Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| from severe cold and rheumatism
| Mrs. Anna Crowley Clifford, II years
old and bride of less than three
months who was arrested. Saturday
night IN New York. charged with the
forgery of her recent employers name.
| sunday pleaded guilty without the
| slightest emotion in court.
| a man was killed and TO other .ner-
| sonssons were injured Sunday at
| White Plains. y. ", two seriously.
when runaway fire patrol team.
bolted down steep grade and dashed
into the broadside of a Mount Vernon
trolley ear. George Knapp, 81 years
old, driver OF the team, was hurled
| against the car and instantly killed
Thomas Roache. aged l6 found n gold
quartz nugget ON the edge of the town
of Grass Valley. Cal. last week esti
| mated to be worth s1700 to $500 The mug
get weighs 10 ounces and Is literally stud
| ded with gold. The find was made ON
William Tell mining claim. one end pro-
| truding from the earth. The youth was
hunting when he noticed the glitter Of
| gold and made the investigation it is
the most valuable nugget ever found in
the Grass Valley district
| The three-masted coasting schooner
Joseph Jordan of Machias, Me, was
| struck by New York, Philadelphia
& Norfolk Railroad car float during
a dense fog, Saturday. She lost her
| ifbboom and most of her head gear
The Jordan, bound from Philadelphia
| to Paramaribo. Brazil, with coal, was
| lying off Thimbie light in lower Ches-
| apeake bay. The car float was being
| flowed by a tug from Cape Charles to
| Norfolk.
Fire broke out in the basement of
keith's theatre on 1ith street, near
Broadway. New York, Sunday, while
a performance was in progress. Smoke
was making way into the auditorium.
in which more than 500 persons were
seated. when fireman went 10 the
stage and explained the circumstances
to the audience SO reassuringly that
there was hardly a trace of panic
With almost perfect order the crowd
filed out of the theatre and Joined a
| throng of several thousand persons in
the street. watching the firemen fight
the blaze. The damage was confined
mainly to the basement.
Residents OF Clinton, y. j.. have
been exercised during the last three
days, over the nightly Visits of a
strange animal about the farm yards.
Some declare that the imprints of its
| feet in the ground prove ii to be
bear, while others think it is wild
| boar. At any rate the farmers are
sleeping with one eye open in the hope
of becoming acquainted with the visi-
/ tor by the use of guns. Many farmers
| do not go to church nights any more.
and the children are kept at home aft
er dark. Some of the residents believe
the animal has its lair in what is
known as the Big Piece" large
tract of meadow land along the Pas
sale river. and it goes forth at night
in search of food.
Burglars opened a front window in
| the house of Mrs. Emma Marten, Il
| widow, residing on Bay Fifth street.
| East Elmhurst, l.. l., early Saturday
| morning. They entered the parlor, then
went to the reception room, adjoining.
where they spied a box that looked as
| il 1t might contain some valuables.
| They touched a button, thinking II
would open the box, and music began
to play. The burglars dropped the box
and fled Mrs. Marten, asleep on the
| second floor, was awakened and Went
| downstairs to find what had caused
| the music box to disturb her sleep.
| She found it on the floor, slightly dam
| aged. but still grinding merrily away.
| Several silver picture frames had
| been taken from the mantelpiece ana
heaped upon the table, ready for re-
moval. Nothing was missing.
Twenty-Five thousand Cleveianders srs
enlisted in the egg strike started by At
| torney Frank E. Krause, Friday FROM
| letters received from out OF town IL Is
| learned the strike is spreading TO other
Ohio cities and other states. 30 iaf there
has been no appreciable drop IN egg
| prices as a result of the crusade. Prices
have been lowered two cents, but this Is
due to the open weather. commission
men say, the hens having started laying
| again and the receipts being heavy. But
| the demand has fallen off TO great ex-
| tent, and the leaders in the egg strike
| believe that within week the commits
| sion men and small dealers VIII feel thu
| effects Krause and his allies declare
| storage eggs purchased In the spring at
| II cents and sold to retailers now at *
| cents, are put on the market at strict,9
| fresh eggs and retailed at from SO to 20
| cents. 1.-The leaders of this movement
and the 25,0O0 people in it won't stand
for this extortion," said krause, Satur-
| day. ~The retail dealers are mostly TO
blame although the commission men get
their share of the profit and help boose
the prices
The whack of cub resounding at
the dead of night in the parlor of the
| residence of M. B. Herman a wealthy
advertising man, at Newport Ky,
coupled with the piercing scream of
! dying Maltese owl, marked the cli-
max of three cornered battle waged
in darkness between the owl, a police
man and the Herman household. Mr.,
Hermann neophyte of the fresh-air
movement, had left the parlor window
open. The owl invaded the room and
fearsome noise ensued. After the
bird, which was making wide circles
of the room. had smashed an antique
clock, hall tree, several valuable
pictures, a Louis XIV chair of frail
design, cut-glass punch set and a
| porcelain souvenir of Pixies Peak fire