Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-30

thieves who raided the Stone and
Thomas department store here last
night. The robbery was discovered
today when employees reporting for
work found Louis Stockler, the night
Waterman, handcuffed to a post on
the upper floor Of the building. The
robbers escaped with $4,000 in cash,
fur coats valued at $4,000, and a
number. of Liberty bonds, stocks,
notes and stamps.
London, Oct 20-The condition
of former Premier Andrew Bonar
Law is becoming increasingly seri-
GUS Sir Thomas Horder, the ia
nous cancer specialist, has been I'M
able TO check the progress of the
grave throat malady from which
the former premier is suffering and
his friends despair of his recovery.
Those who have seen him recently
say that he has failed greatly.
Dedham, Mass, Oct. 20--No hear
ing on motions for a new trial of
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van
zetti, convicted of murder, will be
held today, 1t was announced at the
opening of the court. Fred H.
Moore, chief counsel for the de-
Tense is ill at his home in Boston
and an adjournment has been taken
until tomorrow.
Somerville, Mass, ct.29-Five
firemen were overcome by smoke in
an underground passage while
fighting a fire in the Union Glass
Company's blowing plant here early
today. They were pulled uncon-
scious from four foot pool of
water. The fire started from the
bursting of melting pot and did
$4,000 damage.
Washington, Oct. 29-Premier
Poincare's statement of the French
attitude toward the new reparations
inquiry is construed in official quar-
tiers here as little more in substance
than a reassertion of the obvious
fact that rights asquired under the
treaty of Versailles cannot be alb
ridged except without the consent
of the parties to the treaty.
Maplewood, n. j.. Oct. 29-Two
bandits today held up Miss August
Schultter. a cashier for the Public
Service Railway Company and es-
capped with $3,345. The robbers
forced Miss Schulter to lay her head
on her desk while they took $500 in
cash from the cash drawer. The
remainder of the loot was in leather
boxes beside the company safe.
London. Oct. 29-Former Premier
Andrew Bonar Law Is suffering from
sceptic pneumonia, it was announced
this afternoon and his condition is
such as to cause anxiety.
Chicago, Oct. 29-Harold Grange.
Illinois sophomore, is attracting more
attention and concern than any other
football player in the Big Ten con-
ference. He has piled up "a of
Illinois total Of SO points for the sea-
son, or an average of more than two
touchdowns a game. His perform
ance has made Illinois one of the
most feared and respected elevens in
the conference.
Weymouth, Mass. Oct. 29-Frank
Brown of Salem died at a hospital
here today as a result of injuries
sustained when his motorcycle COL
iided with an automobile owned by
Miss Elizabeth O'Brien and driven by
Miss Frances Collins, both of Bos-
ton. The accident occurred last
night in East Weymouth. Browns
brother William, living in Needham,
who was in the motorcycle sidecar
was seriously injured. Misses O'Brien
and Collins escaped with cuts from
the broken windshield of their car,
Boston, Oct. 29-Gains and losses
were mixed and fractional in the
early trading in the local market to-
day. American Telephone was up
1-S, Swift & Co, off "A and Anacon-
da off 3-8.
New York, Oct. 29-Edgar T. Wal
lace, named as the chief co-respon-
dent in the retrial of the divorce suit
instituted, by w. E. d. Stokes, taking
the stand again today, sdenied that
the photograph of a woman seen in
his rooms was that of Mrs. Helen Ell
wood Stokes. He told the court the
picture was that of a friend whose
name he did not care to disclose. He
was not forced to do so. Wallace
also testified that he never had asked
Joseph A. Thornton, negro janitor in
the East 35th street apartment he
once had occupied, to call any taxis
for him for women.