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

George M Lucas. former treasurer
of the City Savings Bank at Meriden,
Ct, charged with embezzlement Of
funds of that institutions pleaded gull
~ t. the charge in the criminal side
of the superior court ut New Haven.
Ct, Tuesday and Was sentenced to
stare prison for Il term of from one
to three years. The shortage in his ac-
counts was about Sf1 900 and the pecu-
lations had extended over Il period of
10 Years.
1t WAS announced Tuesday night.
III Boston. that the half million dollar
- iienation suit brought by Frederick
l.. Small, a stock broker against Ar
thar II. Soden. a former baseball mag
nate, has been privately settled out of
court The ad damrum asked was the
largest by many thousands in the his
tory OF the Massachusetts, court The
evidence in the case was heard in priv
ate
Matteo Delloma, Il shoemaker. Tues
day confessed to the New York police
that he had shot and killed his sister.
Mrs. Adolph Lofaro her five year old
daughter Rosie ana his mother, Mrs.
Antonio Delloma. al their home in
Brooklyn Monday. Delloma said he
killed his sister when she refused him
money and then slew his mother when
she attacked him.
Eugenio Zapata, brother of Emilia
no Zapata leader cf the rebels in
Cuatla Morelos, Mex. is reported to
have been killed in battle. Monday
night. 1t is believed the casualties
We're few
Charged with being responsible for the
fire which damaged Reeds block at
Gloucester, Mass, early Monday, Harry
Goldman. proprietor of clothing store
in the building. was arrested, Tuesday
II was in Goldman's store that the blaze
started Several witnesses said that they
saw Goldman leave his store shortly be-
fore the fire was discovered. He was
held in $500 bonds
| The Wisconsin court. Tuesday, sus-
tanned the constitutionality of the work
mems compensat ton law enacted at the
last session of the Legislature a large
number Of Wisconsin corporations had
already decided to come under the law.
Diplomats ut the Mexican capital
have been requested by the consular
| representatives at Torreon, Tex, to
urge the Mexican federal government
to afford additional protection for for
eign interests. The garrisons now mum
her 500 men and it is feared will not
he able to suppress amy serious dis
order, the occurrence of which is con-
sdered not improbable as the result
OF the general strike which began,
Monday
| Fire. early Monday morning. de
stroyed tn" general store ard barn of
| w * Hendricks and the residence
and two barns of r. 4. Milligan at
! Walden, VI. The blaze started around
the chimney in the store and Mr. and
Mrs. Hendricks. WHO occupied the ten
ement over the store. narrowly eS-
capped with their lives. Nothing was
saved from the buildings. Hendricks
/ loss $ $4n0n. with $1,000 insurance. Some
/ of the furniture was saved from the
/ Millisan residence. Their loss Is $1,000.
with Si50u Insurance.. The village mas
no fire protection and adjoining build
ipss were saved by the use Of buckets
by the men.
/ James Costanzo, a mill hand, at
| Westerly. II. l., went cunning for the
! first time In his life, Tuesday and
came home. with Is gun shot wounds
! in his chest, from which he died,
| Tuesday night Costanzo left, in com
| pany with Louis Salemano, and q
| short distance out of the village they
/ separated Costan2o was making his
WAY through the underbrush when the
stock of his gun caught. Taking it by
the barrel he sought to release it aud
as Ii" did = tWig pulled the trigger and
it was discharged. The shot struck
hifn under the left arm, tearing away
the muscles of the arm and his breast
and lung was pierced in 13 places.
Costanzo was % years old and single.
Two hundred representative Lynn,
Mass. citizens gathered in the council
chamber. Tuesday night, at a so-call-
ed high cost of living hearing. to dis
cuss ways and means of reducing the
food bill of the average citizen. The
question of the establishment of a
municipal market Where groceries and
provisions could be purchased direct
froIh the producers without the mid
clemens charges, was discussed Lee
gal lights agreed that such an act
would be Unconstitutional, the supreme
court Of Massachusetts having so de-
cided in 1902, when the question Of the
esta blishment of municipal coal yards
was agltated
Candidates for aldermen and school
committeeman to be voted upon at the
4ayArhil Mass CITY election in De-