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

c. w. Trickett. assistant attorney
general, who has been conducting a
campaign against liquor sellers in
Wichita, Kan, was horsewhipped, ;,
Monday, at his hotel by Marie Seeah.
fortune teller. She claimed her bust
ness had been interfered with by
charges by Mr.. Triekett. She was not
arrested.
DIR. Charles F. Wainwright of New
York, Tuesday, filed suit in the SUI
promo court or the District of Column
5ia against the American Security ana
Trust Co. executor of the estate oil
Thomas Walsh of Colorado and Wash
ington for $1,000 for medical services
during the last illness of Mr.. Walsh.
The doctors bill was TOR 10000 but
he received $4,000 on account. Counsel
for DR.. Wainwright declared he de-
voted his whole time to Mr.. Walsh for
three months to the exclusion of all
other practice.
Fire broke out early Monday eve
ming in the Priscilla cottage. at Hamp
ton Beach, n. H.. owned by William
+. Thayer of Haverhill. \ strong
wind prevailed at the time and soon
the flames spread To three adjacent
cottages on the road, the Pentuclet.
Josephine and Stanwood, which were
all burned to the ground. The greater
part of the contents were destroyed.
The spread of smallpox in Warwick
and Coventry. Il. l., and adjoining viii
lagos continues The epidemic. Tues
day night numbered 81 cases which
have come to the attention of ply
sicians but it Is known that there are
more in the towns, as nearly score
Of calls from suspects for examination
have not been filled by the already
over-taxed doctors. Nineteen new
eases were officially placed on the list
Of affected in the two towns, Tues
day.
Written on physicians preScrip-
ton blank about 2la inches wide by
Inches long, the will of Cordelia Bell,
who died, Nov. Z. is the shortest ever
filed in Suffolk county. Mass. The doc
ument is dated Nov. 6, and bequeaths
the sum Of 800 to Joseph Brown and
the balance of the estate to Annie
Bailey. The testatrix left no husband,
heirs-at-law, or near of kin.
The machinery in the new Charlton
mill. at Fall River, was put in opera
ton. Monday, the big engine being
started by Mrs. Earl p. Charlton, wife
of the president of the corporation. The
Charlton mill is one of the new addi-
tions to the number of big textile
plants in Fall River and will manu-
faeture fine goods. The capital stock
is 100000. The main mill is of gran
lite, three stories hiGh and is S75 feet
by 156 feet, with total of $1,000
spindles and a capacity for $4,000. The
weave shed is a structure separate
from the main mill and is 22S feet wide
by 370 feet long.
William DAILY of Linwood street. Som
erville Mass, was sentenced. Monday.
to one year at the East Cambridge jail
by Judge Wentworth of the Somerville
notice court, OH a charge of non-support
of his wife and child. Days conviction
is the first under the new law which pro-
vides that the master of the House of
Correction shall pay to the wife of a
man sentenced for non-support. 50 cents
per day during his confinement. DAILY
has a wife and one small child to whom
he has contributed not one cent of money
for some time. The law passed at the
last session of the Legislature fitted Just
such case as Days, and Judge Went
worth acted under it.
An operation by which a woman of
falIstaff1an proportions was changed to
a straight front model proved to be
one of the most interesting events on
Tuesdays program of the clinical con-
gress of surgeons at Philadelphia
While the result was a stylish figure
the primary reason for the operation
was the necessity OF saving the patient
from more serious disorders. On the
program the operation was listed as
resection of the abdominal wall for
obesity. 1t was performed by DIR,
Wayne Babcock at the Samaritan hos
pital and consisted of making long
incision across the patients abdomen
and the removal Of more than II
pounds Of fat