Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-27
WIRE GLEANlNGS.
A Glance at What is Happening Here,
There and Everywhere.

Carl Hanna, son of Dan A. Hanna
of New York and a party OF frlenus
were injured in an automobile accident
between Seabright and Asbury PARK
early Sunday. The automobile Whlch
Young Hanna was driving collided Win
q butchers cart and was wrecked
Eight of tie nine in the party were
bruised and cut including Hanna. TIL"
| three occupants OF the butchers cart
| were also bruised painfully.
| An explosion presuma bly, of gas, Sun
Gar night wrecked The business quarter
of Cedar Fails, Iowa, causing loss
| Of s1O0.n,0. No one is reported dead or
| severely hurt.
Richard Mulholland, formerly mayor
| Of Dunklrk. \. V. died Sunday. He
was prominent in the knights of
Columbus.
Grave Agrarian disturbances have
broken. cat in the province of Kursk.
Russia. -whcre the corps Of several OF
the richest landlords have been burned.
Fire Of unknown origin. which started
in the upper stories of the Moreton
Track ana Storage cos. building at
Tolcto.D. a four-stury brick structure.
caused a l,SS sunday night estimated
~ from el5"Uo. To $2n0."m. The build
ing wa; occupied ty the International
Harvester 60. restaurant and Other
small concerns. The loss is Well cover
ed by Insurance.
The Lord MAYOR Of Dublin Sunday
unI oilcd the monument at Fontenoy,
Bclgium. To commemorate tn" bravery
Of the Irish brigade in the battle OF
L ~, i,, l,.
31p Irish visitors, the local authorities
and the clergy. The monument Is
present to the town by various irish
societies, After the unveiling speeches.
in Gaelic were made by prominent irish
men and the monument was Soiti'iiS
blessed by the Dean of Antoing. sever
al Irish Americans participated III
memorial banquet Sunday night.
A spectacular fire. which is thought
to have been inctndiary, gutted ldrSt
warehouse in which 10000 bales OF eN-
ceIsior were stored at the corner "l
Spice and Cambridge streets, IN
charlestoVn. Mass, late sunday night
The loss is estimated at $2o00". ali OF
which falls upon Julian D'Este. mana
ger of n manufacturing concern Oh
CharlestOwn.
The strike Of the $500 operatives OF the
Montreal Cotton Co. has been settled
The operatives agree to return to work
and the company agrees to grant the
10 per cent increase t. the mule SPIN
ners. The operatives are to withdraw
their demand Of q 10 per cent. general
increase and all the minor disputes.
Hydrophoba, resulting from the bite
t,a nf ~
Alice ". Ward Sunday at Newington
Conn. A year ago Mrs. Ward was sit
ting in her home knitting when large
pet cat which had been playing with
the warn bit her foot. The wound never
healed and part Of the time Mrs. Warl
was demented because of her sufferings.
Mrs. Fannie f. Martin. daughter of Il
wealthy Southern planter and slave
owner. died in the Philadelphia hospital
Saturday, practically pernilesS. vic
tim of the morphine habit. She was
~ years old. Mrs. Martin cOnsccrated
her life to the uplifting Of the negr"
race. and in this work a fortune Of
5000. 600 which had been left to her. van
isht d. She had been living for several
years in a small house at 1921 Fitzwater
street. with Eliza I'pscher. an aged
negro, who remained faithful to her, al
though money had gone.
While playing with other boys on
the West river railroad bridge at Brat
tlei,oro Vt. sunday George Wethcrbce.
aged Il, son Of Charles Wetherbcc,
came in contact with a feed wire of the
Twin State Gas X Electric Power cos,
station and the shock of from 10000, t"
I ."o0 volts hurled him into the river
80 feet below. killing him instantly.
His body was recovered. Another boy
leaning on the iron railing of the bridge
was badly affected by the electricity.