Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

A Japanese was killed Wednesday at
AmCy China by the accidental igni-
ton of high explosive concealed in
his clothing. 1t is suspected that the
man had planned an assassination.
The entire crew of 30 men of the
British steamer Arroyo. which went
aground Tuesday Off the North Caro-
lima coast near Diamond shoal. was
taken off safely by the life savers from
Portsmouth island station.
During clash between the sugar
cane cutters who are on strike at Point
Pitre, Guadeloupe. and the soldiers.
three strikers We're killed and several
wounded. Two gendarmes received
wounds. The sugar fields are burning
having been fired by the strikers.
A fourth dividend OF 10 per cent to
the 1000 depositors of the First Ma
tional Bank of Chelsea, Mass, which
closed its doors four years ago, was
announced Wednesday, This will
bring the total to S5 per cent. of the
original depositors. The failure Of the
bank tied up over s1.OOO,0OO in de-
poSits.
An explosion of gas in the min of
the Iron Mountain Coal Co. three miles
from Central City, KY. Wednesday,
probably fatally burned Warren Gibbs,
a miner, but "a men who with Gibbs
comprised the day shift, escaped with
slight bruises. The mine caught fire
and is still burning.
Tetha Pearson, a 14-year-old Russian
gypsy, who, it is alleged, was stolen from
her mother Mrs. Tetha Pearson, in Bos.
ton two years ago, was found by detec-
tives Tuesday in the possession of Mrs
Annie Lucas, Mexican gypsy, at 65th
and Loomis streets, Chicago Mrs. Lucas
was arrested. The Lucases admit the girl
is Mrs. Pearson's child but claim they
bought her for 500. Mrs. Pearson denies
this, as does the girl, who says she waf
coaxed away by a promise to take her
to a nickel show.
Because of repeated rumors of the
unseaworthiress of the cruisers West
Virginia and Maryland and the alarm
the reports have caused relatives of
the officers and men aboard these ves-
sells Rear Admiral E. B. Barry Tues
day sent his flag officer ashore at San
Francisco with n statement denying
that there is anything seriously wrong
with the cruisers. Rear Admiral Giles
HARDER. in command of the fleet, who
was pressed for an explanation regard
ing the sources of the rumors said that
certain clique within the navy sta
toned at the Vallejo navy yard was
responsible for the disquieting talk. He
said that the two ships would be sent
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Telagraphic communication with
Managua was again interrupted
Wednesday and it is impossible to
learn the details of the reported en-
gagement at Tisma near Tipitapa. The
government claims a decisive victory.
The missing schooner Edgar c. Ross
OF Bethel, Del, which sailed from
Charlestown, S. c., Dec. % last. for
New York, was passed waterlogged
and abandoned on Jan. 30, about $50
miles northeast by cast from the Ber-
mudas by the steamer Ikbal. The fate
of the crew is unknown. Advices were
received to this effect Wednesday at
the United States photographic office
a. Baltimore.
Carlo Giro. convicted of the murder of
Mrs. Sophie L. Staber in Brooklyn last
July, was electrocuted in Sing Sing pris-
on Wednesday, protesting his innocence
to the last AS he was being placed in
the chair he asked If he could say just
one word. His request was unheeded and
the straps were adjusted. Just before
the current was turned on the condemned
man murmured prayer and then cried:
shame on you Christian people who put
me to death when 1 am not guilty" Two
shocks in rapid succession brought
speedy DEATH Giro was convicted with
Frederick Schliemann of having shot and
killed Mrs. Staber during a burglarous
raid on the Staber house. Schlemannl
was found to have fired the actual shot |
which killed the woman. but Giro was
held equally guilty. Schliemann is still |
n the death house awaiting execution.