Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-09
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| Beach lire Saving statiOn, near Nc"
York. started OH a swimming contest
from Brooklyn bridge to the iron pier
at Coney Island, Sunday morning, and
both were taken out Of the water tenn
| porarily craZed, after swimming for
| seven hours and when within a mile of
| their goal The distance Is estimated
| at 1917 miles.
The Rio Grande passenger train. No.
II. due to reach Pueblo at SIS p NJ.
vent through the bridge at Pinion.
Colo, Sunday night. The engine and
| i've coaches were wrecked and a num-
her of passengers injured. The acct
dent was caused by heavy rain which
| cakencd the bridge. 1t was reported
that 80 persons were drowned in the
wreck, many of them residents OF
Pueblo. A call for volunteers was
made on Pueblo and every available
man was sent to the scene.
Morton Ladd, telephone inspector
of Rostcn, was blown out Of a naphtha
launch by the explosion of tank, and
drowned off Revere beach, Sunday
night. Arthur Nichols of Beachmont,
I companion, was also blown overheard
but managed to swim ashore. The
boat drifted ashore where the flames
were extinguished by men on the beach,
Ladi was &c years old and is survived
by widow and one child.
A score or more persons were injured
in New York, Sunday night, by bomb
thrown into a crowd of Italians.
VinccnZo Donetto was arrested, and
the police believe he is a member of the
BLACK Hand" society, which for some
time has terrorized the residents of the
Italian section and extorted money
from them by threats and actual
violence. Donetto was more severely
injured than any of the others. one leg
being torn from the hip to the ankle,
but he managed to make his escape at
the time, and was arrested later in the
day at his home.
The bodies of Mrs. Frances O'Reilly
OF Woonsocket, r. l., her three chill
dren, her sister. Mrs. Helen Vedito and
the ldtter's infant, and George H.
Leach manager of the Nasonville
wooden mill at Nasonville, r. l., seven
of the eight victims of the drowning ac-
cident near Digby, N. s., last Thursday,
arrived in Woonsocket, Sunday. The
bodies of Mrs. VeditO's baby and the
O'Reilly family were taken to Ye
Arnold Inn, North Smithfield. and the
funeral of these six victims will be held
at the Sacred Heart church in Woon-
socket, this morning. The funeral OF
Mr. Leach will be held at the Uni
versalist church, this morning.
All the labor unions in Chicago have
endorsed the Stock Yards strike. After
listening to the strikers side of the
controversy, which was presented to
them by Michael j. Donnelly, president
of the striking Butchers Union, the
Chicago Federation of Labor which is
composed of every labor organization
in Chicago and has membership of
nearly 300, 600, adopted resolutions. Sum
day night, pledging the moral and
official support of that body as long as
the strike continues.
A foreign substance, believed to be
poison, was found in the stomach of
the trotting stallion Jewett A, by the
veterinary who performed an autopsy
in Dover. N. H.. Sunday. The horse
dropped dead. Saturday. Jewett A was
owned by Herbert Gray of Haverhill,
Mass, manager of the Granite State
Trctting Park. Early in the week two
other fast horses, Sagwa and Art Boy.
died suddenly. Sagwa, owned by
Thomas l.. Berry of Franklin Park.
Mass. had a mark of 2.O9A, and was
formerly owned bySThomas w. Lawson
of Boston, who paid s71 600 for him.
Art Roy had a mark of 2.19, and was
owned by William Miller of Albany, N.
Y. Both Art Boy and Sagwa will be
eXhumed for an examination of their
stomachs. The stomach of Jewett A
will be taken to Boston by w. w. Scott,
the Strafford county solicitor. for ex-
animation by an expert chemist.
The freighter City of Berlin, with
about 5000 tons of iron ore on board,
collided with an unknown boat in the
Detroit river. north of Belle Isle, Mich.
Sunday night, and sunk. The crew was
taken ashore. There was no loss of life
as far as can be learned. The boat was
owned in Detroit.
White Bear, the American challenger
won the second race for the Seawan-
haka cup, defeating Noorna by SO sec
onds in Saturdays contest at Mon
treal. The race was sailed in a stiff
1S-knOt breeze and was gallant test
from start to finish.
The national polo championship cup,
offered by w. w. Aston, was won, Sat
urday, at Narragansett Pier, r. l., by
the team of the Myopia Hunt Club of
Hamilton. Mass, when it defeated the
Byrn Mawr team of Philadelphia, by a
score of IA to Ia goals.
The iury i'm tho inulleSt on the death
of Nelson Dill returned a verdict, Sun
day, at Windsor, N. S., finding that the
man came to his death by sharp in
strument in the hands of William |
Healy. 1t is claimed that Dill inter- |
fered in a quarrel between his younger |
brother, Harry, and Healey, and was |
stabbed through the heart by Healey, |
who used a pocket knife. Healey is |