Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-22

the Ku Klux Khan were forecast today
IN the announcement by Governor Hen
~ ]. Allen that he had been assured
ty the state attorney generals Office
that custer proceedings against the
Khan would be filed in the state su-
preme court.
Warsaw. N. Y.-The suit brought by
Mrs. James o. Howard Of Castle
against Margaret E. Pierce. young
CASTLE heiress. for the alienation Of
the affections Of Mrs. Towards A.
year-old husband, has been settled for
$4,000.
Los Acknowledgements over do
,nestic and financial troubles was the
reason ascribed by friends today for
what they and the police both termed
the suicide in his apartments yester-
cay of George Bronson Howard. novel
list, dramatist and playwright.
London-(By A. P.)-James Ramsay
Macdonald member Of Parliament for
the Aberavon division Of Glamorgan-
shire. and long prominent as a labor
leader. was today elected leader of the
parliamentary Labor party.
San Francisco-The American Insti-
tute of Criminology meeting here
adopted a resolution advocating a law
! providing for the Imprisonment Of au-
tomobile bandits for IS to 40 years
| with the provision that the minimum
be not reduced.
Manchester. n. H.-TeXtile strike
leaders here today announced for
mally that they had notified the
| Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
Of the rejection by the strikers of
| its terms for ending the dispute.
Allentown. Pa.-The building of
| the Allentown Crockery Company.
| occupied by a number of tenants and
| lodges, was destroyed by fire early
| today. Theodore Schaffer, a watch
man, was trapped in the building and
| burned to death. The loss is esti-
mated at $35O.000.
Boston-William II. Bowman. pay
| master of the Boston police depart
| ment, died at a hospital here early
| today of injuries received last night
when an automobile crashed through
a fence at Dedham. He was flung
| from the machine, picket from the
fence penetrating his abdomen.
ST. John, N. B-John C. Robbie
! baud, member Of the New Bruins
wick legislature, has been elevated by
reclamation to represent Gloucester
county in the Canadian House of
Commons. He succeeds 0. Turgeon
who was recently elevated to the
| Senate.
| Shanghai (By A. P.)--The bandit
4 army of Honan province. 10000
strong, which has kidnapped a num-
Der of foreign missionaries recently.
is laying waste path six miles wide
across the province, burning every
| city, town and farmhouse in its line
of march and leaving it's trail strewn
with dead bodies. according to let
ter received here from III. i. Led
gard, an English missionary who es-
| capped.
| Boston-Prosecution of motorists
and others responsible for empty
gasoline tank explosions was threat
ened today by Walter L. Wedger, eX-
pert on inf1ammables of the State
Department of public safety. The
warning was issued as a result of a
recent explosion in Somerville in
| which four boys we're killed and an
other. explosion in which several
workmen were injured.
Washington-Resign from the
Senate of Senator Truman II. New
| berry OF Michigan, the center of a
!
four years. became effective today
when his letter of resignation as
presente' and read in the Senate.
Boston-The Majestic. the biggest
| steamship of the seas, slipped out of
drydock here today. ship shape again
after being scraped and painted and
made faster than ever before with
propellers of finer pitch.
Boston-The Boston &Maine rail-
road is earning its fixed charges and
will show a small surplus at the end
| of the year, President James II. Hus-
It's announced to stockholders at a
| meeting today at which a new bond
issue Of $40.0.O00O to retire bonds due
in 1928 was approved. The strikes
! of this year cost the company about
| 100000 President Hustis said.
! Richmond. Ind.-After strangling
to death his wife, Rosario Fierro, 80
| years old and his daughter, Anton
eta. aged 9. Donate Fierro, laborer,
shot and killed William Henderson,
81 years old, a Pennsylvania railroad
section boss and wounded two other
| laborers. Posses were earsching
Wayne county today for F'ierro
The students were arrested last
June after a fire in the Catholic
church sheds at Hamilton.
Wampsville. n. Y.-Ralph Horton
of Poultney, VT, was one of five Col
gate students to plead guilty to an
indictment charging third degree ar
son. They were placed on probation
for five years.
Lowell. Mass.-Congressma John
Jacob Rogers tonight announced his
recommendation of X. A. Delisle as
postmaster of Lowell. following civil
Delisle proved successful. Mr. De-
Isle has been acting postmaster
since April last.
st. Louis.-(By A. PA cam
paign designed to show that 1.-The
evils which have accompanied Vol
steadism are endangering our ma
tional life," was launched this after
noon by the Association Opposed to
the Prohibition Amendment at the