Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

day at New Haven, Conn.,, on the au-
thor.ty of Henry T. Rogers of Den
Yer. Colo, that Mr.. Rogers is not
a candidate for membership on the
Yale Corporation. Graduates of the
university will vote this commence
men. for member of the corpora
ton to succeed the late Henry F.
DimoCk of New York, who had he
lived, would have completed his term
with the coming June. Mr. Rogers
name was brought forward as a pos
sibe nominee, following the sending
out of nomination blanks by the sec
rotary of the university. and Mr.
Rogers, in his announcement, says
that he is not candidate and Will
not be a candidate for fellow of the
corporation.
Paris retains it's position as the
third largest city in the world, the
census taken last month showing =
population of 2.s469S6. The present
census shows an increase of 1242o5
over the figures for 1906.
One thousand dollars for rose. That
is the offer of the Panama California
Exposition directors who want a new
species of the flower to be known as
the san Diego and to be used in pro-
fusion on the grounds of the EXPOSE
ton in 1915. The offer will be extend
ed to every florist in the United States
There are but three general restric-
tons. The first is that the rose must
be hardy. SO that it can be easily
grown out doors. The second is that
the competitors must be residents of
the United States and the third is that
they must make known to the Floral
Association their intention to compete.
The date for the ground breaking and
cornerstone laying ceremonies for the
Exposition is July 1922.
The undergraduates of Brown Uni
versity at Providence, r. l., voted
Wednesday afternoon on the plan re-
Gently submitted by the Cammarian
Club looking toward the limiting of the
number of offices which a senior in
college may hold. The plan has occa-
stoned considerable discussion and
there is great interest in the outcome.
The scheme in brief is a method by
which the various college honors are
grouped into certain divisions, and
provides that one man may hold only
certain few of these honors. The
CamEarian Club offered the plan be-
cause it felt that too much of the I'M
dergraduate activity was controlled
by few men.
Victor Palmer. a young inventor,
was killed Wednesday in his home at
New York by the latest device he had
evolved. In testing an appliance to
keep water in bath tub at an even
temperature, one of the gas tubes he
used became disconnected and an hour
or two after the inventor entered the
bath room to make the test he was
found dead in the tub. almost covered
by water. a physician said that
Palmer had been killed by combina-
ton of gas poisoning and immersion.
The bill abolishing the law for the
property qualification of voters and
substituting an educational test. was
indefinitely postponed by the Provi-
dence House Wednesday afternoon by
vote of 80 to Al. The bill is one of
the most important to come before the
Legislature this session and is the pet
measure of the Democratic party. The
action was taken Wednesday after a
long discussion.
a test of wireless Geographic SER
vice. the first to be attempted, it is
said, on river steamers, will be made
on the big packet steamer Queen City,
operating between Pittsburg and New
Orleans. The Queen City is now en-
route from New Orleans and on it's
arrival at Cincinnati will be fitted up
with the wireless apparatus. Stations
are to be erected along the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers and thorough test
made.
The Laetare medal. annually con-
ferred upon some Catholic layman by
the University of Notre Dame was
Tuesday night formally presented at
Notre Dame, Ind. to DR.. Morris Fran
els Egan, United States minister to
Denmark.
The Pennsylvania state Senate Wednes-
day passed a House bill making it a mis-
demeanor for any proprietor OF a theatre
or other public place of entertainment to
discriminate against any person wearing
the United States uniform The penalty
is fine not exceeding $500 or imprison-
ment not exceeding one year, or both.
The bill now goes to Governor Tener for
approval. 1t is known he will sign the
measure.
Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey
won hard tough, victory Wednesday
when the House of Assembly passed fl
nally the law providing for radical re-
form in election methods N New Jersey
known as the Geran election bill
The federal circuit court of appeals
decided adversely Tuesday at Chicago
the contention of Alphonse and Eva
Defaur, alleged international white
slavers' that bonds of $4,000, forfeited
by them when they fled to France
several years ago should be refunded.
A decision of the courts after their
flight nullified the charge against the
couple and they returned to Chicago
to seek the refund of the forfeited
bond. 1t amounts to fine of $25.-
OO0.' said United States District At
torney Sims after the decision, land
is probably the heaviest financial pen
atty ever imposed in a case of this
kind.
Three persons are believed to have
been killed and a score We're wound
ed late Wednesday, when bomb was