Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The trial of Bertram G.. Spencer for
the murder of Miss Martha B. Black
stone, will be held in Springfield, Mass.
beginning Sept. 9.
The formal call for the Democratic
state convention in New Haven, CT, on
Sept. : and 3, was issued Thursday by
Chairman Comstock of the Democratic
state central committee.
Prince Henry of the Netherlands
the prince consort Of Queen Wilhel-
nina, fell from his bicycle while riding
Wednesday. He sustained a fracture
of the collarbone.
Dr. John Trowbridge Rumford pro-
fessor of applied science at Havard
University, has rendered his resigna
ton to take effect Sept. l. Prof. Trow
bridge is 67 years of age,
Wallace G. Webber, for many years
a well-known Boston broker, died at
his home in Bedford Wednesday night,
He was formerly a member of the
firm of Paine. Webber & Co.
Severe fighting with heavy japanese
losses is continuing in Formosa, ac-
cording to advices brought to Victoria,
B. c.. by the Sazoru. The japanese
have lost many men by tactics of the
head hunters in rolling heavy rocks
over cliffs on advancing parties.
The Denver Post prints an uncon-
firmed report that DR.. Frederick A.
Cook of North pole notoriety, is pass
ing vacation in the mountains near
Glenwood Springs, where j. +. Brad
ley. his former financial hacker has
summer home.
Members or the Brotherhood of
Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders
tions with 10 manufacturing firms in
the Pittsburg, Pa, district until a
wage controversy which has been
pending for sometime is adjusted.
insurgency was rOundly scored
Wednesday by speakers at the Wash
ington Republican state convention.
The platform adopted indorsed the ad-
ministration of President Taft and al
so Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
The convention nominated the five
present supreme court judges as can
didates for re- election.
Because of the claims that she ate
a portion of a loaf of brown bread
which contained a large nail, Mrs. Hell
I'll cullen of Cambridge, Mass. and
her husband John, filed suit against
a Cambridge baker in the Mlddlesex
county court Thursday for $4,000. Mrs.
Cullen claims that on May % she sent
her boy to the baker shop for loaf OF
brown bread. While eating the bread,
Mrs. Cullen says, a nail in the bread
cut her mouth resulting in serious in
jury.
The Massachusetts yachts carried off
the honors Thursday at Marblehead.
Mass, in the second contest for the
Day cup with the 18fOOters from Mar
ragansett Bay. The race was sailed In
a stiff southeaster and half way over
the 15-mile triangular course there
was a lively race between the kittl-
wake V of Massachusetts, and the Hugh
of Rhode Island. The former then
drew away and won by about six min
ute.
Prince Henry of Prussia, who is a
member of the Zeppelin preliminary
Arctic exploration party now heaoeo
for Spitzbergen to study condltlons 1or
the proposed Zeppelin dirigible balloon
expedition to the North pole, stated
Thursday in a message from Tromsoe'
Norway, that it is not the intention OF
the promoters to attempt to reach
the pole before a full preliminary IN
.snyation has been made. 1t may
he FIVE. 10 or even Is years before the
aim of the expedition, attaining the
,,o,a nv the air route, will be reached.