Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-29

| loW carrying with il many hundred
toms Of earth and completely damming
the stream. I'll" loss is varinusy esti-
| mated at from 4 quarter 10 $500 900
! besides Tie delay III completing the
road
Fra which threatened the destruc-
ton of Il large amount IF property in
! the business section Of Dover. ~ H.,
| started saturday morning on the first
! Hoop "t the thrcc-Story brick block
! owned by Edward l.. Ham Of Boston.
| cntailinG a loss ~ $500 on the build
ing and about $500 to the occupants.
William L. Curtis. who was asleep in
, the building, had a narrow escape, be-
! inS rescued on ladder from third
story in his night clothes.
The Central Trades and Labor
| Union Of st. Louis Sunday refised to
endorse Il resolution by the pattern
makers organization attacking Pres.
Roosevelt for his terming as undesir-
able citizens Meyer and Haywood Of
tIccrs Of the Western Federation of
Miners. Members If the Central Labor
body declarcd No matter what we
may think Of Mr.. Roosevelt, we must.
as good citizens respect the office OF
!
! -Four buildings with their contents
We're destroyed by fire that caused a
| loss Cf 10000 in West Rutland. VT.
| Saturday night. The town has no fire
fighting apparatus and help was sum
moncd from Rutland. The buildings
were two-StOry wooden structures used
as stores and dwellings,. The loss was
divided about equally between William
| 81. ~ I'll
| George McDavitt, owners ana occu-
pants of the buildings.
| Albert Zimmerman ana John Reicker
| were killed ana eight men were in
| jured Sunday at LuXamburg, n suburb
Of st. Louis, by an explosion Of dyna
mite while they were attempting to
| oxtinguish Il fire in 4 small building.
| Several Of the injured are in a serious
| condition. The police are working on
| theory that the fire was Of incendiary
| origin. After the flames were first
| discovered many men Joined in the eff
! fort to eXtinguish the fire. Suddenly
an explosion from within the building
4, molished. killed the two men and in
! jared many others.
| A train on the Grand Rapids a. In
diana Railway was wrecked at Collett.
! Ind. Sunday ana about Il dozen pas
scmgcrs were injured. Only two were
| seriously hurt. \ truck under the
| tender collapsed. throwing the train in
TO the ditch While going to the scene
Of the wreck in an automobile, Frank
krnworthy ana four residents Of Win
chester. Ind. ran into Il fence and was
| thrown out kenWorthy landed against
telegraph pole. His neck was broken
| and he died a few minutes laie-.
| George Edwards. another Of the auto
mobile party, was seriously hurt. The
| others escaped with bruises.
The 18th annual relay races Of the
| University of Pennsylvania were run
| off on Franklin field at Philadelphia
| Saturday before more than $4,000 spec
! tatOrs. The winners: Mile relay Chi
cago; 4-miie relay. Michigan; 2-mile
run, Columbia; 1OO-yd DASH Rulon-
Miller Of Princeton il. 1925 sec; pole
| vault. Allen Of Syracuse. II feet. IN
| in; shot put, Kruger of Swarthmore.
| AZ #. in: hammer throw, Talbot OF
| Mcrcersburg, 1853 #, 9ia in; high jump,
| MofIlth Of Pennsy feet; 120-yd.
| hurdles Shaw Of Dartmouth; 100-yd
dash. Rulon-Miller of Princeton: 120-
va. DASH Reed Of Amherst, Is 2-5 Sec;
| New England relay, Mass Tech.
| The Rockingham Hotel in Portsmouth,
N II, and the Wentworth Hotel, in
| Newcastle, Saturday changed hands, be-
| ing sold by the trustees Of the Frank
| Jones estate to Mcdonald e Towle of
New York, rcal estate brokers. The deal
| has been under consideration for some
weeks. Mcssrs. Mcdonald & Towle took
possession at once, and they have secured
the services of Charles Hail. manager
of the Hotel Somerset of Roston and for
years manager of the Faragut Hotel at
Rye Beach. to manage both hotels. The
price paid is not known and neither the
trustees nor the new owners would give
it out, but it is known that the property
went for less than a fifth Of the actual
cost
A new pier under construction at Lo-
Gust point. South Baltimore, collapsed
Saturday. carrying down almost n scora
Of workmen. Three bodies have heen re-
covered and identified and IS men, most
| of them negro laborers, are missing.
Howard L. Ellender of Baltimore a civil
engineer. was one of the dead. He lost
mis- life trying to save the men on the
outer end of the pier. Supt. w. N. Ede-
son Of the Baltimore Bridge Co.. who
was injured in the performance of the
same service, was not seriously hurt. The
pier was being built for the Baltimore &
/ Ohio Railroad at the immigration station
at Locust point for the use of the North
German Lloyd Steamship co. at a cost OF
$46O,O0O. 1t was 1000 feet long and was
about three fourths completely