Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The International Boot and Shoe Work
ers' Union Tuesday at st. Paul, Mimi.
reelected all officers. including Presi-
dent John +. Tobn OF Rochester, n. Y,
and decided to hold the next convention
in 1913 at Montreal.
President Taft was commended for his
recent message urging an amendment to
the pure food and drug law to prohibit
the labelling of nostrums as cures, re-
gardess of their curative effects In a
resolution adopted by the American IN
stitute Of Homeopathy at Tuesdays ses-
sion of its annual convention at Nara
Ransett Pier. The members cast their
ballots for the officers of the institute at
the forenoon business meeting Tuesday.
but because Of an excursion to Newport
in the afternoon the votes were not
counted and the results will not be made
known until Wednesday.
Dentists from Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont met Tuesday at Fabyans, n
Il, in the first session of a fourdays tri-
state conference. Several well-known mem
beers of the dental profession from other
sections Of che country guests OF the
convention and an extensive program of
matters of peculiar interest to the dele
gates has been arranged. The session in
the afternoon was called TO order by DIR.
Augustus { Foster OF Rochester y. H..
PRESIDENT of the New Hampshire organiza-
ton, who delivered an address of welcome.
Responses we're made by DR.. Elery Bianch-
ard of Portland. Me-, president of the
Maine Dental Society and Or A. Il cnt.
Ter of Bennington, VT. head OF the YER
mont society.
A $4,000 suit for alleged Islander
brought by Lieut.. Richard p. Hobson. Il. s.
NJ. retired against Former Congressman
John A. Kelher of Boston TWO years ago
in the United States circuit court at Bos-
ton has been settled out of court and by
agreement of counsel was withdrawn from
the court late Tuesday. The charges arose
the result OF statements made during a
hot political fight between Mr.. keliher
and ,oaeDh A. Goney candidates for Con
sress during which Lieut.. Hobson came to
Boston and took the stump for Gomez.
Lieut.. Hobsou considered certain statements
alleged to have been made by Kelllher In
one of his campaign speeches reflected upon
him and filed the suit.
Lang Tun Yen. Chinese minister of
Loitt5t didiiS, WHO Was given the ut-
gree of doctor of laws at the Yale
Commencement last week, has been
presented by the members of his Class
OF 1873 at the Hartford, Conn, High
school with a handsomely bound SOU
Venr book containing the photogra phs
Of the members of the class and of
the school faculty at that time and al
Sc other matters of class interest. The
presentation was made at an Informal
dinner rendered the Chinese states
man at the home of ID. Newton Bar
ney of Pennington, last night. He in
tends TO stay in the city until July 5
when he will leave for New York
July l3.
Disturbances about the plant of the
Baldwin Locomotive Works at Phila
delphia where a strike of more than
5000 men has been in progress for
three weeks, are becoming more fire.
quent For several days men who did
not so on strike have been complain
ing that they have been attacked by
strikers while ON their way to work
Tuesday a trolley car carrying Bald
win workers was attacked by small
crowd with stones ana bricks. No one
made a number of arrests The com
panY has shown no disposition to yield
To the strikers and the latter are MAX
inG efforts To obtain a conference with
the company officials