Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Miss Adams was killed. Miss Fam
ME Wisham and Mrs. Emma Adams
We're dangerously injured and Edward
Stokes. father of former Gov. Stokes,
was badly bruised, when an automo-
bile in which they were riding was
struck by train on the electric rail-
road at Malaga. Thursday night.
Francis W. Whitaker, 80 years old,
was killed instantly by an automobile
owned by Julius T.. Warren of Wor-
cester. in Warren, Thursday. Whit
taker was driving an ice wagon and
jumped from his seat in front of the
machine. Medical Examiner Ephraim
Norwood of Spencer said that Warren
was not to blame Whitaker is sur
vived by a widow and two children.
Thursday was the hottest day of
the summer and two prostrations re-
suited, in Worcester. the first of the
season. Clifford Lamb. So years old,
who lives at the German American
House, was overcome on Spring street,
in the afternoon. He was taken to
the City hospital and his condition is
pronounced dangerous. George La
meureau. q years old 4 Mendon
street, a trolley conductor, was over
come on his car at Main and Front
streets. He was taken to City hos
pital, but his condition is not called
serious
Peter Labelle, aged 10. of Apple
street, Haverhili, Thursday morning
lost his life while waiting for the
circus to come in. With a number of
companions, young Labelle was sit
ting on the top of freight car. short
~ after o'clock. Suddenly the cir
Gus train bumped the line of cars
attached to the one on which the boy
was sitting and he was knocked down
between the rails. several of the cars
passing over his body.
William Michelman, son of Jacob
Michelman of Northampton, was
drowned. Thursday, while bathing in
West Worthington pond. Michelman
dived in deep part of the pond. and,
not coming up his companions made
a search for him. He was soon
brought up, but efforts at resuscita-
ton failed. Michelman was 10 years
old Besides his parents, two broth
ers and four sisters survive. He was
a clerk in AIichelman Brothers cloth
ing store.
Leopold E.ilers, a native of the Ger
man island of Helgoland, but natur
allied citizen of the United States. was
sentenced. Friday, by the Imperial SUI
preme court at Leipsic to four years in
a penitentiary and six years loss of
civil rights on a charge of espionage.
For the second time since ii began
at Los Angeles, the trial OF Clarence s.
barrow. for alleged jury bribery was
temporarily halted, Friday by the ILL
ness of Early Rogers, chief counsel
for the defence. Attorneys for the de-
fence asked an adjournment until
Monday, which was granted by Judge
Hutton.
Divers, Friday afternoon, at At
lantic City, n. j., found the valve of
the gas bag of the Inflated dirigible
Akron. No trace of the bodies of
Walter Guest, Walter Naniman or
Fred Elmer has been found. The
valve was open, held so by a light
chain, which had evidently been pull
ed just before the accident, while
Vaniman and his crew was fighting
to bring the ship to a lower level
This has given rise to the theory that
sparks from the over-heated middle
engine, the one that controlled the
orientable, or altitude planes, com
municated with a leak in the pipe
which released the gas from the valve
proper and caused the explosion.