Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Eli Cody and John Wheeler. while
digging a ditch. Thursday, at Smiths
Ferry. at Holyoke. Mass, uncovered
the skeleton of q full-grown man. two
feet below the surface. The land
where the discovery was made has
been seeded over for more than 20
years. How or when the man came
thus to be buried is not known. So
far rs could be asCertained from the
bones the man died natural death
The police department and Board of
Health were notified of the discovery.
Rear Admiral Cameron McRae
Winslow hoisted his flag on board the
flagship Louisiana at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, Thursday. and assumed
command Of the second division of the
Atlantic feet. Rear Admiral Winslow,
promoted To that grade within the past
six years. commanded the cruiser
Charleston in the Pacific and later the
bat,leship New Hampshire. During
the Spanish War as a lieutena1t this
officer won distinction for his bravery
and coolness under a rapid fire of
spanish troops while cutting the Span
ish cables off Clenfuefios that shut off
the Spaniards from communicating
with their home government.
Respondent because of poor health,
Mrs. Mary ,Norcross. aged IS, Of 20
0hota street. Pittsfield. Mass. cut her
throat with a razor at O'Clock
Thursday morning, at the home of her
brother. Frank Sarrasin. Mrs. Nor
cross husband died five months ago
and she has Two children. She retir-
ed, "Wednesday night, with her child
rem. but in the night her sister was
awakened by groans. She found Mrs.
Norcross with a hve-inch wound in
her throat. \ police ambulance was
summoned and Mrs. Norcross was
taken 10 a hospital. She may live.
Directors of the Eastern Townships
Bank, at the meeting at Montreal,
Thursday. decided TO enter into an
agreement with the Canadian Bank of
Commerce by which the interests of
the two will be merged. Ratification
by the shareholders of the Eastern
Townships Bank will mean the con-
: summa ton of the largest bank mer-
ger in Canada, and result tin the Gre
alton of bank with a paid-up CAPT
, tai of $4,000, 900 and reserve Of 49,.
500. COO. and aggregate assets exceed
| ing 500 900. The territory of the
banks win cover every portion of the
Dominsion, including the Yukon.
Joseph Coulombe, alias Laplante.
about As years of age and shoe cut
ter, was arrested at Spencer, Mass,
| by Deputy u. S. Marshal Bancroft.
Thursday, upon complaint of British
Consul Leahy that he was wanted at
Quebec for the alleged embezzement
of S1l00 of funds belonging TO the
! LlTnion Des Tailleurs De CUR. a
leather workers union. He was its
treasurer. The offence is declared to
| have been committed on Feb. IL. last.
Coulombe has been living under an
assumed name both at South Franz
ingham and at Spencer. He was com
United by u. S. Commissioner Hayes
to Jail without bail and his case con-
tinued to Dec. 49,
Eric Lundblad, aged 90, a carpenter
arrested, Saturday night, charged with
attempting to break into the house of
Frank l.. Dean, state controller of
county accounts, at 10 Cedar street.
Worcester, Mass, and who was caught
by Mr.. Dean and his son, was ar
raigned in the district court, Thurs
day, He was also charged with the
robbery of George r. Blake's house at
129 Lincoln street, last spring Judge
Utley placed him under $4,000 bonds
for his appearance before the superior
court, next month. The charge of rob
bing the Blake house was a surprise
to all but the police and it resulted
from visit to Quincy by. Inspector
O'Day. Inspector O'Day said that in
looking up Iundblad's record after the
Dean episode he learned that Lund-
bad had friends in Quincy and he
went there, only to find that Lund-
blad had, he said. sold to a Quincy
Jeweier an unset diamond. The sale
was made shortly after the Blake
robbery and it is charged that the dia-
mond Is one taken from a ring valued
at $40 that was in the property stol-
en- from the Blake house. The evidence
in the Blake case was not asked for
in court, but in testifying on the Dean
case Inspector O'Day said Lundblad
said to him. among other things: "Ev-
eryman | worked for beat me and 7
was desperate. Rich men whom I
worked for robbed me of thousands of
| dollars and l intended to get even"
The will of John Henry Champney,
who lived at 1sA Burroughs street,