Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

John Miller is dying in Salt Lake
City hospital as the result of the ex-
plosion, early Saturday, of lamp
which he kept burning to guide IL
sweetheart to the home he prepared
for her 40 years ago. The lamp was
kept in window as a beacon beckon-
ing the way for a girl from Sweden,
who, though drowned, has never ceased
to exist for him.
Miss Marie Dobbs dropped a nickel by
mistake into ticket choppers box of
the Interborough Rapid Transit Co, New
York, a year ago, and is $500 richer as a
result Saturday. she was awarded that
sum as damages for false arrest when,
upon the refusal of the ticket agent to re-
turn her the coin, she took another ticket
from his window Hailed to court, the
young woman was honorably discharged.
The she sued the company.
The discovery of extensive coal fields
! in the Belgian Congo, in the neighbor-
: hood of Katanga, was confirmed off,
i cially, Saturday, by Chief Engineer
| Minet of the Geological and Mining
Society at Brussels. Behring'S over an
| area of 400 square miles, according to
! the engineer, disclosed layers from six
! to seven feet in thickness of a quality
! similar to that of Bulgarian coal The
discoveries are not far from the Tan
ganyika Railway, now under construe-
| ton.
During thick fog William Jones,
serving life term in Sing Sing Prison.
n. Y, for murder, climbed on a trestle
, that extended from inside the prison
over the Hudson River and dropped
into the alter, only to find that Il
! guard had been stationed near the
spot in anticipation of just such an at
tempt. The prison authorities had
! realized that the fog conditions af-
forded good opportunity for escapes.
] When the guard opened fire with his
rifle Jones uiekly swan back and sur
| rendered himself
While the officers of Yale Univcr-
sity at New Haven, Conn, have not
| been informed of his intentions it is
| thought not unlikely that at the cor
! poration meeting, next Monday, Pres
| ldent Taft will resign as a fellow upon
acceptance by him of the formal ten
| der of the Kent professorship of law
! in the university. 1t is understood
that the President has felt that he
does not wish to be his own employer.
1t Is stated with authority that the
| governing rules of the university are
| not conclusive on the point whether 4
| professor may also serve as fellow or
d fellow accept chair.
The desire to see the splinters fly was
the cause CT the arrest of two boys at
! WATERFOWL, Saturday, charged with
attempting to wreck trains near Wa
tertown, Friday night, by placing
planks and kegs of spikes on the
tracks. None of the three attempts re-
suited seriously. The boys, Ernest
] Clark and John Dresser of WATERFOWL,
n. Y, each 13 years old, have con-
fessed, according to the authorities,
Two trains were stopped before strik-
ing the kegs and another train plowed
| through pile of planks.
While Everett Stanley, local hunter,
and three men from Boston We're hunting
for rabbits at Hamilton, late Saturday
afternoon, they discovered the body of a
middle-aged man, about feet inches
tall. There was hole through his skull
and Stanley thinks it is a outlet hole,
The body was clothed in blue overalis,
light summer shirt, low tan shoes and a
black soft hat. AS soon as Stanley dis
covered the body he came back to the
village and notified the selectmen and
coroner. who went back with him, but
as darkness had set in they were unable
to locate the body in the swamp lands.
lgnaZ Palloh, one of the most prom
inent railroad and bridge contractors
of Hungary. was arrested at Budapest.
Saturday, on the charge of embezzling
$1,600,000 and with issuing u quantity
of forged shares. Palloh is the director
of several railroad companies and fl
nancial institutions both in Hungary
and other countries and he is alleged
to have embezzled their funds. One
company is said to have been victim
lied to the extent of 100000.
Wives and sweethearts of men sus-
pected of membership in the larson
ring at Chicago were examined, Sat
urday, by States Attorney Hoyne.
They are said to have given him val
liable information. The information
that drew the women into the inquiry
came in an anonymous letter to the
states attorney. One feature of Sat
urday's inquiry was the obtaining of
evidence in connection with two sup
posed incendiary fires wherein con-
tract for settlement of fire insurance
claims was solicited before the touch
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