Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Ine IRE that GeStfoNeu Woou afas
q railway station and many houses a
Antwerp. Belgium, Tuesday night
burned itself out wednesday. 1t is es
timated that the total loss viii b'
nearly 100000.
During the army maneuvre
"Wednesday the dirigible balloon "M3'
caught lire and fell near the viliag,
of Grossbe low, Germany. The crew
saved themselves by jumping as the!
BADLY damaged
Frederick Lispenard Suydam. Jr.
the young millionaire of Blue Point, l.
l., whose young wife is reported t,
have run away With Frederick Noble
son of q plumber, says that she wa!
very tnpulsive and temperamental ant
he does not intend TO make any effor
10 find her.
Frank j. Gould followed the example
of some so other wire manufacturers
Wednesday at New York and entered
a plea of nolo contendere TO the in
dictment charging him with violating
the Sherman antitrust law in connec-
ton with the Horse Shoe Wire Man
ufacturing Co. He was fined $1,000 and
his share of the costs.
President 1aft's visit to St. Louis
Mo-, Sept, g, viii include among 9TH
ser functions luncheon at the City
Club. which has quarters in a down.
town office building. To insure per-
sonal safety to the President in as
eendin4 to the banquet room, new ca
bles have been ordered for the ele-
Yators.
Rev. Thomas ]. Crumm, master in
81. Pauls school NJ Concord, y IL,
for SO years and secretary of the
standing committee of the Episcopal
diocese Of New Hampshire died
Wednesday morning. He was born
at Barbados, West indies. oct. II.
1916, and graduated from Trinity Col
lege.
Irving Watson, formerly we'll
known newspaper man in Rhode Is
land and at one time president Of the
Rhode Island Press Club. died at
hospital in Providence late Tuesday,
after 2 few days Illness. He began
his newspaper career as reporter on
the Providence Journal and afterwards
published n weekly paper at Nara
gansett Pier lie was born in New
York City in 1919 and was the son
Of a congressman from that city.
Springfield. H.. was badly dam
ICED by three successive heavy wind
torms which occurred between and
80 4. NJ Wednesday. The streets are
impossible because of thousands of
allen trees, cellars and streets are
Iooded and trolley line all over the
ity being down street car service is
I standstill. No loss of life has been
eported
Two persons are dead and another
$ dying in Westerly, r, l., as the re-
ult of eating toadstools in the belief
hat they We're mushrooms. Mrs.
rank Murano gathered the toadstools
nd distributed them among her neigh
ors and shortly after died Nicoi Sal
ono, one of the neighbors, died and
FRS. Rosie Capron is not expected to
We.
The celebration of the quin- cepten-
AIRY of Saint Andrews University, the
ldest in Scotland, opened Wednesday
1 Saint Andrews, Scotland. with an
procession Of delegates from
he universities of the world, savants,
ons, students and civic representatives,
{ the Scottish cities. through the city
D the town church where the COM
service was held. There is
ardly university of repute in Ameri-
a, Europe or Asia, that did not send
representative and the multiple city
[ picturesque academic robes and
aired uniforms made a brave showing.
Serious injuries TO Frederick II.
.ourke of III Central street, Lowell
ssulted from the overturning of his
utomobile on the State road near the
foburn- Burlington line Wednesday.
.ourke, who was driving. had Difficult
z in negotiating a double curve iii the
BAD. He made too sharp a turn and
lie car skidded and went over an en-
ankment, turning over and throwing
III Rourke and three men who were
him. Rourke was taken
, a hospital in Woburn. where il was
lated that he had sustained internal
ljurieS besides cuts and bruises about
ne head. He was too weak to talk.
me of his companions who was un-
urt went with him tn the hospital.
nj declined to give his name or those
/ the other two men who started
aek to Lowell. Immediately after the
ceident. one of these two is believed
o have disiocated shoulder.
Thousands OF tons OF coal went up In
moke when the coal wharves and pocl1-
rs OF the Bachelder Brothers and the r.
: Warren Coal Cos. In South Boston
we're destroyed by fire late Wednesday.
fhe high northerly wind carried the
lanes in the direction of many large
plants and tenement build
ngs, but the fire was confined To the
'o;ii structures, which held 1000 tons of
lard and soft coal. Three other build
ngs were set by sparks, but in each
,ase the blaze was quickly extingushed
rhe total loss is estimated at $4,000. The
ire is believed 70 have been caused by
defective motor. The fve-masted schoon-
n Margaret Haskell which was tied up
II the Warren wharf, was towed to n
safe place in Fort Point channel. unlam-
aged.
The first Worlds Shoe and Leather
Fair Co. and eight alleged stockhold-
ing companies are named as defend
ants in bill in equity filed in the SUI
perior court at Boston by the New