso of pany passed the hands of i nd and upon Ills the In- For than JB years the works nave betr Hie most of Workers have moved WM new works and were were begin the operation of the factory that made Sandwich mOus i I The of the Atlantic League have a pitcher named Hope Charles M Penney of Auburn Auburn Me May lit Penney died at the home of his father on James street Friday afternoon He was 44 years old He waa a paper man and was formerly employed by the Lewiston gun J and News leaving the Sna he went South and went from Georgia to during the Spanish-American war His tenure of office in Mexico was brief as failing health forced him to tender his resignation in August ho retired to Ms home in Cal Hp has slowly dying evir since The Ceylon pearl fisheries ended on April having thirty-six days Jn time valued at were brought up During the year 1906 our tales ran tie Ir our I who e career being over ahead o the year and of on our tone Brand With our f having enlarged PUP factory and occupying now do the be- tween Stillman arid Morton in front well the we are in a petition to keep up with this de- mand i MM
