Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-04

French aviator. who, in April last,
made a 1000-mile flight from Biarritz.
France. to Kollum, Holland, started
ON a long journey in his aeroplane,
Thursday, when he assembled from
Issy- es- Moulineaux with the inten-
tor of flying to Casblanca, Morocco.
Sarah Louise Arnold of Simmons
College of Boston was reelected.
Thursday, to the presidency of the
American Home Economics Associa-
ton in session at Ithaca, N. Y. Miss
Martha Van Rensselaer, of Cornell was
re elected first vice president.
Over 200 employees will be eade idle for
several weeks as result of a fire in the
Jenkins-Smith shoe factory at Peabody.
Mass. Thursday night. which caused a
loss of $4,000. The fire started on the
third floor of an annex from cause not
yet learned The factory closed. Tues
day, until next Monday, but mechanics
had been at work. Thursday, in the plant.
With her clothes torn and her face
scratched, Lena Guerioros II. a pretty
italian girl CT Leetoffia, Chic reached
her home at Youngstown, Ohio, late
Thursday, after escaping from five
men, Who tried to abdict her. Edwin
NJ Georgia., the chauffeur. who was
forced to drive the automobile in which
the girl was carried off, aided the girl
to escape.
Albin Walkowen, 35 was drowned white
sporting in Parker's pond. Gardner.
Mass, Thursday, when he and his
friends went out in a boat. which they
overturned intentionally, as all were
good swimmers. Walkowen sank soon
afterwards and did not rise again The
body was recovered. Walkowen was
natce of England and was chair work.
err. widow and daughter survive.
There was break, Thursday. in the
ranks of the foundrymen who have
been on strike at the plant of the
Draper Co, at Hopedale, Mass. for
several weeks. About 100 Italians
went to the shops and applied for
their former places. Work was given
to As and the others were told to re-
port again either, Saturday or Mon
day. The Armenians who were on
strike returned to work week ago.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars worth OF
ice melted away in fire that destroyed
the large storehouse of the Leominster
Ice Co.. Thursday night, at Leominster.
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the automobile of Fire Chief Frederick
Russell and one of them. Mrs. Anna
Cowdrey, aged 50. was reported In Sc
rious condition at the hospital. Her COM
panion, a Miss Harrington, escaped with
minor cuts and bruises. The cause OF
the fire is not known.
DIR. Abraham Glickstein. known as
THE cocaine and opium king" was
Thursday night. found guilty in the
federal district courts criminal
branchat New York, of conspiracy to
use the mails in marketing cocaine and
of the manufacture and sale of smok-
ing opium. He was sentenced to serve
two years in the federal prison 1T
Atlanta and to pay q fine of $4,000
Judge Mayer, presiding. said he had
been appalled, at the number Of hu-
man wrecks who had testified to
having purchased opium and cocaine
from the defendant. On July IL last.
four. of Dr. Glickstein's confederates
his brother, Ellis Glickstein, Isadore
Glickstcin, Nathan Ulrich and Louis
Levy-were found guilty on a similar
| Indictment. Silence was suspended on
| the former pair, but Ulrich and Levy
| were given terms in Atlanta prison.