Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-27
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

bergen, N. d., ana TOUR others are In
q critical condition.
Disappointed because she did not re-
ceive gold watch she had been expect
ing for Christmas, Mrs. Michaelna Sto-
PEEK. aged "a, of Mckees Rocks, Pa,
drank poison and died Monday.
Miss Annie l.. Befi, aged, As years, de-
spondent over ill health. committed sui
eide by inhaling illuminating gas Mon
day night at her home on Maple avenue,
Andover, Mass. She was a dressmaker.
Eating mistletoe berries Monday at
Bokosh, Okla, caused the death of three
children. Two were children of Francis
Wright and the other of Benjamin
Wright Several other children are seri-
ously i'll from the same cause.
Frederick Brown, a circus performer
of Buffalo, N. Y, while attempting to
make balloon ascension Monday at
Havana struck projection Of a build
ing. He fell 100 feet to the ground and
was killed.
Jealous of girl whom he had not
seen for two years, Oscar Emler Of
Cleveland Monday shot and probably
ldtdIIy NouIlucu MlSS EIIiIild DSeuS,
and committed suicide when he was
surrounded by the police at Lancaster,
Ohio.
On returning home from an errand
Monday. Mrs. Robert Boles OF Wis
dom, KY, found her home in ashes
ana in one corner Of the ruins the
charred bodies of her three young
children. When Mrs. Boles went out
she covered the fire and locked the
doors. The children apparently tried
to escape but We're trapped.
At meeting of the Longshoremen' S
Protective Association Monday at New
York it was unanimously voted not
to go or strike until times are better.
Demands already have been made
upon the various steamship com
panies Tor an increase in pay. These
demands have been refused.
Two persons are dead, third is wound
ed and fourth is reported to be NOR
tally hurt as result of fights in and
about Bachlett, southeast of Waycross.
Ga. Sunday and Monday. The dead are
Walter Allen and Dener Crews. Allen
was shot through the heart by Walter
Crews, who in turn was shot by the dy
ing man as he fell
A Montreal dispatch says: -Four small
children of Ovid Baril of Arthabaska
county were burned to death in fire
which destroyed the store and home of
their father early last Christmas morn
ing. The fire followed an explosion Of
gas and spread 10 rapidly that Baril had
time to save only his wife and youngest
child. Both of the parents were severely
burned"
Harry T.. Shaw. keeper of the Mid
dlcsex county jail and one of the best
known citizens of Lowell, Mass. died
Monday evening at his home. His
age was 40 years. Mr.. Shaw was born
in Turner. Me-, and went to Lowell as
young man. He was Il pharmacies
and later became a court officer y
widow and three daughters survive.
Frank Buckley, aged IS. miner,
stabbed his wife, aged &c. Monday at
WelIston, Ohio causing fatal injuries.
He then ordered Mrs. BoSgs a sick
to leave her bed and go out
in the snow. Buckley threatened to
kill any one who tried to arrest him
or to minister to his wife. Patrolman
the heart Buckley's two little children
were witnesses to the crime.
Former Premier J. Luciano De Cas-
trO. II former governors and directors
of the Portuguese Credit Foncier Bank,
all of them ex-cabinet ministers, and
the chief accountants. treasurer and
cashier of the bank were arrested Mon
day at Lisbon on a charge of using i'll
legal methods in connection with the
of the institution. All
Of them were released on bail Cas-
tro. who is a paralytic, was unable to
appear before the magistrate and his
bail was fixed at 100000. This was
furnished by friends.
The appearance of l.. W, Crawford,
state printer and former editor of
Western newspaper before the special
grand jury in Adams county Monday at
Columbus, Ohio, as Il witness in the in
vestigation of vote buying was feature
of the probe. AS a result of Mondays
work 12J men were indicted for selling
their votes. This brings the total num-
Der of indicted up to 15S. OF these 154
have acknowledged their guilt and, have
been punished by disfranchisement, fines
and workhouse pledges. Forty pleaded
guilty Monday. These last 40 were fined
& and costs each and disfranchised five
years.
Playfully winding an insulated electric
light wire around his neck and hanging
the lighted bulb over his chest, William
j. McGrady, 10 years old, was suddenly
enveloped in shower of sparks and in
n few seconds fell to the floor uncon
scious in the midst of his friends Monday
night at Lynn. Mass. He died soon after.
Investigation showed that wire crossed
in the street half a mile away has caused
a short circuit at the time McGrady
wound it about his neck.
While number of ministers and 50
deacons and laymen were putting the fin
ishing touches in celebration of Christ
mas to new tabernacle which was be-
ing built at Barberton, Ohio. for Sc
Iies of union revival meetings, the roof
caved in, killing one man and injuring
several others. J. Fl. Myers, real estate
dealer, is dead. and G. S. Wolf, with in
ternal injuries and confusion of the back,
may also die.
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