Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


Captain James X Churchill, com
mander of the Massachusetts Depart
ment OF the G. A. r., in 1891, died, Fri
day. at his home in Worcester He
served in the 5th Mass inf during
/ Civil War. Captain Churchill was born
in Roxbury. IS years ago.
Aim at nv head" said George Arm
strong. aged 1S, to his s-year-eld
brother Harry. Friday night when
they were playing with shotgun in
the wood shed OF their home at Rut-
land, VT. Harry did So, pulled the trig-
ger and blew OFF the top of his broth
er's head. Neither boy knew that the
gun was loaded.
Jonathan Scott Marley. sculptor
of the Daguerre monument in Wash
ington and of monuments and statues
III New York City, Springfield, Mass,
and other cities, died of appendicitis.
Friday, at his home in New York,
aged 81 years. In 1883 he married a
daughter of George Inness, the Amer
lean painter
Signatures Of the Sc signers of the
Declaration OF Independence, part OF
the collection of autographs OF Elliot
/ panforth. late treasurer of the state
Of New York. We're sold, Friday, at
| Philadelphia for a total of Sl5,l00. The
highest price paid, $4,000, for for the
signature Of. Button Gwinnett of
Georgia. who was killed in duel by
Gen. Lochlon Mcintosh. The autograph
was attached to a will. Some of the
other signatures brought only nominal
prices
An investigation of the death Of
Theodore Bobbett, North Raynham.
Mass, who was found, Thursday,
with the top of his head blown off,
/ was made. Friday, by Medical Exam
iner Charles A. Atwood DIR. Atwood
declined TO make a public statement
and reported his findings to District
Attorney Kenney of New Bedford. Lo-
cal officials said the shot which killed
Bobbett appeared to have been fired
from behind.
The first complete figures on the
Presidential vote in Michigan. given
lout. Friday. by the secretary of state,
showed that Roosevelt carried Mich
igan by a plurality of 66,76S over
President Taft, while the latter was
second with plurality of 1893 over
Wilson. The vote was: Roosevelt PIG, :
OLE; Taft, 152,2 pa; Wilson, 15O.751; Debs
23,311; Chain, 1929 The Socialist Labor
electors were accorded 1852
An aged invalid, Mrs. Catherine Re-
gan, was forgotten in the excitement
of a tenement house fire in the West
End Boston. Friday night, and fire.
men stumbled over her Iifeless body
on the stairway of the second floor
where she Lad tried to crawl to safe
ty. Eight-year-old Mary Murphy was
rescued by Patrolman Max Thormer,
after she had been overcome by
smoke. The blaze. which started from
rubbish in the basement, did small
monetary damage.
Rev. DR.. Geo. H. Spencer, superin-
tendent of the Worcester district of the
New England Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, has rendered
his resignation to Bishop j. w Hamil-
ton. DIR. Spencer resigns because OF i'll
health. He was appointed superin-
tendent of the Worcester district at the
annual session of the conference, last
April and soon after became seriously
i'll. He went to New Hampshire in an
unsuccessful effort to recover his
health. Bishop Hamilton is expected
to name a successor before the first
of the year.
That teachers of so per cent. of the
school children of the country arc
frightfully incompetent by the sin of
neglect and that some technical
schools are Bluffs" were some of the
claims advanced by the speakers at
Fridays sessions of the sixth annual
convention at Philadelphia of the Ma
tional Society for the promotion of
Industrial education. All advocated
the aim of the organization which is
the establishment of vocational
schools with both national and state
aid,
Six hundred Harvard men greeted
their champion football team of 1919
with ringing cheers at the banquet
given the players. Friday night, by tho
Harvard Club of Boston Coach Per-
cy Haughton was given a big silver
loving cup, with every man present
calling for a speech, in which ii was
expected that something might be
said about Haughton remaining as a
coach, though his contract expires.
thsi year Haughton, however con-
| fined his remarks to Harvard's game
and game no inkling as to his future
plans.
Mrs. Elizabeth Edmunds, who shot
District Attorney Albert c. Each of
Richmond county, New York, Aug. 10,
last. and pleaded guilty to charge
of assault in the first degree, was sem
fenced, Friday, in New York, to not
less than three years and six months
and not more than five years and six
months in state prison at Auburn.
Mrs. Edmunds is the wife of John M
Edmunds. a New York dentist, against
whom she brought an action for
abandonment The reason she gave
for shooting the district attorney was
that Mr.. Each had not pushed the
case with sufficient vigor. Mr.. Each
has recovered.