Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

An unidentified boy, about 16 years
old was drowned while swimming in
Goes pond, Worcester, Mass, Wednees
day afternoon. Two ice wagon drivers
were so persistent in diving for the
body that they had to be ordered from
the pond by a police surgeon, who
feared they would also drown.
Following the departure from New
Haven. CT. of Ralph Keech. for years
cashier at the Connecticut Co. the
trolley lines owned by the New Hav-
en- Road, and his reported elopement
with New Haven girl. came a charge
from trolley officials. Wednesday, that
Ia $4,000 shortage had been found in
his books.
Six buildings in the little village of
Chepachet. r. l., with number of
hen houses and outbuildings, were de-
stroyed by fire which is believed to
have been of ineendiary origin, early
Thursday. The buildings, which in
Guided the Chepachet Hotel. two cot
taee houses and three barns, were
small wooden structures and the loss
will not exceed 100000.
Herschel Pierce, Il, confessed to
stealing almost $4,000 from Wells
Fargo express chest in the railroad
station ut Lake Charles, La, pleaded
guilty, Wednesday, and was sentenced
to 10 years Imprisonment His broth
law, A. Z. Amy. with whom he
divided the money. pleaded guilty to
receiving stolen goods and was son
teeneed to two years Imprisonment
Frank Stone of Portland, Me, and
Fred Brooks of Buffalo. N Y. were
the names given by two men who.
the police say, We're caught in the
act of breaking and entering the Bay
State Street Railway waiting room in
Hudson, \. H.. Wednesday morning
They waived examination in the dis
trict court and were bound over to
the September term of the superior
court in $1,000 bonds each.
The pueuma tic tube mail service in
Boston WAS inspected, Thursday. by a
congressional committee appointed to
inspect and report on the advisa bility
of the government purchasing tubes
in number of cities. a service ecom-
pany now leases postal tubes in New
York, Chicago, Cincinnati and Boston
to the government for 100000 a year.
The committee will make its report
upon returning to Washington from
Boston.
Something new in the summer STYLES
of loeters' plumber was brought to
light, Wednesday. at New Bedford.
Mass. when it was discovered that
the cornerstone of the Church of st.
John the Baptist, on County street,
had been stolen, presumably for the
purpose of getting the coins and other
more or; less valuable articles that
Were. contained in the hollow recesses
of The stone. ~
The Monomoy Point life savers rescued,
Thursday night. Charles IL. Reyes of
Providence and three companions. who
had been cast ashore on the point, when
their power cruiser Leona broke down.
The men, drenched by heavy rain,
We're given dry clothing by the life
guards and put up over night at the life
saving station. They will try to repair
their boat. Friday. and proceed on their
passage from Boston to Providence.
For three hours, Warren Mckenna and
Charles Sergeant, Jr, 16-year-old Dor
chester boys. chung desperately to the
sides of an overturned dory in Plymouth
companion, Frank Murray. Is, of 1i6
Massachusetts avenue boston, was swept
OF the craft and drowned. Help came to
them just as they were about to fall un-
conscious into the water. Mekenna is
delirious from his long exposure, and
Sergeant is suffering from exhaustion.
Murray's body has not been recovered
The dory in which they We're sailing was
overturned by a sudden squat
The Importance of the Panama
canal to mining interests in Chill and /
Peru was brought to the front in the ,
suit of Lewis Ross of Brookline
against Albert G. Burrage now being
heard before Thomas Proctor as mas
ter. in the Suffolk court at Boston
Daniel Guggenheim of the firm of
iugSenheim Sons Co, New York, in
Iroduced options between his concern
AMI Burrage which showed that by
he use of the Panama canal ore from
The mines of Peru and Chill could be
transported to England or Germany
Tor cost of or 8 cents ton.
Several sticks of dynamite which
John Everett, aged 81, was carrying in
a basket out of a shed in the heart of
the village of Honecye Falls, \. Y,
Thursday morning, exploded and blew
Everett to pieces. The shed was re-
dnced to splinters. nearby buildings
racked, windows broken for wide
AREA and the residents thrown into
panic.