Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-21

Of three cars, was derailed, but only
one Of the cars fell into the river.
John Ditmer. cowboy of Haines,
N. D., visited Ellis island, New York.
Saturday and identified his fiance,
whom he had never seen before, by a
photograph which dinners mother had
sent from Hamburg. The girl, Rosa
Hemke, of Hamburg, and the cowboy
were married Saturday afternoon and
started for their home that night. Dit
mer recently wrote his mother at Ham,
burg that there were no eligible girls
where he lived, and asked her to pick
out a bride.
Since Prof. REIN successfully seWed
up mans heart five years ago, $50
operations Of that kind have been per-
formed in Europe One-third of the
patients are alive to tell the story. The
sewing is done with sterlliZed silk and
it takes q dextrous hand to do it, par
tcularly as the action of the needle
is impeded by the movements of the
heart. Above all there must .be no
great loss of blood. In Vienna the OPP
Grafton is performed in pneumatic
chamber, so-called, from which only
the head of the patient protrudes.
William Jennings Bryan is one of
TIE passengers on The steamship Verdi
which sailed from Rio Janero March
IS. The boat is due at her Brooklyn
pier April 5. Mr.. Bryan has been in
South America for several months
and has made Il tour of the most i'm
portant parts of the continent. He has
been enthusiastically welcomed BY the
residents of the South American re-
publics and has delivered a number OF
addresses 20 trade and civic organizZa
tons Mr.. Bryan has gained consider
able information regarding the com
iner cial and political situation in that
part of the globe.
Governor Eben S. Draper, President
Allen r. TreadWay of the Massachu-
settS Senate. and the Legislature as a
whole, was soundly criticized at Il
meeting Of 1000 Worcester farmers
Saturday of their alleged carelessnesS
and inactivity in regard to the inter
ests of the milk producers. Resolutions
were passed unanimously declaring
hostility to any candidate for office
at the next state election who does not
pledge himself squarely to work for
relief of the farmers and committee
was appointed to carry out i'll detail
the wishes Of the meeting.
Almost OH the very threshold of the
state prison which he was to enter Mon
day to serve a siX-years sentence for
| bribery, former Councilman John +.
Klein of Pittsburg. Pa, is reported to
have made a complete confession of the
bribery conspiracy in 1908 in which he
implicated 60 or more present and former
councilnen. The confession is said to
have been brought about by the failure of
Klein's friends who he is alleged to have
protected by his reticence. to come to the
rescue of his family whom he would
leave penniless in entering prison.
Struck by bridge beam as he leaned
out of his cab, George F. Weatherman.
express due at Providence, r. l.. at 11.45
Saturday, lay unconscious at the engine
throttle for several minutes while the
train Numbered on. until Fireman =. J.
McAvoy glanced up and saw what had
happened. McAvon ran the engine into
the Precedence station. where physicians
fOuld that Engineer Weatherman who is
head of the Connecticut branch of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
had a fractured skull. The engineer will
probably die from the injury. His home
is in New Haven.