Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

= From Is to rs new cases of cholera
occur in Funchal, Madeira daily. Forty
per cent. of those prove fatal p-.a,is,
The rumor that Miss Ethel Clara
LIE Neve. the companion Of DIR. Haw-
ley H. Crippen was on board the
steamer iceland. which reached Bos-
ton Thursday from Liverpool was I'M
founded y---
There was no truth in the rumor
current Wednesday night in Paris that
a well-known Frenchiman had CONS
mitted suicide. Some versions of the
story associated the. name of Count
Boni De Castellane with the matter,
An estate consisting principally OF
real estate and valued at 100000 will
eventually go to the Springfield, Mass.
public library under the will of the
late Stephen Z. Seymour, which has
been filed there for probate The
estate is to be held, by the widow
during her life and at her death will
revert to the City Library Association.
a meeting was held Thursday after
noon at Brockton, Mass. at which John
+. Tobin and Secretary Charles L.
Baine Of the Boot and Shoe Workers
of shoe manufacturers Id that city. who
are making third grade" shoes. 1t Is
said that, there is a strong feeling on
the part Of the workers that too high
grade workmanship is required by the
makers on this class Of work for the
money received. 8. ,,iis
Confident that he was about to die,
Robert Schley of Marshall, n, veteran
of the Civil War, last Sunday informed
his aged wife he intended TO write his
autobiography. He. finished the work
Tuesday evening. After. correcting, Il.
he told. his wife he belieyedf no would
expire about o'clock "Wednesday
morning. He wished to bid his neigh
bors farewell, and so called tbeih. In
and took leave Of =. them. infoEmiug
them he was about to, die. After lle
had retired, he got UP and wrote hIs
VIII. He died at 6 o'clock Wednesday
morning. ,!''g, IA
J. H. Taylor. the Negro, whose white
Wife was found naked and bruised
and chained to wall Of. the. room
where the couple, lived on Middjesex
street. South End. boston. 4Wednes-
day night, was held Thursday on four
SNoAAe's ~ 81 SoiLlhucQ, ltdIluk ydlo
municipal court. BAN totalIed $23O0.
Taylor was charged with OBTAINING the
woman, Margaret Taylor. ia a house
where immortality was allowed: with
assault and battery on the women;
with carrying d loaded revolver and
with having cocaine in his possession.
The woman was improving lat th.s
city hospital Thursday and IL was
Stated that she probably would be
able >to leave the hospital within 2 or
days. y ./,.ssvik 6s,.;,.,,fs,%x
For the second time within three
days a bomb was exploded ! 10 tho
Italian quarter on the X south Aside.
Chicago. Two out Of, Ave sticks, OF
dynamite placed in tho, doorwax of
1OS West, goth street exploded Wednes-
day night at midnight. The. tnildipe
is occupied by Michael Mastrog Giovanni
as an agency for q. Steamship lihe.
The building is IA three.stprXs brick
structure. The upper A0ors.s are used
as dwelling by MastEogiovanniaa nd
Pasquale snlliyano With their. Renee
tive families, numbering i P persons.
Little damage, was dones by the exp1ph
sion. Mastrogiovanpi, who conduetsta
banking business for local italians in
addition to. the steamship aEeHcJ. has
received three Black Hand letters IN
six weeks. 80 St, .,,,:,..i' y,s ~. 80