Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-22
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

At the annual meeting of the New
England Association of General Bag
gage Agents Thursday at Boston,
George c. Allen of Moncton, n. B., was
elected president. Mr. Allen is gener-
al baggage agent of the Intercolonial
Railway, one of the systems owned
and operated by the Canadian govern
ment.
The Massachusetts Board of Railroad
commissioners announced Thursday
that next Wednesday they would hold
Il second public hearing on the Bakers
Bridge accident on the Boston & Maine
Railroads Fitchburg division of Nov.
% when II We're killed and that Engi-
neer Lyons of the Montreal express,
which telcscoped the Marlboro local
will be called to testify.
Stockholders of the American Tele-
phone IL Telegraph Co. Thursday au-
thOrized the directors of the company
to issue $50, 900 900 in convertible bonds
Tie money is to be used in extensions
and bettermcrftS of the system MAIN
tained by the company in the United
States. The directors arc to issue the
bonds from time to time as they shall
decide, but not below par.
The fire which burned three days in
mid-ocean on the Johnston Line
steamer Aranmore. broke out again
Thursday in the afterhold of the YES
sci. which is tied up at one of the
Boston harbor docks. The city fire
department was not summoned. the
captain depending on an extensive in
lection of steam into the hold to eX-
tinguish the flames. If the steam
treatment is not found successful. the
hold will be flooded. The Aranmore
came from Antwerp. Two hundred
tons of her cargo had been removed
when the flames broke out afresh.
The death of Henry Harland, the
American author, who wrote 1.-THE Car
Ginafs SnuffboX," was announced in
cdblegram received from Italy Thurs
lay by Walter H. Marion of New York.
Mr.. Harand died Wednesday at San
Reno, Italy. His American home was
at Norwich, CT, and he also had
London residence Mr.. Harland wrote
under the pseudonym of Sidney Luska. :
After being educated at the college Of |
the City of New York and at Harvard |
he went to London to live where he be-
gan his writing under this pen name. |
lie was born in st. Petersburg in 1861. |
Mrs. Sarah Whitmore. widow.
aged SO years was murdered Wednes-
day night in her home near the villa e
of Muncy Valley. Sullivan county,
Pennsylvania. Robbery is believed to
have been the motive. Mrs. Whitmorc
lived alone. The crime was discovered
by Charles Flick of Penn township.
who sought shelter at the house from
Il storm. No one answered his knock
and he entered and found Mrs. Whit
more lying in a pool of blood with her
head badly battered. The sitting room
of the house Showed evidence of
struggle. The house had been ran
sa cked for valuables.
Five guards had q desperate fight
With ii convict at the Ohio pcnitentiary
at Columbus, Ohio, Thursday evening
and one of the guards, w. II. Moorhead
sustained probably fatal injuries. But
Ir" styles. Franklin county prisoner,
Sent UP for mdnslaughtcr. hid when
the prisoners went to supper, and the
five guards were sent in search of him.
styles was found in one of the shops.
Seeing only MoOrhead, STYLES fclled him
with an iron bar. The other guards al
once opened fire on Styles and. seeing
resistance was useless, The prisoner
He Was not hit by any OF
the bullets. Guard Moorhead's skull
was fractured.
Thomas Parmlec Wickes, the New
York lawyer who vas convicted of at
tempted bIackmail by means of the
Lewis jarvis letters. was sentenced
to one year in the penitenti-
airy. Before sentence Wickes was ex-
amincd for his sanity and two physi-
clans reported to the court they found
him now mentally sound" The
charge on which Wickes was convicted
was that he wrote a threatening letter
to person interested in a case in
which he was engaged as attorney.
This letter suggested settlement of =
the case and was signed Lewis A
Jarvis. Wickes' counsel secured
stay of judgment for week. during
which time they will apply for a GER
ioate Of reasonable ,loubt