Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| Town OF san Mafc1al, slaughtered many
/ of the inhabitants and carried Off sew
eral girls to the mountains. The Yaquis
are reported to be well armed and well
| organized
1T was announced in Lexington, KY,
| Saturday, that Fitzpatrick, 2.15, a trot-
| ter, has been purchased from his own
+, er, w. +. d. Stokes by DIR. A. MorosoG
OF ST. Petersburg. Fitzpatrick Is by Pc
! ter the Great, and will be shipped to
J Russia for racing purposes Immediate
ly. Tile price is said to have been $12,-
600.
According to well-informed circles. the
Bavarian government at Munich has
abandoned the proposed amendment to
the constitution by the terms of which
the regency would be abolished and
Prince Ludwig, the new regent of Bava-
ria, would receive the title of King. The
Clerical party strongly objected to the
amendment.
The torpedo boat destroyer BaIch was
launched, Saturday, from the Cramp
shipyard at Philadelphia. Miss Grace
Balch of Washington, a descendant of
Commodore Baleh of the United States
navy christened the vessel. The de-
stroyer is a sister ship to the Aylwin,
launched a month ago. The vessel is 800
feet long, 81 feet beam, and the contract
calls for a speed OF 80 knots an hour.
| A film caught fire during a moving pic
ture show performance, Sunday night, at
Barrques near Menin, Belgium The
flames spread with great rapidity, caus-
! ing a dreadful panic. The total number
of killed was IL, while 20 persons were
injured. Many of the victims were wo-
men and children, who were trampled to
death and hurt in the wild stampede to
escape from the building.
| Allan Arthur Ryan, the eldest son of
Thomas Fortune Ryan, the fnancier, who
was operated on recently in the General
| hospital at New York for abdominal
| trouble, is in a very serious condition in
J that institution, according to a bulletin
issued, Sunday night. His condition be-
came so grave during the later after
noon and the early part of the evening
that members of his immediate family,
including his father, mother and brother
Glendenning and his wife, remained at
his bedside.
Two of a merry party of three little
Hatfield boys, who started about Z o clock
Saturday morning to get a Christmas
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Mill river, Northampton. The boys were
Richard Burke. aged 8; Joseph Pianka,
aged g. and Edward Burke Jr., aged Z
years. They stopped on the edge of the
river and skated on the ice. which was
thin, and all three broke through at once
Edward Burke tried to rescue Joseph
Pianka and had it not been for this he
i might have saved himself
| While working on pole at the corner
| of Shirley and Ocean avenues, 4.evere
Beach, about Saturday afternoon, An
drew Melanson of Gloucester. a rlineman
employed by the Suburban Gas & Electric
Light Co.. grasped a live wire with botn
hands. He was unable toilet go, nor
could he be released until the current had
been turned off at the central station. In
spite of the fact that there We're 1900
volts of electricity in the wire. Mefanson
escaped with nothing more than serious
and painful burns upon his hands
The taking of testimony at the trial
or Eben b. Owens, former evange-
list, VINO is charged with attempting
TO OBTAIN $4,000 by extortion from Mrs
Eva Il. Carroll of New York. was con-
slfded, Saturday afternoon, and the
case viii go TO the jury. Monday.
owens, testifying in his own behalf.
admitted that he had caused Mrs.
earrelfs mud, Viola Dawson, to make
an AFFIDAVIT assailing the characters of
Mrs. Carroll and her daughter 1t was
for the suppression of this affidavit.
the state charges that he demanded
$4,000.
Auto bandits attacked two pay
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America on the lower West Side. New
York, Saturday, beat them into I'M
ecn""'nnsness and robbed them of the
weekly payroll of $1,000 1t was one of
TIE most daring robberies in New
York City since the $4,000 taxicab
robbery in the financial district. last
spring. The robbers, Saturday. sprang
out from behind an elevated railway
pillar and attacked the two paymas-
| tiers as they We're walking from a
| bank to the offices of their company.
After getting the money they jumped
! into shigh-powered automobile and
escaped see Nea
Thirty young men from China, who
are pursuing their studies in a dozen
or more colleges and academies in
this country, began. Sunday, in Web
the Christmas holiday at the country
home of Mrs. Mabel HUT Slater of
Boston. The invitation for the gath
ering was extended the Chinese stu
dents that they might be together
through the Holiday season. The Sla-
ter mansion has been turned into a
bachelors hall and furnished with
pianos and graphophones and facin-
ties for entertaining. in which Webster
churches will assist.
a great sensation has been caused
in academic circles in Paris by the
death from morphine poisoning of
Rene Richet one of the most bril-
liant graduates from the higher Nor
NAL school, who recently was appoint
ed professor of French in the Royal
College at Buda Pest. The police say
that a college friend, who was a vic
tim of the morphine habit, induced
Bichet to try the effects of the drug
and gave him a hypodermic injection,
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