Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Pope Tuesday received in private
| audience Arthur s. Hardy former
American minister to Spain, and Mrs.
Hardy.
H. P. Cline of Philadelphia took the
lead over Calvin Demarest of Chicago, the
international champion, Tuesday night at
| Chicago in the opening block of their
150O-point match for the worlds 49, cham
pionship. The score: Cline 5O0 Demarest
343
Hope for prohibition legislation at the
present session of the kentucky Legisla-
ture was killed Tuesday when, by vote
of 16 to IA, the Senate referred the Wilkins
county unit local option extension bill to
the committee on religion and morals,
which is admittedly adverse to the bill.
The Rev. Campbell Morgan, pastor of
the Westminster Congregational chapel at
Buckingham Gate, London, has declined
to accept a call to the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian church, New York. He con-
siders the work at Westminster too i'm
portant for him to withdraw.
A gift of $4,000 to Cornell University
from Andrew Carnegie was reported Tues
day at the presidents office at Ithaca, N.
Y. The donation is to be used~for the en-
largement of the laboratory for chemical
| research if 100 additional students can be
enrolled.
The death rate is decreasing in Bos-
ton, according to the returns made
Tuesday night by the Board of Health.
The percentage of deaths in Boston
la 81
in the history of the board.
Members of the Grand Army of the
Republic of Massachusetts and kindred
bodies will take action at once looking
to the removal to this country of the
| body of Brig. Gen. Edward Augustus
| Wild, formerly of Brookline, whose
grave, marked by rapidly decaying
cross, has been found in Medellin,
United States of Colombia.
The directors of the Pennsylvania
| Railroad Tuesday declared a quarterly
dividend of TX per cent. This is the
first quarterly payment the Pennsylva-
MIA has authorized under a resolution
adopted sometime ago providing fol-
| quarterly instead OF semi-annual dis.
| bursements The rate is unchanged
from the last semi-annual dividend.
The reported consolidation of all cerea
manufacturing concerns Of Minneapolis
one in Battle Creek, Mich, two in Chica
go and some in Iowa, in new million
dollar corporation. to handle the output
of the breakfast food concerns, was con-
firmed Tuesday by Thomas w. Hicks OF
| Minneapolis. who has been prominent In
| the deal.
Jerome Keogh won again Tuesday nigh
at New York from Thomas Hueston thu
| second block of the match for the world
championship at continuous pool, but b,
a margin of only one point. They playet
q frames and the score stood POI to 200
Keogf's high run was 49,; Hueston's %
The total score now stands 40 to 1868 II
favor of Keogh. Play will continu
Wednesday night until one Of the con
testants secures 600 points.
The conviction Tuesday at New Yorl
of Paul Erenka. a youth arrested in con
nection with the white slave investiga
ton, of 'unlawfully receiving money b!
placing a woman in a house of prostitu
tion," is the first one under that sector
fof the penal laws ever obtained in thi
county and probably In the state. TIT
Il crime is misdemeanor and Erenka go
the maximum sentence of one year m tn
penftentiary and 500 fine.
Mortimer singer. the American avfa.
Jtor, fell with an iaeroplane III which he
4 Yves practicing Tuesday at Cairo