Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

One business block of Mnocqua, Wis,
was practically destroyed by fire, Friday,
the loss being estimated at about $4,000
Lakeside Hotel, the largest in the town,
was among the buildings destroyed. No
one was hurt.
Delegates to the 18th international con-
gress of navigation at Pittsburg wero
the guests, Friday, of the city of Pitts
burg and were,taken by special train and
steamboats, on a visit TO some of the
more important steel plants of the dis
triet. They We're entertained at an in
formal smoker and musicale, in the eve
ming.
Two of the weaithiest women IN
New York City, Mrs. Russell Sage and
Mrs. E. II. Hartman contributed. Fri
Cay. TO Mayor Gaynor's relief fund
for the Southern flood sufferers. Mrs.
Sage sent a check for $4,000 and Mrs.
Hartman gave $1,000. The amount
thus far received by the committee in
charge totals S1S,776.
Moses A. Little, aged IS. committed
by hanging at his home on Beacon
street, Amesbury, Mass, Friday He
had been respondent since the death
of his wife a few months ago He
was a life long resident of the town
and formerly was engaged in the shoe
business. Two daughters and son
survive.
Eugent Baxter. Tom White and
Steve Johnson. all Negroes. were hang
ed at st. Augustine. Fla, Friday morn
ing, from the same scaffold. Baxter
and White We're convicted of the muir
der of Simon Silverstein, a Jackson
fessed to the murder of another Negro
in st, Johns county.
Rudolph Katz, Socialist candidate
for Congress from the 18th New Jer-
sey district and an organizer of In
dustrial Workers of the World, was
arrested and sentenced, Friday at
Paterson, y. j., to serve six months
in the county Jail for interfering with
employees of a silk mill. Katz an
nounced that he would appeal so that
he could continue his campaign
Clark A. Miller and Alfred II. Motley
formerly of New York, We're discharged
because of lack of evidence against then
when they were arraigned in court, Fri
complainants are officers of the United
States Lithographing Co. of New Yorl
and Cincinnati, who charged that 18th
ographing process for which they pait
the defendants sl0O,ee9 did not prove t
be as represented.
one man was killed and IA person:
were seriously injured early, Friday
when a sightseeing automobile skiddee
and turned turtle ON the Hoffman
boulevard in the borough of Queens
New York The dead man was JOIN
EaGan of New York The party wa:
returning from Rockaway Beach. Theil
car was so badly wrecked that 1t wa'
left in the roadway. The injured, wht
were taken to hospitals in Jamaica, in
cluded six men and eight young wo
men.
DR.. ID. F. Dumar former mayor o
Cass Lake, Mimi. who, it was ehars
ed, planned the blowing up of tn
post office safe at Puposky, Mich.
the night of June 16, 1911, and aide'
criminals in the act, is guilty of at
tempted arson in the third degree AM
his conviction in the district court o
Beltrami county was warranted. tn
penalty is imprisonment not TO eXcee'
IL years. This is the decision o
the state supreme court handed down
Friday.
Mrs. Mary Dubal of Binghamton, \
| Y, Is believed to be the nrst Suffragis
| in the United States to be given pen
| itentiary sentence for husband beatins
She was arrested on warrant obtaine
| by Mr. Dubal. who complained that In
| lit of rage she gave him sound beatns
| City Judge Hotchkiss found her guilt
| and declared that If women desired men
prerogatives they should also have men
| punishment when found guilty of viola
ton of law. He always dealt seyerel