Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-31
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Sunday night, when their auto crashed
into a lampighters wagon smashing
both the car and the wagon and injuring
three people in the auto. The car was
driven by b. L. Thomas, a well-known
automobile man of Boston, and in it
were Mr.. and Mrs Harold G. Winslow
of 16 Joy street and their guest, Miss VIA
RE Mareella Lambert.
While hundreds of persons on the
crowded Elevated platform looked on
with horror. Miss Sarah MeKinnon, an
attractive girl "a years old. attempted
suicide at the Dover street station, Bos-
ton, late Sunday night by throwing her.
self in front of a swiftly approaching
northbound train. Despite the fact that
front trucks of the train passed over her.
she escaped with only a few scratches
tween the tracks.
Terrific storms We're experienced by
the steamer Boveric, which arrived
in New York from the Far East, Sun
, day. Friday, Dec. b. n Chinese cook
committed suicide by cutting his
| throat, and, Christmas day, when the
storm ragged most fiercely, the ships
second officer, the toatswain and five
sailors We're washed about decks by
heavy seas and seriously injured.
| Three of the men are still delirious
from internal injuries.
The house in Chestnut street. Ports
mouth, r. H, occupied by Miss An
mic s. Hanscom, librarian of the Ports
mouth Athenaeum, caught fire, Sun
day morning, from a gas plate and the
ell and kitchen were considerably dam
aged. Miss Hanscom who lives alone,
attempted to enter the room to extin
guish the blaze and was burned about
the mead and face. The blaze was ex-
tingu!sEed by the crew of the auto
chemical. The damage win be several
hundred dollars
Seven Cinnamon were arrested in Law
renee. Sunday night. charged with opium
smoking, in a raid in two rooms on the
/ third floor at 40 Common street, repre-
sented as headquarters of the local or
ganization of the Chinese Free Masons
Each of the prisoners was under infiu-
ence of the drug, the police say. outside
the rooms was a sign, reading Chinese
Free Masons." Inside, Acting City Mar
shall Sullivan and four patrolmen found
the place fitted up with hunks. A guam
tity of opium, pipes and other parapher-
MALTA were seized.
While smoke swirled about them and
flames cracked threateningly over
head, seven Sisters of the White Cross
| stood on the stairway leading to the
| third floor of the Home for Destitute
| Mothers and Daughters at 81 Bow
| dom avenue, Dorchester, Sunday
night, and by passing buckets of wa
| ter from one to another managed to
| hold fire in check on the third floor
| until the fire apparatus arrived. The
| home, which is conducted by the En-
| manualist Order of the Episcopal
| church. is a three story wooden struc-
| ture, and the top floor is occupied by
| dormitories for the Sisters and the
| women inmates.
James Zafris, a fruit dealer, was
held up on Lime street, Newburyport
about midnight, Saturday night, while
going home from his place of bust
ness, and an attempt made to rob
him. Pulling a fashlight from his
pocket he threatened to shoot, and the
/ would-b be robber evidently believing
| that it was a revolver, beat hasty
retreat. 1t is believed that the man
! attempting the holdup- was some. one
who had watched Mr.. ,Zafris leave His
place of business and believed he car ;
ried the receipts or the day with him.
A meeting between brothers. who
had been separated 80 Years, occurred
Webster. Mass Sunday, under UNI
usual circumstances The parties we're
| George R. Mitchell,N resident of
| Webster for many, years.. and ibis
brother Albert, formerly of Chicago
and Providence. The meeting took
place in a house in Main street, where
George Mitchell has been living for
some time and where. his brother en-
gagged a room adjoining the one he
has occupied. The men met, Sunday
night, and at once recognized each
other. ~ 9+;s "a ri
James Hickey, aged 20. of 353 Millbury
street, is in critical condition at the
city hospital at Worcester. as, the result
of coasting accident on elne HARLEM
! street Hill, In company with other Young
men he passed the early part of sunday
evening sliding down the hill. and upon
making his last trip down lost control, OF
his sled and crashed into a telegram pole
lie was rendered unconscious and at The
hospital, where he was taken in the po-
| lice ambulance following treatment by
DR. Richard j. Shannat,an, police sur
geon' it was reported that he is suffering
from a possible fracture of the skull and
minor injuries about the upper. portion
of the body. f,rs.sf
FIRE, Sunday morning, destroyed the
large barn of Joseph Fay on Beacon
street on Centralviile Heights, Lowell,
and did considerable damage Also to
the dwelling house of Mr.. Fay. The
horses and cows We're removed from
the burning barn by Mr.. Fay. mem
bers of his family, also by neighbors
and Lowell firemen. The barn is To-
Gated in Dracut and the house IN Law
ell. For some reason the 'Dracut fire.
men did not reach the fire until it had
| been burning about an hour In the
barn was a large quantity of hay. veg
etables, farming tools and wagons and
they were all burned The loss on the
building and contents will be $1,000
partly covered by insurance.
Running directly, in front of an ap-