Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The annual convocatiOn of New
Hampshire consistory, Ancient and Ac-
cepted Scottish Rite Masons, will be
held in Nashua on the Wednesday be-
fore and the Thursday of Fast day.
Despondent, it is said, over a love
affair Hazel n. Caples, II years old,
! committed suicide Sunday at Athol,
Mass, by taking laudanum. She was
employed in Il local shoe factory and
went there two years ago.
Westwood II. Windram junior part
ner of the firm of Windram & Son,
manufacturers of shoe findings. AZ Oil
yer street, Boston, committed suicide
by shooting himself Saturday in his
rooms at the Hotel Charlesgate.
Angered by a scolding for not having
sought employment Matthew Krascef-
sky. aged II years of Wilmington, Del,
Sunday deliberately shot and killed his
father. Louis Kraschefsky at their
home. The boy escaped. but later gave
himself up
Burglars early Sunday forced an
entrance to the Quincy department
store at Quincy. Mass. blew off the
door Of the safe with tro-glycerine
and secured $500 in cash, with which
they made their escape without leav-
ing trace of their identity behind.
William j. Corners chairman of the
New York state Democratic committee,
says: "'There is considerable sentiment
for Governor Johnson in the East. I
am Of the opinion that either Johnson
OF Harmon would make a stronger run
III New York state than Mr.. Bryan
William Forbes, Is years old, arrested
on suspicion at New Haven, confessed
that he committed 20 burglaries in
grocery and drug stores within q few
weeks. The burglaries have had the
police department almost in a panic,
and caused a shalleup in the force in
the central precinct.
The man who met death Saturday in
n fall from a trestle in West st. John,
N. b.. was Sunday identified as Donald
MacVicar, aged IS who had been living
with his son-in-law in West ST. John.
He had left home to go to the railway
depot to take a train for Boston to visit
his children, one of whom is in New
ton, Mass.
Frederick w. Foster, gunner on the
Confederate cruiser Alabama during
the Civil War, and one of the 40 who
escaped when that vessel was sunk by
the United States cruiser Kearsarge,
died Saturday at Atchison, Kan. Fos-
ter kept his connection with the Ala
bama's career a secret until less than
a year ago.
Charged with clipping with Helen
Durham. a mill girl 10 years Old David
Patriotism of ST. John, n. b., who is
middlc-aged, married and the father
of seven children, was arraigned in the
municipal court at Boston Saturday
and held in $500 for the grand jury
The girl was taken in charge by the
probation officer.
Thomas 4. Edison was well enough
to start Saturday from his home in
West Orange. n. j., for Fort Myers,
Fla. where he will remain several
weeks. He was accompanied only by
Mrs. Edison and his young son, Theo-
dore, and Travelled in a private car. He
said he was feeling better than at any
time since his recent operations.
d. Ellsworth Little of Al Columbus
avenue. Boston, who says he is an i'm
porter of rare books and antiques,
was 1rraigned Saturday before the
United States commissioner on the
charge Of using the mails to defraud.
He was held in 5000 bail for a hearing
March 81. The police say that Little
sent fraudulent bills to relatives of
persons row dead for goods.
Goodman Phillips, one of the prin-
cipals in the conspiracy to bring
Chinese into the United States IN the
yacht Frolic, was Saturday sentenced
in the United States district court at
Boston to six months in the house of
correction. with a fine of $1,000, by Judge
Dodge Phillips has been out on $4,000
bail. This is probably the last chapter
in the story of the Frolic's adventure.
In posting a reward of $4,000 for in
formation that will lead to the convic-
ton of the men who robbed the Titan
National Rank at Salt Lake Utah,
| last January, directors of the institu-
| ton Saturday revealed for the first
time that the amount stolen was $780,
80, instead of $4,000, the amount given
out at the time of the robbery. The de-
tectives believe an employee stole the
money.
| The Greek colony of Lowell. Mass.
numbering about 1000 held the opening
exercises Sunday in their new church
ediflce on Lewis street. Rev. Nicholas
Lazaris, the pastor. led the services
and the church was crowded. A con.