Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

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and that she is the daughter of Frank
| WOODS, wealthy Boston contractor. a
woman "a years old, was found uncon-
cious. Wednesday. in box car at
Kansas city. Mo-. by the police She
was fashionably attired and said that
size had run away from college in the
Fast The girl told the police that she
had como to Kansas City from st.
Louis with man who had befriended
| her and that the last she remembers
was walking with him, Tuesday
| Two small girls and boy, while
playing on the roof of a brick dwell
| ing al 1902 Chelsea street, East Boston,
Wednesday, crashed through the glass
covering of lghtshaft, fell As feet
te the basement, and escaped with in
juries which are not fatal. Lying on
cots at the East Boston Relief Station,
Wednesday night, they were laughing
and happy. They are Mary DeIcora,
aged o, and JOohn Delcora, aged 4,
children OF Mr.. and Mrs. Pine Del
cora of 104 Chelsea street, and Rose
Ferrarra, Q years old, daughter of Mr.
land Mrs. Joseph Ferrarra of 470 Com
mercial street.
| When the brakes of the large sight
seeing automobile which he was driv-
| ing had become disabled the driver OF
the big car containing 40 passengers
mostly women, drove his car upon the
Sidewalk in front of the Boston Athe-
neum on Beacon street Boston, oppo-
site the Hotel Bellevue Wednesday.
thereby preventing a serious accident
When the car bounded up over the
lcurbstone the women became panic
! stricken, two of them fainting, and
only the GOODNESS displayed by the op-
orator and his assistant on the car
prevented the women from jumping
The screams of the women also
| frightened the horses attached to the
carriages standing in fronta of the
| Bellevue. AS soon as the driver had
| brought his cars to a standstill the
passengers clambered down to the
street. where they stood in groups re-
covering from the fright they had re
ceived
| An automobile collision on the bou-
levard at Revere Beach, Wednesday
night, in which the car owned and
! driven by DIR. Frank w. Ranney of
/ SO Bow street. Somerville, crushed into
the car of William II. Hagerty of 81
/ Whitney street, wrecked the two ma
/ chimes and nearly cost Policeman
! Bookings of the metropolitan Park
police his life. The officer, who was
standing on the curling talking with
J Mr.. Hagerty, and with his foot on the
step of the latters machine, was
hurled 80 feet, and i'm the fall, while
turning a couple of complete somer-
saults. had his blouse and part of his
trousers torn off. The doctor will APP
pear in court at Chelsea on July 80 II
answer the charge of operating an
anto in danger to the lives and safety
of the public.
| Tile eoroner's inquest. Thursday, on
the body of C. VI. Coen of New York,
who was found dead, Wednesday MORN
| ing, in a room in q boarding house in
the Bloomsbury district of London, re-
suited in verdict of death from heart
disease. No word has been received
| from any relative or friends of the
| dead man and no money or valuables
wore in his possession so that unless
some one comes forward To defray the
expenses the body will be buried in the
/ peters field. The body is thought by
4 relatives at New Haven, CT, that it
may be that of NJ. w. Cone of VAN
couver, B. c., who sailed from New
| York, June Is, for England. He was on
a business trip and was to have COM
munieated with relatives, but no word
has come from him. They had thought
he was travelling before making stop
| in London.
So i'll that she had to be supported by
| a court matron as she stood in the
| dock of the police court Wednesday
| afternoon, Emma McGonagle of Cam
bridge street, charged with throwing
| suiphuric acid in the face of John Nc
| Gonagle OF Chardon street on the
| night of July Is, was held for the grand
| jury by Judge Burke in $500. John Nc
| Gonagie was reluctant to take the
| stand against the woman who bears
| the same name, but is no relation. Spe-
| cial Officer Mcdonald told the court
| thar he arrested the woman and that
she told him that she had been married
| to McGonagle and afterward divorced.
He said that he found on investigation
that no such marriage had ever TAX
| en- place. At this point, the defendant
cried out: Your honor. | never saw
that man before" pointing to Officer
Mcdonald. HE is perfect stranger
no one was there when it was done?"
large touring car operated by
George III. Hood of Haddon Heights. n.
j., containing his wife and two chill
dren, became unmanageable at the top
of Beacon hill, Boston, Wednesday
afternoon, and ran wild down Beacon
street to School street, crashing into
another car at Kings Chapel. Hood
ami his wife kept shouting as the car
rushed along, warning pedestrians. so
1t was given clear track. During the
Wild run down the hill Hood never lost
his nerve, holding the steering wheel
fast and straight ahead. AS he crossed
fremont street he SWerved the ear into
the curbing, sending the front wheels
on to the sidewalk at Kings Chapel. |
When the car bounded onto the side
walk it crashed against the rear of |
the automobile of sumner A. Pingree |
of Minot. Mass which was standing
at the curb unoccupied. The rear mud |
guard and rear lamp of the Pingree |
car We're damaged but slightly. After