Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
The body of a murdered man wa!
/ found with the tongue split and throa
cut in approved Black Hand style in {
vacant lot in Harlem. Thursday, Their
were also knife wounds in the back. Tho
| identity of the murdered man may never
be discovered. for the face was nutilat
ed beyond recognition.
The gunboat Yorktown sailed Thurs
day. from Guayaquil for the port Of San
! tn Elena, lis miles distant and in diree
communication with the cable. The
Yorktown left five of her men ashore
either suffering from the fever or threat
ened with it, The body of Commands
| Bertolette who died of the disease. vii
be brought North at once.
The Anderson Tool Cos plant al
Anderson. Ind, with the exception OF
the small foundry building. was de-
stroN ed. the Masonic Temple damaged
| 10 the extent of $4,000 and four fire
men slightly injured by two fires
Which broke out here about the same
time. early Friday. and called for the
divided attention of the fire depart
ment The tool companys loss is es-
timated a more than 100000. Barrels
of oil exploding hampered the work
OF the firemen and one explosion
hurled a brick wall into the street,
iniuring three tfiremen. A fireman was
hurt by a falling wall.
General Bernardo Reyes will moi he
shot for melting a rebellion against
the Mexican government for which
crime he is in prison in Mexico CltN.
That opinion is expressed by Ptesf-
dent Francisco |. Madero in signed
communication to the San Antonio
Express. Instead President Madefe
thinks General Reyes will probably get
a sentence of from six to eight years
in prison.
one child WAS burned to death and
another badly burned about the body
and arms, Thursday afternoon, in Il
fire i'll the home of Rev. William u.
Johnson. eolored minister. at 81
Irving street, Winchester. The two
children were boarding with him. Ed
ward A. Morse, deaf and dumb
eolered boy. years old, died as the
result of his burns, and Elmer Leon
Hearn, years old. who lived with his
widowed mother in Mr.. Johnson's
family, was seorched
Sixteen year old John Foster of
Everett street. East Boston. who went
adrift in a rowboat without oars from
Jeffries' Point. late Wednesday after
noon, did not spend the night at the
mercy Of the waves and benumbed by
the bitter cold. as was feared. The
wind blew his boat ashore on the
rocks OF Governors island where he
wandered around until he located a
hut occupied by Sailor" Brown, a
sood-natured hermit. who welcomed
him heartily and prepared u hot sup
per for him and warm bed
The hiding by Third avenue. New
York, butcher of one pound of lead
sinkers IN each of his Thanksgiving
turkeys LED to his conviction and SEN
tenee 10 three months in the penften-
tiarS, Thursday. The prisoner was ia
cob Ginsberger, against whom Albert
LGtz, an inspector Of the city weights
ara measures department, appeared
as complainant. Lutz testified to buy
ing a turkey at 50 cents a pound and
open shop The result was the ap-
pearanee of a sinker. Lutz thereupon
seized the entire stock and an exam
ination showed similar sinker IN
each turkey on sale.
DR.. ], H. Theriault of claremont. y
H., who WAS convicted of n criminal OBJ
GRAFTON in superior court at Woodstock.
Vt, Jan. 5, was sentenced, Thursday, By
Judge Stanton of Roxhury 10 serve not
less than five or more than eight years
in the state prison at Windsor DR..
Theriault has been confined in the jail
there since Dec. Il. at which time he
was called TO Woodstock as witness in
the case of an infant child whose body
was found in the Connecticut river near
White River Junction. last July, and his
testimony was such that he was taken
into custody by High Sheriff J. II. Kiniry
of Windsor. He was tried OH two counts
charging a criminal operation and muir
der.
Filing of papers in a suit for divorce
at Greenwich, CT, by attorneys for Mr.
Ella Miller Adams against Warren Adj
ans disclosed the marriage in New Ro-
chelle, N Y, in 1901, of 1S-year-old
girl to a 15-year-old boy. According to
the papers in the suit, Adams, before his
marriage, was extremely jealous of his
child fancee, and for this reason the
girls mother suggested that the two
marry She planned to keep them apart
for two years. With the girls dressed IN
long skirts to make her look older than
she really was, the pair went to New Ro-
chelle and the marriage was performed.
They did not live together until 1903. They
separated in 1906.
Mrs. Edward Refill, 60 Years old ana
totally blind, living at Glen Cove Land
ing, Long Island, was burned to death.
Thursday, in the kitchen of her home
while preparing dinner for her husband
She was stirring some soup in pot on
the kitchen stove. when her dress caught
fire. On account of her blindness the
old woman did not know until her body
began to feel hot that she was afire. She
cried to her husband. who was in the
back yard, but when he reached her side
her clothing was one mass of flames. I've
died a few minutes later. In trying to
save his wifes life Rehilrs hands and