Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23
condemned DISPATCHES.


ed among the inhabitants of the city.
one of the applicants for relief al
Salvation Army headquarters at
III 1Ckton, Saturday, was man who is
awaiting legal action in England on
matters pertaining to big estate be-
fore ne inherits a fortune He is con-
fidcnt The money is coming to him but
al present finds it difficult to get
enough to eat.
His neck broken by a blow received
when g sand dump ear under which he
was playing with other boys slipped its
lock and descended upon his head
frankie Beckley, aged g. was killed on
the railroad track near the new McEl-
vain factory in South Manchester, n.
H.. Saturday afternoon. The boy is
the son of MIR. and Mrs, Frank Beckley
Of Dunbar street and Westland avenue,
South Manchester.
Mrs. Mabel Benson of White Water,
Kan, was sentenced To five years in
the penitentiary. Saturday, because
she forged a SIS check on a dare Of
fered by her sister n-law Il never
refused to take a dare" she told the
judge. Il dare you to serve five years
in the penitentiary." said the court.
I'm giving you the limit" Mrs. Ben
sons husband Joseph. is a civil engi-
neer. Sine has two small children.
Miss Georgia Starkey Of ga Essex
street, Lynn. was choked. beaten al
most insensible with length of gas
pipe and then robbed by woman
yegg, Saturday night within five min
utes' walk of the Central police sta
ton in Lynn in the main street of the
city. For nearly five minutes Miss
Starkey. who is far from muscular
fought with her assailant. She was
| unable to scream ON account of the
way in which she had been grabbed
| from behind.
Archbishop Ireland observed the 51st
anniversary of his ordination to the
Priesthood. Saturday, at his residence
| in st. Paul. \ few friends called to
congratulate him and he received
many eongratulatory kilograms from
members of the Catholic hierarchy in
various parts of the United States.
With but three EXCEPTIONS Arch
bishop Ireland is the oldest member
| in point of service of the hierarchy
| in the United States. He was ordan-
ed to the priesthood in st. Paul. Dec.
q. 1861.
Horace ]. Mcintosh and r. c. Burrell.
| both of Danville. y. H., narrowly escaped
serious injuries, Saturday evening. when
| their automobile crashed into n block OF
granite on Main street near Columbia
place, HaVerhll, where q large apartment
house is being erected The machine was
| almost completely wrecked. Burrell was
| hurled out, but Mcintosh was caught by
the steering gear and was pinned under
the ma chine. Burrell went TO the aid of
his companions and extricated Mcintosh
from under the automobile, which was
| overturned
Francis Kelly, aged IL. was saved from
| drowning, Saturday afternoon. in Lake
| Tupelo the Bradford Academy grounds
| at Hayerhill. Kelly with companions
| was playing on the ice and Kelly. who
/ was the leader in running berders. start
| ed TO cross the thin ice that had formed
| beneath bridge over the lake. The ice
gave way and he was precipitated into
| 10 feet of water Kelly could not swim
| and two companions, John Murphy and
James MeGovan. formed a human chain.
| Crawling out onto the ice, Murphy reach
| ed a hockey stick. the end of which KEEL
ly grabbed after he had sunk twice.
| one billion dollars worth of Cali
| fornia oil bearing lands il was said.
probably would eventually be in
volved in the governments recovery
| litigation which was begun in Los
Angeles. Friday, with the filing of the
$3.50. 600 action in equity against
| the Southern Pacific Railway and its
| subsidiary corporations. The Standard
| Oil Co, through its subsidiaries is
| expected by federal officers finally to
| be involved as we'll as the McKen-
| Zie- Mann interests, the British CO.
lumbia oil syndicate, which is said
| also to be interested extensively in
| California
A unique wedding gift for Miss Hell
! en- Gould, whose engagement to Fin
| ley J. Shepard was recently announe-
| ed. will come from the more than 90
| 600 men who man the warshlps of the
| Atlantic fleet. 1t became known, Sat
| urday, that Rear Admiral Osterhaus.
| in letter which he wrote at the re-
quest of a number of chief petty off
GERS and signed simply with his name
and not with his rank as a naval Of
| ficer suggest to the men of the fleet
| that they unite in subscription for
the pufcHdSe OF gilt winch would
| convey their appreciation of what
Miss Gould has done for the service
The first reported of the commits
sion appointed under the terms of the
Rockefeller fund to devise means for
! the eradication of the hookworm in
| the mountain districts of Kentucky
was made III Lexington, KY, Satur-
| day. The report is for Breathitt
county and shows that out of 1885
| persons examined, 1868 We're affected.
| If that rate of infection prevails in
| the other mountain counties, Ken
lucky has 10000 cases of hookworm,
it is estimated. In some of the Breat-
HIT county schools every pupil was
found a sufferer.
After being sentenced, Saturday, to
five years for assault, Frank CnelI. q
young Hungarian gypsy, tried to COM
NIT suicide in a sensational manner
in the sherff's office of the county
courthouse at Bennington, Vt. Cnell
robbed and shot a farmer, Orson Pink
ham, on the night of Oct II He waS