Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-21
Ohio Lad Accidentally Shot
By Companion.
Farmer in Campbell, n. y,
Robbed Of $4,000.
The Days Happenings Told In
Brief Paragraphs.


mobile Legal Association. which Mon
day sent out 800 appeals to it's members
to contest their cases and carry them
to the highest tribunal in the state be-
fore they gave up.
Ex-Mayor John F. Fitzgerald left
Boston Monday for New York, where
he will embark Wednesday on the
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse
for Europe. The ex-mayor upon his
return will bring with him his two
daughters, who have been studying in
Belgium for a year.
Allen Danforth, former bursar, dep
uty treasurer and comptroller of Har-
ward University, is dead in Boston at
the age of SO years. He was born In
Plymouth and graduated from Har-
ward in the class Of 1865. He went to
Helena, Mont, after leaving college
and engaged in mining operations, be-
ing superintendent Of work for the Ma
ticnal Mining and Exploring Co. O.
New York. In 1872 and 1873 he was
clerk of the Plymouth Savings Bank
and was appointed bursar of Harvard
in 1874, serving for IA years. In 1883 hi
was made deputy treasurer of the uni
FcISlIy IIu WilCil Liz PooS VI SoIfPSiOi
Ter was created he was the first to fill
it, in 1897, serving until he resigned ir
1906 a widow survives.
T. Fl. ixirkendal, a farmer living nea
Campbell, N. Y, had no confidence il
banks and kept his savings of lifetim'
in an old trunk in his home. He re
ported Monday to the sheriff that $4,000
half in gold coin and gold certificate:
md half in green backs. had been sto
len from it's hiding place. A farm han,
is missing.
Heatherbloom. the $4,000 world:
champion jumper, came to his enc
Monday at Great Darlington, Mass, a
the result of an attempt to break his
record of feet. G inches made at Chi
cago, by topping his paddock fence, re
ceiving an injury to his shoulder which
necessitated his being shot The hors,
was owned by Howard Willetts o
White Plains, N. Y, and New Marble
20, Mass. Mr.. Willetts claimed to hav.
'efused an offer of $4,000 for the hors.
from a circus company the present
year and a similar offer from an Eng
'ishman who wanted the horse to en-
'er in the international jumps.
An aggregate of $3.50, ,59S in say
ings deposits in the national banks O.
the country. is shown in the complet
'epart issued by the comptroller of tn
currency on the returns from the ma
tional banks under the call for thei,
condition on June %. Of the 1926 bank;
which made reports. 2161 showed say
ngs deposits. In the savings deposit
the Eastern states led with $173, 1872
he Middle states next with $109,93l.214
the Southern states with $44,048,3 1876
md then New England with $50, ,O51
A dispatch from San Francisco state
.hat Patrick Calhoun, president of tho
United Railways, is again on trial OF
! charge of offering a bride to super
'isor to gain privilege for his corpor
,tion. The first panel of % citizens
vas exhausted Monday without any re
suit and an adjournment was taker
until Wednesday. District Attorne,
". H. Langdon was present as chic
prosecutor. The previous trial, afte
i've months of jury making and testi
ncny, resulted in a disagreement fou
weeks ago. In contrast to the closing
days of the first case. not dozen spec
tators were in court Monday.
Between 400 and 500 men patrolled tn,
Bournedals road at Buzzards Bay
Mass. Monday night watching the bi;
forest fire between that road and thu
1alley road that already has burnet
'ver between sou and 1000 acres of val
fable oak tiniberlands and destroyed
ummar cottages and damaged cranber
boys to total amount estimated 8
bout $4,000. Owing to light vino
he fire was considered under control
)ut owing to the dry condition of tn,
woodlands the upper hand of the fir
ould only be held so long as the win,
lolds calm. The woodlands destroyed
hus tar in the two days of the fire
md those threatened tonight are
,mong the few valuable timber prop
rites left on Cape Cod.
Fighting desperately to protect thu
irm's money from a bold highwayman
Harry r. Brown, cashier of the Max
we'll Mriscoe Motor Car Co., of Paw
ucket, r. l., was stabbed seriousl.
With an ink scraper in the company's
office on Division street about II o'clock
Monday morning. The assailant es.
aped but the police expect to capture
hin. Mr.. Brown was alone in the Office
when a roughly dressed middle aget
nan, evidently tramp, walked in ant
demanded money. He was refused il
md then sprang upon the cashier
Fearing him to the floor. The meL
rolled about the floor, the cashier
hortirg for help. The tramp finally
managed to reach an ink scraper and
plunged it into the cashiers shoulder
He then broke away and made his
escape.
The first electric train of steel ears
| whizzed through the new .McAdoc
| tube" from the Church street terminal
| in New York to Jersey City Monday
The two tunnels opened Monday are
| openly a step in the plan which in q
comparatively brief time will make
it possible for the traveller from the
West, the South, New England-from
any point in the country in fact--tc
go through the city without leaving his
train for cab, trolley car or ferry. The
opposite banks of the lower Hudson
are now only three minutes apart. The
twin tubes opened to traffic connect
downtown New York with the New
Jersey mainland az whole and witt
Pennsylvania Railroad station on tht
Jersey shore in particular. In tive