Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


While at work on the tracks of the
Boston Elevated at Washington and Eliot
streets. Boston, Tuesday afternoon, Mi
chael Connolly, So, married, and Of ia
Eighth street. South Boston, was struck
by an inward bound car and knocked
against a kettle of boiling tar. He was
severely burned about the right arm
and side and was removed to the Grace
hospital.
Three new track records We're made
in the free automobile races at Rock
ingham Park, Salem, n. H., Tuesday
afternoon. A crowd OF 5000 WATCHED
| the five events, in which the best driV-
ers of the East participated, and Har-
nv Grant, Jack lie Cain and Harry
Cobe, the stars of the meet. were given
unstinted applause for their daring
driving.
Prof. Walter c. Everett assumed his
duties as acting president of Brown Uni
versity, Tuesday Pres. Faunee will
leaee Providence, Friday. and sail from
New York, Saturday, on a world tour
which will occupy his time until the
next Commencement period in June
Prof Randall is in the deans chair as
the successor to Dean Meiklejohn, who
became president of Amherst. this fall.
Fire was discovered at II O'Clock on
the second floor of the Sheldon build
ing in North Union street, Pawtucket.
Ii started in meter room and ran
up to the roof, but was quickly check
ed by the firemen. The damage is esti-
mated at $4,000, the heaviest losers be-
ing James f. Bremen & Co., drug
eists; the Trinity square lunch room;
Lind & Murphy, clothiers; George {.
Peck & Co, department store. All the
parties are insured.
A military aviator belonging to the Ba-
varian army named Lieutenant Horitz
Hamburger, was killed, Wednesday, on
the aviation ground at Oberwiesenfold,
Bavaria. Lieut.. Hamburger, who had
only recently been assigned to the aerial
corps, was making a fight round the
aerodrome in his biplane when it sudden
ly collapsed and fell from a height OF
over 200 feet He was dead when picked
up and his machine was shattered. The
cause of the accident is unknown.
Arthur St. Peter of 100 Concord
street. Manchester, N. H., is at the
Sacred Heart hospital with, it is fear
ed, fatal internal injuries. the result
of being pinned beneath mass of
heavy timbers when the roof of the
round house in the railroad yard, re-
Gently damaged by fire, and on which
with number of others he was at
work collapsed. Ernest Oulette and
Arsene Deianger, both of Lowell, also
fell with the roof and We're more or
less injured.
Mrs. NJ NJ Hare, preceptress of the
South Lancasters Academy, Clinton, be-
came i'll with smallpox, Tuesday, and,
Tuesday night, she was quarantined in
South Hall with several of the students
who are suffering from the disease. This
makes the 18th case of smallpox in Lam
caster, of which the majority are among
students at the academy. The school has
been under quarantine a week. Tuesday,
is the time limit set for vaccination of
Lancaster residents All who have not
been vaccinated will be forced TO be by
the Board of Health.
Two of triol of Lawrence boys who
stole rides to Dover, n. H.. in box car
of a freight train, late Monday night
had their runaway adventure cut short
as the result of their raising window
of the waiting room of the passenger
station at Dover and going in. to get
warm. They We're heard by Night
Waterman James O'Neil and were later
found by him crouching behind settee.
The boys gave the names of John Grimes,
aged IA, and Anthony Smith, Is. The
third hoy. who did not crawl through
the window. was Martin Ford, 10. Tues
day. the Lawrence police and the parents
of the boys arrested were notified.
Twelve sailors of the steamer Nicara-
qua. which was disabled off Padre is
land during the Gulf storm of Oct Is and
abandoned, who were believed to have
been drowned, have been located. six Of
the men arrived at Point Isabel 20 miles
south of Brownsville, Tex, after making
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