Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-01-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

John st. Peter, aged "a years, whla
| employed in the Connecticut Valley Cos
saw mill at Holyoke. Mass, Monday, fell
| or band saw and his body was dismem-
bered. Death of instantaneous.
William F. Miller of the Franklin syn
dicate, arrived ar Sing Sing prison TO.
| the, second time at II A. NJ. Monday. He
occupies his old quarters in the prison
and will be assigned to work in few
days.
Vessels commando of Beers, Saturday
cut up a patrol of so men belonging to
| the Cradock, Cape Colony, town guard
en- the Tarkastac road. A few stragglert
| have returned. The remainder of the
| is miles northeast of Cradock on the raj
road extending between Cradock and
Queenstown.
| A special dispatch to the Topeka, Kas
State Journal from Syracuse. Kas., says
| Passenger trains Nos. and of the
Santa Fe Road came together 10 miles
| east of here in head-on collision at All
A. NJ Monday. One report says four cars
were burned and no injured passengers
while another version is that the east.
bound train is entirely destroyed and
many dead"
Joseph A. Burlcigh of Laconia, n. H.,
doing business in Boston, who Was ar
| rested, Dec. q, for alleged larceny of So. :
| 500, Monday, had his case mol pressed.
| The complainant was w. w. Potter of
Boston. who alleged that Burleigh. By
false pretences, sold him 1000 shares OF
stock of the American Linen Fibre Co..
| incorporated under New Jersey laws.
| with a capitalization of S2O0o,OOo
| A weeks postponement was granted at
Concord, Mass, Monday, in the case or
John w. Arnold of Hudson. who is charg-
ed with manslaLgnter in having caused
the death of his son George w. Arnold
pleaded not gully and he was held with
out bal. He was taken to Cambridge Jail
at the conclusion of the hearing. Young
| Arnold was killed while at work in Il
! wood lot with his father. The latter
says death was caused by falling limb.
| Early Monday Frank Duncan. noto-
rious safe blower under sentence &C
death for murder, and three other prison
ers made thei: escape from the Jefferson
county jail at Birmingham. Ala, by saw
ling through hume rous bars and then cut
| ting the lock off the outer gate of the
| prison Duncan was from Cincinnati,
| where his wife resides. and IT Is believed
that friends in that city furnished the
saws with which the escape was made.
The others are. George Builard. charged
| with murder: il. j. DYE of Nashville
charged with grand larceny: and jeff Van
Horn OF Ensley, charged with highway
robbery.
| The London county council. Monday,
refused the application in behalf of an
| Anglo-Americon syndicate (headed by Stf
Charles ivers WILSON,, for 500 years
| lease of a site on the north side OF the
| Strand, with 4 frontage of $50 feet and
with still larger frontage on the new
streets deboucning on the Strand. for the
erection of an office building on Americati
| fines to cost s2,GGc000. The council took
the ground that such a length OF tenure
practically amounted to sc ling the free
| hold. which was not within ITS power.
The council, however, announced that It
vas willing to negotiate on the basis Of
a 80 years lease.
| During the course of Mondays hearing
nj London of the charges growing on
| 81 the Liverpool bank frauds, inspector
Froest of Scotland Yard. testified that
| as a result of inquiry made at Boulegone-
/ Sur -Mer, France. and on board the cham
mel steamer he was satisfied that Laurie
4 Marks. the American bookmal1er who s
alleged to have been connected with the
case started on the boat Tor England
| and committed suicide BY jumping over
| board. Thomas Peterson Goudie. the
! former bookkeepcr of the bank. Dick
(, Barge the puglist stiles. bookmaker.
and +. T. Kelley. another bookmaker.
were committed for trial