Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-15
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

While alone in the telIers' department
at the Lunenburg. \. S. branch of the
Bank of Montreal. Tuesday, G. w
Toombs, aged 20 a bookkeeper. ended
his own life, Monday, by shooting. There
is no known reason for his action.
According to the newspapers, the Roy
alists are again preparing for an inva-
SION of Portugal. which will be begun as
soon as the weather clears. just now
the whole of north Portugal is being
flooded with torrential rains.
According to a circular letter received
Tuesday. at Poughkeepsie, \. Y, by
members of the order of Railroad Teieg-
aphers, all the telegraph operators and
tower men and agents on the New York
Central lines have been granted an in
crease in wages of from 10 10 u per
cent, the new wage scale to so into
effect, Nov. 10
search Tor the missing wEaleback
| large oearspoft. which, with her crew
u tour men, broke loose from the tug
underwater in the gale OF sunday oil
| i .rc island, has Deen abandoned. capt.
| g0An hXfini OF Inc CnaerWrltef, Oh his
| return from Ere Island tuesday, sad
| i am forced 10 believe that the Sears
| port foundered with all hands, some time
| sunday night
Hanging from the bow OF the police
steamer Waterman, Iatrolman 1nom-
| as Ii. Southur of the harbor police sta
| ton, rescued Joseph Ards, 50 years, OF
50 Sanitation street from u watery
grave 3ff the north side Of Battery
j, harf, Boston, late Monday Ards had
fallen from d dredger and Lad sunk
t9r the third time when Souther
cached him with boat hook and
ilshed him out.
Fore River ship yards have begun
| work on two submarines, the Haddock
| and the Chaclot. both for the United
States navy, Work on two others Will
soon be begun. The latter are to be lac
feet in length. Armour plates are now
l,eing placed on the Argentine battle
| slip Rividavia, aud it is expected that
,t,o will be ready TO go into commission
| .orly. next summer
When it comes to presenting medals
| Tor having d super abundance of nerve,
| Ferdinand HeyInan, % years old. OF
| Saginaw, ought to come in for his
share. sir. Heyman submitted to an
| operation at st. Mary's hospital, when
! three quarts Of fluid were removed
from his right lung and two and d
| half inches of the fifth rib broken OFF.
| And this was done without the use OF
N anesthetic. The patient was on the
| operating table fer 40 minutes, and
| although begged by the physicians,
| sisters AND nurses to take some anes-
thctic, he refused and stuck it through
| He never lost consciousness.
Harvard viii defeat. both Dartmouth
and Yale IL Ruth St Denis has her
way. She has become so interested in
| the success of the Harvard team that
| she has sent Captain Fisher a small
| nup as mascot for the team during
| the next two games. Miss St. Denis
witnessed the Harvard and Princeton
game and felt that Harvard should
| have won. When she heard the Indians
defeated Harvard she said that the
Cambridge boys needed mascot. She
| immediately inquired around and de-
| eided to send home for a little pup
The dog arrived, Monday Its name is
Gar" What Gar means no one knows
9ut Miss st. Denis, and she has not
| told Captain Fisher.
| iS9tNCiiN at Will walt until Jan.
| | before naming a successor to Asso-
| ciate Justice Harlan on the supreme
court bench. Three or four other Judi
| cial nominations will be made at the
same time, including successor to
| Circuit Judge Grosscup Of Chicago
| who resigned recently. Missouri and
| Indiana have asked the President to
pick his next appointee to the SUI
preme court from those states in rec
ignition of the fact that they never
had a representative on the supreme
| court bench.
S. ]. Cannon. Cleveland, Ohio.
salesman choked to death on a piece
| of roast beef, Tuesday, while eating
| in a Springfield. Mass, hotel cafe.
| There were few in the rom at the time
and when waiter saw him leaning
| over the table he thought the man Was
DOING a touch on the shoulder failing
| To arouse Cannon, an investigation was
started and a physician summoned.
| The doctor arrived too late to save the
mans life. Cannon had been there
several days aenonstratirig sHe8 was
: about 80 years of age and is urder-
: stood to have a wife and one child In
/ Cleveland.