Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


Mrs orra = Wells. aged 20. wife of
a brakeman. George l. Wells. shot
herself over the heart with suicidal
intent IN tl3e restaurant Of AIss Mvr-
tie Neelsy Oh East Hollis street Nash
ua. n. H., Saturday morning. She had
been Respondent since receiving news
Of the death of her brother i'm Nova
Scotia, two daVs ago. The doctor saws
the patient probably viii reeayer Mrs
Wells had been married two months
and lodged with her husbands par
ents. IS Belnap street
George Fullen Golden a vaudeville
actor and organizer of tho White Rats
OF America, died. SATURDAY., in Los
Angeles. He had been a sufferer from
tuberculosis for many years. All fol-
lowers of vaudeville knew Golden and
round amusement in his monologues
some OF which became very popular
because of their political satire lie
was born in Alabama, Mich. in 1865,
and had been en- the stage ineonspieu
ousIy from boyhood until he made
Slit. during the spanish American War.
with Casey Ut the Front
The Persian authorities NJ Enzell
have failed 70 detain + Z. Cairns and
the other Americans who formerly
composed the star % W. Morgan
Shuster. tho ex-treasurer general 81
Persia. Mr.. Cairns aud his assistants
left Teheran On their WY To the Unit
ed states. Feb. 10, and dispatches from
st. Petersburg stated that they would
be required To answer for Irregularities
which. the Persian officials ailege.
We're discovered IN Mir. Shaster,s &C
counts.
Rear admiral Robert Z. Perry. dis
coyerer OF the North pole, expects to
hear shortly of the discovery of the
South pole by one OF the several ex-
petitions now in the Antarctic In an
informal lecture at the University
Club of Washington, Saturday night.
he prophesied that the news would be
Forthcoming in the near future. Admit
raj Peary declared the United states
should join in active exploration work
in the, Antarctic and advocated the Sc
lection of The Weddell sea route as not
only the most feasible, but as being
distinctively American field of endeav-
or
Mrs. Minnie Lee Straight of Me-
Gregor, Tex, charged with the muir
der of her husband, r j.. Straight,
newspaper publisher. after having been
previously tried and given life sch
tenen, was, saturday, acquitted by
Jury in the district court at Catesville.
Tex. Mrs Straight declared she shot
her husband because he attacked her
The trial was transferred to Satesyllie
on a change of venue when the court
of criminal appeals reversed the decis-
ion Of the trial court.
Confederate veterans are to have a
prominent part in the celebrations OF the
5Oth anniversary of the battle of Gettys-
burg. Col Lewis f. Better. field seere-
tary of the Pennsylvania commission, has
returned from tour of the Southern
states in the interest of the commission,
and at meeting of the executive COM
mittee at Philadelphia reported that the
event is Hooked forward TO with eager
anticipation by many in the South. Ac-
cording TO Col Beitler's report, it Is
practically certain that all of the South
ern states will name commissions and
make appropriations for the transporta-
ton of their veterans 10 Gettysburg and
their participation in the reunion exer-
cises.
Inc niue lfldflSie % u'NH upNh
New York known as Chinatown ended
its last celebration of the Chinese New
Year early Saturday. with the noisy
rattle of drums and the staceato of
thousands of firecraekers. Never again
will be seen the red fire of the Cho
Yat holiday. which has been a tradition
of the Chinese for 46l0 years--ever
since the great conqueror, Hwang III.
assembled the throne and established
his dynasty in Manehuria. The mod
eru Chinese have decided that it will
becomes progressive republic to con-
tinue "a festival of the Manchus and
after Saturday. they viii celebrate
their New Years eve with the rest If
the world, on Dec. 81.
Patrick J. McNulty, a veteran oars
man. widely known in srowing circles,
died at the City hospital Boston, Sat
urdav morning, aged rs. Death was
due to q general breakdown superin-
duced by sciatica. He was-born in
Ireland and when a small boy his par
ents removed to St. John, n. u. Nc
Nulty went to Roston 10 live in 1893.
He participated in many professional
races in working boats. About 70
years ago McNulty took TO boat-iet-
ting. He eventually located a boat
house of humble proportions at the foot
of Chestnut street. 1t was destroyed
by a storm, but was rebuilt through
the generosity Of prominent citizens.
McNulty lived in his boathouse. His