Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

| CONpeNSEO UtSPA ICHES.
| Abner Lewis Taft, a cousin of Pres
| ident Taft. died at his home at New
| Amsterdam, Wis. Monday. aged 60
years.
The Prix Des Geraniums. which was
run at Saint Cloud, France. Monday
| was won by Nash Turner's Tambour
| Major H.
Rear Admiral Cipriano Andrade, U.
s. N, retired, died at DIR. Wadsworths
sanitarium at South Norwalk, CT, Sun
| day and the body was sent to Wash
ington Monday for burial in the Ma
tional cemetery al Arlington. Rear
Admiral Andrade, who was second on
the retired list of rear admirals. had
made his home in New York City,
where the widow and two sons reside.
Because three bullets imbedded in
the wall of the New York apartments
| of Ethel Conrad and Lillian Graham
| lie close to the floor magistrate de-
cided Monday that the young women
probably did not intend to kill w. E.
D. Stokes when they shot at him two
| weeks ago, and ordered their bail re-
duced from $4,000 to $4,000. Counsel
L
proving and would be at the hearing
June %.
Lucus S. Storrs. for several years In
| charge of the Massachusetts Railways
vested in the New England Investment &
| Security Co. of Boston, will succeed Cal
vert Townley vice president in full
| charge of the lines of the street railway
! lines of the Connecticut company in
Massachusetts, it was announced official
/ ~ Monday at New Haven. His jurisdc-
/ tion will somewhat exceed that hitherto
| given to Mr.. Townley. He will take his
| new position on the first of next July.
| Mr.. Townley will take position with the
Westinghouse Company.
The death of Samuel Lothrop
| Thorrdike, prominent Boston attor-
ney, was announced Monday. Mr..
| Thorndike died Sunday at his home
in Weston, following short illness.
+! He was vice president of the Suffolk
| Savings Bank, vice president of the
| New England Conservatory of Mu-
sic. president of the Boston d Rox-
bury Carpet Mills and trustee of the
| Perkins Institute for the Blind. Mr..
| Thorndike was born at Beverly 50
/ year ago. He was graduated from
| Harvard in the class of 1852.
| Chagrin at losing the archery cham
| pionship of Kane county is thought
| by friends to have caused John Kind
| blade of Batavia, Ill, to take his life.
| There was a deep wound in his head
| but whether this caused his death or
whether he drowned in a shallow
creek will not be known until the YER
| dict of a coroners jury which will sit
has been returned. Kindblade, who
was So years old. was. in his youth, an
enthusiast of archery and had won
| prizes at tournaments in various parts
of the country.
| Most of the claimants of the Will
loughby coal land group in Alaska,
have been notified by the land office
| at juneau to show cause within 60
| days why their claims should not be
| recommended for cancellation because
of failure to apply for a patent. The
claimants are mostly wealthy residents
| of Portland. Ore, and Wilkesbarre
Pa. Some have applied for patents
| Among those claims in peril are: Nan
CIV M. Dickerman, Elizabeth r. Dick
/ erman, Frank e. Dickerman, Addie E.
Dickerman, all of Winsted, CT
In addition to the retirement of ]. J.
KorostovetZ, who resigned his post as
Russian minister to China because of his
failure to grasp the purport of the for
eign Offices policy in the Far East, 1t is
now expected that M. Malevsky Mala-
witch, ambassador at Toxic, and 5. Polk
levsky -Kozell minister at Teheran. soon
will leave their posts. 1t Is probable that
the former and Baron Rosen, Russian
ambassador at Washington, will be given
seats In the council of the empire. The
new policy OF the Russian government is
characterized by strong handed force.
Rt. Rev. sydney c. Partridge, the
new Episcopal bishop of Kansas City,
arrived Sunday at Kansas City, Mo-.
from Japan. where for the last IL years
he has been missionary bishop. All
over Japan" he said. there is
ChriGtian awakening. The time is
coming when there will be Japan
diocese with Japanese bishop. To
win Japan for Christ you must show
the Japanese that the new religion is
a benefit to them individually and ma
tionally. Then they are with you heart
and soul"
| j. Campbell Colston OF Bangor won
the Maryland tennis championship and