Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-20

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| how they Were shot in raid on Vogels
| rooms. where he was sought as dia-
| mond thief.
A Negro arrested at Gorham. Ills,
Monday night admitted, Tuesday,
that he was Albert Whitetield. who,
Sunday morning. Killed Policeman A.
NJ. Huddleson and shot three other
officers in resisting arrest at st.
Louis.
A representative gathering Of Pa
cific coast yacht ard motor boat clubs
at San Francisco was told by Sir
Thomas Upton, Tuesday, that he
would offer a trophy TO he contested
at the Panama Pacific Exposition
yachting regatta. Il will be here, in
1915, and will bring the shamrock "
and will race here" said Sir Thomas.
Five persons were killed and three
wounded in a revolt which took place,
Tuesday, in the prison al Rochefort,
France, Prisoners overpowered their
guards and shot to death the warden
and his wife. An officer and sailor who
went to the assistance of the warden
were dangerously wounded. Troops We're
hurriedly summoned and after surround
ing the building, drove the mutinous
prisoners back and killed ont. Several
of the prisoners succeeded in making
their escape during the ARRAY.
Eighteen Cinnamon We're injured.
Tuesday. none fatally, when the
north bound 500 FLYER on the Cana
dian Pacific Railway, collided with
carload of Cinnamon on siding AT
Rush Lake, Sask. Railroad officials
say the ear occupied by the Cinnamon
had not been properly side tracked.
Two of the guards accompanying the
Cinnamon We're also hurt Passengers
ON. the 500 Flyer We're not injured.
John Brooks. a former Texas state
ranger died. Tuesday at his contract
ing camp at Colonia, Chuichupa, south
west of Juarez. Mex. from d wound re-
ceived during a fight with Mexican
rebels. ON Sunday. Enrique Perlilla, a
rebel leader whom federal troops have
been pursuing, demanded money of
P"ooks. The American fired, killing
Perlilla and wounding two of his fol-
lowers and receiving Il wound from
which he died.
The students of Harvard, Yale and
Princeton who now occupy the rooms
formerly occupied by Roosevelt Taft
and Wilson, have been corresponding
with a view to forming a club to be
composed of former and future occu-
pants of such rooms. The three present
occupants are planning for a triangular
banquet at New Haven after the Yale
Harvard game to complete The plans. The
room at Harvard where Theodore Roose
welt lived and studied is occupied by
William A. Peckham. of Mddletown,
r. l.
In face of the fact that conditions
in the kanawha. w. Va, coal field
We're observed by military authorities
to be as bad as they have been since
martial law was declared, it was de-
cided, Tuesday, to amend the order
calling out four additional companies
OF the National Guard. SO that but
one company would take the field. The
hundred armed men reported as NOV
| ing toward Paint Creek Junction with
| the expressed determination of shoot
ing up the military headquarters,
halted at Montgomery. four miles
| away, and We're, there, Tuesday morn
ing, holding a council of war The
| Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad man.
agement has sent a hundred or more
armed railroad officers into the Paint
Creek section to guard its tracks and
act in conjunction with the military.
Two masked men boarded passenger
| train No. L. of the Chicago, Milwau-
! kee & St. Paul Railway, late Monday
| night. just as il was leaving the sta
| ton at Mystic, 80 miles south of OF
| tumNa. The&fobbers first passed
| through the observation ear and then
| proceeded to the sleeper. Two passen-
| gers aid two employees were robbed
| ut the point of reyolvers, of mony and
| yaluaDles amounting to about 1850.
| The robbers rode into Ottumwa on the
| platforms of the observation and
| sleeping car holding off the passen-
| gers in each car and escaping when
| the train reduced speed at the Market
| street crossing in Ottumwa. The police
| department and the sheriff's office.
| with Dloodhounds are searching for the
| robbers. Four suspects have been ar
| rested.
State Officers Silas Smith and Mich
ael Barrett. assisted the WATERFOWL.
| Mass, police, Tuesday in attempting
| to locate a man who placed crude
1 ilOHle-lIldue DDIIlD near the Hdpfllifd
| tanks of the Hood Rubber Cos. plant
| Monday night. The man was fright
ened away before he had an oppor-
| tunity to light the fuse. The police
say the bomb would have done little
| damage had ii exploded.s 1t consisted
tof pasteboard mailing tube contain
ing small quantity of black powder
TO which a 3-foot fuse was attached.
| Several hundred more employees were
! taken back by the company. Tuesday
morning, and there was no trouble
| about the mill gates. All of the OPP
eratives are expected to be in their
| places, Wednesday.
Three of the seven men recently ar
| rested in New York in connection with
alleged wire tapping swindles, were in
| dicted Tuesday, for grand larceny in
| the second degree. Charles Gondorf,
| known to the police as the King OF
| the vine tappers." was doubly indict-
| ed, one Indictment charging him with
| having obtained $4,000 from Major
| Gray Pendleton of Palm Beach, April
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