Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-17
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Among the guests invited to attend
the silver wedding celebration of the
President and Mrs. Taft at the White
House June 10 are the descendants of
blood relatives of every President of
the United States since the time of
Abraham Lincoln.
While l.. p. Cloutier. a Maine Gen.
trail Railroad brakeman, and Charles
S. Goodsel, an express messenger.
were fishing on the lake at Connecti-
cut Lake, n. H.. Friday, they ac-
cidentally overturned their boat and
Cloutier was drowned. The dead man
belonged in Worcester. Mass
At conference of the Methodist
churches of New Brunswick and
Prince Edward Island Friday night
at st. John. n. B., the delegates vot-
ed 101 to 3, i'm favor of union OF
the Presbyterian, Congregational and
Methodist churches of Canada.
Members of the Boston Chamber of
Commerce left Boston Friday night
for New York, where they will sail
Saturday for Europe on a 70-days
tour of observation as to commercial.
industrial and social development.
Several Chicago business men will
participate in the tour. making a
party of some 40 persons.
An important step toward simplify
ing the political situation in Massa-
chusetts was taken Friday when the
state wide direct nomination act be-
came a law with the signing of the
bill by Governor Foss. The <Rew
measure applies to all state Easss.
congressional and legislative. but par
ty conventions will still be called in
order to frame platforms and also to
nominate Presidential electors.
"a sequel to the Beach graft" case In
which 1t was charged that Postmaster
William II. Barclay of Pawtucket, r. l..
while commissioner of public works of
that city accepted money for crushed
stone which he never turned into the city
treasury, came Friday when Postmaster
Barclay announced that he had resigned
The post office department Thursday re-
quested Congressman George II. Utter to
name a successor to Barclay and it is be-
lieved that former State Senator K Mil
ton Payne will be chosen for the Office.
Guilty" was the verdict rendered
Friday at Montreal in the case of
Charles ID. Sheldon, charged with APP
propriating to his own use funds
given him by various clients for in
veatment sentence of five years
in the penitentiavy was imposed i'm
mediateiy. Sheldon was known in
Brockton. Mass. as Charles w. Rob-
inson. He is said to besa native of
Sandwich. Mass. surxsnsS
Cardinal Gibbons criticb6 q.
frage in an address Thuf< r.
Commencement exercises 49 I]lF9
College and Academy. Ero1S ! Nd.
He saids 81 think the pt&S woman
is in the home Women sh04 lot want
to vote. but II they took such Interest in
the affairs of their husband and brothers
they could easily have them cast their
ballots in the right manner. In doing
this women will be the champion of what
is right
more drastic rule against corners
than ever has been in force before,
was adopted Friday by the Chicago
Board of Trade by vote of S4S to 191.
The rule is the outgrowth of an in
vestigation by the board into the al
legged manipulation of May wheat. The
rule provides that in the event OF
default. a committee shall determine
as nearly as possible the real com
mercial value of the grain as a basis
for settlement. AS liquidated damage.
the seller will pay the purchaser not
less than per cent. nor more than
10 per cent. of the value of the COM
modify as established by the commit
tee.