Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-21

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


The United States battleship Nebraska
arrived at Caimanera, Cuba, Wednesday,
| and relieved the Minnesota, which is
| leaving, on Monday.
General Stewart L. Woodford. at one
time lieutenant governor of New York
and formerly minister to Spain, is lying
seriously i'll in an inn near oxford, Eng
where he was stricken. Mrs. Woodford
| is with him.
| Schooner J. Arthur Lord. st. John, N
| B., for New York, with cargo of Ium-
Der. went ashore on East Chop. Vineyard
Sound, Wednesday night, during a light
southerly wind. The vessel lies easy and
thus far has suffered no apparent dam
age.
| The British steamer Wyvisbrook of
Glasgow, from Pensacola, Fla. June Is,
| 10 Greenock and Ayr, Scotland, ran
aground during Wednesday night, on
| Pebble Shoals, near Cape Henry, Va.
| The steamer would accept no assistance
| from the life savers.
In feud battle between the Sharp
and Waltrom families at Sperry's
ranch, near sherman, Tex. Thursday
afternoon. four persons were killed and
| two wounded Before she Was slain,
Miss Georgia Sharp killed one man
ard wounded another and his Wife
| An interesting event in the convention
of the National Association of Real Es-
| tate Exchanges in session at Louisville.
| Ky, was the presentation to the conven-
| ton of a gavel made of wood from 4
table in Captain Sigsbee's cabin ON the
Maine. 1t was presented by j. S. Head
| of Havana.
| Fire destroyed the Hotel Elderhurst at
| Hammers, Rockaway Beach, early
| Thursday Thirty guests, whose escape
was cut off by flames, jumped from win
dows and slid down ropes to safety Ten
persons were injured but none seriously.
| William Pagan, fireman, was seriously
| injured.
After pleading not guilty to an in
dictment charging manslaughter, Ia
year-old Antonio Mariana of North
| Providence. was held in $500 bonds
| for trial in the superior court at Prov
idence. r. L.. Thursday, for causing
| the death of a playmate, William Ma
| ther. Jr., at Marieville, Feb. 20 last.
Bonds We're furnished.
| An automobile turned turtle Wednes-
| day morning about O'clock, on the Riv-
| er boulevard between Tyngsboro and
Lowell, Mass. Rev. Thomas Chalmers,
| Mrs. Jennie Fontaine and her little son
and Miss Helen Connors, all of Man
| chester, were thrown out. They were
| taken to the Lowell General hospital.
where it is reported their injuries are
| not serious.
| Capt. Rufus G. Candage, an author
| ity en- maritime affairs and prominent
| in business and secret society circles
until two years ago, when he gave up
| active work, died, Wednesday night.
at his home in Hudson. Mass, aged IS
years. AS captain of more than doz-
er vecsels he had visited nearly all OF
| the principal ports of the world.
| United States Judge Hanford of Ia
coma, late Wednesday. denied the mo-
ton for a rehearing in the case of
Leonard OLSON, the Socialist whose
naturalization papers were revoked on
the ground that they had been OBJ
tanned by fraud. The case figured
prominently in the charges presented
| by Congressman Berger for the i'm
parchment of Judge Hanford.
| The Chilean warship which the gov
| ernment sent to search for an Ameri-
can party of castaways has returned
to Punta Arenas, and reports the
search fruitless. The sending of the
lwarship was in response to note
| found in a bottle on the beach saying
/ that an American steamer had been
wrecked off Cape Horn and that seven
! Americans had landed on a small is
land with provisions for one month.
Hunter Fitzgerald, the three-legged
| boy of Blackstone, Va, who attained
more than a local reputation because
of his deformity. has had the third
member amputated and is recovering
from the operation in a hospital at
Richmond, Va FitzgeraId's third leg
was smaller than the two upon which
he walked, and since his birth, II years
ago, ne had suffered little inconven-
fence by it,
Twenty-four Italian laborers en-
ployed by the eastman Brothers in
| laying a water main for the city of
| Newburyport, struck, Wednesday, be-
cause two of their number had been
discharged and their places filled
They refused to work with the new
corners. The two men discharged had
some difficulty with the superintendent
of the work. The men who struck
were taken to Newbu1yport by the
contractors, who intend to fill their
places at once.
Mrs. Maud Henry, wife Of Lyons
Farms plumber, Elizabeth. Y. j., was
arrested, Thursday. charged With MUIR
dering her daughter, Mary Louise
Henry, three years old. by cutting hei
throat. County Detective Galtn SAYS
the woman confessed that, wednesday
night, she took the child to the bed
room, crooned her to sleep, tied q
handkerchief across her own eyes
! covered the child's eyes with one hand
and than p,,t fba littla ona.S tbroot