Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-17
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Mrs. Margaret Navin, Y years of
age. died, Tuesday morning, at st.
Johns hospital, Lowell, Mass, as the
result of burns received, Monday al
ternoon, while attempting to light a
gas range ut her home. 10 West Ninth
street
Miss Dorothy Dillon. daughter of Dr..
and Mrs r. II. Dillon. Manchester. n.
H., was asphyxiated. Tuesday morning,
being found in her bathroom unconscious
burning gas jet had deprived the small
room of all oxygen. Work with pulmo-
tor two hours failed to restore the young
woman.
Eight hundred women, members Of
a Boston trades union, voted, Tuesday
night. to strike at the shops of North
and West End shops, which are said
to have failed the provisions of an
agreement by which the garment
workers strike, last winter and spring,
was settled. 1t is expected the vote
will be effective, next Friday morning.
The cranberry boys in Plymouth eoun-
ty, Massachusetts, suffered severely from
heavy frosts. Monday night and it is es-
timated that half of the fall crop was
destroyed. The money loss cannot be es-
timated, but one grower said that 5000
barrels of berries on his bog had been
ruined. Berries are quoted now at 50
barrel, and it is expected that as result
of the damage to the crop by frost the
price will advance Immediately.
Maury |. Diggs, formerly state
architect, and his attorney, Charles b.
Harris of Sacramento, were found not
guilty Tuesday, by jury in the Unit
ed States district court at San Fran
cisco of subornation of perjury in
connection with the Diggs- Caminetti
white slave cases. Diggs and Can't
netti will be sentenced, Wednesday, by
Judge Van Fleet for their violation OF
the Mann act.
The Boston police made little pro-
eress. Tuesday, in the Identification
of a we'll dressed man found in the
Forest Hills district, Monday night,
with a bullet wound in the head, re-
volver by the side and receipts for
iewelry from j. w. Irwin, 529 Fulton
street. New York, on his person. Medi-
cal Examiner Leary believes that the
man was a travelling salesman, VINO
might have purchased the jewelry
while passing through New York. be
pronounced it a case of suicide.
District Attorney Higgins. Tuesday, at
Medford, Mass, orderer state ofhcer
Silas Smith to investigate the death OF
Miss Margaret A. Fal1on, aged ~, whose
body was found. Monday, floating IN
Tufts College reservoir Although MeoI-
cal Examiner Durrell said that death
was due to drowning, the fear expressed
by the girls family that she was a We
tim of violence. caused the district attor-
new to take a hand Miss Fallon had
heen brooding over the recent death OF
her mother, it is said, and 1T was the
theory of the police that the girl drowned
serself while Respondent.
body of armed neighbors, during
Monday night. pursued ana captured
without resistance, Charles Adams a
Negro hostler. who had been accused
by Mrs w C. Vogt, living in the out
skirts of New Britain. CT, with as
saul. upon her. over hills ana through
dales Adams was chased untii an au-
tomobile party finally drove MN INTO
oornfield Then men with rites ana
shot guns closed in. In court, tues
day. Adams was held in $4,000 for trial
Mrs. Vogt says the Negro appeared at
her nome and cowed her with revol-
yer. The sensational chase followed
recital of the story of her alleged ILL.,
treatment.