Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-06-29
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Amsterdam, June 16.-tCorre SponC
ence Of the Associated PresS.-
Emmy Destinn. the Bo hemian
opera singer, has been barred from
the stage in Pregue on the ground
that "she has placed her services en-
tirely at the disposal Of the CZechn
Slovak agitation" She was entirely
to have appeared in opera at Prague
during the period recently when III
ter anti-Austrian demonstrations
took place there. The police issued a
special order forbidding her appear
ance.
Aver. Mass, June 2S.-Robert j.
MCGOWAN Of Manchester. \. H. a
member of Battery b. 303rd Artil-
lery, at Camp Devens. who ESCAPED
from the guard house in April after
his trial by court martial. was sell
fenced today to % years imprison-
ment at Atlanta for being absent
without leave, larceny and refus-
ing to obey orders. He is still at
large A three-year sentence at Fort
jay, y. Y, was imposed upon Pri-
vate Dennis J. Gallagher of Cam
bridge, found guilty of being alb
sent without leave and other charges
Washington, June 2S.-President
Wilson has decided to accept the res
ignation of Frederic A. Delano of
Chicago, as a member of the Federal
Reserve Board, to permit him to take
a commission with the army engin-
GERS for railway work iE France.
Brookline, Mass, June 2s.-Albert
H. Munsell, a portrait painter. whose
work was exhibited at the Paris sa-
lon in 1885, and two years thereafter.
died at his home here today. He was
sixty years old and had been in
structor at the Massachusetts, Normal
Art School. Boston. for thirty seven
years.
Boston, June 2s.-Theodor A. Rit-
ter, book seller, who, officials say,
formerly was a member Of Prus-
sian guards regiment, today was or
dered interned at Fort Oglethorpe,
Ca, as a dangerous enemy alien.
After his arrest in April Federal Of
ficers searched his house in Newton
and found a German uniform. He
was suspected of extensive circula-
ton Of German propaganda
Joseph Vierick, an Austrian, arrest
ed here sometime ago, after an alter
cation with soldiers, also was ordered
interned.
Pittsburg, June 29--Hans Wagner.
former baseball star, has enlisted in
the home defence police of Allegh-
eny county, and was today sworn in
an officer of the law, with jurisdic-
ton in his home town, Carnegie,
near here.
Joplin, Mo, June 28-Jack Demp-
sey and Bob Devere have been
matched for a II round bout here
July 4, It was announced today by
the manager of local athletic club.
Paris, June 2S-Three barbcd wire
fences, one OF which is charged with
electricity, have proved Intellectual
in hlndering German soldiers from
deserving across the frontier into
Switzerland, says a Havas dispatch
from Basal. The German military
authorities have attempted to remedy
the evil by .cancelling all leaves OF
absence and special privileges for
raine.
Washington, June 28-The death
Of Harold B. Rubenstein, of 25s
Thames street, Newport. r. l., at
naval hospital at Brooklyn on June
"a from gunshot wounds. was an
nounced today>by the Navy Depart
ment.
Amsterdam, June &.-western Ger
man papers just received here seem To
regard the reports Of the DEATH OF
Nicholas Rcmanoff as authentic. The
Russian newspaper Noyaia Zhishen sd.