Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Dancing sportively about a bonfire
near her home at Worcester. Mass,
Sunday. Helen Healey, years old,
daughter of John f. Healey, ventured
TOO near the blaze and ignited her cloth
ing. In an instant she was wrapped in
flames. Assistance came promptly. but
TOO late to save her from fatal in
juries. She died two hours later.
George Forman. city auditor of New
ark. N. j.. who disappeared several days
ago. is being sought by the police as an
embezzler. On the complaint of David
H. Wickham of Newark a warrant was
issued Saturday charging Forman with
having embezzled sl2,5O0 which Wickham
says he gave to Forman to invest for
him.
While his train was running at 30 miles
an hour. a terrible outburst of steam
blew Louis Goldenburg of Needham, en-
gineer of the Boston-bound freight due
at Norwood, Mass, at $50, out of his cab
and forced the fireman to flee to the rear
of the tender early Saturday evening.
Goldenburg received fatal injuries and
died an hour or two later. The train ran
wild for half a mile until all the steam
had escaped.
The Egyptian goddess Meth, whose
disappearance from the galleries of the
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
so agitated the museum authorities Fri
day, turned up on the Bowery Saturday.
She had suffered the indignity of being
hooked for so cents. The goddess
| form was embodied in statuette 8 "a
| inches tall. of great artistic value and
| worth approximately $500 on Il CONNER
cial basis. The statuette dates from
about the seventh century B. c.
The torpedo boat destroyer John May
rant. the third of the five vessels of its
type constructed or in course of con-
struction at the Cramp shipyard, Phia-
dclphia, was launched Saturday after
noon. The new destroyer was christen-
ed by Miss Norvelle Adams of Jackson,
Miss. great-great- granddaughter of
John Mavrant. who. as midshipman was
with John Paul Jones and distinguished
himself in the historic battle between
the Bon Homme Richard and the Sera-
ps.
Passenger rates on the Boston &
Maine Railroad are to be increased.
The changes. according to a statement
made Saturday by President futile
Tuttle probably will not go into effect
until July 1. They are being at present
worked out and will then be submitted
to the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. Suburban communication in the VI
entity of Boston will not be affected.
but other rates will probably be ad-
vanced to the point at which they
stood previously to Feb. 1, 1907.
Famed by high wind. fire which
broke out Saturday at st Charles. La
swept over 20 or more blocks OF the
city. destroying several hundred build
ings and resulting in property loss
estimated at about s3.O0o,00o. Two
thousand persons have been rendered
homeless. While many of the buildings
destroyed we're merely frame cottages,
scores Of handsome STRUCTURES also rel
prey to the flames. The City hall, the
handsome CaIcasien Parish court house.
the Clair hotel. churches, stores ana
warehouses were reduced to bare black
walls or smouldering heaps of asnes
within two hours after the fire startea'
Mrs. Hetty Green, celebrated for years
as the richest and shrewdest BUSINESS
woman In the world, will soon retire iron.
active business life, 1t Is understood, anu
will turn over the handling of her I'M
mense fortune, estimated at $50oOo,0V' !"
her daughter Sylvia, now Mrs. Maine"
Aston Wilks. Among the few persons !"
close touch with Mrs Green 1t is uh-
derstood that for years she has peeh
quietly training her daughter to success
fully manage her immense fortune. " -
reported that the transfer Of the active
control of Mrs. Green's millions to her
daughter for management is only ques-
ton of a few weeks. Mrs. Green Is 70
years old.
Erbin Hutcfiins, aged II years, u
Newcastle, N. H.. with bullet III iis
brain. demands that ne be discharssu
from the hospital at Portsmouth. ne
wants to see youthful sweetheart
The boy attempted suicide five days
ago by shooting himself in the rlsn.
ear, and doctors gave him less than en-
hour to live. At the Cottage iiospital
four physicians failed to locate Tug
bullet. DR.. Fred S. Towle trephined tne
skull and satisfied himself and otneI
doctors that the bullet found It's WAY
into the cerebrum. where, he says.
Is firmly embedded In mass ana y
exrerteds to retain a permanent posi-
.fior y