Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Miss Ethel Conrad and Miss Lillian
Graham, who shot w. L. d. Stokes of
the Hotel Ansonia. New York City. were
Kissed from the stage of a theatre at
Cleveland, O., Wednesday.
While on her way from Boston to Nor
folk the big ocean tug lMurrell, owned
by the New England Coal and Coke Co,
struck a submerged wreck between New
port News and Norfolk and her propeller
was broken and her bottom damaged.
and she leaked badly.
Discovery was made. Wednesday
night, by doctors in attendance in the
Yonkers tuberculosis Dispensary,
Yonkers, \. Y. that Margaret Brill.
Is years old, of No. S25 Walnut street.
was born with her heart on her right
side. That is a conditions sometimes
found in patients suffering from pleu-
fisy, when the heart is forced out of
place. The doctors say, however, 1t
is extraordinary for a person to be
born with a heart so placed.
Mrs. Mary Belcher, Wednesday, cele-
brated her 96th birthday at the home of
Mrs. Maria Ingraham on Central street,
North Brookfield, with whom she lives.
She is still In good health and can hear
and see as well as many younger wo-
men. She reads daily and takes a lively
interest in current events. Mrs. Belcher
Is a daughter of the Revolution on her
maternal side. Born In Ashby, she went
to North Brookfield IA years ago with
her husband, who died Is years ago.
Her grandfather, Benjamin Wellington,
who settled in North Brookfeld l50 years
ago, served in the Revolutionary War.
Mrs Belcher has been member of the
First Congregational church for 30 years
and her grandfather, Benjamin yelling
ton, helped to build the first meeting
house of the town.
I'VE eloped and were married secretly
in Portland, last Monday, SO as to ayaid
publicity" declared Mrs II. Dexter
1nurber, the attractive daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Nathan Jacobs of the Hotel
Carlton, Boston, who is now the wife
of H. Dexter Thurber. a member of Bal
terry A and a prominent athlete when
he attended Stones School six years
ago. The young bride was Miss Vivien
Jacobs, whose name figured prominently
in the robbery of her fathers home, last
September, when they lived at 80 New
bury street. At that time $1,000 worth of
Jewels, lot of silver and some money
disappeared from the house. George III.
Randall of New York was arrested in
connection with the case and he claimed
that Miss Jacobs passed the valuables
out the window to him. She declared
that he asked for the combination of
the safe. which she gave him.
Suffering intense pain from a dislo-
Gated knee, DR.. John B. Bryne, as
sistant gynecologist of the Kings
County hospital, New York. perform
ed an emergency operation, Wednes-
day afternoon, on a woman in the
hospital before his own injuries We're
attended to. Receiving a hurry call
from the hospital the doctor started
to crank his automobile in front of his
home, No. 224A Sixth avenue, Brook
Ign. The crank struck his knee,
throwing him to the street. A man
helped him into his machine and he
rode to the hospital. He was helped
into the operating room and after the
operation on his patient was over put
himself on the table. He directed the
work of resetting his knee.