Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

i There has been q sudden and Viru'
lent outbreak of cholera among tbs
members OF the Royal Scots Regi
ment at BenaFes East India During
! the q hours ending, Tuesday morning
there We're IS eases, with five deaths
Sir Donald Mann, the railroad magnats
who was taken iii in Montreal, Thursday
and hurried home to Toronto in his pri
vate ear, underwent an operation 70.
gall stones at his home, Tuesday morn
ling. His condition Is reported to be crit
Iical
South Brooklyn's biggest man. JEFF
ferson Cohen, A. years old, of No Is
Degraw street, died. Monday, in thu
Williamsburg hospital of elephantia
isis He weighed $50 pounds and his
height was six feet. His waist yeas
lured 60 inches.
Representative j. j Fitzgerald oi
Brooklyn, chairman Of the committee
ION appropriations ana 10 members OF
his committee viii sail for Panama,
Nov . After Hip across the canal
Zone The party VIII go 10 Havana and
insf oct The wreck Of the Maine He
Isaid Congress undoubtedly would APP
pfopriate ali the money necessary for
raising the Maine.
Edward Fleet, u years old, a me
chania employed 81 the Nassau Eouie-
ward aviation field, was burned to
death III led at his hotel al Garden
city, Lone Island. Monday He had
| been reading ami fen asleep with a
lighted cigarette IN his hand. Tho de-
sfruction Of the hotel was aNerted by
were too late t. rescue the sleeping
cigarette smoker.
fliny Jewell. prominent IN the bus
mess life Of Hartford. Ct, ana one
| Of the organizers OF the Republican
party in Connecticut. died al his
home at Hartford. early Tuesday. aft
er ten days illness OF a complication
Of kidney and heart troubles. He was
| So years old q native Of Winchester.
n III Two children. Edward Jewell
OF Boston and Mrs. Walter Sanford
Of Hartford, survive.
News of Improvement IN the condition
of United States Senator George = Wet
more of Rhode Island, who IS seriouslv
i'll of pneumonia at Panama. was reeeiv-
ed by Gen. Charles A Wilson, head Of
the Rhode Island Republican organiza-
ton, in a letter from Senator Wetmore
secretary. Secretary Vale wrote that he
and Mrs Wetmore sailed. Monday. from
the isthmus and that the latest kilograms
were to the effect that the senators tenn
perature had returned to about normal
and that his condition was better
What IS termed BY the Massachusetts
State Highway Commission as careless
| ness on the part Of pedestrians is cans-
| ing an appalling number Of deaths and
| injuries by automobile accidents on the
roads OF Massachusetts Up to Tuesday
no less than 1881 such accidents resulting
in nearly 100 deaths have been reported
10 the commission IN the past Il months.
The commission has found that where pc
| destrians were the victims. the blame
often rested upon them ard not the driver
| of the automobile.
The civil War veterans bounty ac5
passed by the last Connecticut General
Assembly over the governors Veto WAS
declared unconstitutional in an opinion
| filed, Tuesday by Attorney General John
II. Light Tie act granted pension of
$50 year TO veterans of the war or their
widows or widowed mothers, and provid-
ed that the law relating to the exemption
Of property OF veterans to the amount of
$1,000 should not apply to them. The
|opinion was asked for by the governor
because he had doubts as TO whether tn
bounty provided under the act eonformed
to the constitution of the United States
In his opinion the attorney general re-
fers to the aid sought te he given as in
the nature of n pure gratuity
, The ena1 o,,rtafn vac rnne, DOWN