Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-22
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

At the Autenif races, Tuesday, Eugene
Fischons Chauvigny II ran second for
the Prix vatan, a selling purse Of s651,
distance Six furlongs.
Eleven miners We're killed and anothre
badly injured by the fall, Tuesday, of a
rock in a potash mine In Nordhausen.
Prussian Saxony. belonging TO the Pras-
sian government
The Avery Manufacturing Co. makers
of traction engines and threshing ma
chinery at Peoria, ILL.,, suffered a loss of
approximately $4,000, Tuesday. by a fire
/ which consumed a block and half of
their buildings.
! William Hepburn Russell. principal
owner Of the Boston National Base
ball Club and welI-known lawyer
in New York, died at his home in that
city, Tuesday after a brief illness with
angina pectoris. He was "a years of
age and was born in Hannibal, Mo.
That Kellogg Durland the New York
newspaper man and we'll -known author
and poet, committed suicide, early
Sunday morning, in Boston, by taking
cyanide of potassium, was made known
by Medical Examiner McGrath, Tues
day, upon the receipt of the result of
the. examination of the stomach by
medical experts Family difficulties
are said to have caused the suicide.
Tho suicidal attempt of Fred Whit
comb, a Freehold, N j., travelling
salesman, who shot himself through
the head at a Boston hotel, Monday
night, proved successful and Whitcomo
died, Tuesday, at the Relief hospital.
Whitcomb, who is understood to have
been employed by A. p Smith &c Co. of
Orange, \. J., had been at the hotel
for several days. The reason for the
suicide is not known.
George T. Decker. a Boston newspa-
per man, who reported several of the
recent criminal trials of Middlesex
county cases. was arrested, Tuesday
on an indictment warrant charging
him with criminal libel and perjury in
connection with the grand jury inves-
! tigation of Middlesex county institu-
tons He pleaded not guilty and fur
nished $500 for his appearance. His
arrest followed that of Detective
Burns Monday on a similar charge
One tralnman was killed. four We're Sc
i riously hurt and others slightly injured,
early Tuesday, when a Rome, Water
town & Ogdensburg passenger train leaV-
ing Syracuse, N Y, collided with
freight at the New York Central cross
ing near the Iron Pier. Nicholas Snyder,
freight conductor, of Syracuse, was KILL
ed. The passenger cars were not over
turned and none of the passengers was
injured. It was said that the engineer of
the freight went by the signals
A sensation developed at Pittsburg in
the trial of George Golden, charged with
the murder of his wife, Tuesday, when
Or. A. s. Jessop declared that the bullet
he had taken from her head and the
plate of teeth from her mouth had been
stolen from his safe William sermons
brother of the dead woman, testified she
had auarreled with her husband on the
night of the murder
Frederick j. Hamlin. superintendent of
the BayIess Pulp & Paper Co, the going
out of whose dam ON Sept 30 brought
death and destruction to the town of
Austin, Pa, was served Tuesday. at
Coudersport, Pa, with warrant eharg-
ing him with manslaughter in connec-
ton with the catastrophe 1t is stated
that similar warrants have been issued
Tor George \, BdyleSSp pfeSiael41 "a liiV
company, and for James Bailey. watch
man at the dam.
Neither Edward Hines, the lumber
man. nor Edward Tilden, the packer,
was the custodian of 100000 fund
or any other fund which was to be
used to pay off the expenses of Will
liam Lorimer to the United States
Senate according to experts reports
submitted to the senatorial investi-
eating committee, Tuesday, at Chi
cage.
Ten of the necessary IL Jurors who
will decide the fate of Frank NJ. Nc
Mahon who was placed on trial, Tues
day morning, at Philadelphia, charg-
ed with the murder of George A.
Leary, the betrayer of the defendants
young daughter and the acknowledges
father of her infant, were secured.
Mcmahon shot and killed Leary on a
street in West Philadelphia, last May
None of the talesmen examined were
asked concerning his belief in regard
to personal vengeance"
Friday is the day set for sentencing
William ]. Cummins. the former
Nashville promoter, who was found
guilty. Monday. at New York. Of
grand larceny but before that time his
attorneys expected to perfect plans by
which he will be able. temporarily at
least, to keep out of prison. The jury
decided that Cummins took for his
own use $4,000 deposited with the
Carnegie Trust Co.. which he practi-
cally controlled, as fund to be held
in trust for several smaller banks.
Three persons We're burned to death
Tuesday, in fire that destroyed bus
mess building in the center of the towr
of Middleboro. Ky. The dead are: Thorn
as Duncan. Ebert Chapwell, and an un
identified woman. Other persons, includ
ing a l2-year-old girl. are reported miss
ing Those who lost ehelr liges occupies
sleeping quarters over a saloon immedi
ately adjoining a stable. Before the,
could be awakened the fire had swep
through the lower floor. Several person
who succeeded in escaping were hurt Il
leaping from the upper floors.
TIL fam, mem hers of the Madden