Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-16

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For the loss of eight teeth. Axe
Homestead, an insurance man, was
awarded a $4,000 verdict against the
BROOKLYN Heights Railroad Co. by a
jury Thursday. at Long Island City
n y He was about to board one OF
the defendants cars when he was
struck by a ear going in the oppo-
site direction.
John j. Ford aged 4, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jere Ford Of Il Otis street
Brockton. fell from the Otis street
bridge over Salisbury river. late
Thursday afternoon. and was drown
ed Police Inspectors Grace. Groce
MoreY. Saunders, Long and Allen
grappled for the body until 10 &c
o'clock, that evening but failed to To-
cate it, The search was continued
more than half a mile below the point
where the boy fell off the bridge
Quieksand engulfed Charles Jewell
foreman in the United States Metal
Refining Co, in an excavation in
Roosevelt, y. J., Thursday and be-
fore he could be dug out of the tons
of dry sand and earth that had fallen
in on him, he died. He had been di-
recting the Italian workmen digging
pits near the refinery, and had sent
his men to another hole as he tested
one several feet in depth they already
had dug.
All records for 30 years were broken
in the Louisville leaf tobacco market.
Thursday, when one hogshead of bur
ley brought $40 hundred pounds and
another $44. Competition among buy
ers for several firms, which were rep
resented by one buyer prior to the SUI
preme court decision dissolving the
so-ealled Tobacco Trust, brought
about lively bidding and resulted in
the high prices
James Kerr, who held the record
for long service in the United States
Postal department, died at Paines-
vile, Ohio, Thursday On Washing
tons birthday he resigned from the
Chicago postofice. having completed
62 years of service, and returned to
gainesville to die at the old home
where he was born, 81 years ago. 1t
is said that Kerr never missed a day
was never late to work, and had never
been reprimanded.
John Hunker fireman. was killed
and William l.. Love was fatally
crushed, Thursday. when the high
tower Of the Butler county court house
at Hamilton. O.. in which they We're
fighting fire, toppled inward, burying
them. Although the fire was kept to
the two UPPER floors, the court house
was so badly damaged that it was
said it would be impossible to rebuild
il. The loss is estimated at $780, 900.
Ambrose Van Buskirk and Edward
Russell two of the four prisoners in
the insane department of the Bridge
water State Farm, who escaped while
in the yard, Tuesday. We're found hid
ing in the woods in Halifax. Mass.
Thursday, by a party of searchers
headed by Sheriff Grover. The men
offered no resistance, and We're taken
back to the institution The two 9TH
ers were found a few hours after they
escaped
Representatives of the 159 lodges of tho
Modern Woodmen of America in Kansa:
decided at meeting in Kansas City
Kan, Thursday. to secede from the pa
rent organization and to form an indie
pendent order. The recent increase in in
surance rates by the parent body was tn.
cause. An executive committee compos
ed of one member from each congress.
sional district will formulate the plan
for the new organization.
Bartoni Daniel of South Street court
Springfield, was arrested, Thursday eve
ming, on a technical charge of keeping
song birds in captivity, the cause of the
arrest, however. being claim made by
Dexter a. Atkins, agent for the Massa-
chusetts Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals. that Daniel blinded
song birds to make them sing more bril-
liantly. Daniels house was found Il
contain several birds which had been ar
tficially blinded, it is claimed
George Barber. Jr., a prisoner in
the Sussex county Jail at Georgetown,
Del. on capital charge of assault
ing Julia Z. Landlord. young girl,
AMI held without bail, escaped.
"Wednesday night. He broke Jail ex-
pressly to see his mother, who is i'll,
and travelled rs miles to Blades. Md.
"A posse was sent to the Barber home
and the prisoner was re-captured.
Thursday, as he was leaving his moth
e,'s bedroom. He surrendered quiet
" Il am ready to go back he said
Il only wanted to see mother" He
will soon be tried for his life if an
indictment is found against him.
To distribute his property valued at
$4,000, 600 among eight children, j. A.
Lander of Yoakum, Tex, arranged q
lottery with numbered tickets and
each ticket corresponding to the mum
Der of some part of the estate The
tickets were drawn from a hat by the
children.s They took turns drawing,
and there being no blanks every
drawing represented a winning. Thu
members of the family agreed to the
scheme, and the luckiest numbers drew
the best of the property. Mr.. Lander
is hale and hearty at 81 years of age,
and the drawing took place on his
birthday anniversary. He has been &
resident of Texas for so years and
accumulated his fortune in land and
cattle
Anthony NJ. Freitas, proprietor of a
furniture store at 494 Broadway,
Everett. Mass, was arraigned before
Judge Charles NJ. Bruce in the Maiden
district court, Thursday, ON charge OF
ATTEMPTED arson n wac a1IaoaI "a