Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


phia died, early Saturday morning, aged
a. He had an extensive practice and
was widely known in medical circles DIR.
Small was formerly of Portland. Me.
where he was born and for a time en-
gagged in practice. The funeral will be
Tuesday and the body will be eremated.
Loring Jordan, who went to New York
from Portland. Me, where he had been
a TEACHER in the public schools of that
city, who is s. years old and graduated
from Bates College as a Bachelor of
Arts, was held by the police on a short
affidavit for investigation by the district
attorney, Saturday afternoon, ON tine ae-
cusation of Sigmund Fink, a progresses
ing young boy of II, who accused him of
indecent assault, immoral and inhuman
practices. Jordan is a teacher by day
| in the Boys Choir school of Saint John
the Divine and at night acts as profess
sor Of history and mathematics IN the
| Brooklyn branch of the New York Pre-
| paratofy school. He is we'll known in
! New York educational circles.
Mrs Elizabeth Corcoran Kelly. aged %,
of pittsfeld. was found dead in bed in
the home of her mother. Mrs. Julia Cor
coran, in Great Darlington, Saturday
morning. 1T has been claimed that It
was for the unrequted love of Mrs. KEEL
iy. then Miss Elizabeth Corcoran, an ex-
pert telegrapher in a brokerage office
in Boston, that Gamaliel Bradford. 3D.
of Boston. committed suicide in South
birmingham three years ago. Miss Cor
coran had told Bradford she could not
marry him, it is said and announced
her engagement 10 Mr.. Kelly, q broker
age clerk in Pittsfield. The marriage of
Mr. and Mrs. Kelly followed Bradford 5
death by "a few weeks.
Flirting with the many pretty girls
who pass the college viii hereafter be
4 cause for instant dismissal of the
Medico-C hirurgicaI hospital, Philadel-
phia. according to the faculty order.
After the first complaints had been
made to the police department Detec-
tlves Lynch and O'Connor were de-
tailed TO watch the college and see
how offensive the young medical
Washers really were. The students got
lot of paper bags, and filing them
with water went toShe upper t!oors of
the college building, and While some
Of their mates lured the detectives
over 90 the college pavement the bags
were dropped on the unsuspecting
sleUths.
Nearly all Of the 500 persons who
Went Out on strike earlier in the week,
at the mills of the American Thread
Co. at Willimantic, Conn, reported
fhr work, Saturday, All will be re-
employed rs fast as work is ready
The return was in accordance with a
vote taken, Friday night Failure of
the Industrial Workers of the World
organization TO send on financial as
sistanee is thought TO have led TO the
vote 10 return To work. Discrimination
against one of their number who was
4 member Of the Industrial Workers
Of the World. WAS given by the en-
ploves as the cause Of the strike.
the Portland Express, which runs
to New York by the way of Spring
field, Mass. WAS derailed, probably by
a spreading switch, in Milford. Conn,
saturday morning. After the passen-
gers had alighted an extra freight.
running west ON the next inward
track. ripped out the sides of four
derailed coaches. No passenger was
hurt. The express was about two hours
latte in passing through Milford, Conn.
A local train, which was following,
took on board the passengers of the
express and carried them forward to
their destinations, after considerable
delay. An official report, made to the
New Haven road officials, ascribes the
accident to "the breaking of a plate
under the wing rail of the frog lead
ing to the siding"
Papers were served, Saturday, in
suits instituted by Bank Commissions
ers r F. Holt and Norris 5. Lippit
against II directors of the Windsor
Locks Savings Bank Hartford, for
accounts asgregatfng $39o,O00, The
actions are brought to determine the
liability Of the directors for the al
legged enlightenment of the banks
secretary and treasurer, Alfred w.
Converse. who. il is claimed. stole APP
proximately S91.717.S6. Converse. who
was postmaster and a citizen looked
up To- by the community. died of a
wound from Il revolver which. at the
time. was thought Co have been ac-
cidentally self-milieted His accounts