Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-10
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

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Armed with q heavy bar with which
he felled prisoners right and left, Her.
bert Mowery, 35 years old ran amuck
in the outside corridor of the city pris-
on at Lima, Ohio, Monday, and after
injuring q dozen or more prisoners and
Workhouse Supt w. H. Workman,
jumped from the second story window
of the Jail and fled. Police later cap
tured linn after he had terrorized pc
destrians on the public square. Three
of the prisoners and Supt Workman
arc in a serious condition Mowery
had been confined to the prison for, a
week suffering from what the physi-
clans said was delirium tremens.
Fifty men were thrown from their
beds at Chicago early, Monday morn
ing. When a bomb was exploded in the
doorway of the meat market of Mich
olas Cardoeno in the west side italian
quarter. The men We're in a lodging
house in the upper stories of the build
ing. Three stores adjoining were dam
aged and a thousand windows over Il
radius of a half mile We're broken. The
damage was estimated at 5000. Car
deeno told the police that he had re-
ceived threatening letters one arrest
was made.
George II. Rounds, fer FIVE years
head hoelSkecper ut a Boston hotel,
was. held in $4,000 bail for hear
ing. next Monday. when he appeared
in the municipal court, Monday, on a
charge of forgery. He was arrested,
last Saturday, for the alleged larceny
of $31, 900. According to the police,
Rounds has confessed and has turned
over to the hotel proprietors securi-
ties amounting to $4,000.
Tenement property situated near the
waterfront in the vicinity of Pardee &
Young's coal yard. Fall River, Mass.
was fer time threatened by fire.
which, Monday morning, destroyed
that companys hosting apparatus
with q loss of about S12 900. A high
wind famed the flames and carried
burning embers to the roofs OF nearby
houses and fires broke out on the
roofs of more than a dozen houses.
The fire broke out shortly before IL
o'clock snd a still alarm was quickly
followed by two bell alarms The big
coal hosting tower could not be saved
and the firemen turned their attention
to preventing the spread of the flames
and in this they were successful. The
fire loss is covered by insurance.
The body of an unknown man.
about 30 years old. was found beside
the New Haven tracks above the
Lonsdale station, Pawtucket, r. l.,
Monday morning. The body was well
dressed and had no identification
marks on it save the hat, in which
was the name of "McCaffrey," of Low
ell, Mass. Appearances indicated that
the man had fallen from Il train. A
local undertaken at Valley Falls later
took charge of the body.
General Gates p Thurston, author
and soldier, died at his home in Nash
vile, Tenn, Saturday night, of pneu-
mcnia. General Thurston entered the
war as captain of the 1st Ohio Infan-
try, in 1861, and at the close of the
war had attained the rank of brevet
brigadier general, II. S. A. He was the
author of antiquities of Tennessee
and Adjacent States and other
works. He was elected president of
The Society of the Army of the Cum
berland, in 1906. He settled in Nash
vile at the close of the Civil War
and for nearly 40 years took a lead
ing part in the affairs of the state.
Damage of $4,000 was caused by a
fire which started in a saloon in a
5-story building at S66 Atlantic ave
nue., Boston. early Monday, and
threatened to sweep the Foster wharf
district. high wind and freezing
temperature added to the difficulties
of the firemen. who Were forced to
flee from blazing ladders. The fire had
gained considerable Roadway when
discovered and spread rapidly through
the building, Nearly all the down
town fire apparatus was summoned
and the blaze was confined to the
structure where it originated.