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

Fifteen fishing boats have been los,
IN a storm on the Caspian sea. Forty
fishermen are missing.
Her mind affected as a result of the
Illness from which she suffered. Mrs.
Lottie NJ Hadley, aged g., af 80 Church
street, South End, Boston. jumped
from third story window in her home.
Saturday morning. dying almost imme-
diataly.
The Portuguese government has au-
thorized the American and British
Protestant missionaries to undertake
the teaching of native Portuguese on
account of the withdrawal of the Cath
Ollie missions as the result of the sep
aration of the church and state.
Another American bride entered the
ranks of the British nobility in Lon
don, Saturday, by the marriage of
Margaret Eleanor Crosby, daughter of
the late Ernest Howard Crosby, to
Lieut.. William Charles Arcedeekne
Vanneck of the 18th Hussars, at St
Georges church, Hanover square.
The schooner l.. Herbert Taft, which
went aground on Romer Shoals. off
Sandy Hook, New York. several days
ago. was abandoned. Saturday after
noon. and probably viii be a total
loss. The wrecked vessel was laden
with 1000 barrels of cement. The II
men of her crew were all taken off
by tug.
Walter Middlebook, n freight con-
ductor employed in the East Deer
field, Mass, railroad yard. was caught
between two cars, Saturday morning,
and received such injuries that his
left leg had to be amputated at the
Franklin County hospital. He has a
family and resides on the Montague
City road.
The Sultan's numerous wives are
doing useful work by tending the sick
and wounded in the Lazarettos, at
Constantinople. now established in all
public buildings, palaces and churches.
They are under the direction of the
Sultans chief wife, and the Kadyns
as well as the Odaliks work heroical
ly as nurses of the red crescent.
Mrs. Karl Hillson of Worcester.
Mass rescued from drowning, Sat
urday evening, her Swear old son Roy.
who had broken through a spring hole
in the ice in a pond near his homa.
She had been in town shopping and
returned past the pond laden with
Christmas presents for her son. The
yells Of other children on the ice at
tracted her attention.
John Fielder, a Negro living near
Norway, s. c., was taken from the
guard house at Norway, Saturday
nigh. and carried three miles into the
country and shot To death. The au-
thorities at Norway say the cannot
determine the motive for the lynch
ing. The Negro was arrested charged
with obtaining money under false pre-
lenses.
Fer the first time since she was four
years old. Miss Lillian Patrick and her
father. Albert r. Patrick. recently par
doned by Gov. Dix of New York, met,
Sunday, in st. Louis The daughter.
now 16 years old, arrived from Den
yer, with Patrick's mother. Mrs. Ed
ward T. Patrick. They are at tile home
of John T. Miliiken, Patrick's brother
in-lew Patrick's plans for, the near
future are still uniformed. he said.
A iifeboat from the missing steamer
Morien drifted ashore, Saturday, near
Placcntia, n. F.. slightly damaged
and bearing evidence of having
been launched from the deck The
Morien has not been reported since she
left Lousburg, c. B., for Placentia,
month ago. 1t is supposed that she
struck a reef and that the crew took
to the boats, all hands perishing. 1t is
not known how many men she carried.
The Morien was built in 1909 and was
of S32 tons burden.
Professor James Israel of Berlin,
the noted Berlin surgeon, denied. Sat
urday, that he had performed an OPP
Grafton on the young son of the EN-
peror of Russia. A story that Pro-
fessor Israel had journeyed to ST.
Petersburg and performed a delicate
surgical operation on the heir appar
ent to the Russian throne, receiving as
compensation $4,000 and the Royal
promise of better conditions for Jews
in odessa and KEY was telegraphed
from Berlin, Friday, and published in
the United States.
Lena McRae, alias Gladys Gay, 90
years old, of New Bedford, who it is
alleged made her escape from arrest,
Dec. 6, by jumping from a window,
pleaded not guilty to larceny before
Judge Gorham in district court of
Providence, Saturday. She was held
for trial. 1t is charged she took $35 from
Elman jeanette on San Souci street
on the night of Dec. 6, when she leap
ed to the street from the second story.
She was arrested outside the court
house at Fall River, Friday, where
she had just been. acquitted of the
charge of stealing $s4 from Antoine l..
Mello.
The starboard shaft of the steamer
Priscilla, IL side wheeler, o fthe Fall
River Line, bound from New York to
Fall River with 500 passengers for
Boston and other New England points
broke, Sunday night, when the steamer
was in the Sound, two hours after she
left her pier at New York. The Priscil-
la returned TO her pier and a mapjor-
ity of the passengers left for Boston
on special train from the Grand Cen
trail station. The others will leave,
Monday. on the steamer Providence
The cause of the breaking of the SHAFT
was not determined. The Priscilla car
ried a large cargo.