Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-08
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
President McLaurin of the Massa-
chusrtts institute of Technology at the
graduation exercises Tuesday conferred
IA degrees in various branches If sci
ence.
An official dispatch from Leorenzo
Marques, Portuguese East Africa, says
that an excursion boat. crowded with
working people, capsizcd Tuesday, o.
of the excursionists being drowned.
An anti-Japanese rising of serious
proportions is being plotted. it is re-
ported. in North Corea. by Coreans
who are opposed to the annexation OF
Corea by Japan and who are the enc
mics of japanese generally.
The second day of the International
Horse Show at London drew q good at
tendance The first American winner
was Miss Lulu Long of Kansas City.
whose horse THE King" wen second
honors in Class | for novices single
light harness horses.
Gen. Sir William Francis Butler died
Tuesday at London. He was born in
1888 and had a distinguished career,
serving in Egypt and South Africa and
on special missions to Canada. Sir
William maintained his home at Ban
sha castle. Bansha. Tipperary, the
place of his birth,
Two gifts of s3c.po0 and $4,000 each to
Dartmouth College were announced Tues
day night by President Ernest f. Mich
OILS The gift of $4,000 is from Mrs. Jane
Eastman of Manchester. N, II. The gift
of $4,000 is from Horace Russell of the
class of 1865.
Japan is huIrying an expedition under
Lieut.. Shirase to leave this month in the
| hope of anticipating the British expedi-
| ton to the South pole, according to news
| brought by the steamer River Clyde,
which reached Victoria. b. c., Tuesday
| The Diet has voted money for the en-
| terprise.
This evening at Riverton Casino the
| Church Club of Maine gave a reception
and banquet in honor of the delegates tC
the convention. John b. Coleman of this
city presided and the principal speaker
was James NJ. Lamberton, president OF
the National Association.
Additional delegates to the Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers Con-
vention reached Boston Tuesday from
Philadelphia, New York and Cincin-
natl, bringing the total attendance t.
nearly $50. Routine business and the
reports on grievances occupied the
forenoon session. after which the del
cgates called upon Governor Draper at
the State House
Torpedo boat destroyerS Reid and
Preston sailed Tuesday from Newport
II. l.. for the Norfolk navy yard. where
slight alterations will be made on
board the craft. A little later Tie Reid
ard Preston will repGin the destroy
erS smith. Lamson and Flusscr in Mar
rag"rsett bay for torpedo exercise
Two fires. set Tuesday On Two differ
ent floors of the bulidirS in C"nte,
street at New Haven. Ct. occupied bv
the New Haven Union. the GilHert
Manufacturing Co. AMI several other
concerns, r. suited in damage by fire
and water estimated at about $4,000.
The Union was the chief sufferer, its
loss being about $4,000
Tuesdays session of the annual con-
vention of the Massachusetts state
Federation of Woman's Clubs at Lynn,
tSS was 'ltNotpu u ITt clpttlOn OF
officers and the reading of reports. The
officers chosen were: President, Miss
George A. Bair of Worcester vice
president. Miss Marion A. Crocker of
FItchhurg; secretary. Miss Grace V.
Hifbard of Milton: treasurer, Mrs
Lena r. Wellington of Winchester.
The curiosity of a boy helper in
Hight street plumbing shop at Ports
mouth, n. H.. Tuesday to see what
would happen when he applied
lighted match to a plug hole in
copper gasoline tank resulted in four
persons being injured and every win
dc in the shop being broken bv the
tanks explosion. No one was fatally
hur:
The bill permitting the Boston Hold
ing Co. to issue preferred stock was
given a third reading in the Massacbu-
s"tts Senate Tuesday without debate.
me Dill has one more reading in the
Senate before it reaches the House.
where it is expected to meet opposi
ton. as Representative Washburne of
worcester. chairman of the committee
on railroads Whihh reported it. djssents
from the report
After waiting more than a year the
800 creditors of Sederquist, Barry A.
Co, bankrupt stock brokers Of Boston.
We're Informed Tuesday that there was
scarcely more than a few dollars to
meet the claims amounting to over
SeooGo0. A special meeting for the pre-
sentation Of claims was held TUESDAY
at the Office of Referee H. E, Warner
and each of the creditors was told that
he would be notified later of the
amprnt available on. his claim. 1t was
stated that legal expenses had con