Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-04

brothers We're born in Dudley Mass,
in 1851 Thirty years later Or. Frank
Burnett located in Pawtucket, while
his brother remained ii resident of
Massachusetts.
u. Salngo, a lower West Side, New
York, shoemaker, prosperous in small
way, paid with his life, early Sunday
what the police believe was his refusal
to meet the demands of Black Handlers
Hi scorpse was found in his little shop,
stretched out on the table at which he
had been working. y barber named John
Louissi was arrested later charged with
homicide.
The British steamer Bloemfontein
arrived, Sunday, from Calcutta, re-
ported steaning for four hours, Feb.
%, through a sea covered with float
ing lumber. The lumber was bound
in Lat. 1886 north. anud Long. 41.35
west. 1t is believed to be part of the
cargo of the ship Erne, which sailed
from Boston, Feb. /, and was disabled
and abandoned in a storm. The report
has been forwarded by wireless to
the derelict destroyer Seneca, which
has been cruising for several days in
search of the hulk.
$. Silverstein, a merchant, is dead.
his wife has fractured skull and
their two children, a boy and a girl
are badly injured as a result of an at
tack by Negro burglar, late Satur-
day night, at Jacksonville, Fla. The
dead body of the merchant and the
Frustrated forms of his wife and son
We're found, late Sunday morning, aft
er the little girl had ventured into
the street with blood gushing from her
head.
The President of Costa Rica, Ricar-
do Jiminiz, is very kindly disposed to-
wards the United States, but is not
impressed with the idea of a Central
American union. In an interview, Sun
day, at San Jose, Costa Rica, with
The Associated Press correspondent,
accompanying Sec. Knox on his South
ern tour, President Jlminiz said that
the visit of the American secretary of
state to Costa Rica was an act of
great courtesy by the American gov
eminent and he hoped that such visits
would be continued.
Regular service between Libau, Rus
STA and Canada by the Russian East
Asiatic Steamship Co. was established,
SUNDAY, by the arrival at Halifax OF
the steamer Lituania, with nearly
100 passengers. About a third of the
number disembarked at Halifax, 10
proceed by rail to Canadian points.
while 635 passengers remained aboard
the vessel which will proceed to New
York The Lituania and the Kursk
viii be used in the new service ana
fortnightly arrivals are expected there.
A military funeral for Lieut.. Com
mander Samuel b. Thomas, who died
at Los Angeles, Feb. 3, was held at
Trinity church. Newport. r. l., Sun
day, in the presence of officers from
the naval station and society people.
The interment was at Berkeley Memo
rial church yard. Middletown, where
the BODY of the lieutenant commander
was placed beside that of his father,
the late Rear Admiral Charles Nj,
Thomas.
John Fennelly, d New York subway
gaard. was arrested on a technical
charge OF homicide, Sunday night
after his 6-year-old child Kate had
been burned to death in fire which
burned out his apartment. The ponce
say that they were told by another
child that Fennelly threw burning
match upon an upholstered chair, art
er lighting his cigar and then threw
two pillows on the chair when IL
caught fire. Fennelly said in explana-
ton. the police say, that he threw the
pillows in order to smother the names.
Miss Ollie Cayce, 20 years of age, is
Of Jril1irer ia Their at HOD-
kinsville, Ky, Sunday. as the outcome
of a dinner table quarrel. The father,
Irving ]. Cayee, 50 years old, and
nrosnerous farmer. knocked the
daughter down and followed her when
she went to her room and attempted
10 strike her with a chair. She, 1T is
said. seized revolver frem her bu-
reau and fired twice. Both bullets en-
tered her fathers body. one passed
through the wrist of her brother, lrv-
ing Cayce, Jr.. who was seeklils ~
defend her. No arrests have been
made.
one woman was killed and score had
narrow escapes, Sunday, in hre which
partly destroyed four-story Madison
avenue, New York, residence Kept as
boarding house The woman who lost
her life was Mrs Ella White widow,
40 years old, secretary of the Dutch he
formed church on Madison avenue
whose body was discovered in her room
on the fourth floor. 1t is believed she
was asphyxiated by smoke before the
flames reached her. The house was
largely occupied by well-to-do women,
and they flocked to the front windows
screaming for help when they 1ound
themselves cut off from escape. Fortu-
nately the window lodges of the mouse
closely abutted those of adjoining resi-
dences and over these dozen WON N
were perilously but safely rescued bS