Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-18
BITS BY WIRE,
A Glance at What is Happening in
Many Places.

SISTER in an apartment house in New
York, Sunday. Mrs. Colburn, mother
of the children, was busy with the
hdDy carriage which had caught at
the entrance of the car and the ele-
Vator boy stepped out of the car to
assist her. Little Harold grasped the
lever and moved it. The car bounded
up. throwing the attendant and Mrs.
CoiDurn back, overturned the carriage
anu threw the baby into the shaft.
Mrs. Colburn is dangerously i'll from
the shock. The elevator boy was ar
rested for leaving his car while the
child was in it,
clay Crubb, prominent distiller,
shot and instantly killed o. L. Davis,
his brother-in-law and former business
partner, in Piney church, Dawson
county. n. c., Sunday morning. Davis
was attending church, when Crubb
walked up behind him and emptied
three chambers of his revolver into his
body. Crubb Immediately surrendered
TO the police. There had been Il feel
ing between the two men for some
time. Davis leaves a family and was
a man of wealth.
Fred Bashaw was held up and robbed
on Strong's avenue, one of the busiest
streets of Rutland, VT, Friday after
noon, by two boys. One of them held
his arms while the other went through
his pockets and took about $50. The
two then escaped. John Slattery and
Richard Floyd. both Rutland boys
who have heretofore borne good repu-
tations, were arrested, Saturday,
n "a xx-;tI he
people saw the robbery committed at
distance of 100 yards or more. but
nobody dared to assist Bashaw.
Sarkis Nargashian, convicted at
Providence, r. l., last February. of
the murder of his uncle, Peter
Ouloosian, Oct. IA, 1903, was. Saturday.
sentenced to life imprisonment. Mar
gashian said he was made TO strange
his uncle by Kaspar Nigoluan. The
latter escaped. The murder was for
the purpose of robbery.
John Thompson killed his cousin. and
fatally wounded his uncle, &. NJ.
Thompson. Sunday, near Walnut
Grove. few miles from Covinston. Ga.
The shooting was the result Of 4 quar-
rel over some trivial family matter.
A dispatch from Indianapolis says
that a telephone message received from
Rensselaer,, Ind, reports that The resi-
dence of Alfred Mccoy, president of
the defunct Mccoy bank, against
whom indictments were recently re-
turned for alleged completely i'll the
wrecking of the bank has been dyna-
mited and totally destroyed.
Coroner jackson, Sunday, Investigate
ed the death of Charles Piefferman. 30
years old, fruit dealer of New York
city, and Miss Cora kipling. who
were found dead, early Sunday. in
Piefferman's apartment in New York.
Miss Kipling's home was said to have
been in Stonybrook, Conn, but had
lived for some time in New York. Both
had been shot in the right temple and
Piefferman had also bullet wound In
the right side. Coroner Jackson an
bounced that after a more thorough
and more careful examination, he had
arrived at the conclusion that it was
a case of murder first and suicide
afterward, that Piefferman killed the
girl and then ended his own life.
! The Supreme court, at Providence, +.
| L. Saturday, set aside verdict OF Sl9,-
900 awarded Annie f. McCabe against
the Narragansett Electric Lighting co.
| for the death of her husband, who was
| killed by an overcharged wire. The
| court considers the damages excessive.
The week ending Saturday Will go on
record as one of the dullest in the MS
tory of Boston with regard to the eX-
mort of grain. for not bushel OF
cereal was shipped. This week. $4,000
! bushels Of wheat and corn will be sent
forward from there. This is ridicu-
,ously small amount compared with
the exports under normal conditions
The apple shipments for the week
| were 26.6l2 barrels, compared win 20
| oSy barrels for the corresponding Week
1.st wear. The apple shipments to the
| t,,1ropein market thus far this sea-
| son have reached the total of llo.o4o
barrels. an increase of 1oooo parreie
over the shipments. last year.
I.arkin wyman Hall, aged s. years
proprietdr of a millinery establishment
at ~ Winter street, Boston, was N,iieu
at h back Bay lodgings, some time
sat, Day Night. His death was not
a;s, ared until late Sunday, when
frie called by appointment
Gem Sennott and Fred Watson, both
of whom are privates in the nth com
mani of Coast Artillery stationed at
Fort warren, have been arrested on
charee of murder. and the police say
that Watson has admitted the killing,
Int SAYS The did 1t in self defence.
The new 14OO0 ton armored cruiser
. Colorado arrived in New York from
philadelphia. Sunday evening. She
is making her way noi'thward for her
trial trip. which is to be given over the
Cane Ann course off the Massachusetts
| coast October 20.
The ministry of instruction in Rome
has taken steps to repair the damage
caused by heavy rain to the famous
Cathedral of Assist Giotto's freScoes
and other notable art treasures 'Afre
injured by the rain,
:. The Morocco government has noo-
fed all the legations that commencing
November 3, all port to port trade in
E wheat. barley and foodstuffs will be
= stopped. Such short notice of the