Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-11
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


Donahue, at their home 1883 Washing
us Donahue was indicted, Saturday by
the grand jury on charge of murder
in the second degree. The indictment
was returned before Judge Brown.
The resignation of William A. LeahS
of Boston, Mayor F'itzgerald's secre.
tary, was accepted, Saturday. The res.
ignation has been in tile hands of thu
mayor two months or more. but not al
inkl!ng of il leaked out until the
mayor saw fit. Saturday. to let it be-
come officially known.
Chicago police, Saturday, arrested
Charles Cameron and James \. An
derson on charges of setting fire to
at least six new buildings in carrying
out a labor war Electrical workers
fractional and jurisdictional troubles
are blamed by the police for the in
cendiarism they charge against the
two men.
Four of the crew were drowned in
Lake Michigan, Sunday night, when
the tug Shields capsized while towing
the ore steamer Goulder of Duluth out
of the harbor of Indian Harbor, Ind.
The steamers bow struck the tug, up
setting the craft.
Citizens are securing the woods in
the vicinity Of, Floyd, Ala. Sunday,
for a Negro, who. early in the dav.
shot and fatally wounded john Chris
itzberg, an Elmore county farmers. In
the afternoon the posse killed a Negro.
companion of the unknown assailant
of Chrisitzberg,
An alleged Anarchist plot to poison
property owners in Milan in revenge
for anti Anarchist activities has been
unearthed by the police of Milan, as
the result of number of mysterious
deaths subsequently, discovered was
contained in letters SEM by post from
Switzerland, purporting to enclose p
harmless specific for the cure of 4
common malady.
Investigation showed that the let
ters were mailed from Lugano and an
Italian chemist, known to be the as
sociate of Anarchists, was arrested at
that city. Six other Italians have been
arrested in Switzerland. including
Luigi Dainesi. formerly editor of the
Anarchist paper "Agitationw who was
taken into custody, Sunday morning,
in Geneva.
Postmaster General Hitchcock an
nounced, Saturday, that approximate
~ S2S.000,000 had been deposited to
date in postal savings repositories by
100000 individuals, averaging S96 per
depositor The system now is oper-
ated in 1878 postoffices and 1859
banks have qualified to receive postal
savings funds.
After lapse of several months a CON
science stricken laborer of kittery, Me
who has been paying debt on the install
ment play. sent another contribution TO
Sec. MacVeagh at Washington, Saturday
1t was a dollar bill. More than year
ago the man informed the treasury ae-
partment that he would send eontrlbu-
tons periodically until the debt was set
tied. One or 81 is received monthly.
DR.. James j. Walsh the DEAN and
four other instructors in the medical
department at the Fordham tniNer-
sitv. New York. one of the largest
Catholic universities in the East, have
resigned. The appointment of five adj
ditional physicians by DR.. Waisl TO
serve that institution when It's new
building is completed has been reject
ed by the president, Rev. FIR. THOMAS
j. McCluskey.
surrogate Fowler of New York, Sat
llrday, appointed Fritz Flseherauer'
vice consul for Austria Hungary, ad-
mintstrator of the estate OF Rusena
Menschik SZabo, for whose death Bur
ton w. Gibson, an attorney, is now I'M
der indictment charged with murder
Gibson was named in Mrs. Szabo' s
will as an executor The value of the
estate is now estimated at only about
$500. Gibson is to go to trial at Gosh
en-. Orange county, Nov, Is.
spy fever" is increasing'in intensity
in Germany and the government contin-
ues it's energetic campaign against for
eigners who attempt to learn it's military
or naval secrets The imperial supreme
court at Leipzig has just sentenced three
men, Bancheln. Thiebaut and Berger.
of Metz. for doing spy work for France
Banchelin was sentence to eight years,
and the other two men to six years each
in the penitentiary, all three to lose all
civil rights ana TO De pidCea uhuel PotiSe
supervision for 10 years.
Thomas t. Reen, New York lumber
merchant and one of the wealthiest res
idents of Montclair, n. j., was probably
fatally injured, Sunday, in an automobile
accident While descending Orange
mountain in a small car which he pur-
chased only two days ago, he ran into
a telegraph pole with such force that II
broke the pole squarely off, completely
wrecked the machine and hurled Mr.
Reed many yards away, where he was
found with his skull crushed.
on the rocks east of Point st. Law
renee for the last four days the Canadian
Northern steamer Royal George vii
probably remain there at least two weeks
longer No efforts are being made to pull
the vessel from it's. position at present