Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


yacht Mayf1ower caused great excite
ment at the Washington navy yard,
Monday. but was extinguished before
serious damage was DONE The city
fire department was summoned.
Three children are missing and are
believed to have been burned to death
in a fire which. early Tuesday. de-
stroyed the colored orphans home at
Lexington, KY. Thirty other children
were rescued.
The three French ministers of the
Borden cabinet at Montreal. Messrs.
Monk, Pelletier and Mattel are con-
sidering resigning from the govern
ment, according to lie Devoir, organ
of the French Nationalists. Their
grievance is the English opposition to
the recognition of the Catholic sep
arate schools in adding Keewatin to
Manitoba.
The first clash of cats and rats at
the City farm at Brockton took place.
Monday, resulting in a complete rout
of the rats Supt. William T. Brown
sent out an attacking force of 70 cats
into thiclSet and inside of an hour
the battle was over. The cats We're
dumped at the farm from all parts
of the county, the superintendent hay-
ing sent out a general call.
Lonard C. Calkins was instantly
killed at the corner of Madison and
Green streets. Maiden, Monday, when
the wheels of a wagon from which he
was thrown passed over his neck. Cal
kins was sc years old and lived at AZ
Lawrence street He was driving one
of the Locke Coal Cos. two-horse
wagons when he attempted to turn the
corner of Green street The front
wheel struck the curbing, throwing
him to the ground, and before the
animals could be stopped the front and
back wheels had passed over him. His
neck was broken.
Mrs. Helen Motsick of Shenandoah,
who stabbed her husband to death
year ago. when he pointed a revolver
at her. has become insane, declaring
that she is haunted by the spirit of the
man whose life she took. and by order
of the court she was, Monday, remov-
ed from Jail at Pottsyille Pa, to the
county asylum. Because of her plea of
self-protection, jury acquitted Mrs.
Motsick of murder, but she afterward
acted 80 strangely that she was sent
to jail for year as a common nuis-
ance. She has lately become so violent
that she could no longer be handled in
Jail.
Two freight trains and fast pas
senger train We're involved in double
wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad,
near UnioGvile, 20 miles northwest Of
Columbus. iionday, and although the
engine and two coaches of the passen-
ger train ran into a ditch none of the
passengers was injured beyond Il
shaking UP. The two freight trains
We're easthound wren the rear train
ran into the train ahead Wreckage
was strewn along the westbound
tracks. and il was into this debris
that the passenger train, No 81, west
bound, rsn, deraillng the engine and
two coaches.
State Attorney ". j Meagher Of Ben
nington county. Bennington. Vt, is en-
deavoring to find tie owner Of an Eng
lish jet and gold necklace and pair Of
bracelets which he has reason TO belleYs
were stolen in the town of Fryeburg
Me, last October The three pieces Of
jewelry We're being worn when they
came into possession of the state attor-
ney by a 12-year-oid girl Bessie Shaw
who was taken, saturday morning. 40
the State Industrial school at Vergenncs
to serye a nine-years sentence The
girls parents finally confessed that they
had stolen the set from a house in Fry
burg while travelling through that town.
last fail. The necklace, Judging from
the desiea. is more than 100 years old.
srhree New York policemen are wit
nesses 10 the accuracy Of the announce
inent that real Arctic seal has adopt
ed the Hudson river as his abode TIE
unusual visitor was seen swimming up
the river off Riverside drive, Sunday
evening. He was then only a few feet
from the pier line on the New York
shore. The tide was running out at four
10 I'VE miles an hour at the time. The
seal swan strongly against the current,
with the whole of it's head and two or
three inches of its meek out Of water
Judging from the size of the head the
stranger was nearly five feet long Seals
have occasionally been seen in the Hud-
son in very cold winters. 1t is supposed
they are carried down on bergs or fol-
low cold current until they get lost.