Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Seven men were blown to pieces.
Thursday, by the explosion of ION
of gunpowder at the plant of the ca
madam Explosive Co. at Beloiel, Que
bee pieces of brick and wood fell
mile away. The cause of the explo-
sion is unknown.
Jesse conyers, colered chef on Il
New York, New Haven & Hartford
dining ear, was arrested, Thursday,
ut New Haven. CT, for the Jersey
City. n. j., police. He is alleged to
have inflicted serious INJURY on his
wife with a meat cleaver at their
home In that city, early Thursday
morning. Conyers expressed willing
ness to return to New Jersey.
Patrick Quinlan, the Industrial
Workers of the World learer, who was
sentenced to a term in states prison
for melting the striking silk mill
workers to riot was taken to Pater-
son. y. j., from Trenton and released
under $4,000 cash bail. This was fur
nished by Fred l.. Warren of Girard,
Kansas, editor of socialist paper.
Three children of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Cooper of Townsend, Tenn, We're
fatally bitten by rattlesnakes, late
Wednesday. and while Mrs. Cooper
fought for them, an infant she had
placed near the bank of stream, fell
into the water and was drowned. Fun
eral services for the four children took
place, Thursday.
A party of three young women and
six men reported missing and believe"
to have met with an accident while IL
motor boat on the Della ware river
returned to their homes at Trenton
N. j., Thursday. The young women
said they had been visiting relatives
of one of the party. who were camp
ing on the shore of the Della ware near
Florence. y. j.
Claiming Whitaker, a well-known
mill engineer, Lowell Mass, died.
Thursday, at his home in Tyngsboro,
aged 60 years. He was veteran of
| the Civil War, and so years ago, was
captured by the Confederates at the
battle of Spottsylvania courthouse
Imprisoned for several months, he
was given up for dead, and his obi
tuary was printed in the Boston press.
He was a member of the second class
which graduated from the Institute
of Technology, Boston, and from 1871
| to 1887 he served as head of the de-
partment of mechanical engineering
For many years he was an engineer
with the Lowell Machine Shop.
Mrs. Alice Scott Mayer, widow Ct
William II. Mayer, well known
four in hand driver and socially
prominent. was found dead in bed
Thursday. at her country estate al
Middletown. r. l. Death was ascribed
to natural causes" but was hastenee
according to friends, by grief over the
demise of her husband. few months
ago from the shock of which she fall'
ed to recover. Mrs. Mayer was "
years of age. The two had no chit
dren and through their constant as
,, ISOLATION came to be known as tn
inseparable pair
II The steamer Seal which assiste'
the British warship Sirius in hoatin
! the stranded steamer Beothic at Pom
Rich. reports that the Beothic is bae
: ly damaged and will have to return Z
Halifax for repairs The Seal arrive
!, at Curling, Bay of Islands. n. T., dur
), ing Wednesday night The Beothi
struck while bound for Port Nelson
Hudson Bay, with Canadian govern
ment supplies.
Capt Charles White, skipper of II
a Gloucester fishing schooner Jennie
!, Gilbert, which reached Boston from II
n Banks Wednesday afternoon, said tn;
just week previously he picked UP y
headless body of young woman 20 mil
Z east of the Georges He feared the W
: man had met violent death, perhal
! aboard some transatlantic steamsni