Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-28

is inhabited only by Esquimos. The
bark probably will not be able to
leave Greenland until May.
An explosion of $50 pounds of blast
ing powder at a quarry near Butler.
Pa. Tuesday killed Tony Roosi and
Peter Guanni. two of the blasters,
and fatally injured Andrew Rossini
IAN assistant.
After being in quarantine in her
home in Aiken. S. c., for more than
two years, Miss Mary Kirk, leper,
died Tuesday. Miss Kirk contracted
leprosy in Brazil 10 years ago while
serving as Presbyterian missionary.
The expulsion of Jews, asserted to
be residing illegally in st. Petersburg,
has been begun. AS a preliminary
step 1Ol have been deprived of mem
bcrship in artisan guilds, thereby los
ing their right of residence in the
capital.
The stockholders Of the Boston Il
Montana Copper Co. voted Tuesday to
dissolve the company and instructed
the directors to take the necessary
steps to divide up the stock of the
Anaconda Company received in pay
ment of the property.
Mayor Thomas Knots, Chief of Po-
lice Martin and seven other city 9th
Gals were arrested Tuesday at Garry,
Ind, Oh indictments charging them
with having altered the count Of the
balIoting in the November elections
They were released on bonds ranging
from $1,000 to $1,000.
Four trainsmen were killed and two
others Injured, one of them probably
fatally, i'm collision Of two freight
trains on the Ohio River division of
the Baltimore ,S Ohio Railroad at
Mcrcers Bottom, w. Va, early Tues
dav. The dead are: William Steffein
engineer; G. j. Moffatt, brakcnlan; 3.
II. Bradham. fireman; 4. ii. kantz,
fireman. 1t is said that the crew Of
one of the trains made Il mistake i'll
reading its orders.
Luco Rusatto, a scctionhand on the
New York, New Haven IL Hartford
Railroad, was arrested Tuesday at
Boston on q charge of robblng the
mails Numerous packages and let
tiers all containing Christmas gifts
were recovered and may ultimately
reach tEeir destinations. Rusatto was
employed on the mail trucks. and con
fessed to taking some of the packages
He was held in $500 for further eX-
animation.
In answer to petition of creditors,
Judge John B. Crosby of the superior
court at Pittsfield. Mass, TUESDAY APP
pointed John r. Cummings, local at
torney, receiver of the Stllson Motor
Car CO. of Pittsficld. The liabilities
are placed at 900 with assets OF less
than $4,000. The company was organ
lied in 1907 with capital stock OF
800. 600 on which s33,700 was paid in.
During the past year the business OF
the company had been falling behind
and the receivership proceedings were
determined upon by the creditors.
Warnings to arrest four Arrlenians.
who are alleged to be SWlndllng
churcl-goers throughout the country
were sent out Tuesday by the Atlanta,
Ga. police. The Armenians appeared
at St. Philips cathedral there last
Sunday. after presenting bogus creden-
tails and took up a collection of sever
al hundred dollars to aid, they said, in
building an orphanage at ~NlneVell-
Collections were planned at otileI
churches, but when the Armenlans
were charged with having forged their
cred entails they disappeared.
In the presence Of his mother 1oc
years old, James Mitchell. aged 60.
Pjttsburg and Lake Erie engineer
Tuesday at Pittsburg shot and fatally
wounded his wife and fired two bullets
into his head from a revolver. WheI
Mrs. Mitchell was preparing breakfast
Mitchell, it is alleged, entered the
kitchen of their home in Sheraden and
began shooting. His mother was sit
ting at d table and endeavored to pre-
vent the tragedy. Mitchell and his
wife were taken to hospitals.
o. A. Duke, and John Harding wcr,
killed and more than 50 persons Wer
hurt four seriously, in street eau
collision oil the Interstate viaducl
between Kansas City. Mo-, and Kan
sas city, Eas.. Tuesday. Both cars
were headed west when the Leading
car lost its trolley. Before the pol,
could be replaced the following car
crashed iato it. 4 wild scene followed.
Four persons fell off the viaduct into
TIN, sand below sustaining serious
hurts while within the car. men aud
women fought to get out. Windows
we're broken and many injured by
broken glass.
Capt. John J. Day. skipper of the
threc-maSted schooner G. J. Cherry
which arrived at New York Monday
from Charleston, $. C., lumber-ladeD'
was complainant in the TonbS court
Tuesday against two Negro members
of his crew. whom he charged with as
sault. Day had cuts and abrasions rs
the result of an encounter with the
sailors. The two men. George Lee and
Joseph Freschod. showed an inordinato
love for their hunks the captain says
from the time the schooner left the
South Carolinan port and when he
reprimanded them they set upon and
beat him. The Negroes were Subdued
after shots had been fired at them. The
mutinous sailors were held in $1,000
bail for examination.
The Hamburg American liner Bethani;
came into port at Boston late Tuesday
with her top deck and cabin doors on
the port side crushed in and big steel
crossbeam and pillar which supports the
boat deck torn away. The liner was
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