Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

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Tho tugboat Albatross of Balti-
more, reported missing at sea ON a
trip from Beaufort, ~ c., was found
by the revenue cutter Seneca, Satur-
day, safely nesting in dry dock in
Newport News, Va, repairing her
leaky hull.
That the condition of President
Emeritus Charles w. Eliot of Harvard
University, who was recently operated
upon fer appendicitis at Randy, Cey-
hon. is satisfactory to his physicians
there is shown by the following cable,
received, Saturday, by the family of
Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, DR.. Eliots son,
at Cambridge "Glad to advise patient
more comfortable"
II. - Clark. former manager of one
Of the st. John, n. b.. branches of the
Bank Of New Brunswick, who was
arrested IN New York few weeks
ago in connection with certain bank
transactions, alleged to be Illegal. was,
Saturday, committed for trial in the
county court at st. John, next month.
Clark furnished bail in the sum of s2o,-
600.
Fire, Sunday. destroyed the large
storenouse Of the New York e Hudson
Steamboat Co at Hudson, n. Y, with
its contents, destroyed also the Wash
burn ice house and damaged the Hud-
son Wholesale Grocery Cos. building.
The total loss is estimated at more
than 100000 A thousand tons of ice
were destroyed in the Washburn ice
house The steamboat storehouse con-
tanned many cases of cotton knit goods
and about so bales of cotton, besides
much other freight
Because there are Ill Smiths in
Middletown. without counting the
children, and eight of the number
bear the name of George, George e.
Smith a prominent life insurance man,
has applied to court for permission
to change his name to George E.
Stanwood. Smith dislikes his name,
because he thinks half of the Ill 9TH
er Smiths have been receiving his
mail and as he is a business man he
likes to get his mail as quickly as pos
sble
An emery wheel burst, Saturday. in
the factory of the r, Heinisch's Sons
Co, cutlery manufacturers. in New
ark, n. j.. fraeturing the skull of Au-
gust Jcerger of No. 739 South 18th
street. Joerger is foreman of the
grinding department. He was at work
on the wheel. which was Is inches in
diameter. When it burst one of the
pieces struck him on the forehead
and he fell to the floor unconscious.
He was taken to the City hospital
where il is said he may not recover
ped for time after the accident
Several of the men We're SO unnerved
they were unable to resume work.
Hurtig q Seamon of New York. theat-
rical managers and Adam REM must pay
$2I5 damages for the misbehavior of a
donkey owned by the firm and in the
care 81 REM The donkey used to board
with REM. The animal had much free
dom and roamed about the streets FIRE =
". One day Miss Elizabeth Fairclough
came along. and the donkey was on the
sidewalk She tried to pass, and the ami
NAL knocked her down, breaking her
arm. Edward Fairclough. the girls faith.
er sued Hartig & Seamon and REM fol
damages in behalf of his daughter, ant
for himself for the loss of the girls ser
vices. In his complaint he said the don
key was of a malicious and mischevou!
disposition and was known to have at
tackled mankind" a jury in the SUI
preme court gave verdict for 500 tc
Fairelough. Saturday, and $175 to the
daughter.
George Hutehenheimer of No los Rich
ardson street, Brooklyn, was badly
frightened. Saturday night, when bar
Der who was shaving him died suddenly
beside him with the razor in his hand.
With one side of his face shaved and
the other lathered he jumped out of the
chair and ran from the shop without
stopping to get his coat and hat hanging
on hook. His property was identified
by cards the police found in the pockets
and returned to him later, as nothing
could move him to return to the shop
and claim it himself The dead man was
Jesse Conmeratano, 65 years old, who
kept a shop at No 26O Nassau street. He
was pronounced dead from apoplexy b.
DIR. lowell of the Cumberland street hos
pital, who found him lying beside his
chair with the razor still clasped in his
hand.