Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Hotel men from all parts of the Unit
ed states and Canada were pouring in
TO Boston all day Sunday. preparatory
to the opening of the 32nd annual con-
vention of the Hotel Mems Mutual Bene-
fit Association. The convention viii con-
tinue through Friday.
If Gov Cole Blease of South Caro-
lima is willing to settle his differences
with t. Il. Fielder, a lawyer of Atlanta.
by personal encounter. he has an OPP
portunity. Fielder in an open letter
states that he is quite willing to meet
MIR. Blease in his own state whenever
and wherever the latter pleases. III
the Governor prefers other measures,
however Mr.. Folder offers to furnish
bond for any damages and TO pay the
attorneys fees for Mr.. Blease if he
would sue him for libel.
Morton f. Plant of New London. ac-
cording to Information which has
reached New Haven, CT. has made a
conditional offer of a million dollars
to the Woman's College. which is to
be located at New London. and to be
known as Thames College. The con-
ditions are. it is understood, that the
name be changed to Connecticut Col
lege, and that the college raise another
million dollars. A meeting of the
board of trustees of the collebe was
held Saturday in New Haven and aft
erwards il was stated that there was
nothing to give out concerning the
business of the meeting. The report
of Mr.. Plants offer was neither af-
firmed nor denied.
The New York. New Haven & Hart
ford secured control of a third indie
pendent railroad in this state within a
week Saturday, when il obtained a long
lease of the Narragansett Pier Railroad.
The Narragansett is a steam railroad
running between West Kingston and the
Pier. The directors of the Narragansett
Pier Railroad at n special meeting at
Peacedale Saturday authorized the exc
cution of a lease to the Rhode Island
Co. the trolley system which Is owned
by the New Haven, for a period OF %
years. The road is one of the smallest
in the state. operating 10 miles OF
trackage to NarraGanseit Pier connect
ing with the Kew lIavcn road al King
ston.
murder was committed in a pool
room at IA Seventh street, Fall River,
| Saturday afternoon, Maurice Schwartz
the proprietor, being the victim. The al
legged assailant, Edward Berube, surren-
dered at police headquarters Schwartz
head was nearly severed from his body
| by the stroke of a razor. Berube, ac-
/ cordng TO the police, bore evidences OF
| liquor. He told the officers that Friday
night, while asleep in Schwartz pool
| room, he was robbed of 500 This morn
ing, he said, he went to the pool room
and reported his loss to Schwartz, but
/ the proprietor, he declared. would give
him no satisfaction. The police believe
that the killing of Schwartz was due to
| a desire for revenge on the part of Be-
rube. Both Schwartz and his alleged
slayer We're unmarried Schwartz was
Is years old. Berube is mill spinner
| and lived at a boarding house. at 2ls
Jefferson street. He is "a years old.
David r. Radovsky, a lawyer at FAN
River, was ordered disbarred Saturday
by Judge Fessenden in the superior
court at Boston, having been found
guilty on two charges of misconduct.
The Bar Association had asked for his
disbarment based upon several specific
charges Of misconduct. but the court
found him guiltless on all except two.
The court found that he induced sHar-
ris and Tobie Sperling, father and
mother Of Abraham Sporting, to give
him note for 800, secured by mort
gage, in the belief that their son would
be released from Jail. The court also
found that Radovslly. Knowing that
conservator had been appointed in
certain case, flied in the blanks In Ger
tain instruments of transfers on the
backs of stock certificates for the pur-
pose of making it appear that the same
We're transferred prior TO the appoint
ment of the conseryator