Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07

| had closed for the season and only a
watehman,. who escaped, was in the
building at the time. The cause of the
blaze is not known. Patrick H. Hor-
gan of Newport owned the property,
on which there was a partial insur-
anee.
Mrs Ethel Hollis was severely burn
ed il her home on Benton street.
Middleboro. Saturday afternoon, while
preparing lunch. She is in serious
condition at the Taunton hospital. In
putting d stick of wood into the stove
her kmono caught fire from spark.
She fed INTO the yard and the flames
spread to her face and head. Her
screams brought Mrs. Martin Rouns-
VILE a neighbor. to the scene, who
threw a rug about the woman and
saved her from death.
James l.. Connolly, painter. fell 40
feet from a staging at the General
Electric Works, Pittsfield, Mass. Sat
urday morning, and struck on top of
a concrete structure. Both legs and
his back We're broken and he will
probably die. He was about to tie up
painters scaffold and, it is claimed,
one of the men operating the ropes
from the ground let go of the rope,
which permitted the staging to drop
with Connolly. He has wife and
child in Berkshire.
DIR. Samuel L. Stellard, we'll
known physician of Cottonwood, Va,
near Pikesville. held up a party of
boys on the road near Cottonwood,
Saturday, and commanded them to
line up so he could kill Them" ac
eording to a special from Pikeville,
Ky. One of the boys instead of lining
up'' turned and ran. Stellard drew a
revolver and shot him in the leg. He
then turned the weapon on the other
boys and killed one, the others escap-
ing unhurt
Prof Emery r. johnson of the Unlver-
sity of Pennsylvania, who has Just re-
turned from the Panama canal, wnere
he went at the instance of Mr.. TAFT to
study questions of commerce and trans
portation, is preparing an exhaustive re-
port. He estimates the annual fixed
charges of the canal at s155o0,000, and
thinks that the canal should be made
seif-sustaining from the start. For the
first decade he sets the tonnage at TO-
900 and for the second at 27,0Oo.oo0,
A new American record for an en-
durance fight was made, Sunday, at
Annapolis, Md, by Lieut.. john il.
Towers of the navy aviation corps in
a hydro-aeroplane. He was continu-
ously in the air for hours, 10 minutes
ana 80 seconds. The best previous
American record. made by Paul Peck,
was hours, 2S minutes and SO sec
onds The distance covered by Lieut..
Towers was approximately $50 miles,
with six miles to lap. Sundays
course was not a measured one how
ever, and Towers distance record is
not official.
A Cambridge car struck a Grove
Hall car while both were leaving the
Park street subway. Boston, at the
Public Garden entrance, Saturday aft
ernoon, and three women and a man
received injuries. The injured were
Mrs. G.. F. Linee of 90 Union TERRACE,
Jamaica Plain; Joseph Bell of 81 East
Isenox street. decorations of the face
and shock; Gertrude Gilbert of As
Pearl avenue. Winthrop, severe shock;
Joseph Pallias of 233 Columbia road,
Dorchester, injuries to head. They
were al passengers on the Grove Hall
car. They We're taken to their homes
in taxicabs by officials of the Boston
Elevated Railway Co.