Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Fire. caused by an explosion of mix
ture Of paint and gasoline in the store
house of the Georgia Railway & Electric
Co., Taltnat. Ga. Tuesday afternoon
caused the death Of one man and serious
ly injured another. The loss on the build
ing is estimated at $4,000
The International Aeronautical Fedora
ton announces that the prizes for the
carnivals Of 1910 will range from $4,000
to $4,000 at the European contests, while
5000 will be offered for the American
contests. The revised dates for the meet
in the United States provide for contests
from Oct. IS to Nov. 2
Capt. E. Baumeister, in command of
the Hamburg American steamship
Hamburg, which conveyed Former
President Roosevelt from these shores
last year on his quest for big game,
was found dead in his room at a
broadway hotel, New York City, Tues
day. He had been ill at the hotel since
last Tuesday.
A distinguished company of prelates and
priests from the New York diocese and
those nearby participated Tuesday in a
solemn requiem high mass at st. Pat
rick's cathedral in memory Of Cardinal
| Satolli, Papal delegate to the United
| States, who died in Rome on Saturday.
Archbishop Farley occupied the Arch
| Episcopal throne during the singing Of
the mass. There was no sermon.
| When the cable holding the basket from
which Julius Hanson had to work in max
ing electrical connection, suspended high
1 tn hn ofr md he hot
tan bridge, New York, slipped from it's
fastening Tuesday, the basket was over
turned and Hanson dropped 100 feet to
| the East river below The shock must
have killed him instantly, for the body
failed to come to the surface.
4 Three paralytic strokes closely fol-
lowing one another have brought Mrs
Eliz Sigel, widow of Gen. Franz ST.
| gel, the Civil War hero, to deaths
door. and Tuesday it was said that her
| survival was only matter of hours.
Mrs. Sigel is the grandmother of Elsie
| Sigel, the young girl victim of a
Chinese murder last June in New
York.
J A jump from the first balcony OF the
Metropolitan Life building in New
York to the marble hallway, 40 feet
below, was the means taken by Moritz
Meinhard Tuesday to end his life. The
fall, witnessed by horror-stricker
crowd in the corridor, killed Meinhard
instantly. The police found in the
mans pockets tive-cent piece, an ac-
cident insurance card and note ask
ing that his wife be notified.
In his annual message to the Legis
lature which convened Tuesday al
Trenton, N. j., Gov. Fort referred tc
the conditions which existed in At
lantic City last summer, where at.
tenlpts We're made by the state au.
thorities to enforce these the laws
against Sunday liquor selling-charges
that excise laws are openly and no.
| toriously violated and urges the Leg
islature to take action. The present
indications are that the Legislature
will act adversely on the income tax
amendment to the federal constitution
The cleanest sweep so far in any
city department since the beginning OF
the new administration took place
Tuesday in New York. Borough Presi.
dent Miller of the Bronx announced
that he had received designations from
a dozen heads of borough departments
and holders of important positions
within his jurisdiction. Nearly all were
high salaried men, including the chief
engineer at $500 per annum. Miller
was elected on the fusion ticket last
November.
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