Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

4 i1YHlplc SdIitS at fplpthilOiiIl
| reached New York, Thursday. on the
steamer Majestic. They are Melvin w
/ Sheppard James e. Meredith of Mer-
cersburg Academy. and Donald f. Lip
| pinscott, of the University of Pennsyl
| vania. Meredith made new world s
| record in the half-mile race.
IN American named A. Daniels
| aged about &c, committed suicide by
| shooting, Thursday, Mt the Grand Ho-
| tel Imperial, Antwerp. He left note
| saying. Il am stone broke. l have on
| ly one dollar left. | am suffering
| from Brights disease. Bury me in
| Potters field"
The injuries sustained by Countess
| Louis De Gontaut- Biron, eldest daugh-
/ ter of John G.. A, Leishman, United
| States ambassador TO Germany as a
/ result of an automobile accident which
occurred, Wednesday,, at Munich. Ba-
| yaria, are so slight that she Will be
| able to return to Berlin on Aug. %.
Two hundred and twenty eight Rus
| sian nom commissioned officers and
| soldiers were tried by courtmartial in
| the sappers' camp at Tashkent, Ash
/ attic Russia. Thursday, on the charge
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| teneed to be hanged, seven were ac-
quilted and 2O6 sent to jail for vary
ing terms.
/ Louis Switzofr. IA years old, of 159
| Devon street, Dorchester, was knock
ed down and probably fatally injured,
| early Wednesday evening, on Colum-
bia road, by an automobile operated
by Joseph Kuida of 3 Newman street
South Boston, and owned by Michael
wv. 'Brien of Il Putnam street, Rox-
bury.
| During the absence of Mr.. and Mrs.
| George Westinghouse from Erskine
| Park, Lenox, Mass, vandals have
| blown up the Rock Sea Lion on the
| lake shore on their property. The lion
| was a boulder formed by the wash of
the water into the shape of a sea lion
| and was one of the natural euriosities
of the country.
Edward Mccullough, chauffeur for
| Benjamin Strong, Jr the son-inla law
Of Millionaire f. c. Converse, while
/ driving the Strong automobile near
| the Greenwich Country Club, Wednes-
day afternoon, ran over and killed
| Frank Bridge, aged 10. The boy, while
| pay iIlSs Jliilltb III III
front of the automobile, which was go
ing about 25 miles an hour. The lad
| was killed instantly.
Rochester, N. Y, was chosen as the
1913 meeting place of the National
| Association of Mercantile Agencies,
| Wednesday, and William Fl. Burr of
| Rochester named as president. The
| convention also adopted a constitu-
| tional amendment providing all future
/ stockholders meetings convene in
| New York city, in April of each year.
| The East Indian government has de-
| cided TO modify the regulations re-
| speeding opium with view to re-
| ducing the internal consumption oil
the drug The provincial govern
| mentS, including that of Burma, have
been asked to prohibit opium smok-
ing saloons. 1t is proposed to increase
the price of opium sold by the gov
| eminent ard to reduce the amount al
individual may legally possess.
Word was received in Paterson, \
j.. Thursday, of the death at Lake
/ Sunanee. N. H., of Thomas Finn, who
years ago, was the starter at New
| Jersey race tracks. Later Finn was
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| sociat;on which also conducted race
| track. At the time of his death ht
| was tax receiver. Finn was a member
Of the House of Assembly for seven
| terms and in 1893 WAS the Speaker oil
the Assembly.
eve are all together again and all
HAPPY" is the way Nicholas j. McNama-
ra, the San Mateo banker. sums up the
result of his chase across the continent
| and back for his wife, their two small
sons and his automobile Following her
departure, Mcnamara had hurried to
| New York, missed his wife there, ami
| followed her to their home Thursday,
| they were reunited. There isn't goins
| to be any more trouble says McNa-
mara. 4E
Private Everett Lesher, U. s. NJ. c., at
| tached to the prison ship Southery, was
found drowned off Fort Stark. Newcas-
tie, n. H., "Wednesday. He had been
| missing since Aug. 10. This makes tne
fourth mysterious death in the city dur
| ing the past 10 days, all of the parties
being enlisted men. Capt. Rogers, COM
mandant of the navy yard, has ordered q
board to make an Investigation. Lesher
| was " years old ana belonged III Speil-
Ger, W. Va. There were no bruises on
his body,
Three of the eight men of the crew
| of the American Line steamer, ST
| Louis who were arrested, Wednes-
day, on the charge of assaulting q
number OF non unionists, We're SEN
fenced. Thursday, in the Southampton
police court to serve two months al
hard labor each The testimony
showed that the men had attacked
4 tile non unionists in their hunks, had
beaten them severely and had dam
aged property to the value of $780, The
disturbance arose out of the New
York strike.
Cupid four months old, was effective
in bringing about a reconciliation be-
tween Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Johnson of
Pittsfield, Mass. is and II, respective
ly. after the wife had brought libel
against her husband for divorce,
charging cruel and abusive treatment
The Cupid was their own baby. Mrs
Johnson met her husband on the
street on her return from her attor-
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