Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Newell blockon State street
Ogdensburg, N. Y, was destroyed by
fire, Wednesday morning. with a loss
of about 100000; cause unknown. The
block was occupied by several bust
ness concerns.
A building of large dimensions
brick construction. used for Il enc
mems and four stores. on Main street,
New Britain. Conn, was burned,
Wednesday afternoon, with loss of
$4,000. Several tenants We're taken
from upper windows by the firemen.
Snowbound in their mountain cabin
home, the three children of Mrs Nancy
Allen Fuzzy of Grapevine, near Hazard,
KY, persisted from cold and Mrs. Fllzzy
was found lying unconscious beside their
noticed no smoke issued from the chin
ney and dug his way through the snow
into the cabin. A search revealed the
fact there was neither food nor fuel in
the house. Effords TO revive the mother
have proven unavailing.
Robert Bason, who has resigned as
ambassador to France, was, Wednesday,
confirmed as a member of the Harvard
Corporation at meeting of the board Of
overseers. Mr.. Bacon is not expected UNI
til later in the winter, but it is stated
that he will transfer his family from
Paris to Boston and make Boston his
permanent residence. The Harvard Cor
poration Is made up of seven members
and is practically self-perpetuating
body, although the overseers, who are
selected by the alumni, hold an advisory
position. Mr.. Bacon takes the place of
the late Judge Francis c. Lowell.
\ new contest for the millions of b.
j. CLucky'D Baldwin began, Tues
day. in the supreme court of Califor-
MIA. at San Francisco, when attorneys
for Lillian Ashley Turnbull appealed
from the decision of the superior
court of Los Angeles that denied her
daughter, Beatrice Anita, n share of
the late turfman's fortune. The claim
is based upon the allegation that the
mother was the common-laW wife of
the horseman. Attorneys for the Bald
win heirs contend that Baldwin could
have had no common-law wife. as
he had a wife living at the time.
a few days ago Michael Logan, aged
ob, ltOLt " utdlil III ilH HUM SL l1-'
Broadway, Cincinnati. More than $4,000
was found in the mans bed by Coroner
Coe Chief of Police Jackson received n
letter. Tuesday, from q Mrs Mary Logan
of Attleboro. Mass, stating that just 30
years ago she married a man named
Archibald Michael Logan in Kent. She
says her husband left her TO go TO the
Chicago Worlds Fair and never returned.
and that she believes the man who died
in Cincinnati was her husband An in
vestigation will be made by the probate
court
4 partially favorable ruling for the
defaH4ants in the alleged Illegal OPP
Grafton case occasioned by the death
of Miss Mary Bolduc, which Will
come up for trial. Thursday, was
made6 Wednesday, by Judge Sander
son, when he ordered the prosecution
to disclose the instrument alleged To
have been used. The defendants are
DR.. John d. Ferguson of Manchester,
N. II, Miss Hattie Hazlitt of Cam
bridge and Mrs. Annie Shuttunck of
Boston, all named as accessories, and
Mrs Mary O'Nell of Manchester and
Mrs Annie Reed of Cambridge named
as principals. The body of Miss Boil
due was found in an unoccupied house
in Jamaica Plain, last month.