Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

ptloIt t3illtu states commissioner
Frank F. Dresser, at Worcester. on
charge of larceny from the mails The
complaint was made by Deputy Unit
ed states Marshal James A. Tighe OF
Boston. koehler waived examination
and was held in 5000 for the federal
grand jury in Boston, the third Tues
day in March.
Arrested for drunkenness and taken
TO police headquarters at Worcester,
late Saturday afternoon, James Nc
Carthy, al years old, when searched,
was found to have on his person SITS
worth of diamonds. Mccarthy was ar
rested in front of a pawn shop on
Front street and the police are now
investigating the reason for his carry
ing around this unusual amount of
valuable gems
The Public Service Commission has
subpoenaed President Mellen of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad Co. TO testify at the con-
tinuation of the hearing in New York
on Monday. upon the complaints of
the mayors Of New Rochelle and Mt
Vernon. and residents of New Ro-
chelle and Portchester, against an in
crease in Communication rates on the
Westminster county and New York
City.
Fire, late Friday night, destroyed
the coach barn and stable at the Or
chard. the country estate of Henry
HoIlister Pease of New York, causing
| a loss of $4,000. Three of Mrs Pease's
driving horses and two settlers that
have taken prizes at Lenox Dog shows
Nalt d
was burned. The Lenox fire depart
mcnt's automobile truck got stalled in
| a drift going to the fire.
David l.. Bright. 81 years old car
penter. living at 5fSt4 Medford street,
Charlestown, fell from a chair in his
room at 1850, Saturday, and died soon
afterWard. DR. Joseph H. McManus
was summoned, but Mr.. Bright had
already expired. He was talking With
his neuhews John L.. Bright OF 377
2d street. Everett. and Herbert A.
| Bright of ls3 Beach street Lind0ns.
| when he was taken i'll. Medical Exam
| iner McGrath said death was probably
| due to natural causes, but will make
further examination at the North
| Grove Street morgue. He had been SUI
| fering from heart trouble.
4
| of Lawrence rescued Louis Slovin,
| years old. from drowning in the Merri-
mae river. Saturday afternoon. while
| Mai. p. f. Butler. surgeon of the "a
| Battalion of the 9th Regiment on duty
| at Lawrence. resuscitated the lad when
| Breen had drawn him out of the water.
! The boy had gone out on the ice =
watch Herrick Akin. an aeroplane oper-
| ator, attempt some flights, when the ice
| broke and the lad went in over his head.
/ A boy named Rogers ventured 10 save
| Slovin. but he also went into the water
| and both We're going beneath the sur
| face when Breen, who was on the shore
| yanked off his coat and, running out ON
| the rotten ice was about to grasp the
| lad when he too, went into the wafer
| He grabbed Rogers and pulled him TO
| shore and returned for Slovin, whom he
| grasped just in time.
| ,Irs Mary Young Cressey of Nashua
| street, Manchester, n. H.. Saturday, OBJ
served her Ssth birthday. At / o'clock
! an elaborate luncheon was served by her
! daughter, Mrs. John w. Cressey, with
! whom she resides Seated at the table
| were her two daughters. Mrs. Cressey
! and Mrs Frank G.. Riley of Brookline,
| Mass, and Mrs. John w. Chase. Fred
| A. Cressey and Laura j. Cressey OF
| Lowell, Mass, Mrs. p. "A. Reed and
| daughter, Miss Lillian Reed, of London
| derry. and Miss Mona Blethen of Man
! chester One of the features was a birth
| day cake, also a birthday pudding which
| Mrs Cressey always makes on these an
| niversary occasions. Among AIRS. Cres-
| sey's callers. Saturday, We're NJ. r. Fo-
! shay, pastor of the First Baptist church,
and Rev. n. l.. Colby, associate pastor.
| Mrs. Cressey is a member of the Old
| Residents Association
Mrs. Simon Porensky, 70 years old,
might have been killed by gas asphyxia-
| ton, Saturday night. save for the fact a
| pet parrot raised clatter when 1t felt
1 itself falling under the influence of the
| fumes in the kitchen of its owner, Mrs.
| Esther Mandelbaum, of No. So Canal
| street New York, daughter of the old
| woman. When the bird started to shrek
| with fright Mrs. Mandelbaum, who was
| i'm the hall, ran upstairs and entered her
| apartment. AS she did so she smellei
| the gas and traced the odor to the kitch-
| en-, where she found her mother lying on
| the floor unconscious. Beside her, dead,
| was the family cat. The parrot still
| was calling out in fright and kept up the
cutlery until fresh air, admitted through
| an open window, had rid the room of the
| fumes. A physician in half an hour re-
| vived Mrs. Porensky. 1t is thought Mrs
| Porensky accidentally loosened gas
| tube fastened to the range in the kitch-
en- and did not notice the gas until it had
caused her collapse.
An unusual surgical operation on
Champion Chinese Chum, valuable
dog, was successfully performed. Fri
day afternoon, at the New York Vet
| Urinary hospital in West 25th street.
Mrs Charles e. Proctor of Great Neck.
l.. T.. discovered that the dog had
sac under his eye. After an N-ray ex-
animation while the dog was under
anaesthesia, tooth was pulled, the
| law drilled and the sac under the eye
| drained, giving instant relief to the
dog. Dr. A. c. Armstrong of the hos
| pital. assisted by Drs George b.
Leach, Ernest Krug and specialist in
| anaesthetics, performed the operation
| Mrs. proctor, the wife of an artist, has