Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-31
WIRE GlEANINGS..
A Summary Of Some Of the Most I'm
portant Events Of the Day.

In q hcad-on collision on the Wor
| cester and Southbridge Street Railwa,
in Charlton, near Worcester. Mass
Thursday morning. Emily Fitzgerald
aged %, married. was fatally injured
Both legs were badly crushed and am
putation below the knees was neces
sary
Mary Wassielwski, aged seven years
| died at New Britain, CT, Thursday. a
the result of severe burns SUSTAINED
Wednesday. The girl said her clothe
were set on fire by some small boys
but would not tell their names.
well dressed man, apparently abou
30 years old who was found last Sun
day on the tracks Of an interurbar
railway near Coopersvile, Mich. un.
conscious with his skull fractured anC
was taken to Ottawa county infirmary
near there for treatment died Thurs.
day. He reused from his unconscious
condition at first shortly before his
death and said his name was George
Warren and that his father lived in
boston. He is thought to have been 4
travelling man and officials believe he
was slusged and robbed.
Oyama, the Japanese, who assaulted
and wounded Ii Hung Chang at Shi-
monsecki in 1895 during the Chinese
japanese peace negotiations. and who
was sentenced to life Imprisonment,
has received a special pardon in Toxic.
A loss estimated at between 800. 900
and $4,000 was caused by fire in Bos-
ton Thursday, which Quilted the stor-
age Warehouse Of j. l.. KelsOe & Co..
at Union wharf. A large amount of
cotton and wooden rags and waste was
destroyed The fire is supposed to have
been caused by spontaneous combus-
ton.
Although no arrests had been made
up to early afternoon Thursday in con-
nection with the murder of Hugh Kane.
the Ludlow milkman. the police Off
Gals in Springfield, Mass. had received
information which according to their
statement might result in an arrest be-
tore night. The police were notified that
man who lives near the spot where
the murder is believed to have been
committed was seen with the dead man
Wednesday near the time when the
crime is thought to have been perpe-
trated. The police of surrounding towns
are watching for persons who answer
the description of the suspect
A sergeant of the 23rd regiment of
artillery has been arrested at CoblentZ.
Germany. on the charge of treason. He
was detected through the discovery on
the person of a traveller. who was
bound for Paris. F. Herbesthal. on the
Belgian frontier. of copies of secret in
structionS regarding artillery firing as
practiced in the German army and
which are only confided to certain Off
GERS under stringent safeguards. The
arrested man was commander of the
at the regimental headquarters. 1t is
presumed that he there found oppor-
tunity to abstract the copies Of the
secret instructions and other docu-
ments. Further arrests are believed to
be impending.
The American officers, Brig. Gen. Ed
gerly, Maj G. Dewitt Wilcox. Capt.
Rob't F.. l.. Niche and Capt. George
II. Shelton designated by the L. S.
government to attend the autumn
manoeuvreS of the German army as
guests of Emperor William. arrived in
Berlin Thursday. They We're taken to
the Hotel Keizerhoff. where they will
be entertained at his majesty's expense
The british war Office is sending a del
egatiOn to the manoeuvres. among
them being Lieut.. Gen. Sir Arthur Pa
get and II other officers.
Three deaths due to falls were re-
ported to police headquarters at Bos-
ton Thursday night. Cornelius J. Con-
molly. IS years old. married. of 80 Ed
ingwood street, RoXbury. fell from a
wagon. the wheels Of which passed
over his head and body. He died on
the way to the hospital. A man known
only 10 the police as mckinley" fell
GO feet from the roof of IS Worcester
street in reaching for a tool. He was
dead when bystanders reached him.
Michael Chefaro. IA years old. while
playing on the roof of his home at IL
North Bennett street accidentally ran
off the edge and fell to the street %
feet below. He died soon after ARRIVAL
at the relief hospital.
Samuel f. Mute, a patient recently
released from an insane asylum on pro-
baton took his life at his home at 81
Yoult street. Melrose, Mass. thursday
in an unusually sensational manner.
Following signs Of violence. Police OFF,
GERS A!lston Pine and Harry Brown
were called upon to investigate the
trouble. Mute, locked in his bedroom,
fired through the door. Smoke was
later seen to be issuing from Mites
room and a fire alarm was turned in.
Mute was heard to fire two more shots
Just as the fire apparatus drew up in
front of the house. The firemen boldly
forced an entrance to the room but
Mute had disappeared. His bed and a
bundle of papers were on fire. and he
was soon discovered lying dead in a
closet. He had inflicted two terrible bull
let wounds upon himself one through
the left eye and another in the breast.
The fire was easily eXtinguished. Mute
was &C years old and unmarried.
A report from w. Chester. Pa. says
that Judge Fuller has sentenced DIR.