Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-24
NEWS BRIEFS

Cork.-A gang of armed men
wrecked the machinery in the power
house at Queenstown last, night,
plunging the place into darkness.
The damage was SO extensive that
considerable time will be required
for the work of repair. Meanwhile
the city will be without electric
lights.
Boston.-Horrors connected with
the evacuation of Smyrna by Chris
tians after the Turkish occupation
were described by officers of the
British steamer Serbino, which ar
rived here today from Alexandria.
Egypt. The vessel took 5000 refu-
gees from Smyrna after the fire.
Belfast.-(By A. PA column
OF Free State troops supported by
artillery, left Athlone today for Bal
lima, county Mayo. where hundreds
of Republicans are concentrated.
London-(By A. P.)-J. Ramsay
Macdonald. Laborite and leader of the
opposition, declared in the House of
Commons this afternoon that the state
ment in the speech from the throne re-
garding unemployment was profoundly
unsatisfactory to labor. He said il
showed that the government had no
real appreciation of Il terrible tragedy.
New York-Julius Reynolds, native
Of Switzerland. was arrested today
charged with being the author Of note
received by the custodian OF Borough
Hall, Brooklyn, on Tuesday, in which
the writer. who claimed responsibility
for the Wall street explosion in 1920,
threatened destruction of the hall by
bombing.
Sydney, y. S.-Clearng of wreck
age from yesterdays S250,000 fire in
the business district was begun to-
day. One man and one woman were
in a hospital suffering from burns.
Four buildings were ruined.
Miles of telephone wires and nun
dreds of poles were swept away n
the blizzard which ragged while the
fire was in progress.
New Bedford, Mass.-The body OF
Medi, five year old son of Hydest
Haym, was found today in the home
of John Pyva, neighbor of CogSe-
shall street, shot through the heart.
Bardhul, Medi's six year old brother,
said the child had been accidentally
sho. by a playmate who had found
! machine.
Washington.-Inv have
been detailed by the department OF
Justice to assist u. S. District At
torney Hayward of New York in the
inquiry being conducted into the
shooting at Camp Lewis. Wash, in
1918, of Major Alexander p. Cronk-
hite, son of Major General Adelbcrt
Cronkhitc.
Boise, Ida--Harry Orchard. con-
victed slayer of former Governor
Steunenberg yesterday was denied
pardon by the Idaho board of gard
ons. Communication of sentence also
was denied.
His sentence of death was COM
muted to life Imprisonment following
his trial in 1908, upon consideration
of his having truned states evidence.
MiddletoWn, Conn.-Archibald W.
Inglis, 65, chief of the MiddletoWn
police force, died suddenly ct his
home today from heart trouble. lie
was a former president of the state
police association and was also a
delegate to national conventions in
recent years.
Montreal-Fifty students at the
PRESBYTERIAN College marched on
strike today as a protest against hash
which they termed a ghost Of a
square meal The faculty promptly
posted a notice that there would be
no more meals.
Paris, (By A. PD-The American
embassy has received instructions
from the state department in Wash
ington to make immediate represen-
tations to the French government
concerning The recent adoption by
the Chamber of Deputies of bill
forbidding foreigners to hold real es-
tate in France or to lease property
for more than nine years without
formal government approval.
shington-President Harding
was urged today by a committee rep
resenting the National Association
of state Railroad Commissions to
recommend to Congress all amend
ments to the transportation act
which would restore the authority
of the state commissions over IN
trastrate rates, freight and passenger.