Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

A naval torpedo repair station and
, trial station was ordered Friday to be
located at Keyport, Wash, on the Pu-
get sound near the Bremerton navy
yard. This action is provided for in
a telegram accepting a tract at that
place on which the navy had an OPP
ton for the past month.
Kimball's hotei, we'll known land
mark on the Jerusalem road in CO.
hasset, Mass, was badly damaged by
fire Friday. The loss is estimated at
nearly $4,000. A lighted cigarette.
smouldering in a pile of rubbish. is
believed to have been responsible for
the fire.
Infantile paralysis caused nine
deaths in Providence. r. l., in the past
two months. out of total of 81 cases.
The number of cases this year report
ed to the State Board of Health Is
1853 and the total is steadily growing
The disease 1t is expected. will begin
to wane when the weather gets colder.
Edward S. Rosenheimer. wealthy
manufacturer, was Friday indicted
by the New York grand jury for muir
der in the first degree, charged with
being responsible for the death Of
Grace Hough who was killed in an
automobile collision on Pelham Park
way on the night of August IS of this
year. Rosenheimer Is out on SIS 900
bail. but it is expected that a bench
warrant will ibe issued for his re-
arrest. in which event the nature of the
charge would probably result in his
being held prisoner pending his trial.
The total estimates for the approp-
Ration necessary for the naval SER
vice during the next fiscal year were
announced Friday to be $12S,3OO,000.
This stands against appropriations of
s137,913,0OO for the fiscal year ended
last July and $132.3S4,OOO for the
present fiscal years. Besides the two
battleships and two Golfers already
announced at the naval building pro-
gram for next year. there will be sew
eral other vessels of minor class ask
ed for.
The naval collier Hector, the latest
addition to the Atlantic fleet, literal
~ was placed out. Of commission by
Vanoais in Hampton Roads Thursday
night. Reports received at Newport
News state that brass work to the
value of $500 was stripped from the
engine room and deck of the collier
and taken ashore in a launch. The
engine room was so badly damaged
that the ship will have to be taken
to navy yard for repairs. The Hec-
tor arrived Thursday and had Just
been placed in commission. A board
OF inquiry was convened.
AS result of the disclosures Of
vice at Coney Island following the re.
cent official investigation under Act
ing Mayor Mitchelrs direction, a doz-
en- indictments. said to be of police Of
ncers charged with responsibility for
law observance at the resort, were
handed down Friday at New York by
the Kings county grand jury. 1t was
unof1cially stated in authoritative
quarters that one of the indictments
was against John ]. O'Brien, who was
ponce inspector of the Coney Island
olstrict, but who was reduced to the
rank or captain after the investigators
report had been made to the acting
mayor and is now being tried on
charges. These indictments with
otners. returned against proprietors OF
alleged disorderly resorts, swell to 80
or more the total of persons under in
oictment as a. result of the Coney Is
land scandals