Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

A double fatality occurred az Oneco
eight miles from Central Village CT,
Thursday noon. when a train from Proyi-
denee struck wagon at a grade cross
ing. Mrs. James Turner was killed out
right, and her daughter Pauline lived
about an hour. The horse was killed and
the wagon demolished. The couple had
driven from their home toward Oneco
for groceries and supplies and the train
caught them before they could cross the
tr~
What is declared to be well-developed
case of ieprosy has been discovered IN
indianapolis, Ind. The supposed victim
of the malady is Mrs. Lavina Blackwell
Negress, go years old. Three other per-
sons. two women and a child, make their
home with the patient. Guards have
been stationed about the house and a
strict quarantine established. The case
has been pronounced leprosy by the bac-
teriologist of the state. Few physicians
of Indianapolis have had experience with
the disease. and outside help probably
will be called.
Eight well-known men at Paterson. y.
J., were, Thursday, trying to find out
whose wife tipped off the police, Wednes-
day night, that a poker game was in
progress at No. 70 Broadway and caused
their arrest. The police say that the wife
of one of the men, who lost SEQ, last
week, at the game, telephoned to them
about midnight. Captain Taylor sum
moned the reserves and two detectives
and they hurried to the place. The eight
men We're marched to headquarters,
where Capt Taylor accepted $50 cash
bail from each of them.
Sixteen men. women and children
We're saved from serious injury at Il
fire in the three-story tenement house
at IS Seneca street, Boston, early
Thursday morning, by a pet fox ter
rier dog. The little dog, Fannie, which
is the property of Hynan Cohen, when
1t discovered the fire, began barking,
and SO persistentIy did he keep up his
noise that he awakened the members
Of the Cohen family. Cohen rushed
through the building and awakened
the inmates and they reached the
street in safety. The family of Joseph
3alofsks, on the top floor, We're all
brought to the street more or less
affected by the smoke.
The cid cup defender Puritan, the j.
Malcolm Forbes boat that beat the
British cutter Genesta decisivelv in
the races for the America cup in 1855,
is attached for a bill OF S69 at her
pier at Fox Point. Providence 1t is
suit by T.. J. T.. Coleman of block
making firm for the cost of fitting her
with spars and rigging for her trip
TO the Cape Verde Islands with pas
Sengers and freight a business she
engaged in, recently. The cases were
called in the 9Th District court at
Warren, r. l., Thursday, and con-
tinuance recorded for two weeks
Meanwhile the old racer, now with a
schooner rig is in charge of a keep
er until such time as the suit is adj
justed.
IN the annual report of State Bank
commissioner Williams. just issued, n
large increase is shown In the amount
IF deposits in Vermont. during the
past fiscal year ending June 80 With
deposits of 1885, s55.o2 in 81 banks,
the increase of s5,042.627.56 is the
largest, with one exception, ever
known in tn Vermont. The commits
sioncr reports that the condition of
the banks is very satisfactory ON the
WHOLE and that the banks. today,
occupy stronger position collective
~ and individually than ever before.
The number of Vermont depositors
has increased S341 and The non-resi-
dent depositors show an increase
numbering 213. The banks paid depos-
itors s2554 an increase in the year OF
$2l6, So.