Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.)
April 18, 1907

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WUUU ieUUrebiek J U Um Ul. yrOL. XXXVIII. AUGUSTA, MAINE THURSDAY. MORNING, APRIL 18,1907. IfJII—IBII NO, 93 83RD ANNUAL Conference, Maine Meth odists, at Auburn. Bishop Goodsell Gratified at Growth of the Church. The Sessions Will Last Six Days— Evangelistic Meetings. Auburn, Me., April 17.—A devotional service marked the official opening- of the 83rd annual meeting of the Maine conference of Methodist Kpiseopal churches, uhich began a six-days ses sion here today. The opening service was conducted by one of the conference leaders, in place of Bishop Daniel Ooodsell of Boston, who arrived later in the day. At the service the dele gates participated in a Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. The early afternoon's schedule was devoted to a conference sermon by itev. A. T. Craig of Westbrook, and the program for the later part of the day included a meeting in the interest of aggressive evangi lism, conducted l>y lP-v. J. Brushingham of Kvanston, 111. itev. 15. Wentworth of the Portland district, as the senior presiding eider of the conference, presided at the open ing by instructions from Bishop Good sell. The permanent organization was perfected, Itev. George C. Andrews of Intervale, N. II., being re-elected secre tary. A large majority of the minis ters of the conference and their wives was present. II. H. Ryder was elected statistical secretary. II. L,. Nichols was elected conference treasurer. G. C. Andrews appointed the follow ing assistants: Royal A. Rich, James 11. Roberts, Wm. A. Wood. I". B. Schoonover, J. A. Cort y. H. I,. Nichols appointed the following assistants: C. II. Young. I). Nelson and A. T. Craig. H. S. Ryder appointed fur his assist ants: Felix Powell, cl. 1 Stanley and C. Perry. The rules and regulations of last year, with an amendment to give the secretaries 10 minutes to present their causes, were adopted. F. L. Haywood, H. I. Holt, and C. \V. Wallace were transferred from the East Maine conference, \V. Hatlcinson from the Vermont conference and H. A. Sheiman to the East Maine eonferenoe. Bishop Goodsell, who arrived during the afternoon, in explaining that this is the second time in his iO years m service that lie had been late at a con ference, took occasion to remark on the scarcity of the bishops. He said that it will be necessary to call home some of the bishops from abroad if the conferences are to be completed at tin1 usual time. He said that last week lie dkl something which probably no other bishop had done; lie held two conferences in one week. He com pleted the session of the Eastern New York conference at Bridgeport, Conn., at 11.30 o’clock last night and took the 1.30 A. M. train, coming directly to this city. He explained that the reason for this condition is that of the 13 bishops, two have died and two are disabled, leaving nine to hold all the conferences in this country. Bishop (loodsell spoke the great growtli of the church in Maine, also alluding to the net gain of SS.000 in membership in the Ended States the past year. lb v. J. 1*. llrusiiingham, D. P.. of Evanston, III., conducted an aggressive evangelism meeting, which will be a daily feature of (lie conference. Itcv. A. K. Bryant of Yarmouth, was granted leave to withdraw under com plaint at the Methodist conference here today. At the evening meeting Rev. Fred B. Fisher, a missionary in India who is in iliis country on a furlough spoke on missions. Rev. fl. P. Holmes, presiding elder of the Augusta district, gave an in teresting report, of which the following is a brief abstract; "While we have not realized a re vival in on l .v charge, tile year has not been without encouraging results. The efforts put forth to arouse a greater resire for the salvation of sinners and the convention held at Waterville for the purpose of creating interest in evangelistic work resulted in deeper interest and a larger enthusiasm by the brethren ilian has been f• -11 for some years. "In one nf the charges (lie brethren of a quarterly conference remained un til ne&r midnight planning for revival work. Conversions have occurred in nearly every charge. At Augusta 75 professed saving faith (Continued on Page Two.) OPTICIAN WIGHT ‘•Ho Jits your glass'"; right" P'i-I'a«y and Phin- On Kvogi.ipso:*. rA i V K I l U IN i /iiDLoi More headachr than am', I OTHER liODiLY A1 EM ENTS. THE I REMEDY IS PROPER C HASSES. Actual Increase 2,458.581 for twelve *»nthg ending Dec. Slst 1906 Tills la the of o» _ 7-20-4 m N«W England'■ favorite MURDER AND SUICIDE AT HAMPDEN CORNER. Mrs. Walter Ballard Kills Infant Child and Ends Her Own Life By Taking Carbolic Acid. THE ROBENS-DICKiNSON TRIAL Testimony Shows intimate Rela tion of Robens and Mrs. Dickin son—Former Made Threats. ROBENS-DICKINSON TRIAL. Ilnullon. 'I»., April IT.—'Testimony’ as to an ull-ged threat by Juan Itobens to “snuff out the light” of 1'ilgar Dickin son of Smyrna Mills, \v!io was shot and kilted rn his homo on «let. is, l'juti, was given at today’s session of Ilia trial for nmrdi r of Rubens and Mrs. Annie Dickinson, wife of tin* murder-.1 man. This testimony was given by Kin- st K. Clark, a young men with whom llobens formerly worked, and was to the effect Roberts declared. that if Dickinson did not “keep away from him" lie (Itobeiis) would “snuff his light out.” Most of the other testimony of to day's session was devoted to efforts on the part of tiie prosecution to show that close relations had existed for a long time between Mrs. Dickinson and Robcns prior to the murder and to at tempts to show discrepancies in the stories told hy her tit different times to different persons rs"> of tin* a am* Ison today, during the absence .f In a hus band. A note was I' ll for tli bereav ed busbar.! ami father. !i( its 1-111 tenis wire not made public. Mo mo tive' for the a.et was known ami it was believe.I to have been duo to a tem po, ary lit of insanity. When Mr. 1‘.a I lard, who is a teamster, returned this afternoon from a trip to IJangor, he found tip* doors of his home, which is located at Hampden i 'tinier, wire securely locked. He Rained an entrain-e through a window iinil was horrified to lind the bodies of bis young wife and child of a few months cold in death on one nf the beds. He rushed to the house of a neigh bor for assistance and l>r. Mason was called. Hr. Mason found that the lives had been extinct for till hour or more. Mr. and Mrs. Kallanl bad n-.-lded here most of their lifetime. STATE PRISON SENTENCES Per Steadman and Gottado—Pringle Assault Case Continued to October. Kllsworth, Mo., April 17_William SPii lman, who was found guiliy in the supreme court yesterday afternoon of as sault with Intent to kill and minder upon Sheriff hynn II. Mayo after escaping ftoin the county jail, was sentenced this afternoon to 10 years at hard labor in the State prison. The charges of break ing and entering and breach of jail, to which he had pleaded guilty, w re con tinued for sentence. .Martino Cottado of Stoningten was found guilty of assault with intent to Kill (mother Italian and Sentenced to two years in State prison. The eases of the four Bar llarhor men charged with riot in connection with the assault upon Rev. Henry N. Pringle, were continued until the October term. It developed today that Joseph Kmery and Pha-les Conners have not been appre hended, having left Bar Harbor. the witness, she said the man told her to go back to bed and stay there. The next witness was Mrs. Sarah Currie of Smyrna. She testilied that Mrs. Dickinson told her on the day of her husband's funeral, when asked whom she thought killed her husband, that it was either Will Noble or Jeff Dickinson. Mrs. Dickinson said fur ther, according to the witness, that these two men had an old grudge against h object of the conference, it Is tin (Continued on Page Two.) _ CONVENTION ENDS Session of the American Peace Congress Over. Carnegie Answers Suggestions By President Roosevelt, Decorated By France For Efforts For Promotion of Peace. York, April 17.—The first con vention of the National Arbitration and Peace Congress came to a.i end to night, after a three-days* session, with two large banquets, one at the Hotel Astor ami the other at the Waldorf Astoria. Andrew Carnegie, president of the Congress, tonight gave out a state ment as to the results of the meeting. Although not so designated by Mr. Car ncgi". (lie statement constitutes a re ply to some of the suggestions con tained in the letter which President itoesevelt addressed to the congress on its opening day. Air. Carnegie quotes these statements as “objections” and proceeds to answer them as follows: Our Peace conference has brought throe objections clearly before us. “First—Nations cannot submit alt questions to arbitration.” “Answer— Fix of them have recently done so by treaty—Denmark and the Netherlands, Chile and Argentina, Nor way and Sweden.” (Note—Since Norway has just se cured independence, the treaty pro vides that its integrity shall not be questioned, but whether it is or not af fected in any dispute is to be decided by The Hague conference.) “So much for the claim that nations cannot submit all questions. They have done it. “Second—Justice is higher than peace.” “Answer—The first principle of nat ural justice forbids men to be judges when they are parties to the issue. All law rests upon this throughout the world. Were a judge known to sit upon a case in which he was secretly inter ested, he would be dishonored and ex pelled from ltis high office. If any in divvlual refuses to submit his dispute with a neighbor to disinterested par ties (arbitrators or judges) and insisted upon being his own judge lie would violate the first principles of justice. If he resorted to force in defence of his right to judge, he would be dishonored as a breaker of the law. Thus peace with justice is secured through arbi tration, either by court or by tribunal, never by one of the parties sitting as judge in liis own cause. "Nations being only aggregates of indi viduals, they will not reach justice in their judgments until the same rule holds good, viz.: That they, like individuals, shall not sit as judges in their own ease. What is unjust for individuals is unjust for nation*. Justice is justice, unchange able, and should hold universal sway ov< r all rren and over nil nations. “Third—It is neither peace nor justice, tint righteousness that shall exalt the na tion. “Answer—Righteousness is simply doing iwtiat is right. What is just is always right: what is unjust, always wrong. It boir.it tho first principle of justice that men shall not be judges in their own. cr use, to refuse to submit to judge or ar bitrator is unjust, hence, not Tight, for the essence of tighteonsness is justice. Therefore, men who iplace justice or righteousness above peace practically proclaim, as H appears to me, that they twill commit injustice and discard right eousness by constituting themselves sole judges of their own cause in violation of law, justice and right. “Civilized man has reached the conclu sion that bo meets the claims of justice and of righ; only by upholding the pres ent rtign of law. Our pressing duty is 1 extend its benignant reign to combi nations of nu n called nations. AVhnt ts right for rath individual must he right f.-r the nation. This union of law and justice, ir-airing peace sr.d good wilt among uu n through disinterested tribu nals, is the ‘righteousness which exalt eth a nation.’ The demand that interest ed parlies shall sit In judgment Is tho wa kfdness that degrades a nation.” Rnron TVRstortinetles Pe Constant an nounced in his address at the Waldorf Astoria banquet that the cross of com mander of the Region of Honor had been eonferre d by til" Wench government on Andrew Carnegie in recognition of his ef forts on behalf of universal peace. Th* boron at once proceeded to the banquet at 'the Hold Astor, where the decoration was formally presented to Mr. Carnegie. (Continued on Page Five.) WAITT BOND’S TOTEM CIGAR

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