Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES


Philip Hurley. district marshal Of N,
Cincinnati city fire department. who was
hurt IN the s.. 100000 blaze of Dec. q. died
Thursday. His death is the fourth to re-
suit from the fire. N .---.+
Yellow fever has made It's appearance
in Managua, Nicaragua. Only one case
has developed So far. The victims all
Englishman, is dead. These facts were
reported to the state department Thurs
day in telegram from the American
consul at Managua.
The Temple Iron Co. Of scranton, Pa.
pending its appeal to the United states
supreme court from the decision OF the
circuit court declaring it an illegal COM
bination, has decided the coal and iron
interests of the company shalt be disas-
ISOLATED and managed separately.
Three communicates have died and
% others are seriously i'll as conse-
quencc of mistake made by an elder
of the Lutheran church in the Peterhof
district, Russia, who Wednesday eve
ming filed a communion cup with a
mixture of sulphuretted chromate in
stead OF wine.
steam yacht belonging to Frederick X.
dock at Alexandria Bay, n. Y. wednes-
day night. The accident is believed to
have been due to the bursting OF a Wa.
tcrpipe. The extent of the damage can
not he told until the yacht is raised. 1t
is resting on it's side in 10 feet Of water.
The British schooner Laura c. Hall.
Port Reading for Sackville. N. b., which
escaped the blizzard Of the 10th instant
only TO run ashore on Long island while
entering Boston harbor for succor, was
fioated Thursday by q tug and flowed UP
to the city to make minor repairs. 1t is
expected that she will resume her voyage
in a few days.
Fire Thursday burned out the interior
Of the Franklin building on Goodman
avenue, Asbury Park. n. j., owned by
Major Appleby, occupied on the ground
floor by business concerns and ON the two
upper floors by apartments. The. total
loss is estimated at $4,000. Samuel A.
Patterson, a lawyer, ana his son George
were cut off in their apartments on the
top floor. They were rescued by firemen
by means of ladders. go,
Il. a. Hamilton. a young farmer living
near Laurens, S. c., was found dead at
his home Thursday, With his head al
most completely severed from his body
and q bloody axe by his side. His wife.
who recently returned home from an In
sane asylum Is being held by the author
tiles. She denies all knowledge Of, the
crime. Ono of her authorizations before
being taken to the asylum was that she
had killed her husband
William D. Turner. a deputy Keeper at
tho New Jersey prison at Trenton, N. J..
was stabbed Thursday by Dominick Ma
gano. who is serving d long term for
murder. and Is in 4 hospital In q very
serious condition.. He has two wounds
in the abdomen. The affair occurred
while Turner was leading q number Of
prisoners to a dinner table. and 30 far as
can be learned there was no particular
reason for the attack ,.s,,-.s
The superior court at Northampton.
Mass, Thursday made haste in banding
Everett McElroy. who was arrested in
Springfield Wednesday. for the ,fobbSy OF
$500 of jewelry. from the house OF
Charles Walker In that CITY. After Nc
Elroy had pleaded guilty to- achatge Of
larceny. Dist. Atty. r. W. Irwin review
cd his record in Providence. New York
and other places and ssked for, immediate
sentence. McElroy was sent. to state
prison for not less than 1i2 years nor
more than 5 years
A conference of the steel manufac-
turers of the United States has been
called to meet in NV York on Jan. 8
for the purpose OF discussing prices
and steel conditions. whether concert
ed action WIN BE taken looking toward
q readjustnient Of prices downward for
the purpose Of revivfng the siackening
demand III the steel trade is not known.
Steel plants are running between, 50
and 60 per cent. Of their capacity at
present and some manufacturers think
that lowered steel prices would bring
consumers into the market.
Captures made Wednesday night near
Newark, n. j., Of two more counterfeit
ers are believed to put the entire gang
in the hands OF the Secret Service. Fol-
lowing the raids Tuesday night on the
plant in Brooklyn when Jacob Dross,
Frank Speilburg and Aaron Silva were
taken with a peck Of spurious quarters
and dimes and a bushel basket full, of
eounterfeiting instruments. the detectives
trailed the remnants Of the gan into
New Jersey. Near Newark Wednesday
night they took Max Silver. and David
Garim and captured the largest quantity
of counterfeit coins ever found in one
raid in the history Of the Secret Service.
Seven thousand dimes. 100 quarters AMI
% moulds were found With the fugNNes.