Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

4
| The Boston Park Squart station has
been sold to 4 real estate syndicate
by the New York & New Haven for
I$i,000000.
| The VIII of Miss Susan 3. Anthony
| was offered for probate Saturday. The
! estate amounts to about $4,000 all
| OF which is left to the woman's suf-
| trage cause.
| The Ottawa River Navigation 90 5
| steamer Sovereign, vessel used in the
| i-acl4lnc Rapids service, was burned at
Lachine Sunday. Loss $4,000; insur-
| ance $4,000.
| The New York Herald said Sunday
| that Lyman j. Gage, former secretary
! Of the treasury, has decided to resign
| as president of the United States
| Trust Co. on account of failing health.
A man about 10 years old, who is sup
| posed to be John j. McCabe. a weaver
| of Pittsficld, Mass, was found dead in a
| hallway of a tenement in Chrystie strccr.
| a block from the Bowery, New York, sun
| day.
The funeral of Rev. DR.. Joseph How
'~-AAo oll- ItNLpL VI 81 L dUI SCHOOL,
who died in Camden, S. c.. Saturday.
will lie held in the chapel of St Pauls
! school in Concord, n. H., Wednesday
| next at noon.
The jury in the federal court at
Tampa, Fla, Saturday night convict
ed George II. Stephens, a Princeton
graduate and former professor in
| Lafayette college, Pennsylvania, on the
charge of contemplating.
| Two women We're nearly suffocated
and another woman and several male
walters were compelled to make a
hasty flight to the street during a fire
| which damaged the hotel-restaurant
Marlaivc in Boston Saturday.
| Clayton Christy, aged q years, shot and
| killed Frank Messenger, AZ years old last
| night at Columbia, Pa. Christy claimed
| that Messenger had attempted to preju-
| rice against him Miss Grace Findlay, 10
whom he had been paying attention.
| a telegram received from Oakley.
! Idaho, states that j. L. Simkins, mem
Der Of the executive committee of the
| Western Federation of Miners. has
| been arrested near there. S5impkins is
/
sinutinn Of eX-Goycrnor Frank Steun-
| enbcrg.
At q mass meeting Of Workngmen Of
| Washington Sunday at which most OF
| the local unions were represented, res
| oIutinns we're adopted protesting
! against the uuwarrantcd arrest Of
| Mcssr-. Meyer. Haywood and Pettibone
| Of the Western Federation of Miners
| in Idaho. The resolutions assert the
conspiracy charge against the men
was ''tru.Aped NJ" y small sum of
money WAS contributed to their cause.
! becoming confused by the shrill
Blasts az . locomotive whistle. Brother
! Peter G0!:n O'Lcary) of the order of
Christian Brothers. an instructor OF
the Catholic Pro;v"tory for Boys. near
! Norriatown, Pa. was killed IVY a
freight train on the Pennsylvania rail-
road Saturday. Brother Peter was
walking along the rails when the two
trains approached from opposite di
fectioi3 The whistles bowildo~-' hf,'r
land III attempting to step aside he
| walked in front of the trans ana " as
run down.
| Fully 1900 people We're in a wild
| stampede for the stairs at Ills p. NJ.
Saturday when Il fire practically de-
stroyel the building. broke out in the
| Wobrrn Auditorium at Woburn. Mass.
| The 81. Charles Society was giving its
minstrel show when the blaze started
in the rear OF the stage. Cool
heads tried to calm the audi
cncc, composed largely of women and
| children, and in Il measure succeeded.
although many women tainted and had
to be carried to safety. The cleo
trio light service was speed
lily crippled and darkness added
to the terror. Fortunately all
were gotten out in safety. The
! flames speedily gained Roadway
and the entire fire department of the
city was summoned and aid asked of
neighboring towns.
From words inadvertently let fall
by his brother Walter Saturday,
Charles L. Tucker. convicted of the
murder of Mabel Page. learned for the
first time that the United States So
preme court had denied his petition
Walter Tucker and his wife visited the
prisoner in the Jail at East Cambridge
at go Saturday. Walter knew that
the petition in his brothers behalf had
been denied, but he did not know that
Charles was still ignorant of it. They
talked of the case and Walter. it is
said. expressed words of sympathy
with his brother. and it then suddenly
dawned on the prisoner that there was
no further room for hope at the hands
of the courts. He broke down. placed
his head on his arms and cried bitterly.
It took his brother a half hour to bring
4 him to exercise self-control. Soon af-
Il ter that he returned to his cell and
III colf aoo:.. VI