Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

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James J. storrbw, a banker, was
elected president 1of the Boston Cham
Der of Commerce., Friday.
The Hurlinghain. Eng, Polo Club.
Friday, sent challenge to the American
Polo Association for a series of games
for the Anne, lean cup. The challenge
stipulated tIaat the match should be
played in 1shs in the United States
The best lprice paid for a horse at
the continuation of the Old Glory
sale, at New York. Friday. was s3O50
for Baroibward King. 21SA trotter,
sold to IGeut. Rudolph HEM of vien-
ma. The sale viii close, Saturday.
Mrs. Elizabeth c. Keller, one of the
first Women in the world to astudy and
practice surgery. is dead at her home
in Jamaica Plain, Mass. Eor many
wears she was prominent in hospital
life in Philadelphia. DR.. Keller was
rs years old. g
! While a score OF persons Watched a
fire from a suspension bridge across
the Elk river at Gassaway, w. Va,
Friday, one end of the bridge burned
off. precipitating them into the water.
age and were rescued One, however,
is in a serious condition. ~
Seventeen men and boys lost their
lives While hunting in northern Mich
igan woods during the season which
will close. Nov. 80. Several were VIC
Tins of hunters who shot at q Nov
ing BUSH" Two We're drowned and one
is missing, believed to have died of ex-
On,
tonagon on q charge of murder for the
death of one man. ~
Cipriano Castro. former President of
Venezuela, sailed. Thursday. from the
Island of Teneriffe fer Southampton.
on board the steamer Windhuk He
was entered in the passenger list un-
der the name of Pyintero and was
unaccompanied. He took precautions
to avoid being recognized while en-
barking.
| John p. Mclean, the Cincinnati Ma
tional League ball player. was arrest
| ed, Friday. in Cincinnati, charged
With obtaining money under false pre-
| fences. He was released on a $4,000
| bond. Clifford Langdon. owner of u
cafe, who swore out the warrant. al
| leges that he cashed check that
proved worthless.
Max katzman, convicted as a loan
shark" at New York, was sentences.
Friday. to three months in the peni-
Tertiary. Louis Totans, a clerk, re-
ceived a 60days sentence on SIM
liar charge. THE practice of usury
in this state has got to stop" said
the court. I'VE intend TO make ex-
amples of the defendants in all SIM
liar cases.
Thomas Birmingham. who had been
held by the police at Medford Mass.
pending an autopsy to determine the
cause of the death of his wife, Kath-
crime. Thursday, was released, Friday
when Medical Examiner Durell re-
ported that he found no indications
of violence. Mrs. Birmingham was
SO years old. Her death was due to
| natural causes. in the opinion of the
medical examiner
Judge Samuel Emery, we'll known as
a lawyer in Massachusetts and New
Hampshire, dropped dead of heart
failure at his home in Portsmouth. n.
H., Friday night. Judge Emery was a
| former state representative and had
filled many offices in Portsmouth and
county. For some time heswas judge
in the police court. He had law Offices
| in Boston. He was 49 years old. A
widow and three children survive.
Efforts, Friday. to trace the muir
derer of Lillian Schadie, aged IL,
whose body, cut and bruised. was
found in a reservoir near Ardmore a
suburb of Pittsburg, Pa, Thursday
night, were futile. The child left her
home after school. Wednesday, to pur-
chase supplies for the Thanksgiving
dinner. That she was cruelty treated
and thrown into the reservoir, prob
| ably unconscious, was established, Fri
day. by a coroners autopsy.
After telephoning to a brother that
| he was about to commit suicide, Will
| liam A. Richardson. member of a we'll
| to-do and socially prominent New York
| family, shot himself. Friday night, in
| front OF Il mirrow in his apartments
| Chase \. Richardson, the brother.
| rushed to the apartments and with
| several policemen forced in door
| They found Richardson dead. In note
| beside the body was a written instruc-
| ton to have q library book. Misery
| and It's Causes" returned. Chase L.
| Richardson said his brother had suf-
fered from acute Indigestion for years.
| He passed much of his time in a. tent
| on the roof of his home in the fashion,
| able upper Fifth avenue section. He
| was ~ years old,
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