Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-06-27

| tenant governor and Harrison hew"'
OF New Haven for attorney genera
, Washington, June 26.-Final approval
I of the revised legislative. Judicial anu
executive appropriation bill. with ''s
| provision requiring al. government
! clerks to work eight hours day insteaa
of seven and giving them salary m
creases of sl20 a year. was voted To-Day
by the House, and the measure Went u
President Wilson for his signature
Memphis. Tenn, June S.-Announce-
ment was made today OF the SAFE ol
| Pitcher Ezra (Cy) Barger, manager u
| the Memphis Southern Association clun.
to the Chicago Nationals. TIC report
when the Southern season closes Fiji
! day.
/, Boston, June o6-Richard II. Long u
! birmingham tonight announced MS
candidacy for the Democratic nomiha-
! ton for governor In letter to Jonn
]. Prindiville of birmingham. maze
public in connection with the announce
ment. he says: Il am in sympathy Win
and have Loyalty supported the admin
| istration of President Wilson.
Washington, June 2o-Reduced
excursion fares to summer resorts
will be put into effect soon by the
railroad administration. Although
! low excursion rates existing before
! June 10 when the :, cent mile pas,
/ senger rate went into effect. VIII
| not be restored, the special rates
! will range from 10 to 20 per cent
! lower than the straight fare.
/ Somerville. Mass. June 2o-Firsst
Lieut.. Ernest a. Giroux OF this
city. a member OF the Lafayette Es-
cadrille. fell within the German
lines on May % and was killed &C
cordine to cablegram his mother.
/ Mrs. Arthur +. Healey. received
! here today from the American Red
| Cross in Paris. Lieut.. GerouN left
Dartmouth College in his sophie
more year. two years ago. to go to
| France and serve i'll the motor trans
port train Later he joined the fam
I Gus escadrillc.
! Minneapolis, MINI, June 2o-On
his arrival here today to participate
in an exhibition golf match for the
benefit of the Red Cross. Charles
("ChickD Evans, national open
champion. was taken into custody
by agents OF the department OF
Justice because he was unable to
! produce a draft classification card.
! After two hours wait Evans was
| released when telegram was re-
ceived from his draft board stating
that he he'd been placed i'll class 3,
| London, June 26.-Infuenza is now
! epidemic all along the German front,
according to advices received here
from the Dutch frontier, and the prev
alence OF this ailment is said to be
hampering preparations FOR offensive
operations.
!. Plainfeld. y. j. June 26.-Dr. Charles
Hendrick, who obtained notoriety in
May 1916 by marrying Mrs. Laura Big
gar Bennett. dropped head in Dunellen,
near here today of heart disease. He
was 50 years old. Dr.. Hendrick mar
ried Mrs Bennett a few days after his
former wife had won suit against the
actress for the alienation Of the doctors
affections.
Washington, June ga dispatch to
the state department from Berne today
said Prof Henry G. Emery, the Amv.-
lean economist. captured when the
Germans seized the Aland islands, was
held by the Germans at Charlottenbers,
near Berli The Russian war minis
try announced a few days ago that he
was in a prison camp at Tuchel Inquiry
has been made 20 ascertain whether he
is held as a civilian o- as a military
prisoner
New York. June 2s.-Over pro-
test from the prosecution. re-trial vi
John J. O'Lcary. accused of aiding his
brother jeremiah A. O'Leary to evaGe
Justice, was adjourned until Monday
in the Federal court here today az
, the request of OLeary's principal
counsel, T. 5. Fielder, who pleaded
illness.
Washington. June 26. After
amending so as to prohibit relinquisn-
ment of Federal control over one
railroad while control over a com
pcting line is retained. the Senate
Interstate Comemrce committee today
ordered favorably reported a resolu-
ton extending from July 1, 1918, UNI
til Jan. l next, the period provided in
the railroad control act during which
the government can return carriers to
private ownership.
Boston, June 2S.-Hundreds of
packages Of habit forming drugs,
struggled here from Canada. and
valued. Federal authorities stated, AZ
$4,000. We're found today in room in
a South End lodging house, occupied
by Alfred Carnicelli of Arlington, who
was arrested last night as a fugitive
from Vermont, The packages were
carefully wrapped and stacked in or
derby array in a trunk. ready for de-
livery at exorbitant rates.
New York. June 26-A syndicate
headed by Kuhn. Loeb and Co., has
taken up $4,000. 900 bond issue of
the Union Pacific Railroad Co.. it
was announced here tonight. This is
the first large railroad financing
! operation underWritten privately
since the government assumed con-
troll OF the transportation lines.
Cleveland, Ohio June a6-The
American Shipbuilding Company
today declared an extra dividend OF
five per cent in addition to the req
ular common dividend OF I'd per
cent, payable August !. The extra
| disbursements will be made in 1-o