Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-07
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| Five men were killed by the explosion
! of a boiler at a sawmill near Wisondale.
Wayne county. W. Va, Thursday night.
!, The dead: Leonard Maynard, Ports
, mouth, Ohio; Jacob Maynard, Ports
mouth, Ohio; Albert S. Finley, Nauga-
| tuck. w. Va, and two unidentified work
men.
| The Merchants and Miners steamer
Essex, which went aground on the
! Craney Island, Va, flats. in Thursday
nights fog, was floated, Friday, by
tugs. The Essex apparently was I'M
| injured and proceeded to Newport
News She will return to Norfolk, Va,
F, and sail, Friday, for Providence.
Prince Louis of Battenburg has
I, been appointed first sea lord of the
admiralty, Great Britain. in succession
| to Admiral Sir Francis c. b. Bridge
man. resigned. Rear Admiral John
| r, Jellicoe. ex-commander of the At
| lartic fleet. has been given the APP
point of second sea lord. made vacant
4 by the promotion of Prince Louis.
The State Board of Cancellation and
Arbitration has been asked to take
steps to settle the strike at the West
| Warren cotton mills at West War
| rem, Mass, of the Thorndilxe Co. The
strikers voted to submit their griev-
, ances to the board and to ask the
state body to intereede. Several hun
dred operatives have been on strike
| for more than two weeks past.
| Mrs. Ida E. Moves, wife of Laverra
| w. Moves. capitalist and former pres
| ident of the Illinois Manufacturers
Association, died at her home in Chi
cago. Thursday night, after several
months Illness. She was vice presi-
dent general of the Society of the
Daughters of the American Revoiu-
ton, an artist and widely known as
social leader
James Mccarthy, a chauffeur en-
ployed by Frank F. Stanley, of
Swampscett, Mass, was arrested on
charge of manslaughter Friday
morning, after the death of John
Marino, aged 8, who was struck by
MeCarthy's machine, Thursday night.
Judge Lumnus in the Lynn district
coort held Mccarthy In $4,000 bonds
for s. nearing, Monday.
The theatrical section of New York
| City was surprised to learn. Friday,
| of the marriage of Nine. Alta Nazi-
nova, the. Russian actress, to Chase
E. Bryant who has been a member
| of her company since the beginning
| of the present season. No announce
ment of their engagement had been
made.
Capt. Jose T. Ramirez of the Do
miniean Army, and who was chief of
staff of Gen. Eladio Victoria EXPIRES
ident of the Dominican Republic. was
| found dead in bed in a hotel in New
York, Thursday, asphyxiated by gas.
/ His DEATH according to the authori-
| ties, was accidental Capt. Ramirez
| arrived in New York, Wednesday, to
| procure medical treatment for a
wound in the leg, received in the re-
| cent rebellion.
/ 1uniius Booth, an American, and his
| wife, were found dead, Friday. at
/ Rrigfltiingie, Essex. Eng. They both
| had been shot and it is believed that
| their deaths were the result of q sui
| eide pact. Booth recently had been
running a moving picture show at
| Brightlingie.
| Announcement was made in New
York, Friday, of the election of Jo-
seph III. Choate to the presidency of
| the Pilgrims of the United States. The
vice presidents include j. p. Morgan,
General Stewart L. Woodford and
Lord Charles Beresford. Field Mar
shat Lord Roberts, president of the
Pilgrims of Great Britain, will prob
ably visit America, in February. to
attend the annual banquet of the or
ganization.
A daughter of the President of the
United States joined with the daugh-
| ter of d former President in charity
Work, Friday afternoon, when Miss
Helen Taft and Miss Esther Cleveland
sold programs in a New York theater
| at a benefit performance given by the
Women,s Titanic Memorial committee.
| They met with notable success as
| salesladies among the society people.
who fioeked in great numbers to the
| performance.
sequel to a frustrated plot to kid
| nap a young woman at New York,
week ago. was the killing. Friday
night, of Salvatore Tripodo, who res
| cued her from four men, who had
been about to carry her off in a tax
icab. Tripodo was shot down just out
side his apartment in an East Side
| tenement house. The assailant es-
| capped. According to the police he was
a sutton of BESSIE Savio, 20 years old
Tripodo's cousin, and was one of the
gang which tried to kidnap her The
girl and her parents have received
| death threats.
Indictments were returned by the
Suffolk county grand jury at Boston,
| Friday, against three of the alleged
| book swindlers who have been operat-
| ing throughout the country. Two of
| the men indicted, Walter V. Dunton
and Frank L. Daniels, are under ar
rest in Boston. and the third, George
III. Fisher. alias George NJ. Wilson. is
| in custody in New York. Two indict-
ments We're found in each instance,
one charging larceny of $1,000 from
Frank G. Carnochan of New York, a
Harvard student, and the other alIeg-
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