Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-07
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oldest and best known stage coach
drivers OF New Hampshire, died at
Lis home at Deerfield, Tuesday morn
ing. He had been in failing health for
a year, end i'll in bed six weeks.
A double aviation fatality occurred
at Fatilly, near Scarborough York
shire, Tuesday. Hubert OXley, an avia-
! tor was killed instantly, while his pas
songer, Robert Weiss, sustained such
| injuries that he died shortly after
wards. The aeroplane was smashed.
Thomas w. Lawson of Boston has
purchased the great saddle mare,
| Gladys L., by Montgomery Chief, for
| $500. The animal was bought from
! the Ball Bros. of Versailles. Ky, and
was their champion walk, trot and
eante7 mare. Gladys will be shown
| by Mr.. Lawson when she arrives from
| the West. Mr.. Lawson has not decided
when he will have the mare shipped
/ to Boston.
David Barry. aged 40. or about two
| years workman in and about the
slate quarry of Roberts & Rowland. at
/ Poultney. VT, was instantly killed,
| Tuesday morning, about 1890, when
of the refuse carriers to strike him on
the head, crushing his skull. A widow
and one son, boy of five years, sur
vive. He lived in South Poutney,
where he had made his home for sew
eral years
George Jackson, a Pullman porter
| on the New York Central, returned
to his home in New York, Tuesday
night, and tried to make UP with his
wife, with whom he had quarrelled be-
fore he went away on his last run.
She Told him that hereafter she was
going to earn her own living and tried
to eject jackson. NO drew a revol-
yer and killed her Then he fred a
bullet into his own lead and dropped
dead across her 10y.
The 10th convention of the New
England districg superintendents of
, the Methodist Episcopal church was
held at Boston, Wednes day, with Il
delegates present and Rev. Fl. b. Has.
kell of Maine presiding. Secretary
William Shaw of ST. Adams stated
that the convention would discuss
many subjects connected with the
denomination, with the idea of making
suggestions to the general convention
next Mey.
James A. Doyle, who was police
man in Boston for 81 years, died,
Tuesday, at st. Elizabeths hospital
South End. He was appointed to the
Boston constabulary Aug. 10, 1867, and
when the present department of police
WIS created he was made a member.
liz WAS born in Boston in 1885 and re-
tired from the police force May l,
79oi. He was stationed at the new IL
brarJ- in Copley square when it was
erected and was there until his retire.
nent. Two sons, Charles of Boston,
ard Frederick, who resides in Ohio,
survive The funeral will be held from
his late home, 81 st. German street.
! at 10 O'Clock, Thursday.
"Too much water is as much blight
to land as none at all" was the pith
of addresses given before the 18th an
nuai session of the National Irriga-
ton Congress at Chicago, Wednesday,
by the delegates who are interested in
the reclamation of swamp lands. That
the overflow lands, located chiefly in
the Southern and in some of the Pa
eiac coast states, should be drained
and made habitable and that the river
courses should be regulated, has, ac-
cording to b. A. Fowler, the president
become as much a part of the propa-
ganda of the congress as the irriga
ton program. Drainage as a basis
! for national development, was dis
cussed by w. L. Park, vice president
: of the Illinois Central Railroad, and
other speakers.
DR.. Sydney Burlington. a nephew of
Judge Burlington of the United States
court of appeals and a member of a
family prominent in the western sec
ton of Pennsylvania. committed sui
eide at Philadelphia, Tuesday, by
shooting. Before firing the fatal shot
he calmly wrote letters to several of
his relatives and sent messages to
many of his friends. On a card he
wrote in lead pencil. ITO the boys
Please forgive me and remember am
crazy. Buff" The dead man recently
graduated from the Medico- Vhirurgi-
cal College in Philadelphia His friends
are unable to assign a cause for his
suicide. A letter postmarked Louis
VILE, KY, signed Edith, your Ken
tucky girl" saying he was crazy in
love-" was found on the dresser.
Ralph NJ. Ivers of 191 Warren ave
nue., Boston, driver of an automobile
and Arthur ]. McGrall of South Bos
tor, driver of a United States mai
wagon, were arraigned in the munic
ipal criminal court, Tuesday, OF
charges of manslaughter. II is al
legged that Ivers knocked down and RAJ
over Patrick G.. Lyons of SO Warner
avenue on the afternoon of Nov 20
INJECTING injuries from which he died
three days later, at the City hospital
A charge of ekles driving wa'
also preferred agaitst Ivers A con-
tinuance was eraffa1 until Dec. II
MeGrall is CHARGE with causing the
death of Rinal4o D. Somes, whom Ia
ran down at The corner OF Fedora
and Milk streets, infiicting injuries, i
is alleged, from which he died. 4
continuance until Dec. was granted
in this case bail being placed at $1,000
With many delegates in attendance
the second day of the third annua
New England Baptist, conference a