Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Customs inspectors Friday at San
Francisco seized 10 tins Of opium val
uod 1T $4,000 on the liner Asia. This is
the first large seizure of opium at that
port since last February. The drug will
be destroyed.
Eleven convicts were freed from the
Arkansas penitentiary at Little Rock.
Ark. Saturday, their pardons coming as
Christmas presents from Gov. George w.
Donaghey Their crimes ranged from
larceny to criminal assault.
Mrs. Catherine Sund was fatally burn.
ed Saturday night at Buffalo, n. Y,
while playing Santa Claus for her 4-year-
old child. The flame from a candle ignit-
ed a false beard she wore Her face and
neck were badly burned and she inhaled
the flames.
Joseph Vending, convicted Dec. Of
the murder of 8-year-old Alma Kellner
and given life imprisonment by jury,
was denied a new trial by Judge James
p. Gregory Saturday in criminal court
at Louisville, Ky, and was formally sem
fenced to the pettentiary for life.
The body of Fireman Charles Schwen-
gel, buried under the ruins of the fire
at Cincinnati last Wednesday morning,
was found late Saturday. One hundred
volunteers from the fire department had
gone over the entire section of the burn
ed district before they uncovered the
body
Seventy-five convicts of the Texas state
:; pententiary will walk out Monday free
men. having had executive clemency
from Governor Campbell, who has devot-
ed the last two weeks to the considera-
ton of Christmas pardons. 1t is believed
the holiday pardons will reach a hum
dred
Claude Grahame- White, who had
narrow escape from serious injury
week ago in an attempt to fly across
the English channel for the Baron De
Forest prize OF 100000, met with FUR
ther mishap Sunday near Dover. Eng.
He was ready to make a second at
tempt for the prize when his new bi-
plane caught fire and was DESTROYED.
Five-year- Michael Dediasc
climbed on a chair while his mother
was at church Sunday morning at
New York and took from a closet
bottle of whiskey, He drank more than
pint and when Mrs. Dedase returned
she found the child on the floor in con-
vuIsions. A physician was summoned
brt the lad died in half an hour
John philip Sousa and his band of
60 musicians sailed Saturday from New
York on the Baltic for the fourth tour
of Great Britain. to be followed by
visit to South Africa. Australia and
Now Zealand. a trip home by way OF
Honolulu and tour across the United
States. Mrs. Sousa and her two daugii-
ters will be in the party. The band is
accompa panied by Miss Virginia Root
and Miss Nicotine Zedeler, soloists.
C'ranston II. l.. has q mayor who re-
fuses TO accept any compensation for
his services. Cranston is the youngest
city in the state. At meeting of the
council Friday night a resolution was
introduced allowing Mayor Edward NJ.
sullivan a salary of $1,000. Mayor Sui
livan declared that if the motion was
passed he would veto it and if the
council then passed it he would not
accept the money anyway. At Mayor
Sullivan's request the motion was
withdrawn.
Returning from Christmas party
at South Shaftsbury, VT. late Friday
night. Miss Fretta Brownson. 10 years
old, died in her mothers arms shortly
after she had asked her forgiveness
for taking carbolic acid. The only
cause which can be given for the sui
eide is tha, a young man with whom
Miss Brownson had been keeping COM
pany paid attention to another cir! at
the party.
A declara ton in favor of the popular
election of United States senator's was
made Saturday night at Boston by
Congressman Samuel w. Mccall at a
meeting OF the Goth Century Club. Con-
gressman Mccall said: II believe in the
people. having the right to vote for
United States senators and all other
agents in the conduct of the govern
ment with the exception of court
Judges" The congressman spoke on
"The Difficulty in Making Laws.
"Send for Mary. ] think I'm dying.
said Thomas Conley 73 years old, to the
watchers at his bedside in Jersey City
Christmas eve: but the watchers only
made feint to tell Mary. for in the next
room she, too. hay dying. Husband and
wife had both been stricken with pneu-
monia. and both were so i'll that neither
had been informed Of the others danger.