Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


/ Newton. Mass. Sunday, by being
thrown from his motor cycle. His skull
was fractured.
A new record was established at the
| end of the second hour, when the rid
| ers had padalled 50 miles and laps
The old record was 90 miles, lap.
| made by La Fourcade and Faher, in
1903.
An overturned lamp set fire to the
clothes of Miss Mary Bundreau, aged
IS years, at her home ON Harrison av-
enue, Boston, Sunday night causing
burns which resulted in her death ut
the City hospital an hour later.
Surgeon General Stokes of the navy,
| Saturday told the House committee
on naval affairs that there had not
been d single case of typhoid in the
American navy, with Its $4,000 men.
since the adoption, IL months ago. of
the new anti-typhoid treatment.
The pension program Of the Democrats
| in the House has been dfnitely settled
by the determination by the committee
on invalid pensions to attempt no general
pension legislation at this short session.
| Chairman Sherwood said, Saturday, how
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several hundred persons would be consol-
| dated into one, two or three OMNIBUS
| private pension measures.
Mrs. Cintha Rugg. aged 81 years
| the mother of Chief Justice A. p. Rugg
of the Massachusetts supreme court.
] died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs Herbert f. Sylvestre in Newton
| vile, Mass, Sunday. She was born in
Bakersfield, VT.
| A painting by the French artist
Hughes Merle, entitled "fhe Old slan's
| Story" has been presented to the Yale
| Art School at New Haven by the Adee
| family of New York. after one of whose
| members, George Adee of the class OF
| sc, the Yale boat house is named. The
| painting is said to be worth $4,000.
| Thatcher NJ. Adams, Yale '5s, has given
| the Art School a portrait Of S. +. b.
| Morse, inventor of the telegraph. The
| portrait was painted in 1855
One hundred and twenty-five morgan
| lied workers at the Arden mills of the
/ American Wooden Co. at Fitchburs,
| Mass, who have been out on strike
week, voted at a big mass meeting, Sat
urday. in Labor hall to have representa-
| tives of the l. W. w. in Lawrence come
to Fitchburg. Monday. an organize
| them. Representatives of the strikers
say an attempt will be made to organize
all of the 1000 textile workers in Fitch
burg's nine cotton, wooden and yarn
| mills.
| Joseph III. Mirochnick, a diamond
Importer of New York. was robbed of
t$27 500 worth of unset diamonds at
| Chicago, Sunday night, by two Me-
! groes, according to a report he made
to the police. Mr. Mirochnick was
beaten over the head and one of his
Hands was slashed with a knife. The
robbery took place on Michigan boule-
ward, the principal thoroughfare be-
tween the North and South sides. His
wounds were attended by police sur
geons and an alarm was sent out for
his assaiants.,
Kirkpatrick, a Democrat, elected
from the 9th Iowa District, will be
unique among the members of the new
House. He should be a subject for
study by X-ray artists when he gets
to Washington. South Trimble. clerk
of the House, received this letter from
| him. today: my Dear Mr.. Trimble-
l want to thank you for your kind
Iremembrances. BY reason of loss of
vision, | am feeling my dependence
livery much, as my eyes We're almost
Literally shot out by moonshiners. Am
carrying over 300 pieces of lead in my
body I bear about the same relation
to the House that Senator Gore does
| to the Senate-almost blind.
| Horsef1esh worth $4,000 sailed for
| Europe from New York, Saturday, on
the Minnewaska. The fortune was
represented by seven horses. six of
which James r. Keene sold to Will
liam X Vanderbilt, Jr., and the sew
enth, the famous Peter Pan. which
Keene recently denied having sold for
| $4,000 to George Gould. The six
| horses purchased by Vanderbilt are
| Maskette. Mosquito. Early and Often,
| Court Dress, Ort Wells and Ocean
Bound. They were in charge of Phil
| Chinn, Keenes trainer, who admit
| ted the sale of the six to Vanderbilt.
| but said that Peter Pan was merely
being taken to London and Paris to
race because he could not race In New
York.
| After carrying his wife and son to
the street from fire. Melville Men
| dell, a New York lawyer, lost his life,
Saturday, in heroic attempt to res
| cue his 14-year- daughter Lillian.
| The girl also persisted. They were
found clasped in each other arms. The
fire was at 10 Percy street. Woodside,
IL l. The first floor is occupied by
John p. Kelly and two children. The
| Mendells lived on the second floor.
Kelly was awakened by the smell of
smoke. Grabbing his two children he
ran through the hallway to the street.
shrieking to the Mendels to awaken
them. Mendell heard the cries. but his
| wife and two children, dazed by the
smoke slumbered on.