Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

II. Charles Royce, referee in bank
ruptcy, and a former state senator,
Sunday, died at his home at st. AL
bans, VT. He was As years old
William b. Boisseau, the Swear old son
of Mrs. Elizabeth Boisseau of AZ Frank
lin street, Brockton, may lose the sight
of one eye as a result of wound In
fiicted by shot from an air rife. which
struck him in the eyeball.
Dean Walter T. Sumner of the Ca
thedral of st. Peter and Paul, in Chi
cago, VINO has been i'll in Boston, IL
was announced, Saturday night, would
so directlysto a hospital on his ar
rival Sunday, for an operation for APP
pendicitis.
Michael H. Shugrue. grocer snatched
4year-old George Turner from the Bos-
ton & Maine tracks at Haverhfl, Satur-
day afternoon, few moments before
an express train rushed past. The engi-
neer saw. the child and although he had
applied the brakes was unable to bring
the engine to a stop.
DIR. Walter II. Tobey, s., a noted
physician and surgeon. died suddenly
twhile seated in his automobile in
front of his home. t73 Newbury street.
Back Bay. Boston. Saturday after
noon. DR.. Tobey had just cranked the
automobile and was about to start the
car when he was seen to fall forward
by q passing pedestrian.
| Rain on the windshield prevented
Stuart Fuller, who was operating an
Iautomobile on Main street, Great Bar
rington, Mass, Sunday, from seeing
VIM. K, Adams. aged 20, and the old
man was knocked down and killed by
the machine. The automobile was own
ed by C. M. Gibbs. Fuller is expected
to appear in court, Monday. for
hearing.
Officials of the Thorndyke Co, own
ers of the Warren Cotton Mills at
West Warren, Mass, asked the town
authorities. Sunday, for additional po-
lice protection at the opening of the
mills. tomorrow, as they feared the
strikers would attempt to prevent
workers returning to work. The mill
agents said that all except 100 of the
400 who have been out of work would
resume. Monday, unless interfered
with by those who intend to remain
on strike.
grand jury against so past and pres
ent Denver, Col. city and county Of
ficials and property owners in Septem-
Der. charging them with allowing vice
TO exist. were dismissed by Judge
James H. Teller in the criminal court.
Saturday Judge Teller held that Dis
triet Judge II. l.. Shattuck had no
right to appoint a special prosecutor
Al. H. do
and that, therefore, the indictments
were illegal.
The parents of Frederick P. Wood
ward OF 10 Park street, Somerville, are
anxious to find their son. The boy dis
appeared from his home on Nov. z, ana
nothing as TO his whereabouts has been
learned since. Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick
Woodward, the parents of the boy,
have asked the police to locate their
son. This is the third time in three
months that young Woodward has. run
away from home. Young Woodward is
the victim OF dime novels, and goes
away from home to get rich quick"
as he has told his parents.
DIR. Harvey N. Wiley, pure food ex-
pert. in his address before the Boston
Teachers Club at fremont Temple,
Boston, Saturday night, dealt a body
blow at one of Bostons most cherish
ed institutions by declaring that the
city's reputation for pies has been
ruined 1.-The pie filler" he said. (which
is being sent all over the country from
Boston in buckets and tubs, is debas-
ing the pies of all Christendom. l was
served with a piece of pie here in Bos-
ton recently, the filler of which wars
glucose and benZoate of soda, and the
rest--wel-x z, or not enough given
quantity to solve the equation
For the last three days plain clothes
men from East SD street station New
York, and from police headquarters have
been prosecuting an unavailing search
for $4,000 worth of jewelry that was
stolen from the apartment of Mrs. Au-
gustus A. Low, widow of the brother Of
ex-Mayor Seth Low, who died recently.
News of the robbery became known.
Saturday, through members of the fam
ily The rich haul was made in broad
daylight, on Wednesday morning. while
members of the family were in the
apartment. The thief was a window
,, cleanerswho had been hired to polish UP
the windows in preparation for visit
from Gov. and Mrs. Dix on the follow
ing day.