Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Getting off a passenger train at Trim
way, Ohio, where they intended to pick
blackberries, G. C. Smiley and Alfred
Fearing, employees of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, living in Columbus. were in
stantly killed and another man seriously
injured, Sunday, when struck by another
passenger train.
Several members of the Swiss Guard at
Rome, who are charged with insubordi
nation, proceeded. Sunday morning, to
the office of the major now commanding,
to protest against the statement which
appeared. Saturday evening, in the Os-
servatore Romano. particularly that part
which alluded to their possible dismissal.
According to the report the commanding
officer was Obliged to threaten them with
revolver before they dispersed.
For nearly an hour, five men crouched
in the stern of the burning power boat
Louise off Rams Head in Boston harbor,
late Sunday. in imminent danger OF
death from 22-gallon tank of gasoline.
BY a miracle the tank although sur
rounded by fire on all sides. did not ex-
plode. Just as the flames were forcing
the men from their little vantage point,
they were taken off by another boat
John A. Battershill superintendent
of public parks and city building in
spector at Lawrence. Mass, rendered
his resignation, Sunday night. MIR.
Battershill was held to be primarily
negligent" by Judge Mahoney of the
Lawrence district court, who investi-
gated the death of the II youths re-
Gently drowned in the Merrimac river
by the collapse of rotten bath house
pier.
Rushing into a neighbours house to
aid in extinguishing fire which start
ed in the third floor. Charles A. Rob-
erts, a well-known shoe manufacturer
of Haverhill and Walter E. German of
the same city were trapped, Saturday.
| by the flames, which burned through
the floor and cut off both stairways.
Both We're rescued by firemen.
| Quickness and presence of mind on the
part of motorman on the Uncanoonuc
inclined railway at Mt. Uncanoonuc. near
Manchester, n. H., Friday, saved the
| lives of two score passengers, when one
| of the inclined cars started to run wild
down the mountain, Friday night at
| about 11S0 The car was the last leav-
| ing the summit. The car making the
/ up trip signalled for a stop soon after
| passing the turnout. The motorman on
the down car attempted to put on his
brakes, but rain had made the tracks
| slippery, and the brakes would not hold.
Charles Osgood. Robert Dearborn and
| Richard Dearborn of Sanbornton, y. H.,
were before the Tilton district court,
|
gravated assault on Almon Fowler and
the Dearborn brothers with simple as
sault on Fowler. who is their father-in-
law. On hearing the evidence Judge
Charles f. Smith found them all guilty
| Osgood was fined SIS and costs of $S.5s.
and the Dearborn brothers were fined 81
and costs of $3.50. On motion of County
Solicitor John W. Meserve the fines OF
the Dearborn brothers We're suspended on
payment of costs. This is the first case
in the new district court
Three persons were killed by a
train, Sunday, while on their way to
church, mile south of Jersey City,
H. The victims were Mrs. Hattie
Rand, her 5-year-old son Stewart and
her 3-year-old daughter Lillian. The
buggy in which they were riding was
struck by a northbound train on the
Chicago & Alton road. The engineer
tainted and the train sped on about
a quarter of a mile before the fire.
man closed the throttle. The mangled
body of the boy and shreds of the
buggy was still clnging to the pilot.
When James Damon Of Lamberton
N. Y. and Mrs. Caroline Eastwood Of
Port Allegheny N. ", stepped from
street car, Sunday afternoon, at FIRE.
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