Daily Kennebec Journal (Newspaper) - May 14, 1907, Kennebec, Maine VOL AUGUSTA MAINE MORNING 14 NO US W W jar are ow All the Surviving Injured Will Be Able to Travel two Plants and Franchises of h Be Taken Anniversary ir V V J t jen of va an sem lee 7 ane lie 1 I i I Norfolk Va May and a In tion today on Jamestown island 40 ins the of 1787 gavo to miles up the James river of the Union its Ma first anniversary of I the first permanent ts how pno of settlement under Sir Chief Justice Marshall so topher Newport John Smith and developed tiat others was held under skies and con- on as fo almost its second ditions in every way auspicious The t r all this I must not now exercises on tho Island were under the to t I auspices of the Society for the Pre- 59 years ago dark of Virginia Antiquities upon Virginia Wat Joseph Bryan of Richmond Va pre- a thc that war brings In Its train sided and the invocation Those wire of and by Bishop Randolph of the diocese of borne with the Southern Virginia f of Virginians they The opening address was tn E ono of the by Governor of Virginia and characters that Bat out of the British Ambassador BrVce followed delivered with an address the subject of which no of had Greetings from the Old World to the New A choir composed of now to students from the William and Mary llu tea ever College at in at- tlo jealousies tendance and Bishop Gibson of the the s n of North and South have diocese of Virginia and other clergy Happily Ambassador Bryco ofj and v thb tot cari all look back Without on those Virginia and Grant won un- dy ng fame The cii iy the ml nils your people have with on nothing to do with geo- graphical 111 j Never wae Santa Barbara Calif May funeral train j bearing the 21 dead and the 200 or 300 living will leave hers for the East before The work of embalming the re- mains of the dead has proved top a task for the local undertakers to complete today All else is in readiness for the start All survivors the wreck will be able to travel I The commenced after- noon at 3 o'clock A telephone sage from San Luis Obispo says the over the 11 dead there began at X The Maine party were supposed to leave Santa Barbara at noon Saturday and the wreck occurred in the fit noon after they had passed Several hundred telegrams have been received from different points out the country appealing for tion relating to Identity of the dead ard injured Such messages are still ing from St Johns N P and ton Me although no the cities were on board the wrecked train I Due to Defective Equipment San Obispo Cal May jury that tion over bodies of 11 victims of the wreck of the Shriners special on Saturday at Honda today found that the wreck was due to defective equipment of the Southern Co Portland charter granted by the last Legislature for formation of a water district to supply the cities of Portland Westbrook South Portland and surrounding towns water was accepted by Portland and South Portland and rejected today This means that will compose the district without the third city The which was taken at special election was as j Portland yes 2619 no 879 South Port yes 295 no 42 yes 103 ho The size of the vote is ah indication of small amount Df interest taken in the project Special elections will be held May 27 to five trustees four of whom iwill be in this city to forrn and the district to the charter the district is to purchase the plant and franchise of Water Co and the Water which now furnish thei water supply Tte outstanding and stocks of the two companies aggregata re Joy pi y i us err i eec i A so Confesses ing Wax i Is in -J Sen: Jail Unable to Assign a Cause Santa Barbara Ca May jury summoned to investigate Saturday's wreck at Honda lad to fix the for the death of 21 persons whose bodies are n this city today con- cluded that it unable to assign a for the wreck A PATHETIC INCIDENT Funeral of Late Narcissa J Flynt Dexter Me May The funeral of the late Mrs J Flynt was at her late on Main street at 2 o'clock after- noon in the presence of many and friends The services conducted by Rev G Spear pastor of the church ind the bearers were Samuel Eldridge E Hi Jones F J Carsley an 3 C G Ryan There was a of beautiful floral offerings The interment was made in the family lot Pleasant cemetery 1 eac c on or un continent of North America lay hidden In tho that was on this In tlie James river Just as tho germ of in the East was to be found in the charier that had been by Queen to tho East Indian Company seven very settlement here Tho landing at was ono of the great events in tho tho nvl event to bo compared for its consequences with the over- tKrow of tho Persian Empire by der destruction of Carthage by j with the conquest of Gaul with the taking of by tho almost say i with the discovery of America by Hut any of the magnitude event rise in the minus of tho Federol i of and he It your material It Is guarded by national patriotism In this of fair weather It is natural eyes should back across to Mother Land you lor a of hat now melted away inti the blue inp there s now an lection such as in Iho Of tho which cluster of thr figures Iy John and the ful the f this I will not speak leaving this the of c me io to da he jj of tho birth of Ihei lo Virginians more competent to riat on flail with It But of tho of the colony I may say We note In p Me President of the two qualities One of these spirit no made to at tip opening of the Me President of the made to deeply touched and for t Wm T had the honor ofj f was common to them With many ethers who had crossed the e t t m ern Spa But in the other quality our f the President the countrymen and your forefathers stood thj and his government They came from a free words country though its freedom hail not yet tno of tho celebrations placed on a secure and ni the Of land which of all legal that fl to the have beene is the ono most W5 on the fully the spirit of liberty t anl which the most favorable to i the ne States the fiction when unwise ministry Ignorant of the circumstances ami of the Into n conflict which ended in their an 1 from England hdw thb ties of all ct i led his colony and Us follow col- Initial conflict how NIC ship of Virginia matured by the have d TILL never H forgotten so ami between the j i j 5 the sentiment of afr Jn you ot Yon Fnc glasses save ten T lenses w di n each Spectacles n M Cherran Liberty Law arc l 1 because law ta Jt VM onj Twq Bride and Groom Send Loving Messages and Expire San May trains tearing day Cnm the scene uf wreck An excursion train containing 25 which hail hut 1 few miles behind the wrecked train ar- rived last night was ed around the wreck the gers in the statement that it wag the deplorable sight they cvor j Dr Wj re of Cincinnati who was the first physician 10 reoch the arrived night anti a graphic story of the terrible The most pathetic incident was death of a bride and groom at almost same Instant each believing that the other still lived N his bride were members of the party and tile on of the track as it reeled over an Both mortally but retained and exhibited The wife's tirst thought band and the husband's first thought was for his wife Tell my wife that I am all right murmured to the physician Give her my love and let me know how she is Mrs in return sent a sage of love per husband assurance that was right Be- fore the physician could carry an- other both had passed away Dr Ware was compelled to use drift wood for pillows and cut up the sheets on tlie train for bandages H Thorr ton head of a large party of from Meridian whi came through from Los Angeles In tho section of tho wrecked is at a He Is a road man of many years experience and is not satisfied that the disaster was caused by a defective switch to Ms statement the sleepers wera not badly affected by wreck and aro largely intact They were flung in every direction ot them of the but Ud not collapse Francisco members of tho Mystic consisting oE Islam ple and their wives and daughters who were in at the conclave of tho order In Los Angeles returned here ana Were the first to arrive sinco TIie train carried ho Shriners doomed to death in the wreck left Loa Angeles 10 minutes the Islam ple special By sonic unaccountable fate the first ins the that arrived yesterday passed at 3 clip over spot at which the following train was wrecked FIRST NEWS CONDUCTOR How i Intelligence of Wreck Reached Office o Dispatcher Los Angeles May dis- patch received here discloses how the first news ot accident at Honda cached the railroad officials It is said that i after the accident Conductor Jones climbed the nearest telegraph and with a telegraph Instrument provided for such purposes tapped one Continued on Page WEDNESDAY Washington for Tuesday for New Fair day Wednesday showers and cooler night to brisk west to winds i j Boston j Forecast j May for Boston ai 1 Fair and fresh southwest partly cloudy H th showers arid cooler Bowdo nham May tended by and with none Wis present in court Sidney K was arraigned before Trial Justice M Fulton at ham and pleaded guilty to the charge lie murdered his com- Saturday night at Bowdoinham by shooting Preble is 15 years old and Heath was 18 Preble related the entire story of the crime to the trial j justice and at from a shot gUn wound the gun being held in the hands of Sidney K Preble The witnesses were S Heath father of the murdered boy G Williams P Brown one of Heath's who testified that Preble had threatened to kill Heath and himself pr C Irish formed the autopsy and testified that death was wounds the back ol the head and tilat there were boy murderer of- fated Heath as he told his stoW in stolid fashion in the narrow limits Hie village lockup i He threatened to shoot me two weeks ago I kicked his a i month ago and he threatened me then I planned to kill him when I tlie chance I had planned to do two weeks ago I was afraid he would kill me he said he would Whon I wrote that note to his er I thought she would let me take his its conclusion was held for trial at the Conditions and General Washington May low sure since over Noix England has in arid warm weather in the East There will he showers Tuesday upper Mississippi valleys con- tHued and extending Into Atlantic It will he warmer in the Atlantic stipes Tuesday Iti be j cooler from the states northeastward Into the eit region and middle Atlantic states along the New England and middle Atlantic coast will be fresh brisk mostly southwest south Atlantic coast td southeast Augusta term of at He was ordered to be committed to burn jail without ball No witnesses were introduced Previous to the trial d or jury after a hearing charged the bos with the crime lo which he already had confessed The funeral of the vicit m will be held Wednesday or was lo tha in tonight to await trial Arrangements were made to an Inquest on the death of Norris W aged IS who was killed at Saturday by ney Preble to the latter's the ner J C Richmond ed the The is one of the strangest and most brutal In the criminal Maine Preble con- and In any leather All the latest mer styles in women's oxfords l i STEVENS BALLARD MAINE THE OF NORRIS powder marks on the neck and ty I H Purington Dcp ity Purington related the con- have been made to him by Preble aria added that Preble said he also stole after killing him and Concealed it dcr his The Uuni at thp place Indicated i The inquest was held at tUc home about 200 yards from the scene of- the murder L I to shoot him with his own but his mother wouldn't let me have said Sidney Preble the but fhe di I had to It barrel 12 gauge that father gave me for a said the was n unconcerned as hfe lolij tlie story of tlie tragedy as he ai he have been had it the of some one else he relating j shells of Earle told him my brotlier Henry v th -n The reason why I asked Heath for bicycle was went out with the hei tonk the with Win I hill the in Just before 8 o'clock JC went oyer ta MJ Williams mill and started to Continued on WAITT BOWS SIDNEY PREBLE The of May II at m Front of the Soon After His Confession TOTEM Cony 218 Water St fessed that lie shot gun and had his body in the woods where yesterday because Heath weeks ago to kill him if he dog again I I This Is the first county for 10 years 1 was committed After the examination of five Augusta the jury returned ti that Heath came to death exception the made in Union Inc BOSTON
