Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Direct wireless communication be-
| tween America and Asia is now IN
| accomplished fact. the United States
| Army signal corps station at Nome.
Alaska, having been in nightly con-
munication, since Sunday with the
Russian station at Anadyr, Siberia zoe
miles west of Nome
Mrs. Alice Prescott Mayer, wife e.
the late VIM II. Mayer, a Well-kno gn
fourth hand driver and socially prom
inent, was found dead in bed at her
| country estate at Middetown, r. l., on
| Thursday. Death was FASTENED, ac-
| eording to friends, by grief over the
demise of her husband few months
| ago.
Mrs. Ella Fla9g Young Chcago's
$4,000 woman superintendent of
schools. resigned. Thursday. Tie
! reasons assigned by her are that she
has been made the victim of a politi-
cal intrigue by members of the School
| Board, and that under these circum-
| stances the efficiency of the schools
might be impaired by her retention of
the office.
Jesse and John James, broth ar.
iiNiHS itdi lsdfIiAeit ohla., Ntit a.
sassinated. early Friday, at they
We're driving along road near there.
Two charges of buckshot We're fired ia
the back Of each man. George and
William Baker, neighbors of the
James brothers, are under arrest. II
is claimed the Bakers and James far
lilies had trouble over a road running
| by their farm.
Mrs. Annie F. Monohan of New
| Haven is held criminally responsible
| for the death of her 17-year -old
niece. Miss Jennie McNamee. Marcel
| Il last, in a finding handed down. on
| Thursday, by Coroner Mix, who says
| that death was due to white arsei.ic
poisoning administered in small re-
| peated doses" There was an insur-
ance on Miss McNamee's life to tn
amount of S200e. says the coroner, Mrs
Monohan being named as the bene-
iiciary.
The danger to which residents Of
Hull Mass, are subjected by target
practice at the harbor forts was man
ifested when, about $50 Thursday
afternoon a solid shot weighing frotu
Is to 20 pounds dropped in the center
mere station. The shot was fired dur
ing the sub-caliber target practice of
the detachment of the Coast Artillery
Corps at Fort Andrews. on Peddoclls
Island, and came from one of the
mortars at Battery Cushing
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria of
Spain arrived at Paris, Friday, travel
ing incognito, on their way To the
CoWes regatta. They We're accorded
an enthusiastic reception by the peo-
| pie, who recognized them on the
streets, While they were out shopping
together. Their Majesties We're the
guests of President Poincare 1T
luncheon at the Palace of the Elysee
The King of Sweden has. selected
the University of Iowa as the United
States school for the study of expert
mental psychology under the auspices
of the American Scandinavian Foult-
dalton. President John G. Bowman
| of the university received notice Ff.-
| day. of the choice, and also was IN
formed that Pinar Gorvin of Stock
holm, distinguished student, will be
sent to Iowa City.
John d. Mattiford of Atlanta. Ca.
was arrested, Friday, at Boston. and
held for the police officials of the
Southern city ON a charge of having
kidnapped the two children of John
A. Bawick. 1t Is alleged that Matte
ford eloped with Bawick's wife and
took the children. Dorothy, aged 8,
and John aged years, last April.
The local police. are now searching for
Mrs, Bawick and the children. Matte
ford claims that they left for Atlanta,
two weeks ago
The East Boston police. Thursday.
gave up looking for the supposed sui
eide whose clothing was found,
wednesday morning, on the Border
street wharf and instead are looking
for two boys who caused Edward Mann
of la Princeton street, East Boston,
to go home in a barrel and starched
bosom shirt Mann, instead of being a
lost man. is.aerYS Inasli1 alives lie call
cd at the police ,station, Thursday
| after lie had read in the Post that the
police intended tn search the harSor,
and he identified the clothing as his.
The only thing missing in his ward
| robe was Sc in cash.
Miss Kate NJ Eager, one of the first
victims of the de luxe" book swim
dies, last year, was found dead in
| her apartments on the fifth floor of
| the Hotel Nightingale G37 Dudley
street, Boston. Thursday forenoon. In
| the opinion of DIR. Leary, the medical
examiner, Miss Eager had been dead.
since Sunday. Acute carditis was
ascribed as the cause of death. III
| had been known for some time that
Miss Eager who was SO years old and
had lived alone for several years, was
| a victim of heart trouble. AZ
| AS a protest against the decision, of
the directors of the Providenee Or. ID
Co to increase the price of their COM
4znaaity, President Frank P. Constock.