Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-26
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the outlet of Sabbattis lake, Taunton,
Mass, Sunday, and although COM
panions pulled him out before he went
down for the last time the shock kill
ed him.
Prof. Charles Robert Sanger. Phi. D..
professor of chemistry and director Of
the chemical laboratory at Harvard Uni
versity for the past nine years. died. Sun
| day, at his home in Cambridge, Mass,
| following a nervous breakdown of sew
eraI weeks ago. Prof. Sanger was born
| in Boston, Aug. 81, 1860. Two daughters
survive. s4JN
| John Zammatis was instantly killed,
| Saturday, in Deans lumber camp at
| Canaan, n. f., by being struck by a
| falling tree. He came from Russia and
has no relatives in this country Bur-
ial will be in Orange cemetery This
is the first serious accident at this
camp since business started, Is years
| ago.
| Six thousand dollars was cabled to
the Shanghai relief committee, Sat
| urday, by the American National Red
Cross Society, at Washington, to be
used in the relief of the Chinese fam
| inc sufferers. Five thousand of this
came from the New York Red Cross
| Society. This makes a total of SGT 900
sent to China by the society, since
| Jan. 1.
| Miss Hazel Hotchkiss, woman ten
mis- champion Of the United States,
was married. late Saturday, at Berke-
| ley, Cal. to George William Wight
| man, son of a capitalist of Breokline,
| Mass Miss Hotchkiss met Wightman,
| last summer. on the courts of the
| Longwood Club in Boston.
| Jordan Judson Rollins, prominent
lawyer of New York City, whose for
mer home was in Portland, Me-, died.
Sunday, in New York, of poisoning fol-
flowing an acute attack of quincy He
was ppresident of the Dartmouth
Alumni Association of New York ana
Imember of many prominent clubs.
| William Bowler, 80 years old, OF
Somerville, Mass. committed suicide,
Sunday by jumping in front of train
at the Essex Street station of the
! Washington street tunnel Boston The
fonly other person in the station at the
time was the ticket agent, who said
Bowler waited quietly for the north
bound train and as the first car APP
preached him made flying leap head
foremost in the path of the train.
Bowler was decapitated and his BODY
rolled along for so feet The dead man
was bicycle dealer and repairer. with
a shop in Somerville
Continuation of the epidemic of rob-
berries and holdups in New York City
was accompanied by reports, Sunday,
! that Deputy Police Commissioner
Dougherty's detectives had closed a
| net around the perpetrators of the SEN
| sational theft of $4,000 from bank
messengers in a taxieab and that ar
rests would be made in As hours Three
! more holdups occurred, Sunday, the
| victims in all instances being black
| lacked.
In double shooting in a Seventh
avenue building, New York, Sunday
| night, Mrs. Refine WE'LL, comely wo-
man of middle age, was killed by a
man who Immediately afterward kill
ed himself Mathilde Maupaume Mrs
WELLS French maid, told the police
| that her mistress had been in this
| country about two years and that she
had husband in Paris, to whom she
| was planning to return soon. The maid
believed the woman's determination
to return to Paris and her husband,
prompted the murder and suicide.
The Polish weavers and loomfixers of
| New Bedford. Mass, affiliated with the
| I. w. w. voted to strike at the Beacon
and Grinnell mills, Monday morning A
| request for a 10 per cent. advance in
wages has been refused. At a meeting
! of the Portuguese branch of the T. W. w
/ of New bedford. Sunday, 300 operatives
expressed their willingness to strike in
q
| so requested.
| Hugh Kenny. 2 years old, caught by
the neck between the edge of an open
packing case and a wall toward which
| it had tipped, was strangled to death.
| Saturday, in a loft in the rear of the
, home of his parents No. 1901 Dean
street. Brooklyn. 1t is assumed the child
was trying to get off the case and that
his weight caused it to tip over, pinning
him by the neck. Sc
The interior department at Wash
ington announced, Saturday, that ar
| rangements have been concluded with
the Geological Garden of Boston by
which family of grizzly bears Will
| be furnished from Yellowstone Park.
| Bears have been increasing in the yell
| lowstone, where it is fodbidden to
! SHOOT lHtil, Dul the government Is
glad to supply captives to cities that
| viii assume the cost of capture and
| of transportation. During the past
! summer grizzlies have been thus sup
piled to zoo parks at Philadelphia,
Toronto and Kansas City. The ship
n1ents in each instance went forward
! without accident and were reported as
| entirely satisfactory.
An epidemic of duelling has broken
out In Paris and several encounters
occur almost every day. A particular
ly violent conflict occurred, Saturday,
! between Leon Daudet. editor OF the
/ Royalist Action Franchise, and Pierre
Mortier, another writer, as result OF
| Royalist polemics. NJ. Mortier was Sc
verelv wounded in the thigh. The duel
lasted only 40 seconds. Another Jour-
nalistic duel, this time with pistols,
was also fought, Saturday, Marcel
Roulanger and Nj. Marmottan being
the conbatants. The result was incon-