Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-26

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad lines, iloi
nation was received Sunday that the
trouble between the company and its ma
chinists had been settled and that the
men Would return to. work by JAM l.
The terms are not known.
Four men met death when bucket
in which they were descending the NO.
S shaft of the New River Collieries' co.
ia Eccles, w. Va, Saturday, overturn-
ed throwing them 500 feet to the DOT
tom of the mine. The dead are: John
Antonick, Mike Danyo, Nick Kokula
and John Sosko. Their homes were at
German, Pa.
| Six hundred and forty-five dollars,
the money State Senator Theodore
Bilbo declares was paid him as a bribe
during the senatorial contest of last
January was distributed as Christmas
| presents Saturday to four charitable
| institutions of Jackson, Miss. Blibo
gave the money to the authorities as
evidence.
| Preparations for Christmas at the
home of Daniel O'Conner. a mail car
lrier at Seattle, Wash, Sunday ended
lin a fire which cost the lives of his
1.-TWO babies, seriously injured four
other persons and destroyed the O'Con-
Inor home A lamp used to light the
fire place exploded, setting fire to the
house.
A telephone message received at
| lIl Paso from Superintendent George
| Rutledge. who went down with the
FL Paso & Northwestern train on its
trip, South Saturday, reports that the
l -. ,sf,te, II
| bridges md possibly more, after steal
ing the train on Thursday night
The petition of Abraham Ruef, the
former political leader OF San Fran
| cisco under a sentence of IA years for
| bribery for Il re-hearing before the
District Court of Appeals was denied
by that tribunal Friday. He will now
appeal to the supreme court for new
| trial.
a Christmas holly wreath swinging
from a chandelier forced open a gas
cock early Sunday and caused the as
phyxiation of Mrs. Eda NJ. Simpson or
Toronto, Ont. Before retiring last night
Mrs. Simpson hung the holly on a
chandelier near her bed. While she
slept the wind from an open window
swung the wreath against the gas
cock It was loosely adjusted and read
lily turned open.
DR.. Albert Reeder, aged 55, a practicing
physician in the Back Bay, Boston, for
the past 10 or u years, committed sui
eide by asphyxiation Sunday in his rooms
on Massachusetts, avenue, Boston. He
had been suffering from Ill health for
| three or four years and his deco IS
thought to have been caused by despon-
| dency. A widow and one son and q
daughter survive.
There will be no inaugural ball at
Lincoln, Neb., when Chester Fl. AID
rich, governor elect, is inducted into
office Jan. 5. That has been settled by
Mr.. Aldrich himself, who Saturday,
said: There will be a reception but
there will be no dancing" Mr.. Aid
rich is member Of the Methodist
church and says he cannot countenance
dancing The reception incident to the
Inauguration will be held at the State
House.
The Christmas spirit could not over
power the melancholia which had pos
J sessed Henry Ryan of Charlton Depot
Mass, for some time, and Sunday the
|
committed suicide. Surrounded by ever
| greens and the gifts of the day, he
| stretched himself on a sofa in his home
and placed a shotgun in his mouth, ex-
| ploding it. His wife and children, who
were at church. found his body with the
head badly mangled when they returned.
He was about As years old.
! Marshal Erastus f. Raffield Satur-
| day at Dublin, Ga, shot and killed
two brothers named Trigpen and ia
tally wounded third. Ratfield was
| appointed marshal two days ago after
| another marshal. 1t is alleged, had
| been runt out of the community. Sat
! urday afternoon, the Thigpen broth
| crs are said to have called ON him
| and notified Tim he would have to
leave the country or be locked in Jail.
y fight ensued and when one of the
| brothers reached for his pistol, Raj
field began firing. No arrests have
| been made
] While late Christmas shoppers were
l 5urging through the crowded, sloppy
streets of the retail district, New York
! City. through Il pouring rain Saturday,
| Uncle SANS mail men were busy deliver
| ing what is said to be the biggest Christ
mas mail ever handled by the local post
Office. The general postofiice, with it's so
| branch stations, was the real holiday
| storm center, it being calculated that up
wards of 100000 pieces Of mail were
| being handled.
That the 5-year-old son of Michael OFT
| of Richardson, N. D., froze to death as
| the result of his parents neglect Is the
| verdict returned by coroner's jury that
investigated the case Friday at Grand
| Forks, n. d. A sister four years old.
| who was with the boy, will probably die.
The children disappeared from the house
| about noon and it was evening before
| neghbors were called to help search for
! them. They were found in the rear of
\ their home, one dead and the other with
/ her legs frozen from the knees down and
| both arms frozen.
| Announcement was made Friday at
| Trenton, \. j., that there will be no
l bol