Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-31
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Fire Wednesday night destroyed q
six-story factory building at the juno.
| ton Of Elizabeth and Hester streets
| New York. causing loss of about
800, 900.
| George W. Ochs, publisher and gen.
eral manager of the Philadelphia Pub
| lie Ledger, and Miss Berthe NJ. Cans
were married Wednesday. Mr.. and Mrs
Ochs will sail today for Europe to pass
| their honeymoon.
| Two bob-sleds collided at the foot of
| opposite hills at Peekskill. n. Y,
Wednesday night. OF the IS coasters,
| Lester Barrett, aged IL years, was
killed, and George Toubenglier, l3 years
old, seriously injured. The others es-
capped with cuts and bruises.
John D. Rockefeller of New York. an
actor, was killed on The stage of a
Chicago theater Wednesday by Cat
ling gun which fell on his skull Rookie
Teller was helping remove the gun from
temporary platform on the stage.
The grand jury of Allegheny county
at Pittsburg has returned six true bills
against the Pullman Palace Car Co. al
cream to it's patrons. Over so dealers
nave been indicted for selling adulter-
ated foods.
Alfred Llewellyr. janitor, 46 years
old. is dying at hospital in New York
from bullet wound received Wednes-
day night while he was attacking his
wife. Their son, Alfred, 10 years Of age,
is charged with the shooting, which the
mother told the police was done in her
defence. In an anti-morter1 statement
the elder Llewellyn declared that the
shooting was accidental
An extensive but somewhat ancient
wooden building near Harvard square,
Cambridge, Mass, occupied by the
Boston Elevated Road for storage of
snow plows, shovels and street clean
ing implements, was damaged by fire
Wednesday evening. So threatening
was the fire at the start that the great
er portion Of the department was called
to the scene. The less is estimated at
$4,000.
Twenty three Mexican revolutionsts
under sentence of imprisonment for five
to eight years. were released from Jail
at Monterey. Tex. Monday night by
sympathizers. A letter received today
by a member Of an Ell Paso junta tells
of the escape. The Jail was dynamited.
tearing away a portion Of the wall and
through the opening the prisoners cs-
capped. They were to have been taken
to Mexico City the next day.
A gift Of 1000 to the Sheffield Sci
entif1c School Of Yale University is an
nounced in the current issue Of the
Yale Alumni Weekly. The donor is
John Hays Hammond of New York
City and the fund is for the further
equipment of the Hammond metallur-
gical laboratory. The money will be
used to defray the expenses of the pur-
chase and installing Of new machinery
in>the milling and rock crushing rooms
OF the laboratory.
Miss Gertrude Schworm. IS years
old. was attacked by highwayman
when not far from her home at AS
Birch street. Rosendale, Mass, Wednes- |
day evening. her assailant knocking |
her insensible by blow on the back |
of the head and then robbing her OF |
small sum of money. The young woman |
was found unconscious about an hour |
after by her sister. who had gone in |
search Of her She recovered after be- |
ing taken home, but could give no de- |
scription Of the person who attacked |
her.
An extraordinary grand Jury was |
Tuesday at Providence for |
Friday next TO investigate the action
OF coal dealers in making the recent /
advance OF SLIPS ton. The House of
Tuesday passed, in
amended form. the resolution presented
in the Senate by Senator Gardner OF
providing for an investiga-
lion Of the coal situation in Providence.
The Senate had passed this. but the
House. amended it to include the en-
ire state. The Senate Tuesday con-
cured in the House amendment.
A meeting Of the owners Of fishing
~eirs along the Bay Of Fundy in Char
otte county will be held at St. George.
b.. Saturday next to organize 4 uni
IN. One object of the organization is
announced to be the fixing of a mini
mum price at which they will sell their
herring to the Sardine packers at East
bort and Lubec. These now practical
y control the price. Later the union
will probably move to secure a stand
ird of measurement for their fish, as
hey claim the tubs now used are not
" uniform size.