Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-19
BITS BY WIRE.
A Glance at What Is Happening in
Many Places.

delay ed over "a hours on account of al
accident to her machinery. About one
o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, July IL, {
nut gave away on one OF the aftel
cylinders causing the stoppage OF tbs
port engine. The broken cylinder was
disconnected on the same day. and the
steamer proceeded at somewhat re-
duced speed under both engines. the
starboard engine being hampered by
the loss Of the two broken cylinders.
Pasqualo Rosso, an Italian, was
stabbed by fellow countryman, Sun
day night. on the steps Of the North
End police station, Boston. Rosso was
pursued by three other Italians and
ran to the police station for protection,
but his assailants caught him before
he could get through the door. Rosso
received one cut II inches long which
severed the principal arteries of the
leg. One of the assailants, Joseph
Relic. was arrested, but the other two
escaped. Rosso will recover.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rhea Of Jamaica
Plains. Mass. has been arrested charg-
ed with the attempted murder Of Edith
Cook, young woman who was found
with her skull fractured, lying on n
granite walk beneath the third-story
window Of Mrs. Rhea's house. Miss
Cook IS still in the hospital, and the
physicians say she will not be well for
two months. Mrs. Rhea said the
young woman jumped from the WIN
dow. but the theory of the police is that
Miss Cook was pushed during quar-
rel.
During a celebration in Harlem's
Little Italy, Saturday night, man
believed to be Pasqualo Perreil was
murdered by an unidentified man who
stepped up to him in the crowd and
fired at him with a revolver. The first
bullet missed the mark but the second
struck Pereil in the shoulder and
penetrated the heart causing instant
death The murderer was Immediately
lost in the crowd.
A trust of physicians and surgeons
has been formed in Morristown. n. j..
in which n schedule of office rates and
house visits, together with n black list.
Is to be operative before October. The
trust at present Is called the Morris
town Medical Society. Harry W.
O'Reilly is president. Some of the we'll
known members are DR.. II. A.
Hen~idues. DIR. Stephen Pierson. DIR.
James Douglass. DIR. Harry Vaughan.
DR.. George w. Wilkinson and DIR. Il. ID.
Evans.
With a display Of fireworks sur
passing that on the Fourth OF July. the
Homestead Steel Works, Pittsburg
Pa, resumed operations in full. Sun
day night. with the employees working
double time. The plant has been run
ming only half time for the past year.
ana by the starting Of the mill nj its
fun capacity 1000 men will have steady
work. After the church service In
Homestead. Sunday night. when the
resumption Of the plant became gen
orally known. all Joined in celebrating
the event. One thousand dollars worth
Of fireworks furnished by the superin-
tendent of the mills was used.
During an attack made upon him.
Sunday night, by a crowd of men in
Schurers picnic park at Corona. L. l.,
Charles Conran, u detective on duty in
citizens clothes, shot William Gerrity
and Alonzo Dorando. and then sought
refuge under a gang platform. where
he was shot and killed by John =.
Gerrity. Conran's fight with the crowd
caused call to be sent for police re-
serves and when the officers arrived
they were told that the man who did
the shooting was under the platform.
Nothing was said about Conran being
a detective. nor of his shooting in self
defence. Gerrity crawled under the
platfol IN and ordered Conran to come
out, but receiving no answer he fired
killing Ccnran instantly. Gerrity and
Dorando who were shot by Conran,
during the attack, We're from New
York, and We're not seriously wounded.
Judge Dennis Daniel McKoon, a New
York lawyer, has disappeared and the
police have been notified by I. A. OAR
by, friend and business associate
that he was kidnapped in lower Broad
way, shortly before noon, on Friday
last. and is now being held for ransom.
Mr.. Darby says that letters have been
received from Judge Mckoon asking
that the $4,000, demanded for his re-
lease, be paid. According to these let
ters. Judge McKoon. who is 76 years
Old met three men who had arranged a
business appointment with him, Fri |
day. and they took him to a house, the |
location of which was unknown to him. |
where he is kept a prisoner. The let |
te"s which he wrote he threw out of the |
window to a boy who was passing. |
Captain flanagan Of the detective bu-
reau said, Sunday night, that Judge |
McKoon had several times before been
reported to the police headquarters as
missing and that each time he had
turned up all right after several days
absence.
George b. Barrie, arrested In Vera
cruz, Is to be returned to Havana. He
g charged with defalcation amounting
o $3o, 600 Mexico will probably re-
Give in exchange an alleged diamond
hief named Soler. Mexico and Cuba
nave no eXtradition treaty, but this
exchange Of prisoners may lead to the
negotiation Of such a treaty.
Very Rev. Stephen Kealy, provincial
If the Passion Order in the United
states, dropped dead, Sunday, while
celebrating mass in the st. Michaeis
.hapel of the monastery of the order
It Hoboken, n. J. He was stricken with