Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

President MadriZ announces a vic
tory bw General VasqueZ.' occupying
over the insurgents. Cen
erdl Vesquez in command of 200 men,
was attacked by 400 PROFESSIONALS. The
btatle lasted four hours and many
were killed or wounded on both sides.
Standing on a street corner at Med
ford, Mass, in plain view of score
of Saturday night shoppers. Frank
O. Brien, %. drank the contents of a
small vial Saturday night. falling in
heap on the sidewalk and dying less
than an hour later at his home.
The body which was found floating
in Stump Hill reservoir at fawtucket
Friday was identified Saturday as that
Of James Ackroid, aged SIS. a mill work.
err, who came seven years ago from
England 1t will cost the city $1,000 to
draw off the 2O.oo0,000 gallons of water
and clean the reservoir.
The Cunard Line steamer Franconia.
cessfully launched in the presence of
a great crowd Saturday at Wallsend
on-Tyne. England. The vessel was
by Lady Forwood. With
the exception of the Mauritania. the
Franconia is the largest steamship
built on the east coast.
BY the will Of the late Byron A. Sim
mons of Hartford, $4,000 is left to
Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley,
Mass. $1,000 to the North Yarmouth,
Me-, Congregational church and $1,000
to Rev. f. f. Williams of Chicago. The
Hartford School of Religious Pedagogy
also receives $4,000. The estate is valued
at $4,000.
Orrn Written, aged SIS, of Avon. and
Mrs. Annie Tucker, aged so. of Som
erville. were struck by an automobile
in Mattapan square, Boston, in plain
view of thousand people Sunday and
the man received injuries which which
in his death. Mrs. Tucker is
believed to have been internally in
jured.
Weslvn Johnson, a colored steamster.
lost his life Sunday at Wayland, Mass.
when his horses. frightened by a pass
ing automobile. knocked him down and
trainpled upon him. Johnson was en-
ployed by Hudson farmer and was
garden truck for the Monday market
While three boys were picking blue
berries in the woods off East Fox
boro street, Sharon Heights. Mass.
Sunday. they discovered the body of
q man lying in clump of bushes. His
face was so badly decomposed as to
be beyond recognition and the only
article found in his pockets was a
clip of paper bearing the name Sam
uel Burnett. The man was we'll dressed.
Medical Examiner Faxon of Stoughton
could find no evidence of foul play or
of suicide.
Within sight of the lights of Man
haitian, four men held up a coach load
point of pistol and robbed them Of
perhaps $500 in cash, while their train
Was still standing in the West Shore
terminal at Weehawkeen. N. J. A
cry of police" from the lookout gave
the men warning and they were able
to mingle with the crowd and lose
their Identities. The lookout was felled
by the night stick of patrolman and
is now locked up.
The American champion, Frank J.
Marshall, Saturday at Hamburg. de-
feated Jacob. the Berlin expert, in the
sixth round of the international chess
tourney that is being held in Hamburg.
Schlecter still leads the field. Following
are the scores to date: Schlecter. 5;
Duras. Marshall and Neimsowitsch, 4
each: Alekhine. Salwe and Tarakower,
IL cacn; Forgacz and Spielmann, 3
tNbS,t.,,ircGi nd Of ch, q
each; John and Speijer, each: Koebn-
iein. Leonhardt. Tarrasch and Yates,
IL each and Jacob, 1-2.
Edward H. Hartman was worth ST.
100000 at the time of his death The
records of the state comptroller's Of
flee at New York, into which inheri-
lance taxes are paid, show, as made
puOlic Saturday, that Charles A. Pea
body, president of the Mutual Life
Insurance Co., paid on March 5 last,
s675,000 as the amount to which the
state was entitled under the trans
fer tax law. A little arithmetic shows
to those familiar with the law that
the estate on which this tax was paid
was valued at 71,553737.
Woodrow Wilson. president of
Princeton. will not be nominated by
reclamation for the governorship of
New Jersey on the Democratic ticket
Mayor H. Otton Wittpenn of Jersey
City, who announces himself candi-
date for the nomination Some time
ago. made this plain Sunday. He said
ne would surely go before the con-
cention and fight to the end. In state
ment given out at Ashbury Park |
Mayor Wittpenn attacked the men |
that are backing President Wilson. |
saying that Woodrow Wilson is be-
ng advanced for governor by the cor