Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-17

gas at the lodging house at 2 Florence
street South End, Boston Saturday
mor,iny. one dying at the City hos
nital The other is not expected to live.
The sunday closing of post offices
in the Boston postal district goes into
effect next sunday. The order which
was issued by Postmaster Mansfield
Saturday affects 6S postal stations in
% cities and towns of Greater Boston.
Timothy Mccoy. arrested Saturday
night at Relefontaine, o., is believed
to be the lone bandit who two weeks
ago held up the passengers in Big Four
express train No. -, at Muncie, Ind,
and took their jeNelry and money. The
conductor of the train says Mccoy an
swcrs the description of the robber.
| Felix kornfeld, a prominent business
| man of Boston, was found dead early
| Saturday morning in the bathroom
| of his home, 81 Naples road, Brooklne.
| Mass. He WAS discovered about 5
| o'clock in the morning by Mrs. Korn-
| field living on the floor and the gas
| jet partly turned on and unlighted.
| Wesley w. Hamilton. a direct des-
cendant of Alexander Hamilton, Civil
War veteran. and 20 years ago one of
| the most prominent practitioners at
the New York bar. but now penniless
land homeless, attempted suicide Sat
Iurday while seated on a bench in Car
roll park at Carroll and Smith streets.
Brooklyn. by slashing his throat with
a razor.
Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston has re-
| fused to accept the recommendations
| of the Finance Commission and City
| Council urging that an open compete
| ton be held for the design for the new
5000 city hall annex to be erected
| on the site of the old court house. Sat
| urday the mayor named Edward r. p
Graham of 90 Beacon street as the
architect of the new building.
Miss Ola Humphreys, an American
actress, and Prince Ibrahim Hassan. a
cousin of the khedive of Egypt, were
married Saturday at the registry Of
flee in London. The bridegroom is de-
scribed as bachelor of 80. and
prince of the Ottoman Empire. Miss
Ola Humphreys is a California girl,
who was once with the company of T.
II. Sothern.
Sweeping powers are conferred upon
the chairmen of the nine house COM
mittees on expenditures in the various
government departments by a resolu-
ton introduced Saturday in the House.
The resolution was drawn at a con-
ference of the various charmen with
Speaker Clark and is a part of the
Democratic program for the present
extra session and the regular session,
which begins in December.
Celebrating the 5Oth anniversary of
Gov. Andrews call for the state mi
litia to assemble in Boston preparatory
to moving to the succor of Washing
ton in 1861, the Minute Men of Massa-
chusetts who answered that call. rep
resenting six organizations of foot
troops and one light battery. assembled
in Wesleyan hall Saturday forenoon in
good numbers, and elected officers.
Mrs. Catalina Giore, 13S Prince street,
North End, Boston. was stabbed Satur-
day night, 1t is alleged. by her hus-
Dand, Solari, who attacked her with a
shoe knife. in fit of jealousy. Mrs.
F1ore is at the Relief hospital with a
serious wound in her right side. and
her husband is under arrest in the
Hanover street station. The attack is
said to have come after a wordv ouar-.
rel. The young Italian wifes attractive
beauty. it is said. made the husband
insanely jealous.
An advance of l. cents a ton on
what Is known to the trade as buck
wheat anthracite coal, recently made
py the pennsylvania Railroad from
the pennsylvania fields to eastern
destinations, was> Saturday ordered
suspended by the Interstate Commerce
commission from its effective date
OF Saturday to Aug. 10, 1911. Mean
time, the committee will inquire into
the reasonableness of the proposed
new rate.
resolution has been adopted bv the
interstate Commerce Commission puttin,,
an end to the practice of railroad comma
MES, for the sake of convenience. in SELL
ing passenger tickets. whenever possible
at charge in multiples of five. For in
stance. if the fare, according to the mile
age, Inquired A cents, the rate exacted
has in many cases been 40 cents, and If
II Inquired AZ cents. it might be 40. BY the
order issued Saturday carriers are re.
qulred to make the charge in odd cents.
eXacting the precise fare in every in
stance.
Frederick II. Burns of Main street
Charlestown, Mass, was sentenced to six
months in the house of correction Satur-
day by Judge Parmenter as result of
threatening to shoot Mary Smith of 426
Massachusetts avenue. Friday morning
Burns entered the apartments of Miss
Smith and locked the door behind him.
He then drew loaded revolver from his
coat pocket and threatened to kill her if
she screamed or refused to marry him i'm
mediately. Miss Smith, terrified at the
sight of the revolver, hardly knew how
to answer the frenzied man. rinally she
pretended to give her consent to the mar
riage. She told Burns she would meet
him that evening, and he Immediately
left the house. When Burns and Miss
Smith met that night they walked to-
wards Huntington avenue and Burns
stepped into the arms of Patrolmen
O'Neil and Brett, whom Miss Smith had
notified. They discovered the loaded re-
volver in Burns pocket.