Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-22
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

able fight by George w. Beatty on
Long Island, late Saturday Carrying
three men in addition to himself Beat
ty flew distance of more than is
miles The combined weight of the
four men was 544 pounds.
One-tenth of the students at Clark Col
lege, Worcester, Mass, are sick with
humps and it is feared that an epidemic
is underway which will affect everyone
in the institution who has not had the
disease in his younger days 1t is be-
lieVed that the epidemic started from a
letter received by one of the students
from a person afflicted with the disease
While her mother was absent from the
room for a few minutes Mary Rose
Page, the 34-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Page of Woonsocket, r. L.
secured can of kerosene and, after
pouring over her clothes accidentally
set fire to them. Her mothers frantic
efforts to save her Were futile and she
died within d few moments.
The safe deposit vaults Of the failed
Carnegie Safe Deposit Company of rs
Broadway New York have been sold
by Supt Van Tuyl OF the state bank
ing department, for $50, G00 to syn
dicate of New York City capitalists,
who propose to reorganize the COM
pany 1t was announced that the pro-
ceeds of the sale will accrue largely
to the benefit Of bhe creditors of the
Carnegie Trust Company, which was
one of the largest creditors of the safe
deposit company.
The bursting of a gas main which had
of two aged women from asphyxiation
in Mott street tenement. New York
City. a third woman in the apartment,
into which the gas had penetrated from
the main in the cellar Just underneath,
was removed to a hospital dying. The
two dead We're Mrs. Annie Kelly and
Mrs Mary Smith The proprietress of
the apartments, Mrs. Hannah Mullgan,
who alone survived. had evidently been
trying to get to the door when she was
overcome.
John H. Crowther of fitchburg, one
OF the oldest engineers on the Fitch
burg Division of the Boston & Maine
died suddenly of heart trouble While in
a passenger ear on the New Haven
Road, Saturday forenoon. when the
II diH NdS pdSdtilS lltlRuSI l4cblilfIiSHtI.
Conductor George Curtis heard the
man groan and FASTENED to his side.
but life had ceased. The BODY was
taken eff at the station, viewed by the
medical examiner and given in charge
OF an undertaken -Mr. Growther was
TO years of age and a wife and five
children survive.
With both feet and hands frozen.
half starved and serni-insane, from
his condition. James Fry, d 17-year=
old boy. was found in a freight car at
Cincinnati. Saturday. He was locked
in the car. last Thursday. at Peru.
Ind. by practical jokers. When the
patrolmen who found him, tried to
feed him roll. Fry endeavered to
swallow ii whole ana ii was only with
the combined efforts of four men that
he could be held long enough to allow
nourishment to be given him. He was
taken to the City hospital and the
physicians hold out little hope for his
recovery.
John Terrell, a rescue worker of the
Bureau of Mines. was killed. Friday
night, while exploring a mine at Cher
ry Valley. Penn, in which fire was
raging. The conditions in the mine so
far have made it impossible to re-
cover Ferren's body Terrell. whose
home was at Ellsworth, Penn. where
he had wife and two infant children.
was considered one of the best mine
experts ir Pennsylvania. He was i'm
charge of d government rescue Gear
Al the mine disaster at BriceVille
Tenn, few weeks ago, Terrell res
eued five men.
Miss Christine Howe of Philadelnlia
who was hurt while iceboating win
Francis Herreshon, son of the yacht dcs
signer, Saturday, at Bristol. II, l. was
found. Sunday to have been much more
seriously injured than was first supposed
Her right arm was found to have been
broken in two places. and her left arm
was also fractured while one eve was
completely closed by a swelling. Phvs.-
clans operated upon her, late Sunday
and it was reported that her complete
recovery is only question: of time. Miss
ho~e is the daughter of Frank G. Howe
of Philadelphia and was a guest at the
Herreshoff home. The accident was the
result of the iceboat colliding with A
sfN''S AAtiBIdueu III the ice.
Four boys We're severely injured in
Greater Boston while eoasting, SATURDAY
two in Revere two in Lynn. William
Sackett, II years old Of 10 Barrett street
Revere was taken to the Massachusetts
General hospital suffering with Internal
injuries and is in Il dangerous condi-
ti"n. Victor j. Mccullough, Il years old
OF % Reservoir avenue. Revere, is at the
Frost hospital, Chelsea, with broken
leg and minor injuries. MCCULLOUGH was
hurt in the afternoon and the Saeketf
boy in the morning Ernest MURRAY. T.
years old son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Murray of SO Rockaway street. Lynn.
was sliding down Hamilton avenue when
he ran into coal team, His head was
badly cut, Kenneth Robinson. 7-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. John Robinson Of
9S Hanover street, Lynn, was coastinz
down Lawton avenue when he lost con-
troll of his sled and it crashed into an
iron post. -Four stitches We're taken in
his head. Neither boy was taken to the
hospital.
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