Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

French Academy in succession to the
late Victorien Sardou.
The French cabinet Thursday APP
proved formula OF reciprocal regret
regarding the Casablanca incident and
this dispute between France and Ger
many Is now closed.
Congressman j. M. Cox Thursday
forwarded the entire diplomatic corps
at Washington invitations to be pres
ent at the Wright brothers celebration
which will occur in Dayton. Ohio. June
II and Is. N
William Loomis, 60, one of the best
known business men of Rhode Island
and formerly postmaster of Georgia
vile, r. l.. dropped dead in his yaru
Thursday morning from heart failure.
A widow and son survive.
The National Retail Hardware Deal
ers' Association adjourned sine die at
Milwaukee, Wis, Thursday afternoon,
after selecting Denver as the next
place of meeting and electing as pres
ident Charles H. Williams of Streater,
Ills
Four students at Northwestern Nuth-
were badly burned, one perhaps fatally,
by an explosion of powder while they
were loading shells Thursday in prepare
ton for a sham battle by a cadet COM
pany.
An agitation has been started in
Evanston, suburb of Chicago, and the
home Of James A. Patten, the Board
of Trade merchant, to have the name
of Main street changed to Patten
street, as Il tribute to Mr.. Patten, who
formerly was mayor of the suburb
In the 5lst session of the General
Assembly of the United Presbyterian
church, which opened Wednesday night
at Knoxville, Tenn, Thursday was
given over to hearing formal reports
Standing committees were appointed
by DR.. d. A. McClerghan of Allegheny,
Pa, who was last night elected mod
orator.
After a meeting of the directors of
the Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern Railroad Thursday in New York
it was stated that the directors took
no action toward the disposal of the
companv's mines. 1t was understood
lI.dI tIIc ulEtCtOIS Will IldhC oOlhC Gil
nouncelnent of the company's policy
in this matter next week.
At the meeting of the trustees of the
University of New Brunswick Thurs
day at Fredericton, N. B., DR.. J. r.
Inch, who is to retire next week as SUI
perintendent of education, after near
ly 80 years in educational work in New
Brunswick, was given the honorary de-
gree of LII. D. The alumni Grafton was
by Rev. +. B. Hooper, M. A., Of st.
John.
Edwin Clapp, well-known shoe
manufacturer of Weymouth, Mass,
died at the Homeopathic hospital III
Boston Thursday, aged GA years. He
had been suffering from, stomach
trouble and recently submitted to an
operation, from the effects of which he
never recovered. A widow and two
married daughters survive.
the resolution Incorporating the John
l.. Billiard Co. was again before the
House at Hartford, Ct, Thursday The
insurgents" scored another victory in
opposition to the House leaders when a
motion to reconsider amendment
OF the bond issue in proportion to the
capital stock was lost. This leaves the
resolution the order of the day for
next Thursday.
Sir John c. Ready Colomb died at Lon
dor Thursday night. He was born in
1885, Sir John Colomb entered the Royal
Marine Artillery in 1854 and retired as
captain in 1869. He was variously en-
ployed with army, army militia and vol
unteers. He sat in the House of Com
mons for the Bow and Bromley division
1862, and for Great Yarmouth 1S95-1906.
He was a prolific writer on matters per-
tanning to war and defence.
Gov. Hughes of New York Thursday
signed a so-called 10y riding automo-
bile bill. 1t provides that "any chauffeur
or other person who without the consent
of the owner shall take or cause to be
taken from a garage, stable or other
building or place an automobile or motor
vehicle and operate or drive or cause the
same to be operated or driven for his
own profit. use or purpose, steals the
same and is guilty of larceny and shall
be punished accordingly"
Counsel for both Howard Gould and
Mrs. Gould. who is suing her husband
for separation, Joined in a motion be-
fore Justice Gerard at New York
Thursday asking that the stay of trial.
which was granted when dispositions
of witnesses were being taken all over
the country, be vacated, and June be
set as the day for the trial Justice
Gerard reserved decision.
A large force of special deputies, as
sisted by private officers and police
men, formed an effective guard to pro-
tect party of 100 non-union men ar
irving Thursday at Orange, N. j., to
take the places of strikers in the hat
shops. A crowd of strike sympathiZers
at the station hooted and jeered them
but no attempt was made to do vio-
lence. Similar tactics were employed
by the officials to guard a force of 80
women workers who arrived later.
The hearing in the pennsylvania
Sugar Refining Cos. $3600O,OOO suit
against the American Sugar Refining
Co. was resumed Thursday in the Unit
ed States district court at New York
City. The action was brought under
the Sherman antitrust law, the Penn
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