Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-24
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
| Capt. o. r. Minis, who went to the
front in 1861 with a battery of light ar
tillery from Boston. died Tuesday in
| Boston. aged SO years.
An invitation to visit London in 1912
has been extended to the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company of Bos-
ton by the Honorable Artillery Com
pany of London according to cable ad-
vices received Tuesday. The veteran
corps of Boston was entertained in
London in 1896 and seven years. later
acted as hosts to the English corps up
on their visit to this country.
Edward Jewhurst, once a well-known
| turfman. died Tuesday at the home of his
| son. E. J. Jewhurst, chief of the Auburn,
| \. Y, fire department Mr.. Jewhurst
| drove the famous 'Sorrel Dapper." which
| later was sold to Robert Bonner of New
| York for $4,000, the highest price ever
| paid up to that time for a horsesA Jew
| hurst was born in England in 1924
Miss Gertrude NJ. Quimby, the l5-year-
| old Boston runaway who was arrested
Tuesday in New York on complaint of
her parents. was arraigned in the chill
the Children's Society. At the request of
the girls mother the society will take
her back to Boston. Miss Quimby denied
said she went to New York to find en-
poyment.
After he had killed Judge David F.
Barry of the Sumner county bench near
Nashville. Tenn, Tuesday, James Sweat.
a Negro. was taken by a mob from off,
GERS who had captured him and was
| lynched. The judge interfered in a quar-
rel between his cook and Sweat at the
Barry home. Sweat killed the cook then
turning the gun on Judge Barry instant
| ~ killed him. A posse went in pursuit
and rounded up Sweat in barn. He
shot from a window. hitting Constable
James Barnes before he was captured
Annie Parres, aged 10. was suffo-
| Gated Tuesday night and a property
| loss estimated at 100000, was sus-
tanned by fire caused by the explosion
of gas in a dairy lunch room at 5th
and Liberty avenues. Pittsburg, Pa.
For a time it was feared that the low
er section of the city would be swept
but the flames were stopped after two
| four story buildings had been con-
sumed. The Parros girl lived over the
restaurant Her lifeless body was car
ried out before the flames reached it.
| In the presence of members of their
family, two residents of Randolph
county Virginia Tuesday fought a
duel with knives. James E. Heron.
superintendent of a Sunday school in
| the hamlet near which the tragedy oc-
CURED, was killed and his opponent,
Homer Highland, justice of the
peace, was probably fatally stabbed.
Heron is survived by 10 children. The
cause of the trouble is not known.
| Frank E. Heidemann. the young
Asbury Park florist, who murdered 10
year-old Mary Smith last November
at Trenton, n. j.. was electrocuted
Tuesday night at the state prison at
Trenton. The man walked calmly in
to the death chamber. He said that
death came as relief after the months
of mental torture he had endured.
Heidmann met the little girl as she
was coming from school and lured her
into the woods. After attempting to
assault, Heidmann killed the child with
an axe and hid her body in some I'M
derbrush.
| More than 10000 lives and two bill
| lion dollars worth of property have
been sacrificed to fire in the United
| States during the past IS years. said
| President w. H. Merrill Tuesday in
| his annual address before the Nation
| al Fire Protection Association at New
| York. Authorities on various branches
of fire prevention will address the con-
vcntion of this body, which convened
| Tuesday for it's 18th annual session.
| Walter L. Fisher secretary of the in
terror, is on Wednesdays program.
| The 20 lasters employed at the shoe fac
| tory of A. E. Little & Co, Lynn Mass
whose strike last month caused the sus-
pension of work in all departments of the
plant and the enforced idleness of more
| than 1900 shoe operatives in other branch
| es of the craft, voted to return to work
Tuesday with the understanding that
| their business agent discuss the wage diff
ferences with A. f.. Little president of
the company, and if the two were unable
TO come to an agreement that the entire
| matter be referred to a local board of
arbitration.
The Provident Sureties & Banking Co
| of Boston, which failed in 1906, leaving
| 17723 creditors to whom was owed nearly
| $4,000, was finally put out of existence
| late Tuesday when the court ordered the
| 500 remaining to be paid to the receivers.
Charles F. Wood and Alfred s. Han
| The company received deposits from
| small metal banks which were sold to
| depositors for 81 and returned to the
| bank when full to be emptied. The
| scheme proved popular but Improbable
and the conditions of affairs when the
| institution failed led Judge Braley to-
! term the bank "a legalized swindle."
! Following the disclosures in 1906 two of
| the savings banks commissioners re-