Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-31

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

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Hlldretli Burial ground. Lowell, Mass.
was visited, Wednesday, by John
Thomas Blackwell, an S7-year-oId col
ored man, who walked from Tonnes
see. Blackwell was a slave before the
Civil War and knew Gen. Butler very
We'll His trip North has taken him
over three weeks.
Pembroke w. Pitt. a former grain
broker of Baltimore, arrested in Ma
pies some weeks ago charged with
defraud;ng Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York banks out of $3.50. 0n0
was brought hack to New York.
Wednesday. on the steamer Carpat hia
He will be taken to Baltimore for.
trial.
The recent suspension of work In
the anthracite mines is reflected ln.the
monthly statement of the Lehigh VAL
ley Railroad Co. for April made pub
lie at Philadelphia, Wednesday, The
freight revenue of the company for
the month was s1.4627 1853, decrease
OF $l,2s6163 compared with the same
month IN 1911. The operating income
was 1851, a decrease of $1.224.774.
Bob, the black bear in the Central
Park menagerie. New York, now has
militant mate, a 5-year-old speci-
men from Pike county, Penn. A short
time ago Bob choked to death the
'bnnkief that had for years kept him
company Bill" Snyder. the head
keeper, Immediately began looking for
female that would scrap. The new
bear arrived at the park. "Wednesday
and was placed in the cage with Bob
Rive nlilufaG aff
Bob around so hard he took to the
turthest corner of the den. The new
conner has been named MAY. She was
trapped by a resident of Pike county
when young
MISS Mildred Ireland. one of Hunt
ington's Long Island best known
young women. died. Wednesday morn
ing from the effects of carbolic acid
Poisoning. In some unexplained way
bottle containing medicine was re-
placed by one containing the poison
and she poured some in wineglass
and drank it. Miss Ireland lived with
q married sister Mrs. Everett George
IN cottage built by her father 25
Years ago. His first wife died there
theh he employed a housekeeper. who
zen downstairs and died from her. in
Juries. Mr.. Ireland's second wife was
Killed by Illuminating gas. and he died
there year ago.
foilowing a duel with shotgun and
revolver as the result of a family arr
sufhent, the police. Wednesday. ar
rested Albert Ashton. of Leominster
ana ms l5-year- old son Thomas the
iattef as a witness According to the
son. his father took the part of his
sister Beatrice and began To choke
ms mother. The boy drew a revoIver
ana ordered him to stop, whereupon
the son says his father then drav.
both he and his mother from the
nouse' ana after securing a shotgun
iollowed theip. firing several times
ne hoy returned the fire. hut aimed
hish ana neither was hurt. Mrs Ash
toh wandered away, however and was
t"uhd IN "a swamp with her head part
uhdef the water and unconscious.
tier condition is critical.
Alenzo Dinsmore. aged so. a prom
ment Lee. N. H., farmer lies in a
crltical condition at the Hayes hos
pital in Dover, ~. H., being badly
burned, Tuesday night, while trying
70 rescue his livestock Mr. Dinsmore
iost his nearly new farm buildings
az Hoiu's Crossing, Lee. MIR. and
MIS-. Dinsmore were awakened by the
lahies ana had barely time to escape.
Inc nigh winds rendered vain all at
teinpts by bucket brigade Of neigh
DORIS 10 save any of the buildings The
IRE is thought to have originated from
sparks from a locomotive on the
worcester, Nashua a. Portland Diyi-
sion Of the Boston & Maine. Tho loss
is estimated at about $500. IT is I'M
deistood that there was some insur-
ance The Dinsmores came to Lee
from Vermont four years ago.