Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| Two railroad employees were killed
ard four were injured in q collision
| between two Erie freight trains in a
/ fog. Monday. at Kent. Ohio.
| The Cunard liner Lusitania arrived at
| Fishguart, Eng, at 9 p, NJ. Monday.
| thus completing record Of Is round
| trips within year.
Mrs. Louis II. Babcock. mother of
Mrs. James S. Sherman, wife of Vice
| President Sherman. died, Monday, in
Utica, n. Y. Mrs. Babeoek was ~
years old and was descendant of
che of the old families in that section
| of the state.
| Several persons, including eenvicts.
were injured and four buildings were
Idynamited before fire which broke out
| at the state penitentiary. at Hunts
vile, Tex, Monday, was brought I'M
| der control. At one time the entire
town was threatened and fire appara-
| tus was sent from Houston, 70 miles
laway.
Whiried about the shafting so rap
| idly that fellow employees did not rec
ogEize in his body the form of a man,
| George Roundes. 20 years. a mill hand.
vas ground to death. Monday. when
he became entangled in the machin
| cry at the Cocheeo Print Works at
Dovar y. II. How the accident hap
pened is not known. Practically ev-
cry bone in his body was broken.
Seventeen Cinnamon were arrested and
more than 5000 worth of opium was con.
| iscated by federal authorities in an ex-
tensive raid, Monday. in the Philadelphia
II - flaa
| white girls were found smoking opium
| with Cinnamon. At hearing before
United States Commissioner Craig, six of
the prisoners were discharged for lack OF
evidence, while the others were held in
500 bail each.
| An art gallery which will exceed in
value of paintings and construction
that of Mrs John l.. Gardner in Bos-
ton, is soon TO be built by Henry Clay
| Frick. the Steel magnate, as an add
| ton to his million-dolla summer home
at Pride's Crossing, Mass. Plans Tor
| the gallery. which will cost millions,
are now being drawn by New YORK
! architects and 1t will probably DC
| ready next June, when the Flick lam
lily returns to their Prides crossing
palace.
| After striking his wife with hatch-
let and inAicting wounds on her heaa
which caused her death. Monday night.
Capt. Albert Tyler. resident OF East
port. near Annapolis, Nd. went to the
home of his daughter and son-in-laW,
Mr.. and Mrs William Robinson, ana
shot both. The daughter received
bullet in the face and was seriously
" ounded. The son-in -law was shot IN
the stomach and it is thought he WIZ
ldie. Domestic trouble is given as the
cause Of the affair.
| a reduction in the prices OF stap'o
cotton goods manufactured in inc -.
lB. & r. Knight and the Goddaros
mills at Providence, r. l.. went in'o
effect. Monday. The reduction ranges
from " to y of a cent yard a"u
cotton men claim it would nave at
least a temporary effect on the seh'4
Ial cotton market, The cutting %
prices, the mill men say, Is aue 10 'iie
fact that the demand does hot ineet
| the production, despite the TACT tiiat
lniost of the mills affected are running
1 on a curtailment schedule
Five men are in custody at Chicago un-
der suspicion Of being the automoohe
| bandits who shot and Killed MRS. Ed
nund Kaufman, Saturday night, as She
| and her husband were returning home
| from an opera. The five are: Robert
| Ross. fosner chauffeur for Maurice En-
right sentenced to life imprisonment for
| n "labor war" killing; William Gutten-
berger. former chauffeur for the Kauf-
man family. identified by Mr.. Kaufman
but presenting seemingly fawless
| alibi. Richard Wilson, Oscar Anderson
and William Morrissy, friends of Ross.
! Kaufman was unable to identify Ross or
| his three friends.