Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-05-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The New England Veteran Fire
mems League met Tuesday in Lowell,
Mass, and tentatively settled that the
next muster would be held in Lowell
during the middle of August.
The death is announced at Paris of
Albert Augustc Cochon De Lappar-
ente, the French geologist He wos
born in 1899 and was perpetual secrc-.
tary Of the Academy of Science
Max Crockett, Jr, Is months old.
died at Lewisburg, Tenn, Monday of
wounds inflicted by rooster. The
child fell in the yard and the rooster
attacked him, sinking its spurs re-
peatedly into the child's head
Fire at San Francisco Monday night
destroyed property in the block bound
ed by Market Geary and Kearney
streets and Grant avenue, valued at
100000. 1t started in the kitchen of
tie Mentone restaurant. The buildings
were one story, of wood, built since the
big fire.
Ignace Paderewski, the pianist,
Madame Paderewski, Madame Mer-
celle Sembrich, the opera singer and
Andreas Dippel, who was recently
elected a director of the Metropolitan
Opera house, New York, sailed Tues
day for Europe on the steamer Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse
Madame Anna Gould and Prince He
lie De Sagan have not left Rome. They
gave it out Monday night that they
were about to depart from the city
and they carried out the preliminaries
of leaving so we'll that many people
were deceived. They are still at the
Grand hotel and have not yet decided
when they will leave.
John NJ. Shook, formerly first lieu
tenant in the 31st United States Volun-
teers and who is an important witness
of Senator Thomas c. Platt in the suit
for divorce brought against the Sena-
tor by Mae c. Wood, was
sentenced at Kansas City Monday to
two years in the Missouri penitentiary
for obtaining money under false pre-
lenses by passing worthless draft
Burton Koch. member of the Den
ver city fire department, shot and kill
ed his wife Louisa, wounded Mrs. Ma
tilda Motley, her mother, and then
committed suicide early Tuesday, Mrs.
Motley in attempting to shield her
uAN6h'Si iCSSiNCO u SIlcl III tHe leIC
leg. The tragedy followed series of
quarrels and separations. A divorce
was granted Mrs. Koch in April but
later she returned to her husband
The famous Hope diamond, latterly
owned by Joseph Frankels Sons Co. of
New York has been sold at Paris, it is
reported, for 100000. 1t is believed to
have been bought for the Sultan of
Turkey. The Hope diamond is sap
phlre blue brilliant weighing 44A car
ats. Ii was at one time owned by H. Y
Hope. 1t Is supposed to have been cut
from the large blue diamond weighing
ll2A carats in the rough, sold by Tay-
ernier to Louis XIV.
determination of Anarchy is the
scope of bill drawn by Assistant
Corporation Counsel Hole of Chicago,
which was introduced in the Legisla-
ture Monday by Representative AL
bert F. keeney. 1t provides that any
person who shall publicly advocate by
spoken or written word the killing of
any person, whether in Illinois or in a
foreign country, shall be deemed
guilty OF felony and shall. upon con-
viction, be sentenced to the peniten-
tiary
Bishop Anton G. Bang, at one time
secretary of the late King Oscar II,
arrived at New York Tuesday from
Cnristiania on the steamer Hellig Olav.
The bishop came here to unveil on
May II the statue of the Norwegian
poet Henrik Wergeland, which was
presented by Norway to the Normonne