Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-08

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


Horace w. Wilson, for - years Sec
rotary of the Kentucky Horse Breeders
Association. and one of the best known
hersemen in America, died. Tuesday
at Lexington. Ky. He was 80 years old
Word has reached Montreal of the
death in London. Tuesday, of A. w
Thompson. vice president and general
manager Of the Oeilvie Milling Co of
Montreal. He was regarded as one Of
Canada's leading grain experts and
was widely known.
The Senate at Phoenix. Ariz.. Mon
day. passed the House measure pro-
hibiting foreign corporations from
transferring cases from the state to
the federal courts without the con-
sent of the other party to the suit
A fire. Monday, in the boiler room OF
the Chase block, at the corner Of Elm
and Concord streets. Manchester, n.
H, caused a damage to the building
ana sthe stock in the stores above of
$4,000.
Harvey A. Could. of Chester, Vt,
died very suddenly. Monday forenoon,
of heart failure. while on the street.
For the last "A years he had lived
with his stepdaughter. Mrs. G. A.
Hosmer. file was a member of the Odd
Fellows Lodge, also the Rebekahs and
the Grange. Last year. he was a mem
Der Of the building committee for the
High schoolhouse A sister. Mrs. Alva
Larkin of Rutland, and a brother, FL
lott, survive.
The will of Gus Rubin, the heavy
weight boxer, as filed for probate in
Brooklyn. leaves an estate valued at
$4,000 10 Mrs. Sarah M. Rubin, the
widow. who is prominent in the suf-
fragette movement. Brothers and
sisters of the deceased who live in
the West. have started contest on
the ground that the win was not
properly executed and that it was
signed under undue influence.
David Eyre. IS years old, cigar
salesman, died suddenly at his home,
IS Warren avenue. Broekton, Mass,
Monday. Two weeks ago Mr.. Frye
slipped on Il banana peel and wrench
cd his leg. \ varicose vein was rup-
tured and this caused death. He was
born in Grampan, n. H., in 1874, and
passed the greater part of his early
life as a teacher in New Hampshire.
He was an active member of Massa-
soft Lodge. l. .. O. T.. and attended
the Porter Congregational church OF
Broclton. A widow survives.
Monday marked the S5th birthday
anniversary eff John ellis of 81 Apple
ton street, Manchester. n. H., and the
27th wedding anniversary of Mir. and
Mrs Gilhs. Twenty seven years ago
Monday Rev Luther f. McKenney
then pastor of the First Universalist
church. united them in marriage. gifts
We're received to mark both the we'd
ding anniversary and the birthday
both events being remembered each
year by their friends. One of the
pleasantest features of the day was
ellis. and wife, of East Orange, MI.
who came on for the event.
There will not be a final court of APP
peals OF the Methodist Episcopal
church. This was decided, Tuesday. at
the business session of the quadrennial
conference of the church in session at
Minneapolis when, after more than
FIVE hours debate the conference re-
jeeted the first paragraph of the re-
port of the commission to judicial pro-
cedure appointed at the last session
of the conference in Baltimore four
years ago. What will be done with the
remainder of the report probably will
| be decided, Wednesday.
William j. Kelliher. who is serving
| a 15-years sentence at the Charlestown
state prison, for aiding George w.
Coleman in looting the defunct Nation
al CITY Bank of Cambridge. was a Wit
ness, Tuesday. at Boston, at a hearing
| before Samuel X. Hamilton. master in
| the suit brought by Receiver John l..
| Bates of the bank to recover money
which kelliher is alleged to have TAX
eli from the bank. The hearing was
held al the prison, attorneys in the
| case having discontinued. their mo-
| ton in the supreme judicial court for
a writ of habeas corpus to secure Kei-
! liners attendance at the Suffolk