Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-09-22
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Frank Greenwald. proprietor of
garage at Wooster. o.. was killed and
a H. Ellenberger and ~ X. Crumtey
were injured when Greenwalds automo-
bile overturned in a collision with
buggy car. Saturday George Brown and
two companions. occupants of the buggy,
We're also injured.
! An interlocutory decree of divorce was
granted by the supreme court, New York.
! Saturday, in favor of Mary Blair Brokaw
and against w. Gould Brokaw, the Min
cola millionaire. Mrs. Brokaw will get
$4,000 a year alimony. The Brokaws
were legally separated two years ago. A
previous attempt to obtain a divorce
failed.
The 5-masted schooner Helen w.
Martin, which went ashore, Saturday,
on Hawes shoal in Nantucket sound.
Acushnet, Sunday afternoon. and an
ehored off Cape Poge. Mass. The ex-
tent of the damage to the schooner is
not known, but it appears from shore
she is fit condition to proceed when
the fog lifts.
A Negro was lynched. Sunday. after
he had shot and killed Rufus Hodges,
aged 80 ard Thomas Reussian, 25, and
badly wounded Will Maxwell on the
Rushing farm, 10 miles north of Frank
lin, Tex. Hodge was killed first, fol-
lowing a dispute and Reussian and
Maxwell were shot when they attempt
ed to arrest the Negro. The Negro was
captured by a posse and hanged to a
tree.
Makers of wooden legs have appeal
ed to the forest service at Washing
ton to find for them a substitute for
English willow. which in the past has
been used almost exclusively in the
manufacture of artificial limbs. The
willow is especially adapted to this
branch Of manufacture because of its
lightness and strength 1t is becom-
ing scarce, however, and substitutes
for it are being sought.
Postmaster General Burleson an
nounced, Saturday, the purchase by
the postoftice department of Al auto
mobiles to be used in the collection
and delivery of parcel post matter
Twenty of the machines are powerful
trucks, designed and constructed es-
pecially for the needs of the parcel
post in large cities. OF these trucks
three will be sent to Baltimore, three
to Brooklyn N. Y, two to Buffalo, two
to Louisville four to minneapolis and
six to Philadelphia.
A knee length exposure OF white silk
hose bordered by a Neil rose double
slit skirt, constituted a case of Vagran-
cy, according to the decision of Justice
sta p!cton of Denver, saturday. Pretty
Mrs Dorothy Funke OF Alice. Kan.
who was arrested, Friday night. was
the subject of the decision. When
brought to court, Saturday, near riot
was created by spectators eager to see
the double slit skirt and the pink ros-
ette3 it was said to expose Judge Sta
pleton ruled that Mrs. F'unkc must
pass 80 days in Jail, or at once leave
| Denver.
Because he frightened a white wom-
an in her home by his strange actions,
Henry Crosby. a Negro was lynched
some time during Friday night, at
Louisville, Miss Officers searching for
him, found his body hanging from a
limb of a tree. Sunday. The Negro
went to farm house near here and
questioned the woman as to whether
her husband was present. The wom
an says that when the Negro learn
ed her husband was absent he acted
peculiarly. She took up her baby and
ran to a nearby house, where she re-
ported the affair
Discovered by brakeman of train
on which they We're taking free ride,
Sunday Edwin Johnson, aged Is and
Jos. II. Cabell, aged II, who escaped
from the Lyman reform school in West
boro, Sept. y, jumped from the car steps.
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