Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-24
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

An elderly woman. Mrs. Mary G.
Tinson of Boston, fell between an in
coming train and the platform at As
nieres, near Paris, France, Monday,
and was crushed to death. Mrs. Tin
son had resided near Paris for Is
years. Her son is in business there.
Frank Osborn. Il prominent mer-
chant Of Jackson, Ky, was shot and
Killed there, Monday night, while II.
his store. Dexter and John Howard,
brothers. We're arrested in connection
with the crime. No cause for the
shooting is known by the police.
A writ of habeas corpus asked by at
torneys for Carl Riedelbach, the human
bomb who threatened several weeks
ago to blow up the police station at Los
Angeles, was denied, Monday. by Judge
Willis. The dynamiter was remanded to
Jail until his trial, Dee. 80.
Tie Union Pacific Railway, Monday,
at Omaha. Neb., made application to
the department OF commerce and labor
at WASHINGTON for a license to operate
and maintain wireless telegraph sys-
TEN along its lines. The company
wishes to install a technical expert
ment station and the government is
requested to give permission Tor such
a station.
Two thousand members of the Mass
achusetts militia are expected to par
ticipate in the inaugural parade at
Washington, March 4. Tive regiments
of infantry-the 5th and Sth-a regi-
ment of Coast Artillery reserves, the
2nd Corps of Cadets and Troop D of
the list Squadron of Cavalry, have
made preparations for the trip. The
expense will be borne by the officers
and men.
Cart Sprague and the crew of the
American schooner Henry r. Tilton are
safe in port at Lunenburg, \. 5. They
arrived Monday night, on the schoon-
er W. NJ. Zwicker, which picked them
up, lest Friday night, after their YES
sci had become waterlogged in a
heavy blow. The crew of the Tilton
had been dashed to the masts for
many hours when the Zwicker bound
from City Island, n. Y, for Lunenburg
came to the rescue.
Several troops of Boy Scouts were
requsiti6ned, Monday, by friends of Is
year-old George Young, missing three
days. to begin a search for him among
woods and cliffs near Yonkers, \. Y The
boy, scout and student of Riverview
Academy, Poughkeepsie, went there, last
week, to be a guest of a relative over the
Christmas holidays. Saturday, he Went
for a walk and did not return. Young is
the adopted son of an aunt Mrs. Mary
Young of South HadIey, Mass. His moth
er lives in Minneapolis.
A coroner's jury at Chicago Monday,
returned a verdict declaring that
Frank Raude, a wealthy contractor,
who died at mis- home, last Friday,
several days after making a Will lcaV-
ing all his property to his wife, was
the victim of a murder plot. Physi-
clans who analysed Raudas viscera
testified that they found a large guam
tity of poison III the organs. The jury
die not name anyone as being respon-
siblc for Raudes death. What elton
will he taken in the case if any. has
not been decided by Coroner Hoffman.
l.. T. ward former preacher and
cashier Of the suspended bank of
Collierville, Tenn, was taken from a
hospital, at Memphis, where he was
a patient, to the county Jail, late Mon
day, charged with larceny and en-
bezzlement of $4,000 of the banks
funds. An indictment against him was
returned, several days ago, but be
cause of his illness he was not arrest
ed until Monday. Wards condition
was attributed to nervous collapse.
Bond was fixed at $4,000, but has not
been obtained The bank of Collier
vile closed its doors, several months
ago An Indictment charging that he
accepted deposits at a time he knew
the bank to be insolvent is also pend
ing against Ward.
Edouard T. Mills, the Englishman con-
victed in London of libelling King George
V and sentenced to serve a year in pGis-
on, was ordered deported from New YORK,
Monday, by the commissioner of immi-
grafton at Ellis Island Milius was held
TO be an undesirable alien and will be re-
turned on the vessel which brought him.
Milus published a sensational story to
the effect that the English sovereign had
contracted a morganatic marriage in
Malta in 1880 The story was disproved
in an action for libel brought against
him by the solicitor general of England.
lie was sentenced to year imprison-
ment his term expiring Dec. Z, 1911.
Two schooners which We're bound for
Halifax, \. s, from st Johns, \, T.,
were sunk during last weeks storms. In
neither case, however. was there any loss
of life. The schooner Minnie Pearl foun-
dered in the Gulf of st. Lawrence after
her crew had been taken off by steam
err They were landed safely at Tolem-
way, y. f. The Minnie Pearl was q
schooner of 81 tons and carried a cargo
of fish valued at $4,000 > The schooner
Tasmania, also with a cargo of fish, was
wrecked on the New Foundland coast
Her crew made their way to safety by
boats. The Tasmania, which registered
100 tons, is total loss.