Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-17

foot, showed improvement Wednesday.
me physicians now think that only a
Slight abscess will develop.
Most Of the mining engineers in the
Butte. Mont, district went on strike
wednesday. This was caused by the mine
owners refusal to grant concessions in
certain jurisdictional disputes. The union
officials declared a shutdown of all min
ing operations in the district threatened
by a walk-out
1t was learned Wednesday at Gin.
cinnati that federal grand jury had
been summoned to meet in Covington.
KY, Wednesday to consider the tobac-
co cases. Assistant District Attorney
Davidson and other government Of
ficials were reticent as to the matters
it will consider.
DR.. c. S. Lane, father of Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Franklin K.
Lane, died Tuesday at his home in
Santa Barbara, Cal, aged ~ years DR..
Lane was a native of Prince Edward
Island, Canada, and went to California
40 years ago.
George Sully of New Brunswick, N.
-, chC VI q NuottCl vi dCIpUdlS broke
his neck Wednesday during their act
at a Newark, n. j., theater, falling
from a chair on top of a table to the
stage. At the hospital it was said
he could live but a few hours.
William E. Seyler and his brother, Ar
Wis Seyler, wanted in Atlantic City, N. j.,
in connection with the murder of Jane
Adams, young girl whose body was
found washed up on the beach two miles
below the iron pier where the girl had
last been seen in company with William
Seyler, were arrested Wednesday night
in Petersburg, Ia. They refuse to dis
cuss the case.
That the aged millionaire, Colonel
Thomas Smell. was of ursound mind
when he disinherited his son. Richard
Smell, in favor of his grandniece, Ma
bel Smell McNam ara. is the judgment
of the Illinois supreme court in a de-
cision handed down Wednesday, The
decision is the outcome of three SEN
sational trials held in Clinton in which
many letters were read in which the
eccentricities of Smell are described.
After breaking in the door of the
house where his wife was living apart
from him at Freeport, Long Island.
Wednesday, George w. Taylor shouted
out his intention to kill her. followed
her as she ran to the home of a neigh
Dor and shot and fatally wounded her
as she entered the neighbours dwelling.
Taylor then shot himself in the head
and fell dead. Taylor and his wife
had quarreled and separated recently.
His wife was 40 years of age and he
was five years her Junior.
Injured by fall from his horse in
Central Park. New York City, six
weeks ago. Charles c. Dickinson, for
mer president Of the Carnegie Trust
Co. is in Rochester, N. Y, under the
care of a specialist. A large number
of bones in Mr.. Dickinson's face were
broken and small hopes at first were
held out for his recovery, but the
operation performed in Rochester was
successful and it is believed the patient
will be out in 10 days.
The strange fatality that has pursued
some of the principal figures in the
Pennsylvania state capitol scandal was
again brought to public mind Wednes-
day. when Z. Stott. one of the chief
witnesses in the celebrated case, was
found dead in the bathroom of the
house where he made his home while
in Harrisburg. Pa. He is the sixth
man in the case to die. His death was
due to heart trouble.
David Byington, Chickasaw Indian,
left the Detroit, Mich, House of Cor
rection Wednesday to join his sister
on 160-acre farm in Oklahoma al
lotted to him by the government since
to life Imprisonment in 1897
for murder. Byington's pardon came
from President Taft Tuesday night and
his health, owing to consumption. The
young Chickasaw was II years old
when convicted of assisting two other
Indians in the murder of a white man.
The Pamunkey river Indians
Wednesday paid their annual tribute to
the governor of Virginia at Richmond,
Va. Chief Cooke and Counsellor Brad
ley carried baskets of ducks and fish
. the Capitol and presented them to
Gov. Mann with stately manner and
The traditional simple ceremony. A
state law shortening the deer season
prevented their bringing venison. The
indians represent a surviving tribe OF
he Powhatan nation.
Fatally wounded by two bullets fired
by Adolph Gassau. a violinist, Louis
r. Ostendorf. manager of the Empire
rheater Orchestra at indianapolis Ind.
Wednesday night overpowered his as
sailant. wrested the revolver from him
md fired three bullets through Cas-
'aus head, killing him instantly at
the stage entrance. Ostendorf died in
a hospital later. The audience was kept
in ignorance of the tragedy until the
show was over. Gassa's attack is said
to be the result of quarrel Tuesday
night with the manager. The Empire
theater is burlesque house.
Reform received it's hardest blow In
the municipal election in Philadelphia
Tuesday when the Republican organlza-
ton swept the city. For the first time
since the reform movement in Phladel-
phia has amounted to anything, not a re-
former was elected to city councils or to
The board of magistrates. William Eisen-
brown and Albert II. Ladner, who have
been magistrates for a quarter of CEN
tury and are Democrats with independent
were defeated by about 1000.