Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-18
NEWS BRIEFS

London, Sept. ia dlspatcn 10
the Central News from Berlin says
there has been street fighting be-
tween Communists and Royalists in
Plauen, Saxony. Twelve persons are
declared to havee been seriously in
jured.
Providence. r. l.. Sept. 1.-THE
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad today filed with the public
utilities commission new schedule
of rates increasing the price of COM
mutation tickets on the New Haven
ard Narragansett Pier Railroad. 20
per cent.
Montreal Sept. 17-Argument on
three of Is district claims aggregat-
ing nearly 100000 of the Dominion
Steel Corporation and its six sub
sidiary companies and the Nova
Scotia Steel and Coal company was
begun today before the war repara-
tions commission. The cases will be
continued tomorrow. The claims pre-
scented today totalled S2,100,23O.
New Haven. Conn, Sept. 17-More
than 400 members of Daughters of
Scotia, comprising delegations from
every state in the union and the
Canadian provinces, were present at
the opening session of the annual
convention here tonight. The or
ganization was formed in New Haven
25 years ago.
Camp Perry, Ohio-Stewart Scott,
civilian of New York City. today was
declared the winner of the fllntlock
rifle match which was fired Sunday
on the 5O-yard range with 60 entries.
The rifle is owned by Captain J. Ell
ding. of Kentucky. and is more than
$50 years old. Each contestant had
but one shot at the bullseye.
New York-The tank wagon price
of gasoline yesterday was reduced
one cent a gallon in New England
and eight Atlantic seaboard states by
the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey
and the Gulf Refining Co. The new
price ranges from IS cents In Wash
ington, D. c.. to Il cents in Virginia
where there Is a state tai OF three
cents a gallon.
warsaw-General Joseph Haller.
commandcr-in-ch chief of the Polish
armies, who is to attend the Ameri-
can Legion convention at San Fran
cisco as official delegate of the mill
tary forces of Poland, will sail from
Havre on the steamer La France,
Sept. %.
Lawrence, Mass.-John E. Hayes.
chief of the Beverly police depart
ment, pleaded not guilty to charge
of assault with a dangerous weapon
before Judge Hugo Dubuque in SUI
perior court yesterday. He. was held
in $500 bonds for his trial at a later
date. Hayes is accused of shooting
two LYNN residents last June when
they failed to stop their automobile
at his order.
New York-The Silk Association of
America has been advised that ship
ments of silk are being prepared at
both Kobe and Yokohama. Unofficial
aGvices from Japan state about 2S.000
bales Of raw silk were burned in the
Japanese disaster.
Washington-John II. Bartlett first
assistant postmaster general and for
mer governor of New Hampshire. was
taken to a hospital yesterday because
of injuries he sustained when his au-
tomobile was struck by street car.
Although he received a cut on the
head, physicians who examined him
said his injuries did not appear Sc
rious. His automobile was wrecked
and Mr.. Bartlatts chauffeur was slight
ly injured.
Morgantown, w. V.-The New York
notice were notified yesterday of the
death in the Morgantown hospital of a
girl. left there by
tourists. upon the possibility that the
dead babe may be Lillian Mckenzie.
kidnapped New York child. The child
died from malnutrition
Winnipeg. Misunderstanding the cabin
of the engine of his special train at
Ingolf Ont, about 100 miles east of
here, on Saturday. the Prince of Wales.
travelling as Lord Renfrew, Temperate
" relieved the fireman of his seat. The
prince rode in the locomotive for about
a5 miles.