Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

at Monday nights conference OF
Charities and Corrections at Richmond,
Va, the following officers were elect
ed: President, Ernest Bicknell Of Chi
caso; first vice president, Thomas d.
Osborne. Lewisville, Ky; second, Da-
Wis F. TILES, Boston; third, Robert W.
Hebberi. New York; general secretary,
Alexander Johnson, Indianapolis;
treasurer. Edward Boyle, Chicago.
After being buffeted and tossed about
in the severe storms on the Nova
Scotia coast. the American yacht Vale
more from New London, Conn.,, May
4. for Chicago, put in at Digby, n. S.
Monday in battered condition. Her
starboard rail is smashed forward rig
2ing and head stays carried away,
sails split and stearing gear out of or
der. Hale Thompson of Chicago, her
owner and George Perry of the same
city are on board.
A woman OF refined appearance and
well dressed was arrested Monday at the
10th street depot at Louisville. She gave
the name of Miss Carrie AIDE and stated
that she lived at New Rochelle, N. Y.
After alighting from carriage at the
and began to empty the contents of sew
eral suit cases. When an officer accosted
the woman she told him that she was
about to board a train for Washington,
where she intended to kill President
Roosevelt. She was taken in custody.
In statement to the Massachusetts
legislative committee on railroads Mon
day, Chas F. Choate. Jr., counsel for
the New York. New Haven & Hartford
Railroad. said that the principle enunciat-
ed by the supreme court in it's decision
on Friday against the holding of the
stock of trolley lines by the New Haven
Company applies as well to the holding
of Boston & Maine stocks and that it
will be necessary for the New Haven
Company also to dispose of this stock un-
less the Legislature decides that it is
consistent with the interests of the com,
monwealth that it should be retained
Taleh Clarence Chen Of Shanghai. Chi
ma. frst-year man in the Yale Law
school, died at the New Haven hospital
Monday Of kidney trouble. He became
i'll some time ago with tuberculosis of the
kidney which subsequently resulted in his
iei'oNdi " tie hospital, WIele IL was
found that the organs were in a very Sc
rious condition. An operation was per-
formed several days ago in which one
kidney was removed but while the pa
tient apparently rallied from the opera
ton his vitality was not sufficient and
death followed Monday morning Chen,
who WAS % years old. was sent to this
country TO secure an American educa-
tion to fit him for greater usefulness in
his own country. The Chinese legation
at Washington has been notified.
AS a result. it is alleged, of a
charge made by the New Haven, Ct
police a week ago last Saturday night,
as Van Alstyne of Albany, a member
Of the Freshman class in the Sheffield
Scientific School. who. with other
Yale students were in the crowd, is
seriously ill at the Yale infirmary and
it is said that a blood clot has formed
or the brain. DR.. j. p. c. Foster is in
constant attendance and called into
Van A;styne, it is said, was standing
with other students when the trouble
occurred. According to witnesses he
had half turEed to move back from
tie fire lines when the police attack
was made and he was struck squarely
on the head with roliceman's club.
He is the son of the late William Van
mayor of Albany.