Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

SIdl were seriously injured Wflen u
train of the Bay of Quinte Railway
jumped the tracks, four miles fsom
Kingston, ont, Wednesday. and
plunged over a 15-foot embankment
Mrs. Alfred Brown, 40. of Moscow was
killed.
Mrs. Patrick Stack and Mrs Ellen
Rohan We're thrown from a buggy ON
Merrimac street. Lowell Tuesday. by
a runaway horse. Both women wers
rendered unconscious for time and
they were removed to the Lowell hos
pital. They sustained injuries to their
hips and severe bruises. But their
condition is not serious.
George Spengler. a Iaborer, 80 years
old, confessed to the Detroit police.
Wednesday night, that he murdered
12-year-old Matilda Refs, whose mu-
tilated body was found. Tuesday
night, in an alley at the rear of her
f1ther.s home in Beaufort avenue, De-
troit. The police describe Spengler as
a degenerate.
The Turkish Porte has decided to
reject the Greek demand for the re-
moval of the embargo on Greek ves-
sells. The Porte takes the ground that
interna tionai law permits a sover-
eisn state to requisition foreign yes
sells for its own requirements. It Is
wiling. however, eventually to com
pensate the owner.
While trying out one of the ponies
which Harry Payne Whitney has Inn
ported for use in the next interna.-
tionai polo match, r. S. Won Stadel.
a wealthy young polo player of the
WheatIey Hills section, Westbury, N.
Y, was severely injured, Wednesday.
Missing ball at which he made
swing, Won Stadel lost his balance and
fell breaking his collar boue. ~
The disabled schooner Willis ana
Guy was picked up off Cape Cod and
towed into Provincetown, Mass,
Wednesday night. by the revenue cut
ter Aeushnet. The schooner bound
from South Amboy, n. j.. for Addi-
son. Me-, under Capt. S. w. Mitchell
ran into heavy gale and choppy sea
off the Cape and was forced to anchor
until assistance came.
Convicts at the Wyoming State
prison at Rawlins, Wyo., Wednesday.
lynched Frank Wigfall. Negro and
ex-convict, who. late Friday night.
was put in the state institution for
safe keeping. Wigfall was arrested
at Fort Steele, on a charge of at
lacking Mrs. Ssther Higgins. aged IS,
last Sunday.
Presidential electors elected at the
Republican primary of South Dakota
in a signed statement declare they
will cast their votes for Theodore
Roosevelt if chosen at the November
election. This will compel supporters
for President Taft to file, before Sat
urday, a list of Taft electors, who
must go on the ticket as independ-
ents.
Mrs. Herbert d. Shirley, aged 95, died,
Tuesday morning. at her home on Jorr
dan street, Somersworth, n. H.. eBr-
wick Side, after three years of fall
ing health by reason of old age She
was born in Lebanon. Me-, June 10.
1877. She was married IN her teens to
Henry Stirling and resided at Som.
ellsworth since her marriage. A son
and a daughter, Henry and Hattie A.
Stirling, survive.
Alexander Bender fired three shots
at Alexander Karstein, Tuesday night.
at o'clock, at Brockton. missing him.
and then fired three shots into his
own body. inflicting wounds from
which he will die. The third shot no
fired at Karstein struck his hat anil
knocked it from his head Kafstein
is superintendent of the Plymouth
Rubber factory at Stoughton and had
discharged Bender a week ago
Sir Thomas Upton is expected ! 10
| los Eyp rlo Sat 10 vs. ffxs,t
visit to this country. His trip is 20
be vacation outing and he has,.writ-
ten that he win not discuss yacht
ing or the Americas cup while son
this side. He will pass few days
in New York and then go to Canad,.
later visiting San Francisco, Denver
and st. Louis. with possibly sidg-
trip to the South.
Eight persons received injuries III
an automobile accident at Weston.
Mass. Tuesday morning. when two
machines. one owned by John J. MUIR
ply of Somerville and the other BIZ
George X Clark of Needham. crash
ed together at School street and Cen
trail avenue. Mr.. and Mrs. Murphy
were hurled through the windshield
of their car. while two women who
were riding with them were thrown to
the ground. Murphy's car was
wrecked j. 3