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

posed that while about the house, Satur-
day the deceased was stricken with
heart disease. A gas stove in the kitch-
en- was found lighted Medical Examiner
erosion gave death as due to heart
trouble.
About six persons in every 100000
ia the United States were murdered,
in 1910. This estimate is made by Dr.
Greasy l.. Wickburn, chief statistican
of the statistics of the census bureau.
He attributes to homical causes 3l90;
railroads killed 1877: and automobiles
killed $50 persons.
A great public reception arranged
by the laity of the archdiocese for
Cardinal Farley in the Hippodrome
at New York, Sunday night, opened a
week which will be filled With a round
of honors for him, in which Catholic
| and non-Catholie citizens will unite.
The outpouring of Catholics, tonight,
was so large that thousands had to
be turned away because the Hippi-
drone was not large enough to seat
| them.
Workmen overhauling the debris of the
Revere House, Boston. fire, saturday,
uncovered portions of two human bodies
on the second floor. The remains were
badly burned and portions of the torsos
and legs We're missing. Susan Doherty
and Annie McDevitt, employees of the
hotel. are the missing women. and Sat
urday's find probably included portions
of both bodies. The portions of the bod
les were found over the grotto in which
the fire started in the rear of the Bull
finch street side of the building The
body of Gertrude Wilson, another en-
ployee, was found. Thursday,
John O'Brien, the oldest retired man
ufacturer of Westboro, died suddenly,
Saturday. at his home, Is Brigham street,
at the age of s.. He had been a resi-
dent of Westboro 60 years and for 80
years was a sleigh manufactures, making
between 800 and 400 sleighs year, for
which he always found a ready market
in Chicago and New York. Mr.. O'Brien
was born in county Waterford, Ire, but
when a young man came to the United
States and early settled in Westboro.
He leaves seven children. William,
James, John, Jr,, and Andrew O'Brien,
and Mrs. Della Donnelly of Worcester,
Mrs Martin Fannon and Mrs, John Ca
sey of Boston.
Mrs. Nora Hauck. wife OF DR..
Ulysses Grant Hauck, an inspector OF
the United States department of ag-
riculture shot herself to death. Fri
day. in her home, in the Wadsworth
court. 129 Wadsworth avenue, New
York Mrs. Hauck evidently had just
finished a conversation over the teie-
phone when she placed the revolver
to her chest and fired. What the
trouble was that led her to end her
life was not officially explained, Sat
urday night. but there was report
among her friends that she had been
remorseful over offending her nus
band, in some way, and that, having
been i'll for some time, she saw the
difficulty in an exaggerated Hght.
Porter Charlton. who is alleged to have
murdered his wife, Mrs Mary Scott Cas-
tie Charlton, at Lake Como in Italy, i'll
1910 is perfectly sane, according to the
district attorney of Hudson county, \.
j.. and the Jersey City jail officials. lie
is in splendid health. At the office OF
the district attorney 1t was said there IS
absolutely no chance of the young man
being released on bail, and that he will
remain in jail pending the outcome OF the
proceedings which are to determine
whether he shall be returned to Italy for
trial The case Is now before the SUI
decision is not expected before some
time early In 1913.
News of the death, Sunday, in Phila-
delphia of Bernard n. Farren, widely
known contractor whose summer home
was near Greenfield. Mass, was receiv-
ed, Sunday night, at Greenfield. Mr..
Farren performed the difficult engineer
ing feat of roofing the Hoosack tunnel,
Mng
chusetts, damned the Connecticut river
at Turner's Falls and developed the
present town there. built the Chestnut
Hill reservoir in Boston and was one
of the contractors who removed Fort
Hill in the business district of Boston.
He was "a director in several large man
ufaeturing concerns and is reputed to
have had a fortune of s5,000.0o0. a widow
and three daughters survive.
Standing beside the body OF a life
long friend, Mrs. Marie Louise La
casse, aged 46, of 604 Prescott street,
Manchester, y. H., the wife of Jean
Baptiste Lacasse, was stricken with
heart disease, Saturday morning, ana
fell to the floor, dying before medical
aid could reach her. She had gone to
the home of Mrs. Celina Comire, IL
friend of long standing, and with
whom at one time she lived, and VINO
had died. After climbing Il long hight
of stairs at the home. u Mechanic
street. she complained of shortness
of breath. Stepping to the side OF her
friends body she had hardly looked
upon her before she, without WORD,
sank to the floor. She was picked up
by those in attendance and a physi-
clan and priest sent for. But she died
shortly after, and before either the
physician or her spiritual ADVISER hao
reached the house.