Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

An infurated mob broke into the Quito,
Ecuador. penitentiary, sunday in spite
of double guard and lynched Gems.
Eloy AIfaro Flavio Alfaro, Medardo AL
faro, UlpiaHo Paez and Manuel Zerrano,
all prominent revolutionists.
The Innovation of q graduation in Feb
ruary instead of June will be tried in
part at Cornell University, this year,
under a new ruling. Degrees will be
granted, next month, to about a hundred
students who have finished their work
and obtained the necessary credits.
Rev Dr. Joseph H. Croker, preach
er. author and lecturer, sunday, an
nounced his resignation as pastor OF
the Roslindale, Mass. Unitarian
church, owing to failing health. Dr.
CROKER became well known through
his debate against a Mormon elder in
the Jewish Temple in Salt Lake City.
His body frozen in the ice, with skull
fractured. Fritz HIGHLAND, A. a mechanic.
was found, Sunday, by the roadside in
Auburn, r. l. Beside him lay railroad
sleeper. From the nature of the wound
the medical examiner was not satisfied
that death was accidental and a further
investigation will be held. a widow and
six children survive.
Charles y. Harvey a young seuip-
to-. convinced, 1t is believed, that
group in plaster he had been working
on Ter months would not bring him the
fame AND fortune he had hoped for,
killed himself i'll Bronx Park, New
York. Sunday by cutting his throat
Was q razor. The corpse was found in
/ .,ff l1A mol
He had won several medals in the
French capital for his work as stu
dent.
Charles A. Austin, of WhitinsVille.
Mass, who in all OF his IS years of
life wore stockings except when he
CHANGED to go out of town. and who
always wore q straw hat, summer and
winter died at the Worcester city
hospital, Sunday of bloodpoisoning
He wore a straw hat, because he said
it kept the rain and snow from going
down his neck and went without
stockings because he didn't like their
feeling. a silver of wood which he got
in his hand caused the notwithstanding.
Four persons were burned to death or
suffocated and five others are in Il Sc
rious condition as result of ii fire. early
Sunday, at the home of Curtis Hale at
Claytonia, a mining town 10 miles from
Butler, Pa. A family reunion was held
at the home of Curtis Hale, Saturday
night. The fire was discovered, at y.
NJ. Sunday. An overheated stove or the
explosion of lamp is thought to have
been the cause Men from nearby
mine, assisted by neighbors, extinguished
the fire, provided for the injured and re-
covered the charred bodies of the vic
TINS. The damage to the house was less
than $1,000.
An S-days campaign in the interest
of the Men and Religion Forward
Movement began, Sunday, at Balti-
more. with special services in most
OF the Protestant churches and q MASS
meeting in Forfs Opera house. Fred
b. Smith. general campaign manager.
addressed the mass meeting and OF the
5000 men present, several hundred in
dicated desire to engaged for the
first time in church work. Meetings
will be held every day during the
week in churches. shops and business
houses. A dollar dinner for 1000 men
will be given. tomorrow night at
which plans will be outlined for inter-
esting men in the work Of the church.