Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-21


the store of the S. S. Andrews Co., had
her clothing almost entirely burned
from her body, the flames having
her kitchen stove. None of the burns
she will recover.
Billy Willis of this city stayed the
limit in a six round bout with Terry
McGovern, Saturday night, in the Ma
tional Athletic Club, at Philadelphia.
McGovern out-fought his opponent in
every round but his blows lacked the
force and power which formerly char
acterized his swings and jabs. In the
second round he fioored Willis with a
right swing to the jaw and the local
man took to count.
In a collision, Sunday, on the Penn
sylvania Railroad near New Salisbury,
Ohio, between a double-header freight
train and light engine, both of which
were moving rapidly, H. H. Robey of
Wellesley was thrown from a car and
killed. Willard Knause, engineer, had
a leg broken; George Strauss, had his
shoulder dislocated; Harry Ralston,
engineer. both legs broken, and Mich
While crazed with liquor, Sunday, at
Chicago. Fred P1ugradt, a machinst,
shot and killed his wife and then COM
lnitted suicide. Mrs. Pflugradt was
lying sick in bed with her week-old
baby, when without word of warm
ing, her husband staggered into the
room and opened fire. The woman was
shot twice in the side and lived but a
few moments. Pfugradt then shot
himself in the heart The child was
uninjured.
Capt. Howard Blackbur of Glouces-
ter, Mass, is having another small
boat built in which he intends to make
his third trip across the Atlantic The
boat will be Is feet long with 7-foot
beam. Capt. Blackburn, known as the
"Fingerlass navigator" has made not
able sea and river trips aside from his
perilous transatlantic trips. He will
not say where he is going this time ex-
ceLt that it will be another sail across
the Atlantic.
About midnight, Saturday, at Paris,
q miserably clad man fired two shots
from revolver at Max Nordau, the
litterateur, at a Zionist ball at the Sale
Charras. One of the shots grazed Nor
dau while the second wounded a guest
named Assowedski. The man who fired
the shots was Immediately arrested. He
said he was Russian, that his name
was Chain Selik Louban. that he was
% years old, a revolutionist, and had
been chosen by lot to shoot Nordau.
A man in the garb of carpenter
called at the st. Joseph Sorphanage Sat
Nashua, n. H., and stated to the Sis
ter superior in charge that he was sent
there by the Rev. j. B. II. V. Milette,
pastor of the parish, to see what was
needed in the line of repairs. The man
was allowed to stroll through the build
ing at WILL Sometime after he had left
the building the sister superior had oc-
casion to go to her apartments. She
found the bureau drawers ransacked
and 5000 gone. The police were notified
and are at work on the case.
The New Hampshire Central House
at Goffstown, N. H., owned by Fred H.
Condor, Shattuck and Wycoff proprie-
tors. was burned at A. NJ, Saturday.
The fire was discovered by Mrs Shat
tuck, who gave the alarm. Eighteen
people in the house barely got out.
j III &C llol SeS NSIe pulHeu I1elD WAS
summoned from Manchester, but the
fire was under control before their ar
rival. Loss estimated at $4,000; partial
ly covered by insurance. The house is
one of the oldest landmarks in that sec
ton Of the state, having been used as
a hotel for a century.
BY the falling of cellar wall of a
house on Davol street, at Fall River,
Joseph Franando, aged &c, and Vince
Bach, aged 80, members of a gang Of
italian workmen, We're killed, Satur-
day. The men were employed by John
Crow, a contractor, and with 10 others
We're engaged in building a subcellar
under the house. The building had
been placed on skids, and the men were
engaged in tearing away the founda-
tons. They were some distance from
the others and just under the cellar
wall. Suddenly a large portion of the
latter which had become loosened, fell
out, burying the two men under the
heavy stone.