Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-19

mended in the agricultural supply bill
for the next fiscal year, reported to-
day to tine House.
New York-Robbers today held up
Barnet Tillinger, a collector for the
Greenpoint National Bank in Brook
Ign and escaped with bag said to
contain $4,000.
Paris-(By A. P.-Sarah Bernhard
had fainting attack at the close of
the last rehearsal this afternoon of
Sacha Guitry's new play Gun Sujet
De Roman" which was to have been
| produced tonight with Bernhard in
| one Of the principal parts. BY rea-
| son of her indisposition, the produc-
| ton was postponed.
Berlin-tBy A. PIN the midst Of
their Christmas shopping. German con-
sumers were jubilant today at the I'M
prcccdentcd drop in the dollar. repre-
sented by mark exchange falling from
$500 to 5000 to the dollar in the course
of five days.
Brockton. Mass.-Three masked men
hoped out of an automobile in front
of Mrs. Martha Cobb's country gro
Gerry in hatfield village, West Bridge
water. this afternoon. and one Of them
covered Mrs. Cobb with a revolver and
robbed her of over S1c5 while the
other men stood guard.
Nladivostok-By A. P.)-The So
Wet government of Vladivostok,
which recently took over the admin
istration of the city and surrounding
territory. known as the Brimoria,
today ordered the consuls of France
and ten other countries to close their
consuates and leave the Primoria
within week.
WashingtOn-The nomination of
Pierce Butler of Minnesota to be an
| associate justice Of the supreme
court was ordered reported to the
Senate today by an unanimous vote
of the Senate Judiciary committee.
Tokio-(By A. P)-The prime re-
gent Hirohito has recovered from his
recent attack of measles, but now
is suffering from an attack of bron-
chial catarrh, according to an an
nouncement by the department of
the imperial household
Someryille, Mass-AIeyander J.
Macdonald Of Gloucester, one of
three bandits who held 23 employees
OF the New England Baking Com
pany at gunpoint Saturday night,
while they took s1,790 and fed,
pleaded guilty to a charge of rob-
berry today. He was held in $4,000
bends. MacDonald's two companions
have not as yet been apprehended.
New 1ork-Governor General f.
Mont Reilly Of Porto Rico, who ar
rived today for months stay in the
United States, charged that attacks
| upon his administration had been in
| ltlated by disgruntled Office holders
whom he had elected from power
Not one tenth of the population was
opposed to him, he said
Fall River, Mass.--The directors
of the Union Manufacturing Co., to-
day recommended a stock dividend
Of so per cent, increasing the CAPT.
talization from $1,200,000 to $780,
0o0 and the number of shares from
1000 to $4,000. A meeting OF. the
stockholders will be held Dec. % to
ratify the action of the directors.
Boston-The status of all volun-
tary patients at hospitals for the in
sane in this state will be Investigate
ed shortly in the light of the supreme
courts ruling that insane persons
may not be voluntary patients in the
eyes of the law, DR.. George NJ. Kline,
state commissioner Of mental diseas-
es, said today.
Salem, Mass.-Judge Henry T.
Lummus this afternoon handed down
a decree granting Edwin NJ. Gerould
OF SWampScott a divorce from his
wife, Marjorie Ger0uld of New York
on statutory grounds. Gerould is the
proprietor Of tho Sunbeam Tea Room
in Swampscott and the trial of the
case last week, attracted wide at
tcntion.
Watham. Mass-Mrs. Ann Z. Con
molly and Thomas F. Kinney. dodgers
at a house here, were found dead to-
day, victims apparently of escaping
gas.
Cambridge, Mass.-A slight earth
quake. apparently conferred in or near
the West Indies, was recorded at the
Harvard College seismograp hic station
today.
Cleveland Just a mongrel
dog, is dead. after his banks had
saved his master. mistress and their
cights- months-old daughter Puppy"
aroused by smoke early today. barkcd
until Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Gramm
were awakened, and until he saw them
safe in the home of a rcighbor Then
he dashed back into the house and was
trapped by the flames.
I BOStOn-A camDaipn IN rid Rostop
Of bandits and other criminals was
launched today by Police Superinten-
dent Crowley as q result of recent
series of hold-ups. including one muir
der
New York-The New York Coffee and
Sugar Exchange today voted to close
on the Saturdays preceding Christmas
and New Years.
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