Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-01
Big Grain Elevator CoIlapses
in Buffalo, N. Y.
Newsy Bits by Wire Condensed for
Busy Readers.

The body of Harry W. Messer WAS
found il tie water off T wharf. Boston.
Saturday morning, and was in a con-
dition rs to be almost unrecogniZable.
The body WAS discovered by Robert b.
Adams. Il fisherman on the gasolene
launch t,uprcss. who says he has two
witnesses and will claim the 5000 re-
ward. Messer was last seen on october
10 when he went into New England
House at about 80 and out again
about 4 o'clock A. NJ. Messer's father
lives at Windham. VT where he is "A
contractor. having work in the state
prison. 1t is believed that Messer COM
mitted suicide.
The nth week of the great textile
STRIKE iii Fan River, Mass. ended Sat
urday. with coniitions about the same
IS 1T the beginning. The curtalment in
Fab River alone for the IA weeks has
amounted to $4,000. 900 pieces of print
ing cloths and common yarn pieces
and 100000 more pieces of goods which
have not been made by the fine goods
mills involved in The strike.
Miss Pauline Aston daughter of Will
lam Waldorf Aston. WAS married ut St
MargaretS church. Westminster Lon
don. Sunday afternoon. to Capt
Spencer Clay. The ceremony was per-
formed by the Bishop Of London, DR..
Ingram. ana other clergymen III the
presence of a large congregation.
Morris Sacks. a Russian lawyer. 81
Years old. fired ut his wife three times.
then turned the revolver on himself
and shot himself in the head. both
were taken tn the hospital. and it is
thought that Mrs. Sacks will die. but
Sacks will recover. The shooting
occurred in Stuyyesant park New York
Sacks came from Russia about six
months ago. and his wife had been in
New York only four days. jealousy is
believed to have been the cause of the
shooting.
Rev. c. H. Hicks. q Dunkard preach
er. cropped dead.Sunday. in the Dun
kard church at Wrightsville, Pa. while
delivering a funeral sermon. He was
60 years old.
According to . dispatch from Hanger
to the London Times. an American
gentleman and two German sailors
while boating on the Lariche river.
were fired 1T, but their fate is UNI
known.
No bodies have as vet been taken
Colo. where an explosion entombed ~
miners. Friday. 1t was thought that
the bodies could have been taker out
within an hour. but while relief
workers We're preparing for the rescue.
another slide of rock occurred making
the progress Of tie rescuers more diff
cult. as hugh boulGers block the
passage. The coroner stated. Sunday
night, that i might be a day. Il week or
tW" weeks before the mine can be eX-
plored on account of the frequent cave
ms
Angel" hi Pietro. Is years Of age,
was stabbed in the back and groin by
Antonio Torisso, 16 Years of age. in a
street. New York. The stabbing was
tn" result Of quarrel over cards.
Fi"tro's wounds are not considered
fatal. T"risse was arrested.
The Ontario elevator in Buffalo. n.
y. collapsed Sunday. and sank into
the waters OF the Fans slip. The
cause of the collapse is unknown. The
elevator contained about 10000 BUSH
els of barley. a large portion of which
lies at the bottom of the slip. The
loss on the grain and building is esti-
mated at $35U.0O0.
John Gardner, who was found uncon-
sciOus on the beach at Newport News,
Va. last Sunday. died at the Newport
News hospital. Friday. He was ap-
parertly sleeping soundly, and his
slumber which ended in death was I'M
broken FOR 12S hours. The post NOR
tern disclosed "A clot of blood on the
brain which was evidently caused by
a heavy blow from sandbag 1t is |
the belief of Coroner Gay that Gardner
was murdered. Gardner went to
Newport News from Philadelphia. |
where he was employed by the Union
News CO. The police claim to have