Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-22
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The annual meeting and banquet of the
New Hampshire Hotel Projectors Asso.
citation was held Thursday at the Kear-
sarge hotel in Portsmouth, about IS MEM
bers being present. The principal bust
ness to be transacted was the election of
officers.
The report of the referee in the suit
Of Mrs. Elsie French Vanderbilt for
divorce from Alfred G. Vanderbilt,
was handed to Justice O'Gorman in the
supreme court at New York Thursday
with a motion that it be confirmed. All
the papers in the case We're sealed and
filed. Justice O'Gorman will announce
his decision later. An intimation that
the report Of the referee was favorable
to Mrs. Vanderbilt was given when
her attorneys made q motion before
Justice OGorman that the report be
confirmed. The motion was taken I'M
der adviSement.
A package containing 1900 shares Of
Bay State Gas Co. stock was picked up
on the street near the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad station at
Providence Thursday night. George Le-
Wando, a lunch room employe, found the
package. The Providence police had pre-
viously been notified from Boston of the
theft of q valise containing securities.
from a man in the South station, Boston,
Wednesday. 1t is supposed that Lewan-
dos find may be part of the contents of
the stolen bag. The Boston police have
been informed of the matter
After having been in collision with
the cable steamer Nina, the schooner
Ercma H., arrived Thursday at Hall
fax, N. s., from the Grand Banks, N.
f., in tow of the Nina, in badly
damaged condition. The schuoner's
foremost was smashed, her sails and
headgoar were damaged, her mlaintop-
mast was sprung and the forward
starboard rail and planking were
torn open almost to the water level.
The collision occurred Wednesday
night off Green Island.
-Four persons were injured and several
others more or less severely shaken up
by the collision of two electric cars in
the Park street station of the Boston
subway during the forenoon rush hour
Thursday. The names Of those injured
have beer withheld The collision is be-
lieved to have been caused by the failure
of the brakes on an inward bound East
Cambridge car to work, with the result
that the car crashed into the rear end Of
an inward bound Grove Hall car which
had just come to stop. A panic was
averted by the street railway employees
on duty at the station. Traffic was block
ed for some time.
On an order signed by Supreme Court
Inc
bers of the failed brokerage firm of T. A.
Mcintyre & Co. were placed under arrest
Thursday at New York. They We're
Thomas A. Mcintyre. senior member of
the firm, and John G. Mcintyre, n part
ner. The complainant against them is
Frederick w. Kavanagh of Waterford,
N. Y, who has brought a civil action to
recover $4,000, the value of securities
which he declares the firm of T. A. Nc
lntyre & Co. converted to it's own use
Thomas A. Mcintyre Wednesday was ar
rested on a grand larceny charge and
released upon furnishing bond Of $4,000
Bail in case of each Of the McIntyres in
Thursdays proceedings was fixed at $4,000,
which was furnished.
The Massachusetts delegation to tn.
Denver. Col, met Thursday in Boston
and secured a partial organization of
the delegation for the work before it,
CO.. John p. Sweeney of Lawrence was
elected chairman of the delegation
and the other officers Were chosen as
follows: Vice chairman, Charles A.
russell Of Gloucester; recording sec
rotary, Leo F. Mccullough, Boston:
corresponding secretary, Thomas p.
hl"S. Maiden; sergeant alarms,
james A. Watson, Boston The com
mittee failed to come to an agreement
as to It's support Of a candidate for
national committeeman and the oues
ton will be settled at the next meet
ing OF the delegates. The hotel commit
tee voted to make the delegation head
quarters at the Hotel Savoy in Dem
YER
Attorney General Clark Fittz of Yer
mont mas brought suit against the.
central Vermont Railway Co. to re-
cover 100000 and against the Rutland
Rallroad Co. to recover $4,000 in be-
haif OF the state for taxes which the
STATE claims are due and unpaid. Both
suits are returnable at the August
term of the Grand Isle county court.
one man is known to have been
Killed, nine or a dozen Others injured
and property to the extent of $780,
wv was destroyed by fire which
broke out Thursday in the plant of
the Wintermeyer box factory at Chi
cago. The flames spread rapidly, cut
ting off the escape of many of the
employees on the second and third
hcors. Many Of them ran to the fire
escapes down which they clambered
while a small number were compelled
t" leap from the windows of the two
upper floors. The majority of those
who sustained injuries were hurt in
this manner.