Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The commission form of government
was defeated. Tuesday. at East ST. Louis,
H.. by vote of 1918 to 93N
A distant earthquake was felt in
central Georgia about SIS p. Nj. Tues
day. No damage to property or loss of
life has been reported.
Elmer e. Person. editor of the Will
Transport Sun, dropped dead from heart
disease, Tuesday night. while working
about his home at Willamsport, Pa. Mr..
Person was AZ years old.
For the purpose of improving the dock
ing and terminal facilities of Boston. 49,
100000 was appropriated. Tuesday. by the
directors of the port of Boston. 1t will
be expended on docks and railroad ter
minals in East Boston.
Burton w. Gibson, the New York lawyer.
was indicted by the Orange county grand
jury at Middletown. N. Y, Tuesday, on a
charge of murder, first degree. He is ae-
eused of killing his client. Mrs. Rosa
Menschk zazo. He probably will be brought
to trial. in December.
J. r. Capablanca. the Cuban chess
champion. defeated Oscar Chajes of Chi
td5b III D. illuNt9 III NIt ul9l Eduit VI
three game series started, Monday night,
at the Brownsville Chess Club in Brooklyn.
The contest was not finished until after
midnight
a piece of lead pencil an inch and a
half long was removed from the brain
of 2-year-old William Tulley. Tuesday.
in a hospital in Rochester. n. Y. The
baby fell while playing and the pencil
penetrated the frontal bone above the
left eye, entering the brain. Physicians
say he may recover.
case of smallpox was discovered
in Strathglass Park, Rumford Tues
day morning, the patient being Miss
Marion McPhee. a well-known clerk in
local store. DIR. Lesieur, chairman
of the Board of Health. placed the
house under quarantine. Word came
from Canton, Tuesday. that three
cases of smallpox We're discovered
there, Tuesday morning.
With long coats and high hats laid
aside and attired in overalls and jump
ers, IL of the leading Protestant
preachers of Sedelia. Mo-, worked at
the carpenter trade, Tuesday, to con-
struct a tabernacle in which revival
services are to be held. They finished
the day with splinters in their fingers
and muscles sore Rev. Harold Cooper
of the First Congregational church
smashed his thumb, but bore the pain
stoioally and kept on working. Every
member of the force promised to re-
turn to work, Wednesday. They plan
to complete the building by Friday.
The infatuation of 15-year- old Toby
Tyson for Alva Ross, fiaxen haired
lass of 49, led to a tragedy, Tuesday, at
New York. The Tyson boy, a romantic
natured lad, precocious in his studies
and a promising artist student. had
been warned by the mother of his
sweetheart to quit Fostering her.
Young Tyson Tuesday, procured re-
volver. wrote "a note that his Dying
wish" was ITO conquer the world and
get His Alvan and went TO the home
of the Rosses. He was denied admit
fance to the flat, while AlVa, who
seemed to fear the boy. went flying UP
stairs by way of the fire escape. Get
ting in at last and failing to find her.
Toby, crying that life was not worth
living without her, shot himself IN the
head He died three hours later in
hospital.
The board of investigation constituted
under the combines investigation act in
its report to the Dominion government
made public Tuesday at Ottawa, finds
that the United Shoe Machinery Co. OF
Canada, the parent company of which
has headquarters in Boston, is a com.
bine and that the clauses of its leases
restricting the use of the leased machin-
cry operate in restraint of trade. This
board, however in view of all the cir
cumstances recommends that the fine
provide in such cases of $1,000 a day shall
not come into effect for six months in
stead of at the end of 10 days after the
publication of the Judgment w j
White the company's nominee on tho
board presented minority and dis
senting report.
William Donovan and Fred Tupper
TRUSTEES" at the Hillsboro county jail
in Manchester, n. H, escaped from the
institution, late Monday night, by re
moving a screen from window IN
the laundry, which is located in a
building removed from the jail, and
after breaking into and robbing the
saloon of Michael Conner on Elm
I street, and the general store OF the
Annis Flour and Grain Co, Wlthln a
stones throw of the Jail. Upper re-
turned and crawled back through the
window, by which the men made theiI
| escape. Donovan was caught reo-
| handed in the Annis store by the po-
l lice. Donovan was sentenced IRON
| Manchester for year for the iar-
ceny of goods from a freight car IN
/ the Boston and Maine freight YARDS
| where he was employed. Topper was
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