Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-13
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Massachusetts House refused Mon
day by a close vote to revive the bill au-
thoriZng peaceful communications during
labor disputes. the adverse report of the
committees on judiciary and labor being
sustained.
Hans Hanson, who was burned out in
the great Chelsea. Mass. fire of one year
ago today, had that experience wildly
recalled to his mind Monday when his
new home, built on the Chelsea Revere
line. caught fire and burned TO the
ground The loss was small.
The Utica. n. Y, Chamber Of Com
merce held it's annual banquet Monday
night. the honored guests and speak
erS being Vice President James 5. Siler-
man. United States Senators Thomas
n. Carter Of Montana. Congressman
Francis w. CuShman of Seattle, Wash,
and Francis Sessions Hutcnens OF New
York
The Seaside Trophy for amateurs
was won Monday at Atlantic City, n
j.. by Wilson OF Frenchtown. n. j.,
with a score Of 1873 out of a possible
200 ut the annual Easter Monday h;,ndi-
cap shoot OF the Atlantic City Gun
Club. J. r. Skelly of Wilmington,
Del. was high gun among the pro-
fess!on&is, with Il score OF 1873. w. b.
Darton of Portland. Me-. made 119.
The statement was given out from the
United states district attorneys office
al MuskoSee. Okla. Monday that Special
Attorney Sylvester Rush and Dist Atty.
Grigg at Tulsa had decided to abandon
any further prosecutions of GOV. Charles
N. Haskell and the six other prominent
Oklahomans recently involved in the
Muskogee town lot cases. This course,
it was stated had been dictated from
Washington.
The cruiser Prairie. with draft OF
naval apprentices and mixed drafts
from the receiving ships Wabash at
Boston ard Hancock. at New York
sailed Monday from Newport, r. l., for
Hampton Roads. From that point the
men will proceed overland to Panama
ard across the isthmus to Colon.
whence the cruiser Buffalo will dis
tribute them To the stations along the
Pacific coast.
Delmar j. Young was arrested Mon
day at Erie, Pa, on warrant sworn
out by County Detective Frank H.
Watson. charging him with the murder
of his mother. Mrs. Winnie VI. Young,
Whose dead body was found in her Gel
lar last Wednesday horribly mutilated
and hidden beneath a pile of old par
pets. He entered a plea of not guilty
ard was committed to Jail without bail
for hearing next Thursday
Sparks from passing locomotive
on the Boston & Albany Railroad start
ed grass fire in the meadow. which
resulted in the burning of three barns
and a dwelling house Monday after
noon at Brookfeld. Mass. The house
and one barn belonged to Mrs. Mary A.
Wakefield. and the other barns to F.
V. Rogers and DIR. Mary A. Sherman.
The roof of the residence of Mrs
George H. Johnson was also badly
damaged. the total loss by the fire on
all TIE property being nearly $4,000.
The directors of the Florida East Coast
Railway in annual meeting Monday at
ST. Augustine, Fla, elected J. r. Par
rott president to succeed II. NJ. Flagler.
who retains the position of chairman of
the board of directors Mr.. PARROT has
been first vice president and has had gen
eral charge and supervision. of the Key
west extension. He will continue as gen
eral manager. J. p. Beckwith was pro-
NOTED to first vice president. made vacant
by the promotion of Mr.. Parrott. j. f.
Ingram was promoted TO have charge of
lands and Industries.