Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-10
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

| " % against tHt pioh VI tic bOSlOii
| Chamber of Commerce for Real Boston.
No formal vote has been taken but a
poll of the committee resulted in that
vote. 1t is understood that the propon-
| ents of the measure are convinced that
| they cannot get 1t through in its present
| form and that compromise is being con-
| sidered
| Free Speech League, with principal Of
| fees in New York, was incorporated Sat
urday at Albany ito oppose every form
of governmental censorship over any
| method for the expression, communica-
| ton or transmission of ideas" The di-
| rectors are: Leonard Abbott, New York,
| president; Brand Whitlock Toledo o.,
vice president; f. b. Foote. New York,
treasurer; Theodore Schroeder, New York,
| secretary; Gilbert L. Roe, Bolton Hall,
New York; Lincoln Steffens, Riverside,
CT.
| The laymen of the Troy Methodist con-
| ference, in session at Saratoga, n. y. de-
cided Saturday to postpone for another
| year action on the proposition of the New
| York City laymen to abolish the Office of
district superintendent and substitute res
| ident bishops in the government of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
| An investigation of the New York State
| Anti-Saleon League will be conducted by
| the Troy Methodist conference as re-
suit of a declaration made Saturday that
| the league is working in the interests of
! the saloons and has used it's efforts to
| secure legislation favorable to the liquor
| traffic. The Rev George T.. Stockwell of
/ al prpTihitinpjSf cHndi-
date for governor, asserted that the
| league had obtained the passage of the
Conkling bill, which he characterized as
| a saloon measure. The organization. he
said, also has repeatedly attacked other
temperance societies.
Five buildings which covered n block
on the lower side of New Haven, CT. and
adjacent to the manufacturing district,
was tire-swept early Saturday. The
| buildings destroyed in Franklin and
Chestnut streets were five-story brick
one, owned and occupied by the Lewis
Hawthorne Co., sash and blind makers;
a four-story brick one used by the John
T. Doyle Co, dealers in grocers' supplies
and makers of preserved goods, and
three wooden houses, each two and half
stories in height, occupied by many Ital-
ian families. The Hawthorne Cos. plant
was long occupied as a carriage factory
| by the Killam Carriage Co. Other ten
ants were the Charles Grenier Co., max
ers OF special machinery; the C. II. Bird
Butter Co, and Louis Romfer. cabinet
maker The total loss amounted to $780,
O00 More than half this loss is covered by
insurance.
G. Frank Cutting, so years old, of South
Sudbury, committed suicide at 1880 Sat
! urday by jumping from the roof of the
Columbus house at Revere beach. He
| struck on the granolithic pavement and
was instantly killed.
1t is announced at New Haven, CT, that
the disagreement between the linotype
operators and the publishers of the daily
| newspapers in that city has been salts
factorily adjusted. The operators were
prepared to strike on all the papers Mon
day if their demands concerning wages
and the setting of certain advertisements
were not acceded to.
Dawson Jordon, Charlie Pickett and
Murray Burton, Negroes, were lynched
near Ellavile. Ca, Saturday. They had
been accused of the murder of Newton
Eason, white man, on Jan. 2. and were
held on a coroner's order.
Practically all the rules that govern
formal marriages have been scattered
to the four winds during the past "A
hours by Miss Ruth Reynolds, stu
dent at the Rye Seminary, New York,
and Tristram Topper, young lawyer,
both members of well-known wealthy
families. The young newly-weds are
| still playing at hide-and-seek with
their families, but let it be known that
| they have the forgiveness and blessings
of their respective parents-Mr. ana
Mrs Edward &. Reynolds of New
Rochelle and DR.. and Mrs. II. Allen
Topper of No. "a Gramercy Park.
a coroncr's jury empaneied to in
qure into the death on Thursday OF
Craige Lippincott. president OF the
J. b. Liprincott Company, Philadel-
phia. publishers. rendered I. verdict of
suicide.
Because she was going to confes-
sion little Emma Reichel of Trenton
n. j., said she wanted to make it
up with those she lied about, and ac-
| cording to affidavits submitted in the
l dll tit LtotIiNCHy oNS
gave against her father was false.
Argument was made for new tria!
| for Victor Reichel. and atfidavits
| were submitted showing that his ~
| year -old daughter had said that she
| lied because her mother promised her
| a new dress if she did and whip
| ping is she did not. The father was
convicted OF statutory offense.
| William F. Hagan. wealthy flour
| dealer of Kansas City. Mo-, who was
shot Friday by John Bramhall. an at
| torney, died in hospital Saturday att
ernoon. Mrs. Bramhall went buggy
riding with Hagan in Independence,
Mo-, Friday afternoon Bramhall hid
behind hedge and when Hagen drove
up, shot him twice with shotgun
Mrs. Bramhall went home with her
husband and Bramhall surrendered to
the authorities Hagan leaves a wife
| and two children.
Intelligent Public Opinion" seemed
to be the Keynote of all the speakers
| who addressed the mass meeting held
| FRIDAY afternoon at Temple Israel in