Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


Heart disease caused the death Sunday
of Walter o. Grigss. 40 years old, stu
dent in the New Church Theological
Seminary at Cambridge, Mass. He was
unmarried.
Princess Elizabeth Brancaccio. who
was Eliza beth Hickson Field of New
York. died Sunday in Rome. after a
long illness. The marriage of Prince
Salvatore Rrancaccio and Miss HEX
son-Field took place at Paris in 1870.
John Smith, the Negro, who Satur-:
day dragged Miss Mary Ewing from
her buggy, two miles from Arcadia,
Fla, in an attempt at criminal assault,
was taken from the sheriff and his
deputies early Sunday and hanged to
a tree.
Two masked robbers entered the
home OF Alderman A. H. Rogers in
Temple street, Springfield. Mass. Sat
day night bound ana gagged daugh-
ter. Miss Nell Rogers, who was alone,
stole all the silvcrware in the house and
escaped
The goth man to be arraigned in the
superior criminal court in Boston in
connection with the Boston agreement
cases appeared Saturday. pleaded not
guilty and furnished $4,000 in bail. He
is Foster Miliken of New York, Il
prominent steel contractor.
Charles A. Ellis. aged i6. president of
the c. A. Ellis Co.. shoe manufacturers
of Haverhill. Mass. died Sunday at
Linchburg. Va, from septic pelitonitis.
after an operation at the llygeia hosp
tai for appendicitis. His wife was with
him after the operation. The body was
shipped to Haverhll. Mr. Ellis was in
LnChburg on business when taken i'll.
Despite the best efforts of X. D.
Smith, who was driving an automobile
which struck Augustus Simard Sunday
night at Lynn, Mass. Simard died at
the hospital to which he was hurried
in Smiths machine. Smith states that
Simard stepped in front of his machine
and that he did not see him until just
before his automobile struck him. ST.
mard was &c years old and employed as
a shoemaker A widow and six chill
dren survive.
This body of Mrs Annie Barton, who
disappeared Saturday night from the
New England Womans hospital at
Boston, where she had been under
treatment. Was found late Sunday
floating in Muddy river in the rear of
tho new Art museum on Huntington
avenue Mrs. Barton was over so years
Of age. and lived with her daughter at
33 Gaincsboro street She is believed to
have become deSDondcnt over her ill
health and tnhl< her own life.
Some 200 business men from various
points in the New England states will
participate in the conference at the Bos-
ton Chamber Of Commerce Tuesday, when
transportation problems and the action of
the Trunk Line Association looking to-
ward the abolition of the west-boupd diff
fsrentials will be considered According
to the statement made By a high official
of the Grand Trunk Railway, who was in
Boston Saturday. that line is still con-
WINGED that the present rates should not
be abolished
Looking for his wife, Grace Atwood.
Herbert r. Atwood Of Wakefield, n H..
was in Nashua Saturday afternoon and
asked the police to aid in the search. He
had letter from the Wakefield chief of
police giving as far as possible the facts
wife lett Wakefield about two weeks ago
and las not been home since. He alleges
that she disappeared with a Nashua rail-
read man. a week ago he went to Nashua
and attempted search alone, but learn
ed nothing, so he sought the assistance of
the police.
Mrs. Caroline NJ. Pritchett G6, commit
fed suicide Saturday by gas at the home
of Benjamin +. Larned, 10 King street
Worcester. She stood upon chair i'll her
| room and clutched the gas fixtures tear
ing them out Of the ceiling. Medical FIX
aminer f. II. Baker. who investigated the
case. stated that it was a case of suicide
Que to old age. poor healt.. and despon-
deIcy. The woman came from Auburn
dale. where she was confined in DR..
Taine's sanatorium. Her only living rel
| atives are a son in Omaha and a daugh-
ter in Utica. n. Y, both of whom have
been notified.