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

Homer Whitloek, Is, and Ora VIII
helm, %, of Piqua. Ohio. were instant
ly killed. Sunday, when their motor
cycles coIlided on the Piqua Troy
speedway near Piqua. They tried to
pass an automobile at the same time.
A meeting of all of the strikers at the
Greystone mill of Joseph Benn & Sons,
Providence is to be held in Graniteyille,
Monday afternoon, to appoint commit
tee to present the demands of the strik-
ers to the management. This Will be
the first concerted action of the strikers.
Mrs. Annie Gross, an American Ne
gress, Sunday night. in London, shot
and killed Miss Jessie Mcintyre, q.
young English actress. Mrs. Gross
was separated from her husband, Pake
Gross a vaudeville performer, whom
she also attempted to kill. Jealousy
is said to have been the cause of the
shooting. Mrs. Gross was arrested.
Three persons were drowned and sew
eral other members of a family skating
party had narrow escapes from death,
Sunday, when they broke through the ice
on Heart lake in northern Lackawanna
county, Pennsylvania. The dead are;
Mrs. Adelbert Reynolds, 80 years old
her son, whose name could not be learn
ed; and Ross Reynolds, 10, years. al
nephew
The taking over by Chaee & Hartman
of Boston of the largest water prlviieg.
on the Connecticut river north of Vernon
VT. has been completed during the pas
week. The deal includes the purchase Of
the Bellows Falls Canal Co. organized
in 1870 for power use, and the FAN Noun
aoin Electric Light and Power Co., which
controls the Bellows Falls electric light
ing and power plant.
Eugene V. Debs, indicted in the Kan
sas federal court for obstructing the
course of justice in regard to the prose
cution of the publisher of Appeal to Rea-
son, the Socialist paper. and who is hour
ly expecting a United States marshal
with warrant for his arrest, says: Il
am going to tell them to- go to -. Ii
they put me in jail 1 viii turn tnear jail
and court upside down, Sooner or later
on a diet of crackers and water and
for the last five days without even
that, four Japanese stowaways exist
ed Is days in the hold of the japanese
steamer Seattle, only to be captured
by immigration authorities at Tacoma
Wash. The steamer arrived, Saturday
from Yokohama The four Japanese
all neatly dressed. had managed tt
leave the steamer, when the immigra
ton watchmen spied them on tbs
docks All were very weak and wert
placed in the care of physicians. They
are held for deportation and expec
to be Imprisoned when they reacf
Japan
"Gurke" and the Candy hid wer'
burned to death. Sunday night. at Chiea
go, in the old side-wheel boat Flora" o
Saginaw, which was anchored in thu
Chicago river The above names were
the only ones by which they were know
TO Thomas kinny. dwarf Al years old
VINO was on the boat but escaped b,
jumping overheard. ''Gurke" was asleel
in the cabin. the Candy Md had founC
place to lie down on the lower deel
and Kinny had made bed in the pantry
How the Flora" caught fire is no
known. An alarm was turned in by a pc
destrian who saw the smoke, but tn
aremen could not get at the boat 70
some time because freight train was il
the way. They got to the shore in tim
| to see in the water the small figure o
Kmny. The BODIES of the others wer
| found on the boat. Kinny is dime mu
scum performer The dead men, he said
We're acquaintances only.