Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-11
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

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Miss Jessie Guthrie. who was in the
automobile struck by the Plttsfieid ex-
press at a, grade crossing in South Nor
walk. Ct, late Monday. and in which ae-
cident Mr. aaa Mrs Addison +. Miller
were killed. died. during Monday night
at the hospital
William f. Whitehead, the South
BOSTON chauffeur, whose machine
struck Willard Parker of Roxbufy. in
1 am bridge on May 20, resulting in
Parkeris death. was sentenced to six
months at hard labor in the House of
Correction by Judge Heating of the
Aiiddlesex superior criminal court at
East Cambridge. Tuesday afternoon.
He pleaded guilty to reckless driving.
Frank II. Peel, aged 81. of Salem.
Mass. was drowned in Ossipee lake,
Mountain View, y. H., "Wednesday.
while bathing. His companions. Her
bert W. Hobbs, who was watching him
from a small boat saw Peers face turn
pale. Hobbs hastily held out an oar.
but Peel said: It's no use, Fun sick"
Before Hobbs could grasp him, Peel
went down in Is feet of water. An
unsuccessful effort was made to re-
cover the body with graphing irons.
y widow and seven children slirviye.
Pearl Lynne. aged Is. who has been
employed as domestic at the home
Of j. Archibald Dunlap. Fairmont
street Nashua. ~. H.. was. arrested.
Tuesday night She is charged with
the larceny of watch, and violin be-
longing to Mrs. Dunlap. TlIe police
say that Mrs. Dunlap found a num-
her of other valuable articles in the
/ dress suit case which the girl had
packed with her own things. She had
heen with The Dunlap fnmiis for three
weeks.
Elmer s. Moore. aged ~, a drain
layer. employed for number of years
at various intervals by the CITY of Rut
land. VT. was burned to death in a
henhouse in the rear of his home at IT
North street. early Tuesday morning.
An alarm was sounded from Box -.
Grove and North streets, but when
he hose company arrived the little
building. which contained paint. oil
and other infiammable material. was
nearly consumed. The ma1fs charred
body was found in one corner
David Lumsden. instructor in foricul.
tnre in New Hampshire College. Durham.
y. H., after FIVE years Of experimental
work, has succeeded in producing new
cantaloupe. which will be exhibited at
the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
meetings. next week, in Boston This
: new fruit is a hybrid, resulting from a
cross between the French eantaioupe
and the English muskmelon Two 81 eel
mems which Mr.. Iumsden will show in
!. Boston are as large as small watermel-
ems, one more than foot in diameter
and weighing about nine pounds
The Boston & Maine Railroad an-
.noIneed, TResdaysf that plans have been
nerfeetedI' for5 the immediate hesinnine;
Of a ,newyhotel building on the summit OF
Mt. Washington, to replace the old Sum-
nit House destroyed by fire in istS. Work
will begin Ut once. the foundations COM
pleted three years ago ON the site Of the
old structure to be used for u building
IT, by 3s feet. one and one-half stories
high The frame will be up this winter.
and work resumed. early in the spring.
that it may be opened, early in July, for
! the tourist season of 1914
Capt Daniel j. Mcdonald of Glou-
eester. who left, last fall, for the Paci-
nc coast 70 embark on tne faelHc nail
but fishing on the Northwest Coast,
returned, Tuesday. The Pacific. he
said. lis no place for Gloucester
fisherman. I advise all to keep away
from the Pacific. especially in view of
the fact that there is a strike of the
fishermen impending Capt Mcdonald
formerly commanded the schooner
Quinnepowett of Gloucester and was one
of the high liners of the feet. He will
probably receive a command there.