Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Howard s. Pease, 20 years old, was
accidentally shot and killed b. his
own gun. Monday. While hunting deer
on Cub mountain. at oxford. ~ II.
The gun caught in the underbrush.
peasc lived just long enough to greet
his father, who was summoned from
the boys home, two miles away.
Eight of those injured in the panic
which occurred. Sunday. in a moving
picture house. at Bilbao, Spain, died,
Monday, bringing the death roll up to
50. Several others are in a hopeless
condition.
Charles Frederick Prehn, a retired
broker. 70 years old, committed sui
eide ny hanging, Monday night. at
New York. His Wife and daughter,
who found the body hanging at the
head of his bed, said he had been in
ill health fer some time.
Andrew AGerehits of Newburgh. y.
y, after being n prisoner for IS
days in a ear of apples, into which
he had crawled at Newburgh, was re-
leased when the car was opened, Mon
day at Sioux city. His feet We're
frozen and may have to be amputated.
He had eaten nearly Il barrel of the
apples
Five men were killed, Monday, and
"a number severely hurt, some IA
tally. when logging train went
through 155-foot trestle at Bear
Greek. Ore. The boiler of the engine
exploded when the locomotive fell.
The bodies are buried under the
wreckage of HE train and The trestle
and the number Of dead may be
greater.
DR. W Roest Of Batavia. Dutch East
Indes. is 10 he appointed adviser Of
the Chinese government Tor The reform
Of the currency s @. Nissering, who
was originally proposed for the post,
viii he appointed honorary adviser.
AIR Nissering IS going to, Amsterdam
as president OF the Netherlands Bank.
The Dutch financial advisers do nor
consider II large capital necessary FOR
the currency reform. They propose
TO establish taxation on a gold basis.
NJ V Nickolich. Montenegrin rep
resentative in the United States and
Canada, Monday, at Duluth, Mimi,
pleaded guilty 10 one of the two in
dictments charging him with grand
EAECIEA. &4NhbftEI NtiS stif'HNsAis VI
SEM 2G, accused # Withholding trust
funds from several estates left in his
keeping Niekalich said the money
was to have been sent to him from
The old country, but the mails We're
DELAYED by the war. Judge Dibell sen
fenced him 10 the penitentiary for
from one to IL years.
Indictments charging several diyis-
ion superintendent of the Boston Ele-
waited Railway co. with perjury were
quashed. Monday. by Judge Brown in
the superior court at Boston. The in
dicted men We're Joseph l.. WebbeT,
Thomas r. Williams John II. Harring-
ton. Herbert A. Pasho John \. Smith
and Karl s. Barnes. The prosecution
maintained that the superintendent
made oath before the State Board of
Cancellation, during the street rail-
way strike. that employees had not
been discharged because they belonged
to a union. Judge Brown decided that
the Board of Cancellation had no ju
risGictior over the defendants.
Carl Riedelback, alias Carl War;,
called by the police the Human
bomb" was bound overc, Monday, To
The grand jury by Police Judge Will
liams at Los Angeles cal and few
moments later the grand jury was
Investigating the case. Riedelbach's
bond was fixed at $4,000. Riedelbach
was not represented by counsel. lie
took deep interest in the hearing
and frequently Intercepted the Wit
nesses. At the request of Chief Sebas
tian, Riedelbach made a drawing of
the internal machine with which he
caused a panic AT the central police
station last Tuesday He declared sew
eral times that he had no intention
of exploding the machine. but that he
was 'Blufiing'