Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

st. Marys Catholic Orphanage at Bng-
hamton, \. Y, was destroyed by fire.
Friday. All of the ago CHILDREN were ont
of doors at play or on the first floor and
escaped. The Rev. John Porubsky OF st.
Cyril and Methodist church was injured
while working at the fire.
A stranger walked into the New York
State National Bank at Albany, \. Y.
about noon Friday, thrust his arms
through one of the paying tellers' win
dows, grabbed bills aggregating ssIe and
rushed out into crowded state street,
where he was lost to view before the as
tonished teller could give an alarm. A
young woman, who was transacting bus
mess at another window, witnessed the
robbery.
The work of a vandal has been discov-
cred in Riverside cemetery in Fairhaven,
Mass, where County Commissioner John
j. Bryant of Bristol county and members
of his family had recently erected
monument to the memory of their father.
who was killed in the Civil War. The
handsome granite monument has been ir-
reparably damaged by the pouring OF
black oil over it. Experts have declared
the stone can never be restored to Its
original color
As the result of the prank of a boy
writing his sisters name on new box
car as it left the shops in Pittsburg, Pa,
a year ago. Ernest Noon of Minneapolis
and Miss Margaret NJ. Barker of Pitts
burg were married. Thursday night. at
the Church of the Ascension in Mime
apolis, MINI. Noon. who is a railway
employee In Minneapolis, saw the name
written by the young woman's brother,
wrote to Miss Barker and a correspon-
dence sprang up which ended in the mar
riage. Miss Barker went to Minneapolis,
Monday.
A survey of the ruins in the path of the
fire that burned over the north end of
Woodstock, y. H.. Thursday night, plac-
ed the loss, Friday, at a total of approx
imately $4,000. Four business buildings.
and IL houses and large amount OF
lumber owned by the Woodstock Lumber
Co, were destroyed. The fire, which is
supposed to have started from sparks
from a locomotive. burned itself out ear
ly Friday. The flames were driven by the
wind which, fortunately blew away from
the center of the town. Many guests
from the Mountain View House and 9TH
ed hotels in the vicinity visited the scene
of the fire.
Circumstances surrounding the death OF
Jonas Lawson, whose body was found
lying in a stall in his stable at Wood
stock, CT, Friday morning. with his head
crushed. are the subject of an investi-
cation being conducted by State Coroner
w. G. Bill. DIR. J. 5. Spaulding, the med
ical examiner. who performed an autop-
sy on the body and Coroner Bill both de-
cline to discuss the case. Lawson left
the house to go to the stable and care
for a sick horse. When he failed 10 re-
turn his wife became alarmed and went
in search of him. She found hts body
in the barn and the horse running around
loose.
With her two babies in her arms and
towel over her face to protect them from
the acid she had taken. Mrs. Lola Blair.
IS years old. an exceptionally beautiful
woman. died. Friday. at Crosby, Mimi,
just after she had been served with a
warrant for her arrest. The warrant was
sworn by Mrs. William Guith. wife of a
local contractor, and accused her of a
statutory offence. Guith was arrested
later. When deputy sheriff went to
the Blair home with the warrant, Mrs.
Blair asked time to pack a suitcase Per-
mission given, she went to ner bedroom.
took her babies in her arms and swat
lowed poison. Mrs Blair was married
in 1904.