Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

For the first time in Georgia. a white
man has paid the death penalty for
killing a Negro. A. ]. OBerry, aged
o. was hanged, Monday. at st. Marys.
Camden county. 0'Berry killed a Ne
gro woman and her daughter. the
motive being robbery. He confessed
the crime and the State Pardon Board
declined to act on his case.
Announcement was made Monday
night, at Cleveland, Ohio, by Presi-
dent Thwing of Western Reserve
University that recent gifts OF $4,000
had swollen the proposed 100000 en-
dowment for the medical department
TO $4,000 John d. Rockefeller gave
S250.0a0 TO start the fund. with the I'M
derstanding that $4,000 more be
raised by Dec. 81. 1911.
DR.. Leroy NJ. Bingham. one of the
most prominent surgeons in Vermont
and for 20 years head of the surgical
staff of the Mary Fletcher hospital at
Burlington. VT. died, Monday, at the
age of GO years. He was native of
Fletcher, VT, was chief surgeon of the
Rutland Railroad and a member of
the staff of the University of Vermont,
vi NjliNi lIt DIS Il 81 n aibCN
two sons and a daughter survive.
Catherine Smay of oxford, Mass,
who friends believe 10 be one of the
oldest women in New England, Mon
DAY, celebrated her 10th birthday. She
spent the day in bed, as she has every
day for the past six years. Mrs. Smay
has smoked since she was 10 years of
age and, Monday, she enjoyed her pipe
as usual. She was born in Canada. but
has lived in oxford for many years.
Rev. Frederick E. Heath, pastor of the
Bowdoin Square Tabernacle Boston, was
arrested in Worcester. late Monday, on
charge of violating a city ordinance in
refusing to bring his automobile to a
stop when signalled by an officer. Mr..
Heath was booked at the police station
and held in $50 bail. lie promptly fur
nished bail.
Three persons We're injured when
Tho New York & Hartford express
train, leaving Boston at noon, Mon
day, jumped the track as it passed
! he station at New Rochelle, N. Y,
and tore down the heavy picket fence
Guarding the tracks. a distance of 800
feet. Heavy splinters flew into a
crowd of threatregoers waiting for a
local train to take them to New York
and severely cut woman and two
men. Traffic was delayed nearly three
hours.
William Schultzburger, a young
Brooklyn cigar manufacturer and Is
adore Weiss, who are believed by the
New York police to be members of a
gang of forgers who have obtained
more than 100000 from banking insti-
| tutions all over the country in the past
five years. pleaded guilty to charges OF
forgery, Monday, before Judge Rosal-
| ski in the general sessions and were
| remanded to the Tombs until Dec II
| for sentence.
A gold medal given by President
Taft was presented at the New York
jackson, a seaman of the English
steamer Brieka, in recognition of his
heroism in the rescue of the crew o
tine American fishing slpop Theresa
near the Azores, last July. The othel
members of the rescuing party wer,
lalso awarded watches and medals be
ing given by the United States gov
ternment.
An official Iowa trade mark wa
Registered, Monday, with the secretar,
Iof state at Des Moines. In the future
products of factories of-the state vii
be stamped with a design of hawk
head within cog wheel. bearing tn
word Made in Iowa" Iowa is sail