Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-10
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

yian-American Steamship Line, died
Thursday at Copenhagen.
Emperor William has received an auto
graph letter from President Diaz of Mex
leo, asking him to accept the grand cor
don of the newly instituted Order OF the
Mexican Eagle His Majesty accepted
the decoration in a cordial response.
During a baseball game Thursday at
Thomasville, Ga, between ThomasVliie
and Bainbridge Mines, Albert Adams oi
Atlanta, a former lightweight prize nshl-
er. fell dead in the grandstand when
ball was knocked over the fence
A resolution condemning the placing OF
statue of Robert Lee in the natlonal
.apitoi was Ia bled Thursday at the SEES
sion of the annual meeting of the Penn
syIyania encampment of the Grand Army
Of the Republic al Harrisburg.
Willie ne death OF Mrs. Fanny Sur
dam STEELE Monday in Chicago, Will be
| of, cially investigated. Coroner Hoff-
man and Detectives connected with the
case Thursday expressed the belief
that the woman died from natural
causes.
Richard G. Kerens. Jr., son of the
American amba ssadOr to Austria-Hun-
gary. was able Thursday to be removed
to his home from the City hospital at St.
Louis, where he was taken Wednesday
night unconscious from an overdose Of
paraldehyde.
John Osheow, well-known Polish bus
mess man of Central Falls, r. l., Wednes-
day while feeding his hens in his yard,
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seized by a fit and fell into the river,
where he was drowned. He was 43 years
old and had been at Central Falls many
years.
Seward c. Simons of Pasadena
Calf, Harvard runner, refused to
plead Thursday at Boston to the
charge Of hair shipping and was held
in 5000 for the grand jury. Simon
was arrested on May 80 on complaint
Of young Italian girl, who claimed
that he cut off several inches Of her
braid.
The suphuric acid plant OF the Western
Chemical Manufacturing Co. at Denver,
Col. was destroyed. and other buildings
of the company were damaged Tuesday
night by fire which Frank r. Ashley,
president of the company, attributes to
incendiarism, connected with labor trou-
bles. Two fremen We're overcome by acid
fumes and severely burned. The damage
is $225,000
Rear Admiral Clark's squadron from
Annapolis. having aboard 500 midship
men from the United States Academy
on their regular summer practice
cruise, sailed from Hampton Roads
Thursday for Plymouth, Eng. The
squadron includes the battleships IN
diana Ulagship), Massachusetts and
Iowa.
John J. Weis of East 126th street, New
York. who was found in the basement of
an apothecary store in the South End,
Boston. Monday morning, suffering from
burns received when a barrel of dena-
tured alcohol was ignited died Thursday
at the City hospital. Weis, who was
cropping about the basement with a light
ed match which ignited the alcohol, could
not explain why he was in the store
Fire Thursday destroyed a large part
Of the commercial and residential quar-
ter OF Borissov, Russia, a town of
about $4,000 population, most of them
Hebrews. Four hundred and fifty
buildings were destroyed. including
three synagosues. A high judicial Of
ficer has been sent to Borissov to in
vestigate the origin of the fire, which
has been attributed to incendiaries.
Frey the German aeronaut, while
making a fight Thursday at Buda
Pest. lost control of his bi-plane, which
dashed into the grandstand. Six wo-
men We're injured, two of them prob
ably fatally. Frey was not hurt. The
aviators Latham. Andree and Bialiov-
uci suffered similar accidents, but all
fell in the open ground and no one was
injured.
The Surfmen's Mutual Benefit Associa-
ton and the Association of United States
Life Savers. composed of veterans of the
service from all sections of the country
of the 1900 miles of coast line brought
their annual convention at Providence to
close Thursday. They will meet again
next June at Atlantic City, N. j. Capt.
Arthur A. Dominy. superintendent of the
Bay Shore. l.. L.. division, was reelected
president of both organizations.
Vickers Sons & Maxim filed with the
government at Ottawa, Ont, Thursday
plans for two and a half million Shin
building and repairing plant at Montreal.
The plans show floating dock with a
lift of 1850 tons, capable of handling
boats up to 700 feet, a special repair
berth and three shipbulding slips. The
firm expects to build many of the vessels
of the new Canadian navy
Failing to the grounds when stricken.
1t is believed. by paralytic shock in
the ward of his home in Brentwood. n.
H.. d. Frank Fellows. 20 years old.
was burned to death Thursday when a
spark from his pipe ignited his clothes.
Held fast in the grasp of paralysis he
could do nothing to save himself. The
body, burned almost beyond recogni-
ton. was found lying beside the wood
pile. Mr. Fellows was one of the best
known citizens Of Brentwood
Two Russian stowawavs on board
the Winifredan failed in an effort
to reach the land of the free by SWIM
ming ashore when the steamer paused
for few hours Off Boston Light early
Thursday. and one Of them. Max Sell
ing, will accompany the body of his
companion. Simon Grunberg, back to