Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-27
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Sioux City, Iowa, Has
$2,500,000 Fire.
Bombs Wreck Tenement House
in New York.
A Glance at What is Going on at Home
and Abroad.

Capt. Baldwin's ailship "California
Arrow" driven by Roy Knabenshue of
Toledo, Ohio. who made several sue
cessful flights in the same machine
from the Worlds fair grounds at st.
Louis. was given it's first trial in Los
Angeles, Calf, Sunday. and was sue
cessful with the singh exception of its
failure to land at the starting point. A
landing was effected Ealf mile away,
without damage to the machine and it
Was safely towed back to its anchorage.
The airship was in light an hour and
13 minutes and in tha- time sailed a
distance Of probably 20 miles.
AS a result of a collision between two
ice boats. speeding Eefore gale of
wind at the rate of 80 miles an hour on
ononlago lake. Syracuse. n. Y, three
men We're killed and three badly in
iur, H. The dead are James Jackson.
Charles Markham and George Todd. all
OF Syracuse, and the injured are Fred
Warner. Otto Schulling and John
SeSSler.
Mrs. Margaret Monahan. aged 81
years. of 81 Norfolk street. Worceste-
was fatally burned. Saturday evening.
by the explosion Of a lamp which
dropped as she was placing it on a
mantel. She ran to neighbours. and
from there was taken to the City hospi-
tai.
After the midnight mass at the
Roman Catholic cathedral in Razon,
Russia. Sunday night. crowd COM
posed of wOrkmen. paraded the streets
f,1 o. rn6 To- no
thorities in trying TO disperse it were
received with shots and a serious en-
counter followed. in which the COM
mander Of the 26th Regiment was killed
and a gendarme wounded. One of the
demonstrators was killed.
The plant of the Maryland Cement
Works. near Perkinsviile. n. Y. was
destroyed by fire. Sunday, entaiIing a
loss of 100000 partially covered by in
surance.
An electric car ran away down Olnay
street. New York. Sunday. and collided
with an electric pole at the foot of the
hill. Eleven persons, ircluding the con-
ductor and motorman, We're injured,
but none seriously.
William Chase. 80 years and sup
posed to be homeless, was found uncon-
scious in a stable in Somerville, Mass,
Sunday. and removed to a hospital
where he died shortly after his arrival.
1t is the opinion of the physician that
Chase froZe to DEATH
w. H. Halstead aged IS. poolroom
and restaurant proprietor at Colonia,
near Beaver, Pa, was found murdered
at his place of business. Saturday. He
was bound and gagged and his head
was bruised in several places. The gas
was turned on, causing death from
asphyxiation. The police have no clew.
Halstead was about to close a deal for.
the sale of his property. and it is sun
posed the purpose of the murder was
robbery
Religious services appropriate to the
Christmas season were held in every
city and town throughout New Eng
land. Sunday.
The explosion of bombs in the apart
ments of Stephen Mariana on the
fourth floor of a tenement house on
Weber street, New York city. Sunday
blew the roof off the building and
wrecked the upper and lower floors be-
hurt, several others were injured. and
10 families, consisting 20 persons
were made homeless. Mariana manu-
1actured bombs. such as are used in
Italian religious celebrations. Mariana
his wife, and Carato. owner of the
building after receiving medical atten-
u"h' We're arrested on a charge Of
maintaining fireworks ard other ex-
ploslves within the city limits.
W. S. Fielding. finance minister in
the Canadian cabinet, arrived in
naples. Sunday. on Loard the steam
snip Celtic. He will remain some DAYS
IN Italy and will than go to Vienna.
from which place he expects to return
to Canada by way of London.
Freedom after eight years spent in
Sing Sing prison, to which he had been
sentenced for life for arson and second
degree murder. is the Christmas pres
ent which Governor Odell has given
Adolph Herschkopf He is indebted
for his release to Henry s. Davis. a
former assistant district attorney, who
prosecuted him and brought about his
conviction, but who since has become
convinced that the convict was inno-
cent.
In battle which took place between
negroes, firemen, policemen and citi-
zens. In Plainfield. N. j., Sunday. two |
policemen were fatally injured, a third |
badly hurt, and four negroes were |
locked up. The negroes had been |
standing on street corners yelling |
Merry Christmas" at everyone who |
passed and demanding money to buy
drink. Policeman Walter Smalley at
tempted to arrest one Of them, and was
knocked down and beaten. Policeman
kiela went to his assistance, but was
struck in the face and slashed with a
razor. Passersby summoned assist
ance. The negroes drew knives and
revolvers. but the police did not shoot,
fearing that someone in the crowd
might get hit. A call was sent to the
ire department which responded, and
with citizens the battle was waged for
half an hour. When the negroes We're
inally subdued there were cries from
he crowd Of bring a rope" and
Ench them, and a crowd hung about