Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01

prcnouncing him sane. Mr. Ceakley
said he would have a statement to give
cut within As hours.
-Four persons are missing and the
plant of the Central Torpedo Co. is
a mass OF wreckage as the result of
an explosion of nitroglycerine near
Tulsa. Okla, Saturday. Two men went
Tor explosives to Use in oil field OPP
erations Just before the explosion.
Remnants of clothing found causes
the belief that they were blown to
bits. Two boys were fishing in a
stream nearby The lads cannot he
found.
Judge Swami, Saturday, in General
Sessions, at New York. assigned as
counsel for Leroy PoindeXter. Il Ne
gro, charged with murder in the first
degree, Miss Lucille Pugh, a young
woman lawyer. The assignment of
Miss FHglf was made after The young
woman had made Il plea saying she
Was willing TO waive the state fee ri
$500 she said Poindexter comes from
the same part of North Carolina that
she does, and that he appealed TO her
fer aid PoindeXtcr is under indivt-
ment for shooting Thomas Brown
white man, during a fight.
After IL quick passage from Gibral-
tar the steam yacht Wakiva, L. Y.
Hardness owner, rounded Cape Cod,
late Saturday, and put into Province
town. The vessel left Boston in No
vemher proceeding To New York,
whore her owner and guests went
aboard. At Marseilles the yacht was
dry locked and completed fitting out
for a winters cruise in the Mediterra
mean Al Gibraltar, early this MONTH
MIR. Hardness and friends left the Wa
kiva, returning to this country by lin
er The yacht was expected to arrive
at Boston. Sunday. and berth 1t an
East Boston wharf.
A 81. Petersburg dispatch Ia London
says that the entire population of
fishing village in Nova Zemba has
been annihilated by hunger. \ mer-
chant from Archangelska, who went
To purchase his usual spring supply
OF dried fish found the streets empty
and the houses silent Only few un-
buried corpses were found, but the
cemetery was full. showing that the
survivors had performed their duty to
the preceding victims. The village had
been cut off for nine months, for the
vessel laden with provisions had been
ice hound
Twice, Saturday, the revenue cutter
Acushnet gave assistance to vessels
in distress. Early in the day she found
the oyster laden schooner David X
Akin anchored off Hyannis, Mass,
with sails and rudder gone and leak
ing badly After pumping the Akin out
the Acushnet towed her to a safe an
chorage at Bass river. Late Saturday
afternoon the schooner Elizabeth
Palmer. bound from Norfolk to Port
land with coal, went ashore to the
eastward of Cross Rip lightship. The
Acushnet pulled her off without in
jury.
Henry Koch, Il wealthy hat manu-
facturer Of New York, whose son
Waiter VAS held under $500 bail by
Magistrate MacFarland at Philadel-
phia. charged With larceny of linen
from "A room mate. visited the office
of Captain of Detectives Cameron,
Saturday. and after learning the ma
turc of the charges against his son
practically disowned him and refused
10 say good bye to the young man.
The father said that he would do
nothing in his sons behalf, and that
he desired to see the law carried out
and the boy punished for his mis-
deeds. Mr.. Koch said that for the last
few years he has been spending more
than $3.50 month in an effort to keep
his son on the right path. He said that
he had obtained numerous good posi-
tons for him, and and sent him to all
parts Of the world trying to reform
him, but all to no avail.