Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Another suspected cholers patient
was sent to Berlin hospital during
Thursday night. The suburb of Scno-
cnberg also has a new suspected case
George W. Fitzgerald, arrested
Wednesday, charged with theft of
$4,000 from the sub-treasury. Chi
cago, three years ago. was admitted to
bail on $4,000 Thursday by Judge
Lands. He protests his innocence.
There are IA suspected cases of cholera
on board the coasting steamer Antoine.
which arrived Thursday at Almeira,
Spain, from Alexandria. The vessel has
been isolated and the sick placed under
observation.
The National Association of Station
airy Engineers in convention at Roches
ter. N. H., Thursday, adopted the re-
port of the committee on the estab-
lishment of pension, equal to about
four cents member which would give
needy members 1920 a year.
Elmer f. Humphrey. 46 years old, SUI
perintendent of the General Electric Co.
at Lynn, Mass, died suddenly Thursday,
his body being found in front of his home.
The medical examiner stated that death
was due to enlargement of the heart Mr..
Humphrey was prominent in Lynn social
circles.
Broken in spirit, Adolph Rothbarth. rep
resentative in America of the hop dealing
firm of Rothbarth & Co.. who confessed
to swindling the banks out of nearly $780,
900, sent down word from his cell in the
Tombs prison, New York, Thursday, that
he didn't want a lawyer" and that the
sooner his trial was over the quicker he
could pay the penalty.
Charged with manslaughter, William
Norton, gateman at local crossing of
the Boston & Maine railroad, Waltham,
Mass, was held i'm $4,000 bail in the dis
trict court Thursday for hearing Sept.
%. 1t is charged that Norton failed to
lower the gates in time to prevent Louis
Liberman from driving his wagon across
the track Wednesday. resulting in Lber-
man being killed by a train.
A campaign of passive resistance
the Australian equivalent of a strike,
went into effect throughout the South
ern Railroad system Thursday at mid
night in consequence of wage dis
pute The men Gid not quit work but
followed implicitly the exact letter of
the rules and regulations of the lines
with the result that the system was
almost tied up Thursday.
Bank Commissioner Arthur b. Chaplin
of Massachusetts has prepared new set
of regulations governing the examination
of savings banks. Hereafter no officer or
employe of a bank is to be permitted to
To-,
upon his formal request. In his report
to the commissioner in such case the
examiner must state what officer of the
bank assisted him and to what extent.
Ending a romance which was to have
terminated in marriage. Mrs. owe wei
Ter, a widow, % years old, wired her
mother from Memphis, Tenn, Thursday
for funds to return to Philadelphia She
had gone to Memphis to marry John
Gregory. the sailor whose body was found
Wednesday floating in the Mississippi
river Mrs. Weller read the news of his
death in local paper purchased with
her last nickel. The body of Gregory
was sent to Warren, r. I.
Catching fire from a defective spark
plug in the gasoline engine. the racing
power boat Redskin, said to be the fast
est racing dory In New England. was
destroyed at Newburyport. Mass. Thurs
day. Her owner, F. c. Beale of Haver-
hill. who was in the boat when 1t caught
fire. was rescued from the burning craft
by party of men in dory nearby. Mr..
Beale places his loss at $1,000
Visions Of a wreck of fruit steamer
were seen at Vineyard Haven, Mass
Thursday when the British schooner
Crescent put in and reported that while
off Cape Ann Wednesday she sailed
through thousands of punches OF ba-
nanas but could sight no wreckage. An