Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-31
: coNpEMsEp DISPATCHES.


electric car, bound from Brockton to
Providence. u.-..
venette F. Pelletereau. we'll
known real estate dealer of Brooklyn
N Y, was killed Sunday near Nor
ristown. N. j., by being thrown from
a runaway polo pony.
| =. j. Boisman, director general Of
| Finnish customs, has been sunimarily
dismissed. because of his refusal to
| execute the imperial decree fOrbidding
the importation of weapons.
| 1t is officially announced at Paris
! that during the first half of tine year
| 1910. the births in France exceeded
| the deaths by 2l.1S9. During the
! year 1909 the deaths exceed the
births by 2s,205.
Cne hundred expensive draft horses
were killed, number OF wOrkmen
had narrow escapes and considerable
property damaged resulted late Sun
| day when large steam pipe burst
\ in a barn at the Union Stock Yards
Chicago. The barn was used jointly
| by Swift & Co. and Libby. Mcneil 4
Libby, packers. ..-.
report reached the headquarters
of the American Federation of Labor
at Washington Sunday that general
| strike Of elevator constructors
| Throughout the country is threatened
as result of lockout of $50 men
| by the Otis Elevator Co, of Chicago.
more than year and hall ago.
Private kilograms received at
Helena, Mont. say that four persons
| were killed Sunday in a collision.
| between a passenger train and a
stock train on the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul Railway near Miles City.
Mont. Among the dead are w. u.
Hill of Miles City, wealthy man,
and his son.
Reaching for a pail which was float
ing by that he might bail out the boat,
one Of a party of three Polanders who
were boating on otter creek, at Rut-
land, VT, Sunday, tipped over their
| frail craft and two were drowned. The
| downed men were both married and
We're employed as marble workers.
Marcus Crawford Of Franklin, Pa.
I and a member of the Freshman class
OF Princeton University, died in the
university infirmary Sunday of infan-
tile paralysis. This is the second death
| from the same disease in the Freshman
class within the last three weeks.
| AS result of a mixup and quarrel
at manufacturing plant at S7l
Marginal street, East Boston, Satur
day night John Taylor. aged 81 years.
| the Waterman at the property, died
at the HOSPITAL late Sunday of internal
! injuries and Joseph Abovan, aged -
years, was placed under arrest on the
| charge of manslaughtcr.
News was brought to Victoria Sat
| ur..ay night by the Steamer Empress
of Japan of the financial panic at
| Shanghai. The total number of banks
closed when the steamer left was, q
and it was feared the panic would
extend to Tien Tsin. In Pekin, sew
eral banks closed and the closing of
banks is reported from Canton. For
| eign trade is likely to be seriously
affected.
| After being pursued by Police Officer
j. Everett Merrill of the Hudson police
| force just before daylight Saturday
morning, a thief who had stolen horse
and outfit from Frank L. Bancroft of
| Litchfield. n. H., abandoned the horse
and escaped The animal was later found
l
tracks killed by a train and the buggy
| wrecked.
| Mrs. Mary w. Hartman, standing on
| the top of Bear mountain. high above the
| Hudson. Saturday afternoon gave
| check for 100000 and a deed to 10000
acres of land to the Interstate Palisade
Park Commission in memory of her hus-
band, the late Edward H. Hartman, the
| railroad magnate. In addition, the COM
missioners received a deed to 200 acres
| from the commission on new prisons.
Major General F. D. Grant. COM
handing the department of the East.
during the recent three-days physi
cial tests Of army officers. tried out
| the hew emergency ration. General
Grant carried three packages, one for
each day, and returned with two of
| the packages unopened. having used
| but one on the entire ride. The gem
eral says he suffered no inconven-
| fence whatever and found the ration
| sufficient in all respects. The new
emergency ration is composed OF
chocolate liquor nucleo- casein. matted
| milk. dissecated egg, sugar and cocoa
butter. II is put in S-ounce tin boxes.
| Each box contains three cakes. one
cake being sufficient for meal
Curious as to what had become of the
| body of DR.. Teed, who announced before
his death a year ago at Bristol. Tenn.
that he would rise from the tomb ana
become the Messiah of the Koreshans.
two members of the cult, according to
Henry d. Slverfriend. attempted to mn-
seal the tomb, but before this was &C
complished both were deprived of their
| reason and died before they could be
taken to an asylum. Silverfriend is prom
! inent in the Koreshan Colony in Estro.
Fla. He said Sunday that Dr. Teed had
, not arisen, but members OF the cult were
| confident he would come forth as their
| Messiah in due time. The Brist i Kore-
shans colony was abandoned shortly af-
ter DR.. Teed's death.
The steamer Crown Prince of the
| Prince Line, from Santos to New Or
| leans with coffee. was wrecked off the
| west coast of Cuba on Oct. 16. Her crew
of "a and four passengers were rescued
p. and taken to Havana. The steamer. with
: its cargo valued at moro than Il M OOO