Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


Progressive leaders from all parts of
the United States will meet in New
York. Feb. Il. at a Lincoln dinner un-
der the auspices of the new National
Progressive Club of New York City.
Colonel Roosevelt will be the chief
speaker
Another French airman. Paul Aron-
Diet of Paris, was killed, Saturday, at
JuvisySur-Ore about % miles from
Paris. He was flying around the aero
drome liz his monoplane when he took
a turn sharply and the machine lost
it's equilibrium. causing him to fall $50
feet.
Stansilos Nemieh, a wood chopper,
was killed at Warner. y. H. Saturday,
by n large white oak tree, which
crashed down on him before he could
step from under, after cutting through
the trunk. Nemich was pinned to the
ground by the upper part of the trunk
ar1 the heavier branches. A fellow
workman pulled him from beneath the
tree. but he was so crushed that he
lived only a few minutes.
FIRE that threatened for a time, Sat
urday. the entire factory section OF
Hoboken, n. J., burned out the big
piano case factory of John Courtade
and damaged several smaller build
ings. causing loss estimated al 5000
600. Jersey City fremen were called to
assist IN lighting the flames and help
ed prevent their further spread. No one
was Injured.
Thomas O'Gorman of Sprasue street
West Springfield, who raised turkey
gobDler tos~sell to a local butcher foi
Thanksgiving, is rejoicing because i,
died cf strangulation before 1t was
time to market il. An autopsy performs
ed by the O'Gormans revealed the fact
that the bird. in foragine about q
neighbui $ ward. swallowed a $50 gold :
piece and choked to death.
Mrs. Joseph Hamilton and her -four
daughters narrowly escaped death in
Holbrook, Saturday afternoon, when a
tent which they We're occupying was
suddenly enveloped in flames started
by a cook stove. A baby a few months
old and a daughter about years old
who were in the rear of the tent asleep
had their hair burned from their heads.
Mrs. Hamilton barely had time to res
cue her children before the tent was a
mass OF flames.
The trial of Carl Riedelbach. who
Threatened to dynamite the police sta
tica at Los Angeles. and its occupants
was Set for Dec. by Judge Willis OF
the criminal department OF the supe-
rior court. Saturday. Riedelbach. who
previously had declared he was Ca
pable of conducting his own ease.
told Judge Willis, Saturday. that b5
had neither an attorney nor the mon
ey to employ one. so the court APP
pointed enc to defend him.
Louise .Alves. aged 10, laborer in tho
employ of the Frank G.. Rowley Co.. OF
Pr Wtucket. Il. l., was killed instantly
in Reservoir avenue. town of Lincoln
Saturday evening, by being run dowr
by n large automobile belonging to the
Citizens Is Co, of Pawtucket. He was
walking down a sharp incline wher
he turned out to avoid an approa chins
tircart and stepped in front of tht
truck. The driver of the truck was Au.
gastus Bechard
Aaron Hammond a wholesale deal
er in meats and provisions in Spencer
left 8 fortune of S200, 900 became known
in Worcester, Saturday. when Charles
Dodge, counsel for the estate. placed
on deposit in Worcester bank =
trust fund of $4,000 for the benefit oi
Mrs. Ida l.. Hammond. widow of the
testator. When Mr.. Hammond died q
month ago it was generally believed
that he was worth between $4,000 ane
$4,000, but the inventory made of tn.
- al - y,
the money goes to relatives
For the Brown University at Provi.
dence extension courses 324 person.
have registered, this year, and of thi:
number 3G have registered for univer.
sity credit in the courses, according
TO ii2ures announced, Saturday, b.
Prof. w. b. Jacobs. The figures show {
slight falling off in the registration al
compared with last year, when to
tai of S45 persons took the courses
Last year there We're 40 who register
ed from university credit. The regis
tration for the various courses follows
English poetry, 80; mechanical engi
ncerng, So: education, Is; history, Al
| Dante, "a; astronomy. Is, business, 81
| French. 81: political science, 40
The Suflragette letter box outrage
have aroused a feeling of bitter exas
| peration in London. The situation i
I all the verse because nothing effectiv
| cGn be done to stop this widely inju
| rious form of violence without i'm
| mense Inconvenience to the public. TIL
| closing of pillar letter boxes would no
| even suffice, because the corrosive flui
contained in phials with shoppers tina
| may. be eaten through in an hou
| could be handed in across post otfic
counters without any chance of detec
ton OF their contents. Mrs. Pankhurs
irsiitied this latest campaign in