Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| disastrous typhoon has occurred on
| the northwest coast of western Austria
! liza. Many vessels were wrecked and Il
| is believed a large number of lives were
| lost.
An unidentified man made a spec
| tacular leap to his death from the
Manhattan bridge in the East river,
| New York, Sunday night. He took the
l50-foot drop with his hands held
tightly to his sides, striking the water
feet first
-Four masked men heavily armed fore
ed their way into the Saratoga Club.
West 9TH street, New York, early Sun
day morning, pointed revolvers at Al
fred Luftgarten, a waiter acting as a
| Waterman, bound, gagged and blindfol l.
ed him, broke open a safe and escaped
with $4,000 in jewelry and $500 in cash.
TIL Dradnought Txas will be launch
ed at Newport News, Va, May Is.
President Taft expects to attend the
christening, which will restore the
name of Texas in the navy. Secretary
Meyer will head contingent of dis
tirguished officers. The Texas and her
sister ship, the New York. will be the
most powerful battleships afoat
when completed.
Gen. Henry II. Bingham, member
of Congress from the 1st Pennsylva
MIA district, and Father of the
House. died at his home in Philadel-
phia, at 5.45 o'clock Saturday morn
ing. He had been a member of the
House continuously since March 4,
1897. He was II years old. Gen. Bing-
ham had been i'll for long time from
complication of diseases.
The Gloucester fishing schooner Yankee
put in at Portsmouth, n. H., Sunday
with her flag at half mast. reporting the
probable loss of one of her crew, Harry
Brewer of Nova Scotia who went astral
in a dory during snow squall Sunday
morning, five miles east of Isles of
Shoals The schooner eruised about in
the vicinity for some time out could not
locate him.
Didn't know it was loaded" was the
explanation which the police say T.
year-old Maitland Jervis gave. Sun
day. for shooting and killing Henry
Lockhardt, years old, Saturday, dur
ing a battle" in vacant lot in the
Bronx. New York. The Jarvis boy
was arrested early Sunday morning,
while asleep at his home and locked
up ON a technical charge of juvenile
delinquency.
Robert P. Wynne. former captain in
the United States Marine Corps.
known in that service as the fighting
marine" died. Sunday. at Washing
ton. at the home of his father, Former
Postmaster General Robert +. Wynne
Capt. Wynne was SO years of age. He
died of tuberculosis. contracted in
China during the campaign against the
Boxers.
The presence of four bishops lent
unusual interest to church services
in Boston. Sunday, three of the dig
nitaries being of the Episcopal faith
and one of the Methodist denomina-
ton. Rt. Rev. William Burt. ID. d.,
LII. D.. who will be the presiding bish-
op of the New England Methodist
Episcopal conference, Rt. Rev. Theo-
dore PAYNE Thurston, bishop of East
ern Oklahoma; Rt. Rev. Robert Cod
man, D. D., bishop of Maine. and Rt.
Rev. F. S. Spaulding. bishop of Utah,
were the visitors.
One of the most valuable collections
of paintings by old masters that has
ever crossed the Atlantic. arrived,
Sunday, at New York, on the steamer
Campana, in charge of Herbert Baily
of England, who will exhibit the col
lection in New York in aid of the
Dickens centenary fund. The collec
ton included about so pictures valued
at over 100000. most of which have
been lent by the nobility of England.
ba ri inc
the collection over without charge and
its free entry has been arranged with
out difficulty.
The remains of the late Congress-
man David j. Foster, who died SUD
denly at Washington, will reach Burl~
ington, VT, at noon. Monday, accom-
panied by a committee of members of
the Senate and House of Representa-
tives and funeral services will be held
in the afternoon at St. Paufs Episco-
pal church. Members of the Burling-
ton organization of the Boy Scouts
and of the E,lks will meet the train and
escort the body to the church, where
the pastor, the Rev. A. c. Clark, will
offieiate. Gov. Mead will be one of the
honorary pail bearers. Burial will be
in the family lot at Lakeview ceme-
terry.
I'm general the sense of public OBJ
legation to the cause of education APP
pears to be stronger and more wide
spread than ever. but the time has
plainly come when private and local
initiative need more guidance from
the point of view of the state and of
the nation" Such was the conclusion
reached by President Henry S. Pritch-
EFT of the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching in the an
nual report made public, Sunday
night. reviewing the six-years work
of the foundation. The sum of $685.,
600 was spent in retiring allowances
and pensions during the year, the re-
port shows.
A rapid finish marked the last day
Of the visit of the American secretary
Of state, MIR. Knox, and his party at
the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. He
will leave. Monday morning, for
Puerto Cabello. The secretary drove,
Sunday morning. to the residence ot
The foreign minister. Gen. Manuel