Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Royal Beal. the oldest resident or Ply
mouth. N. H.. inventor Of the band saw,
and the towns most prominent citizen.
is dead at the age of 81. Up 70 the DAY
of his death almost he retained remarka-
BILE physical strength.
Philander G. Knox, Jr, and his wife,
who was Miss May Boiler of providence.
r. L.. arrived in Washington saturday
and were received at the residence OF the
secretary of state. Secretary Knox left
Washington Friday night with president
Taft. This is the first time the young
couple have been received at the home OF
the secretary since their marriage.
1t seems altogether probable that the
Canadian province of New Brunswick
will follow the lead Of Quebec in prohib-
iting the expectation of pulp wood. A
telegram has been received at the state
department from United States Consul
Moorehead, at st. John, N. b., stating
that the provincial Parliament had pass
ed resolution advocating the manufac-
ture Of wood pulp within the province.
William p. Harris, a Boston broker.
was taken Friday night to Waverly,
Mass. from his summer home at Nash
ua. N. H., in an automobile and commit
ted to the Mclean hospital as insane.
Harris was violent at Nashua, where he
was lodged for short time in a police
cell. 1t is believed that the strain of
business is responsible for his condition.
Newfoundland's desirabiiity as a
landing place for trans Atlantic cables
continues to grow apace in apprecia-
ton. Agents for the Western Union
Cable Co. have just opened negotia-
lions with the government for land
ing two of the company's~ cables with
in the colony. Gables were landed on
the island last year by the Direct
United States Gable Co. and the Com
mercial Cable Co.
quarrel between Mary Pimental of
989 Bennington street, East Boston and
Frank Sterba of Champney street,
South Boston, started a shooting ARRAY
Saturday night from which John G. Sill
w. and Alberta Sarbaneha had to dodge
to escape being killed by flying bullets.
Sterba after the first shot ran into a
crowd of men and boys in Breeds
square, and but for the timely arrival
OF the police would have been fortunate
to escape lynching
The suit for divorce of Mrs. James
Kennard Tracy. nee Barutio, from her
husband Lieutenant Tracy of the
United States ravy, has caused quite as
great sti' in navy society circles as
die the marriage of the pretty factory
CIR! to the young naval officer eight
years age. AT the time of the court
ship of Miss Barutio was employed in
the factory of the Portsmouth Shoe Co.
at Portsmouth. N. H. Tracy had re-
Gently been appointed to the navy from
New Hampshire. and was stationed at
the kittery, Me, navy yard
Mayor Arthur p, Howard of Salem,
Mass, filed a petition in the United
States district court in Boston Saturday
asking to be adjudged a bankrupt and
thereby freed from his debts which
amount to S36 4l5.54. According to a
statement issued by the mayor who has
not G cent available TO pay his heavy
debts, the bankruptcy proceedings were
not conte mplated by him until he was
summoned to appear in the poor debtors
court Saturday at the instance of certain
creditors, who, he says. have brought up
friendly claims against him and have
bounded him from political motives.
His gallant rescue of a girl from the
raging waters of the whirlpool of the
Great Fall of The Potomac, Is miles
above Washington, resulted in the be-
stowal of gold medal upon Walter c.
Rockwell. a deaf mute of Gallaudet Col
lege, Friday night The medal was the
Gift of members of the family of Miss
Maud Ellington. another student of the
college. who had been saved from death
in the water by young Rockwell. The
rescue was effected month ago under
conditions that called for the display OF
great bravery On the part of Rockwell.
A spectacular fire in the center of Pro-
whence Saturday practically destroyed
The Blackstone building at 30 Weybosset
street, causing a loss estimated at $780,
900, with partial insurance. For time
the flames threatened to spread to a
number of nearby wooden bulldogs. and
the firemen had hard fight to contine
it TO the Blackstone building. The fire
started near the elevator well in the rear
of the second story and spread rapidly.
When the fire fighting apparatus arrived
the building was a mass of flames. 1t
was three HOuTS DeICIc Tue oidHc was
brought under control. The cause is
unknown.
While her crew and captain slept in
fancied security in the cabin, the barge
Shore Line slowly filled and sank to the
bottom in 16 feet of water at the Eastern
Coal Cos. point wharf at Providence
early Saturday morning. Those on board
barely escaped from their berths before
she went down. Her crew would have
gone down with the cargo of 900 tons OF
coal had it not been awakened just before
she sank by a passerby on another boat,
who shouted out warning that their
craft was sinking. Captain Young and all
hands tumbled out in a hurry and made
for the pumps.