Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-10
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Moterman William Ayers was in
stantly killed and 20 persons were in
Jured. Saturday, when a trolley car on
the Verona, Oakmont & Hutton Elec-
trio Railway crashed into the grocery
store of Robert Chegwiden at Laketon,
Pa. The car ran away on a long hill,
The body of man believed to have
been Arthur Ballantyne, address un-
known. was found. Saturday, on the
roof of a sleeper attached to BOSTON,
New York train when it reached Prov
idence, II. /. The mans head was split
open and 1t is believed that he was
struck by a low bridge. A letter found
in his pocket led to the belief that his
name was Arthur Ballantyne. and that
he had a brother in New York.
/. A campaign to make baseball an or
ganized major sport at Wellesley Col
lege. Wellesley, Mass. is now under way
among the young women of that insti-
tuition. How strong and beautiful ana
good Wellesley girls then might be-"
reads an appeal sent out. Saturday, by
its Sophomore class. In this appeal the
class asks that baseball be added to the
sports SO that more students may be
induced to keep in training and there
fore benefit their physical welfare
/. A e-year-old Milton boy had a wild
ride in runaway auto, and his rescuer
and his father were seriously injured III
Copley square. Boston, Saturday after
noon. when the big. high-powered car
owned by Henry B. Sprague of PA High
land street. Milton, dashed driverless
through crowded Huntington avenue
The lad was rescued from his perilous
position by Patrick o. Sheehan, 40, Of
80 Birney street, Cambridge.
Margaret T. Kenefc, an 1S-year-old
Brookline girl, employed as stenogra-
pher at the Chestnut Hill garage,
Brookline. Saturday, became the sec
ond victim in two days of firearms
kept for the alleged use of killing
rats, when she wass hot through the
head by William H. Templeton, "a,
chauffeur, with a 22-calibre rifle which
he was examining. Friday, John E.
Hayes was shot at Ipswich by his
wife, Martha A. Hayes. with a re-
volver, which, she claimed. he had
bought for the purpose of killing
rodents.
William F. Smith, aged 2s, who shot
and seriously wounded Mrs. George
Williams in the doorway of her home,
Al Dix street. Dorchester, the evening
| of Oct. 20, was arrested, Saturday
| afternoon, by Special Officer John
Devine of the Fields Corner station on
| the charge of assault with intent to
| kill. Smith was a ledger in the Will
liams household. A week before the
| shooting he was told to leave the
| house. He refused to stay away and
| shot Mrs. Williams twice when she
refused to let him in. She is recov-
ering at the City hospital.
The upper Broadway automobile dis
| trict, New York, was shaken, Saturday
| by a series of terrific explosions which
sent 90 manhole covers hurting up
ward from the streets and shattered
! windows in hotels and garages. Ac.
cumulated gasoline waste from the
many garages in the enighborhood i,
believed tn have been the cause Gey,
sefs OF flame shot up from each man,
hole and the fire department was call
Cd out uselessly, for water had M
effect on the burning oil, No one was
hurt, but pedestrians fled panic-strick
en- from the streets and passing auto
mobiles broke the speed laws to ge
away from the danger zone. Ever,
i window on one side of the Hotel Cum
J, berland, at Broadway and 54th street
was broken as far UP as the eight
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