Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

A complete state ticket headed by IL.
P. Burt of Salt Lake City, was named
by Socialists in convention at Salt
Lake City, Wednesday,.
Dangerous ice in the northwest In
the path of transatlantic liners, has
caused the route to be shifted to two
degrees south of that used when the
Titanic foundered
Gladys, wife of Henry c. Carr, n
mining engineer of Washington, died
in London. Thursday, from an over
desc of medicinal preparation.
Reports that Collector Loeb, New
York. intended to resign to join Col
Roosevelt, have been current for some
time but have been impossible of veri-
fieation, as Mr.. Loeb is on hunting
tri pin Colorado. He is not expected
back for several days.
Timothy Shea, aged 4s. of South
Ward street. Worcester, was given a
6-months sentence in the House of
Correction, Wednesday, in the District
court on a charge of stabbing Patrol
man Axel Anderson on the night of
July II. Anderson was in court with
his head swathed in bandages. He
testified that he was trying to arrest
Shea for drunkenness, when Shea
turned on him with pocket knife
and stuck the blade into the left side
of his head so deeply that the steel
was broken off and had to be dug out
by surgeons in the City hospital.
The annual ride given by automobile
owners to ti.a children or the New
Hampshire Orphans Home of Frank
lin, ~ H.. took place, Wednesday. Some
30 car owners donated their machines
for the l775 children and teachers The
cars wer" Decorated and the parade
through Franklin. Tilton and Laconta
to Lakeport with the merry young
sters aboard was a big event. The
trip was made to Lakeporl, where the
steamer Gov. Endicott was taken iof
a tide across Lake Winnipesaukee.
Tie officials of the home furnished
dinner aboard the steamer
War department officials hold that
the four West Point cadets, who were
courtmartialed and expelled from the
Military Academy. Sept. 5. 1911, for
drinking Intoxicating liquors in vio-
lation of the articles of war; will not
resolution directing President Taft to
re-convene the court and try them
again Army officers maintain they
may re-enter the Military Academy
only through disappointment. At the
time of the dismissal and when the
case came up in the Senate it was re-
ported but enormously. Cadets had
been dismissed for intoxication.
Harold Finn. aged 10, son of George
Finn. a member of the police force,
Northampton, was held on the charge
of breaking. entering and larceny, on
July 81, from the grocery store of
Dennis j. Clifford He was also held
in the sum of 800 on the charge of
breaking, entering and larceny, on
June 20. from the bank building of the
Northampton Institution for Savings
Vincelo Marrow, a Portuguese labor
er in the foundry at the General
Electric Works. Pittsfield. was crush
ed between wall and an elevator
in the plant. Wednesday. He died an
hour later at Hillcrest hospital. He
bled to death.
James Gentry, the actor. who serv-
ed Is years for killing Actress Madge
York and who was released from the
Philadelphia prison, two years ago,
was found dead, Thursday, in his
room in hotel on And street New
York. Heart disease is given as the
cause Gentry was So years old.
Gentry was involved in one of the
most sensational murders in Philadel-
phia. He was infatuated with Madge
York. an actress. She refused to mar
ny him and. on Feb. Is, 1895. when
the company arrived in Philadelphia,
Gentry went to the hotel where the
actress was staying and shot her
dead.