Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| Just in the middle Of the afternoon
session Of school Tuesday at Port HUI
| ron, Mich, when the building was filled
| with 400 pupils and teachers, the Port
| Huron High school caught fire. Despite
the fact that hardly j. minutes elapsed
| between the first alarm and the falling
| IN Of the roof. teachers and pupils all
| escaped without injury to any.
| Among the number of nominations
| sent to the executive council by Gov.
| Guild of Massachusetts Tuesday were
| the following: Abraham G. ItatscheSky
| huston, to he u member Of the state
| bo%rd # charity, vice Henrietta Cod
| nun. resigned; Winfield s. Slncum,
| Newton. to be trustee Of the STATE Ii
| b";:ry; Franklin w. Hobbs, RrOokIinc,
to be trustee of the Lowell TcXtilc
| school.
The Stockholders Of the Connecticut
| Fire Insurance Co at n meeting Tues
| day, ratified the action recommended
| by the board of directors, reducing the
| capital stock Of the company from ST.
| 900. 900 to $500,000 by reducing the num-
Der "f shares from 10000 to 5000 ana
| voted to issue 5000 shares of the par
vaiue of 500 and $500. This will restore
a million to its cash assets. The com
| pany'S loss as Il result of the San Fran
| cisco fire was about $2.500,000
| Mary Hennessey, alias Mary Mack.
| ana other names. claimed by the au-
| thoritics to be one Of the most expert
| diamond thieves in the country, was
| Tuesday at Binghomton, n. Y, held
| for the grand jury in Broome county Oh
| the charge Of grand larceny. She is ac-
| cused of stealing a diamond ring from
| Z jrWelry store in Portland. Me, March
| l.. Because she is alleged to have had
the ring on her finger when sire was
| arrested IN BinGhumtcn on May 10, sh3
! Will he held fur trial in New York state
| instead of being eXtraGited 10 Maine,
| where the ALLEGED crime was commit
ed
| by the collapse Of 4 tank on the roof
! Of tie Adams K 60. dry goods store On
| sixth avenue, New York, followed by Il
| panic amung customers and clerks,
| nearly u score IF persons. mostly
| women. We're more or less seriously in
| jured Tuesday. The store was crowded
| with customers when the tank, owing
| - Ii" giving away of supports. topplcd
over on Il dome skylight covering q
| centr.tI court, pr"cipitdtng 10000 gal
| Ions of water ana Il shower OF broken
| glass on the main fioir. y number OF
| clerks and customers We're cut by fr:tS-
| m~ntS Of glass and other debris and
panic tnsucd in which hundreds Of
| women in frrnzir,l efforts tried To reach
the street.
The last chapter in the ocean traS-
cdy was ended Tuesday when 4 body
washed ashore at Philips tearh AZ
| %WanpScutt. Mass. search of
the clothing disclosed SO in
money and Il check for s. payable to
NJ. r. Campbell of Hockland, Me. The
| body gave evidence Of having been III
the water Il lon. time. and was so dis
figured as 10 be unrccogniZahle. 1t
was finally determined that The body
lWasheI ashore was that Of NJ. +. Camp
bell who commanded the schooner
| Landy Antrim of Boothbay. Me, which
| was lost in the storm of March -,
IWEpn all three members of the ere"
persisted. The bodies of two seamcn
were later found, but capt CampbclfS
body was not recovered until Monday.
An attempt by two prisoners to es-
care from the Massachusetts state
a prison officer who detected the mon,
John Cummings of Worcester and john
Brown of Salem. in the act Of boring
their way to liberty through the roof.
III. prisoners had managed 10 max"
| th,.ir Way from their cells on the fourth
| tier in The prison to the top OF tie fifth
| ticr from which point they Wtr" Try
ms to make All aperture in the root
lirg.. enough 10 permit Of their escape.
| RInNn IN Srrliul; Il sentence Of from T.
tu t. years for breaking ANA entering
| fh. cold Stream brewery in Lawrence.
| He was committed Feb. Il, 1901. Gun
nllr>; il; under :;rntcnc" Tor murder in
the second drgrc" ana has been iii the
prie"n since June l.. 1851.
| Dr = y Sayrca rf Richmond Va,
WAS found dead in room i'll he Gault
House al Chicago Tuesday and had an
parcutly committed suicide. An artery
IN the left wrist had been severed ANA
IL bullet from Il revolver which was
still held in the right hand, had been
fired into the heart. Papers shaving
his identity ana 500 iii cash were
found in the room. Tho man was we'll
dressed and apparently prosperous. The
polio" later in the day declared that
| whit" thcy We're al first Of the opinion
Or. SuyrtS had committed suicide they
| were not entirely satisfied that such
| was the case. The wound in the wrist
| was of a character such rs would be
| inflicted by Il surgeons Scalpel ThiS
inst rtmcnt could not be found when it
was looked for and it was believed pos
| sibIe that the man had been murdered.