Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-13
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Secretary of War Dickinson left Wash
ington Sunday for New York. He will
sail Monday for Colon to make an inspec.
ton of the Panama canal.
archduchess Stephanie. Countess Lon
yay, the second daughter of King Leopold
of Belgium and widow of Crown Prince
Rudolph of Austria, is serious i'll at Zi-
rich, Switzerland. Her condition is the
cause of grave anxiety.
Mrs y. A. Floyd was stabbed TO
death with penknife by her husband,
Or. n. A. Flovd. saturday afternoon ut
Waco, Tex Floyd then stabbed NM
self eight times with the same KNIFE
and probably will die. He came to
Waco from Suffolk, Va. short time
ago.
Charles L. Beals. president of the Win
chendon Savings Bank for many and
formerly identified with the Winchendon
National Bank as cashier, died at BOWL
ing Green. Fla, Saturday night accord
ing to word received Sunday at Winchen-
don. Mass Mr.. Beals had been in Flor
ida for few weeks on account of failing
health He was about 20 years of age
Simon Nichols, shortstop and captain of
the Baltimore Eastern League baseball
club died Sunday at a hospital at Balti-
more. Md He had been i'll for over a
week with typhoid fever and an opera
tion was made necessary Saturday. Prior
to going to Baltimore. Uicholls played
successfully with the Memphis southern
League and Philadelphia American
League teams.
Two hundred and fifty prisoners TAX
tor aT
en- by Deputy Police Commissioners
Flynn and his deputies in % raids upon
alleged gambling houses in New YORK
are awaiting trials on indictments
charging them with misdemeanors or
feionies. Nine men were taken III the
latest raid Saturday night The cru
SADIE is the most consistent ana sus-
tanned ever conducted against gam
bling in New York.
Discovering a stick of dynamite in
the gutter caused Daniel 0'Leary. an
emnloye in the sewer department in
the city Of Lynn. to throw up his job
saturday. OLeary declared that he
did not like the way dynamite was
scattered around the city as emily
few days AGO a workman struck his
pick into stick of dynamite and was
killed. O'Leary declared that he pre- |
felre1 JOB where he was not taking |
such risk
A severe earthquake accompanied by |
strong detonations from Mount Nesuvius |
occurred Sunday evening. Investigations |
showed that a great landslide dropped |
from the upper part of the crater. 1t is |
estimated that it measured 1000 by 30
feet and when it fell it caused enormous
clouds of smoke The funicular railway
was badly damaged. y party of tourists
were about to ascend by the railway |
when the shock occurred.
More than a million gallons of oil made
a picturesque river blaze Saturday night |
in the heart of pratt's Oil orks proper |
" in North 18th street, Brooklyn, and
burned up the building and the pier Ed |
ward Brown. engineer of the company's |
fireboat Protector was burned TO death |
in the craft, which was hemmed in by |
the blazing oil shot from the building and |
sent floating along the surface of the |
water. His crew jumped into the blazing |
sea, but Brown hestated and shift of |
the wind enveloped him in cloud of |
black smoke His body was found in the !
ruins of the boat, which caught fire ana |
sank. |
The navy department Saturday received |
complaint from the captain of the gun
boat Marietta in Portsmouth, n. II. Two
OF the Mariettas men entered Freeman
hall and. after witnessing "A moving pic
ture show, sat down to watch dance.
They We're expelled by the attendants on
the ground that they wore the uniform of
the United States navy. The proprietor
pleaded that he was obliged to exclude
uniformed sailors in order to meet the
competition of other dance halls in Ports
mouth. Acting Secretary Winthrop acted
promptly upon the complaint by transmit
ting il to the mayor of Portsmouth with
a polite intimation that the navy depart
1nent expected better treatment for the
blueiackets If this is not accorded il
is understood that few ships will he
dered to Portsmouth in the future.
While awaiting a reply to an ultimatum
they have presented to the faculty, " ca
diets of Kemper Military Academy of
Bonneville, Mo, still are camping in war
fashion in the hills two miles from that
city Picket lines have been established
and guards are changed each hour. the
camp is under strict military regulations,
all persons entering or leaving being re-
quired to giyr the c0untersign. This pre-
caution Was a result of the 'desertion"
Of six If the younger students Friday
night. \ provisional form of government
has been set up the senior cadet officer
acting as dictator. with the commissioned
officers as a cabinet. Negotiations have
been opened by wire with the powers at
home" looking to the financing of the rev.
olution.
I.fu ,-sgt Val- II L,,, pinl.
OF I-as Angeles said Saturday there