Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Peter Parker, 20 years old, who lives
at 5536 Washington street. Jamaica
Plain, Was found nearly frozen, early
Thursday, in doorway of a houss
on Brookside avenue, near Boylston
street, Jamaica Plain. He was taken
To the Jamaica Plain police station.
and there attended by DR.. J. D. Wood
ward, who ordered his removal to tie
city hospital. His feet. hands, ears
and nose We're badly frost-bitten. His
recovery is doubtful.
Burton ingalls,, whom the Provi-
denee police believe to be an old-time
bogus check man, and whose opera
tons are said to- have extended al
over New England was arrested
there, Thursday, by Inspector Caffre.
while trying to pass worthless check
for $40. He had recently served L
months in a Connecticut prison, and
is alleged to have passed bad checks
IN New Haven, Boston, Dover, n. H
Vineyard Haven, Mass, and Newport
Upon the petition OF Mrs. Lillian NJ
Glover, widow of Clarence F. Glover
he murdered Waltham laundry pro
prietor, Judge McIntire of the pro
bate court, East Cambridge, has de
creed that she be granted widow.
allowance in anticipation of her in
terest III her husbands estate
$2501. When Mrs. Glover receives thi
amount it will be the first paid he
from her husbands estate since hi
mysterious death. Nov 20, 1909, de
spite the fact that Glover left an es
tate valued at nearly $4,000. Nor
than 900 of the estate has alread.
been eaten up in counsels fees as tn
result of two trials of the will case
and the preparation for third trial
which was finally averted A hearint
before Judge McIntire on the widow
petition for allowance was hefd, Jan
IL. Seymour Glover, who is chief bene
fieiary by the will, and Attorney S
ID. Gilmore, executor. objected to tn
allowance being made until after TIN
ownership of the laundry business
which Mrs. Glover contends is hers
and not part of the estate, is set
tied.
That the springtime awakening o.
the earth and all living beings SO Ions
sung by the poets and Chronicled By
the marriage clerks is actually due t
mierobe is the thesis upheld by Prof
MuntZ, Of the French Academy o
Sciences at Paris. The old theory tina
the increased warmth of the SUM-
rays worked the miracle is no longe
tenable, if the eminent investigator
opinion is to be believed. After re-
searches extending over a period OF
years, Professor Muntz asserts that
| the nhnnnD1nna nj or lrn
direct result of violent bacterial ac.
tivity in the soil, not due to the sun
| but to a law of periodicity inherent il
! the microbes themselves. This activity
| highly multiplies the nitrogen in tht
| soil, which, in turn, makes. seed germ.
mate and vegetation grow
Three big Canadian timber wolves
very gaunt and making no secret o.
| their hunger. We're tossed up on tbs
| beach at Barcelona Harbor, neal
| Westfield, n. V, Thursday, after 6
| trip across Lake Erie on the driftine
| ice foes TheX We're the first wolve.
seen in that section in many years
! Whether the animals or the house.
! holds in the neighborhood We're the
more scared is q question but the
wolves got the jump on the populace
and after raiding several chicken
coops found refuge in the woods
Farmers got their small stock under
shelter and then organized a wolf
hunt which brought them nothing
The wolves We're at the point OF drop
ping when they landed, but perked
up. They passed the High school but
did not attempt to harm any one.