Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-13
i Roanoke uasdeelas,ea his belief

from Roanoke Hdsneclassed his belief
that Sidna Allen, leaelcr OF tie outlaws.
| has escaped from the detectives in the
mountains.
W. \. Lathtep, president Of the lie
high Coal and Navigation Co, died
az u hospital at WiIkesbarre Pa.
early Friday, following an operation
for appendicitis. lie was 81 years
ole
The crew Of the British steamship
lInelya, From ffue1ta spain. mutinied.
Thursday, in Perth Amboy, and for a
tine it looked as though there would be
serious trouble. but Captain Allen rail-
lied his officers around him ana with
the display Of firearms SUCCEEDED hi
dIicting The mutineefs several OF the
crew sought STORE leave ard when Dis
appointed became disgruntleo
After Matching spring chickens from
his incubator, Aietl McNeat of eiranam,
Mo, conceived the idea OF Matching
grasahoppcrs to feed the chickens. He
took few shoveifiis Of grouud III q
place where he believed grasshoppeFs
had deposited eggs. The scheme worked.
The warmth Of the incubator caused the
es-ss to hatch and i'll a few days nc had
q swarm Of young grasshoppers
John Adams. of Oftumwa. lows. en-
giner WAS buried under his engine III
. feet Of water i'll Cones lake, near
Muacttine, Iowa, Thursday, and his
fireman. John Moriarty, was injured
fatally. \ Chicago. Milwaukee 4 st.
Pau switch engine was sent over ii
fridge 10 test IL. When near the mid
die the timbcrs gave way. carrying
down the engine and its. crew. Moriarty
tried ID jump IS the locomotive Went
through the bridge and his right leg
vas cut off.
Miss Dorothy =. Durflee of No. 10
Perkins street, Worcester. Mass, q
student IL the Normal School. lad for
day at least. a diamond studded sole
10 ene Of her shoes. Though she wore
the diamond for only enc day to her
fisneWledge. it is n real diamond, val
,uqa. at 500, and she is to wear il set
in q ring The bright stone was dis
tb5Tfod When Miss Durkee looked at
i'ef sho9s. saThafsday. to SEC whether
tteS sfIocaod repairing.
8 Harold. Cunning who say-ss he is
wanted in Montreal for burglary, is
locked up in police headquarters IN
today. Thursday morning. He says
that he and another man broke into a
store in ST. Catherine street, Mon
treal. and stole $1,000 worth OF fars
which they managed to bring 10 New
York and dispose of. He also claims
that he was convicted OF burglary in
1910 and sentenced TO the pehitcntlary.
He was released on ticket of leave and
I,.,S, /, .
the more recent burglary. The Nom
treal authorities have been notified.
A verdict fors s1e,0oo damages was
given, Thurstlay.-by a jury In the SUI
prcme court IN " hite Plains. y. VI
to William Bullock. Jr.. Ii years old.
Who. through his guardian. had sued
the New York Central Railroad Conn
pany for $50.0o0 for injuries suffered
Sept. q. 1910. Young Bullock. whose
home IS in Chappaqua. was riding az
bicycle along the approach to the rails
road station platform in that village,
when his wheel struck stone used to
block the wheels of baggage trucks.
The boy was thrown under the wheels
of a passing locomotive. His left arm
was so badly crushed that ii had to be
manipulated.
Three trainmen were injured, two
seriously in a head-on collision be-
tween an express train bound from
Montreal 10 Portland and a freight
train bound on the Grand Trunk Rail-
read near Wenlock, VT. early Friday.
No Messengers were hurt. The mail
and express cars of the passenger
train were demolished, together with
several freight cars. The injured: En-
gineer G. IL. Wheeler. express, OF
Portland, Me, legs broken and inter-
nal injuries probably fatal Brake
man Isaac Connolly OF the freight
North Stratford.e badly crushed; in
critical condition. Fireman Thos
Seymour If the express of Island
Pond; seriously hurt. M