Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-15
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

Two shots We're fired from ambush
at Colonel De Claremont. aid to the
| Honduran consul, l.. \. Caidron as h..
was entering his home Friday night
at san Francisco He returned the
fire. but his asSailant escaped.
Because his 7-year-old son could not
spell word correctly George Van
stone at Goodrich, Ont, beat him to
death with a club. At the asszes Fri
day evening he was sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life.
Former President Theodore Roose-
welt passed through Fargo, n. u.
Friday on the Northern Pacific coast
train for st. Paul. Mora than 1000
pers Ons We're at the station and gave
him hearty reception as lie appeared
for five minutes On the rear platform
OF the train.
Direct cleo ton of United States sen
ators finds favor in the lower brahch
of the Massachusetts Legislature A
resolution favoring the calling of
constitutional convention for the franz
ing of an mendment to the Federal
constitution providing for such cleo
tion passed the House Friday By a
vote of 166 tG 49,
In fire which destroyed the Sal
walton Army Industrial Home in Will
liamsbufg, n. y, early Friday 800
inmates OF the home marched to safety
singing On, You Must Be Il Lover of
the Lord while the Salvation ARMY
band played away on the stirring
marching time. The loss IN the buill-
ing is est mated at $1,000
Three men pinned under a heavy
touring car which had overturned
were drowned in ditch containing on
ly two feet of water in Melrose Park,
a suburb of Chicago, Friday night.
The victims were II. J. Blackburn.
owner of the ear. Cloid Roush of Glen
Ellyn, Ills, and Fred Kmholz of Lom-
bard, Ills. 1t is believed the car was
running at high speed when it skidded
and turned turtle, burying the men be
meath it.
Benjainin G.. Barnes of Washington.
d. C., was acquitted by i jury in the
circuit court ut Anderson, Ind. Fri
day. Of the charge of having forcibly
entered the sleeping car berth of Miss
Cecil Hill. foster daughter OF Prof.
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Chicago, on Il Pennsylvania Railroad
train, Jan. &c. Barnes was charged
with the offense and was arrested
at Dubuque, Iowa, but at the trial
neither Miss Hill or the trainmen
could identify him as the man that
had entered her berth. He denied he
had left his berth during the night.
DIR. Daniel X Pearson. one Of Chi
cagoe's distinguished philantrophists
celebrated his list birthday at his
retirement from public life Friday by
distributing sS00.oo0 among educational
institutions and for missionary work.
After making the distribution. DR..
Pearson read his farewell speech. 1t
five million dollars 81 ,000. 600 OF it to
Chicago and the rest OF it to Chris
tian colleges from the Atlantic TO the
Pacific and even beyond the sea. II
have no more money for benevolence
l have enough left to care for me
and l retire from public life happy"
Reer Admiral Onofre Betheder, for
merlN minister of marine for the Ar
gentine Republic. arrived Friday at
New York from Europe to superintend
the construction of the two Warshjr5
now building fer his government at
Camden. y. j.. and quincy, Mass He
will stay in this country until they
are completed which he expects will
be in about Is months. The Argentine
Republic, has also on the ways IL tor
pedo boats, four in England, four in
Germany and four in France. We
need a navy for police duty and de-
fence in South America. said the au-
miIal. but we expect no trouble with
any European nations"