Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Jack Fisher, captured recently in
Cristohal on the Panama Canal strip
and arraigned in New York, Satur
day, charged with smuggling, holds
| the key, the police say, to the mystic
rlous murder of Edward Hobson, Eng
| llsh steward of the Panama steamship
Ancon, and to the Panama opium
ring.
The explosion of 500 sticks of dyna-
mite in the magazine of the Sunshine
Coal & Coke los. mine. No 1, Union
town, three miles from Masontown.
Penn, at 1 o'clock, Saturday, practi-
calIy wiped out the little mining set
Element, killing three men and injufing
40 persons, 20 of them seriously. The
cause of the explosion is not known.
A fire in a large unoceupied house
/ at Beckenham. near London, Saturday
evening, was extinguished after three
hours The fire was attributed to the
Suffragettes. The firemen Were alarm
ed at finding bulky parcel in one of
the burning rooms. They thought that
lit contained bomb, but an examina-
ton revealed that it was merely CYL
inder.
john Oswell and Bradley Redd, who
were thought to have been lost in
the fire that destroyed the lumber
plant of the Berlin Mills Co., at Ber-
lin, n. H., were located, Sunday, hav-
ing made their escape by sliding down
OUTSIDE pipes to the ground. The loss
by the flames was $1,000 according to
a revised estimate made by one of
the officials of the company, Sunday.
The big gorilla at Rome is dead.
| having died of a broken heart-broken
because of the fiirtations of his vile
Maria, Maria simply couldn't resist
the Establishments of other male ap S
and used to throw kisses and Cocoa.
nuts at them all the time. Adding in
jury, to insult, she was in the habit of
eating her own cocoanuts and using
her husbands as love tokens for his
rivals.
| Mrs. Flora C. Toomer, wife of Hen
ry M. Toomer, a mechanical engineer
at the plant of the United Shoe Ma
| cninery Co. at Beverly, was injured
when train struck her husband 3
touring car Just before 6 O'clock Sat
urday night, at the Cabot street cross
ing of the Boston & Names Glouces-
!
old, 16 years old, escaped injury by
jumping out.
With the Senior class at Harvard on
the outermost brink OF bankruptcy, tn
splendor of the commencement week
celebration, which is scheduled, FOL
next month, is seriously threatened
The stringency of the graduating stu
dents is the worst ever experienced al
Harvard. and the class offlcers whc
have the commencement program II
their charge are buried in the WorE
of scraping together enough money t.
make 1913's time as glittering as those
of previous years.
The $4,000 reward offered by Thu
state of California, two years ago
for apprehension of the persons re
sponsible for the dynamlting OF TN
Times building in Los Angeles, i
about to be paid. A bill approprlatins
that amount to satisfy the claim
William ]. Burns was passed, oat
urGay. in the Assembly by a vote o
~ to IA and sent to the Governor
having already passed the Senate. Sal
Francisco members all voted agalhs
the bill.
Damage estimated at 100000 wa,
caused by a fire, suspected 10 nave
been of incendiary origin which start
ed about 2 O'Clock, Saturday afternoon
in shed of the Export Lumber 60.
on the Mystic Basin in CharlestoWn
Mass. A brisk wind from the north
west swept the flames through the yart
of lumber and between 100000 ant
100000 feet of undressed white PINE
We're destroyed. Sparks carried across
the basin set fire to tenement houses
on Medford street and to Berry q
Ferguson's lime and cement sheds
The damagesorf this side Of the basin