Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-19
Ohio Toy Pistol Factory
Wrecked by Explosion.
twenty-five Catholic Priests
Ordained in Boston.
A Glance At What Is Happening in
Many Places.

Olu DdUe WdS IOunQ ny neT SioC ~ o"SA'
to death. On Monday night, Mrs lob
inson's husband left for the woods to
cut timber fuel and has not been seen
since. Frozen bread and small piece
of meat were found on the floor near
the bed. Mrs Robinson is not expected
to recover.
Governor-elect George Utter Of Rhode
Island has announced the appointment
Of his personal staff as follows: Ed
ward E. Whipple, Westerly; Zenas w.
Eliss Cranston; George H. Webb,
Providence; Austin S. Cook, WOOn-
socket; Harold A. Peckham, Newport.
The governors executive secretary
will be Richard w. Jennings, who as
sumes his duties at once.
Ossian Doolittle Ashley, widely
known in financial and railroad circles
for more than half a century, died at
his home in New York, Friday, at the
age Of So years.
Fire broke out in the five-story build
ing occupied by William Schimpner &
Sons, Hobolien, n. j., shortly after
midnight, Friday, and the entire Hobo
ken fire department was called out.
The fire gained such Roadway that aid
was asked from Jersey City. The
building was entirely destroyed. The
loss is estimated at between 100000 and
$7O,0 00
The Newport News, Va, customs col
lector has been notified from Washing
ton that an investigation will be held
there in the case Of the United States
1f sol
ing silks, cigars, ostrich feathers and
decorated japanese ware was seized
as smuggled goods by deputies from
the customs office, last Wednes-
day. Three cases of the struggled
goods and $50 boxes of Japanese cigars
were consigned to a Baltimore concern.
Giuseppe Varino stabbed his daugh
ter and her husband, Angelo Giardini,
in Washington, Pa, Friday night, and
both are in critical condition. Varino
made his escape. The attack was
made it is said, because Mrs. Giardini
reproved her father for abusing her
mother.
Twenty-Five priests were ordained at
the cathedral. in Boston, Friday, by the
Rt. Rev. John ]. Brady, D. D., auxili-
airy bishop of the Roman Catholic arch
diocese of Boston. Orders were con-
ferred as follows: Revs. John F. Burns,
Edward J. Carey, Dennis H. Donovan,
James F. Haney, Thomas F. McHuGh,
Frederic J. Allechin, Edward A.
Costello, Edward F. Crowley, James
a. Donnelly, William P. Finnigan,
Edward ]. Frahar, Walter Gill.
Dennis j. Mcguire, Edward +.
Murphy, John J. O'Brien. George
II. Quigley, William F. Twoohig, John
Walsh and William ]. Duffy, all of the
Boston archdiocese; James ]. Maginnis.
Hartford; William T. Walsh, Paulist
Father. New York, and John 8. Farrell,
Springfield.
BY the explosion of a kerosene lamp
in baggage car on the Boston " Al
hany division Of the New York Central
Railroad While passing through Rich-
dale Mass, Friday. the car was de-
stroyed and the Adams Express Co.,
which occupied it with general mer-
chandise and four safes filled with val
uables estimated to be worth 100000
chiefly jewelry, will lose about $4,000.
Charles J. Adamson, alleged to be the
third member of the gang of counter
fciters who passed number of coun-
terfeit S. silver certificates on mer-
chants in Bridgeport, Conn.,, has been
arrested in New York City. He was
taken to New Haven, Conn.,, and ar
raigned before United States Commits
siOner Wright, who held him for the
next term of the United States district
court. Robert Leyrer and George
Lloyd, two members of the counter
feiting gang, were arrested and con-
victed.
Two thousand burghers attended an
impressive religious service. prior to
the burial of the body of ex-President
Kruger. Several ministers of the
Dutch church spoke, eulogizing the
dead man for his exemplary religious
life and as a lover of his people and ex-
hortins the Beers while remaining loyal
to the new flag never to forget the prin-
ciples of their late leader or their own
language. An immense crowd filed
through the death chamber throughout
the morning. The coffin was draped
with the Transvaal and Orange Free
State flags and on it were the tributes
of Queen Wilhelmina and the queen
mother of Holland.
The body of John Shuta, a Pole, was
found. Friday. in Hudson, the town
Nashua, n, H. in the woods
near the power house Of the Boston &
Northern Street Railway. His head
was nearly blown off, apparently by a
shotgun. Shuta went cunning with
two fellow countrymen, Tuesday, and
no trace Of any had been found until,
Friday. The police are OF the
opinion that Shuta was H0uTdered,
and an active search is bei1 de for
the other two POI SD Tas 30
wears old and leay 4 sew
eral children in hi qua.
The toy pistd Lloyd
Adams & Sin pouth,
Ohio. was - osion,
Friday. E. was
killed. Ola were |
fatally in hers
hurt by j. i
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killed Mis-
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