Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-28

breaking windows. Once inside they
began to break up church fixtures.
Two members of the congregation
We're attacked when they attempted
to interfere. When their wives went
to their assistance, the assailants
turned and beat them. Members of
the church have aided the authorities
in breaking up stills and apprehend-
ing bootleggers.
White Plains, n. Y. Dec. 21-Mrs.
Philomena Lombarec, the mother of
four children. was in Jail today under
an indictment for first degree MUIR
der for the shooting to death of Vim
cenzo Costa. So years old, of New
Rochelle. She is the first woman to
be indicted for first degree murder in
Westminster county in 25 years.
Her attorneys said she would plead
self-defense.
London, Dec. 27-Australia will
certainly challenge for the Davis cup
in 1924, although she has not yet
made an official announcement to
this effect. says the Sydney cores
pondent of the Daily Mail. Gerald
Patterson and O'Hara Wood will be
available for the team. the dispatch
asserts, but ]. o. Anderson and j. 6.
Hawkes. will be absentees. Norman
Broolles will be playing in Great
Britain and Europe next summer and
will be willing to go to America as
captain of the team and also to play
ii wanted. d. D. Mclnnis and r. E.
Schlesinger will also be available.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 27-Scien
lists of the United States and Cam
ada We're in Cincinnati today to at
tend the opening of the 10Th anniver-
sary meeting of the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Sci
ence. Important discoveries and new
scientific theories will be announced
during the convention which will
continue until Jan. ..
Paris, Dec. 81 (By A. P.)-The loss
of the dirigible Dixmude is now re-
luctantly admitted. although hope for
the safety of her crew of so officers
and men has not yet neen relinquish-
ed. Officiels who feel that the great
airship's personnel is still alive re-
call that nothing was heard of the
crew of the Goliath. which broke
down in Mauritania in August 1919,
until a week after the accident and
all hope had been given up. Up to
an early hour this morning no news
whatever had been received from the
naval craft of France, Great Britain
and Italy, which have been searching
the Mediterranean waters for the
missing craft. or from the military
and naval parties which have been
exploring the interior of Tunis and
Algeria.
Vienna. Dec. 27-Arthur Brehmer,
poet. took unusual means to find out
what posterity would think of his
work. A notice Of the death Of the
ri u s,. I,
local papers together with sketches
of his life and criticisms of his work.
A few days later it was learned that
Brehemer was alive and well and
much interested in the comments
which the press had made about his
literary efforts. He admitted pre-
pairing the notice of his own death
and raid it was much more crafty
ing to writers To have appreciation
while they lived.
New York, Dec. 27-Market spec
ulators who have grown gray at the
task of trying to grow wealthy in
Wall street. today studied the system
reputed to have made the fortune OF
Lieutenant Osborne c. Wood, son of
Governor General Leonard Wood of
the Philippines. who is reported to
have accumulated between 500, 1000
and 100000 by cable speculation
from Manila to the street. COM
menting on the declaration yester-
day of financial ''tipster" service
head, that Wood had acted on night
ly cablegrams sent to him and for
which he is said to have paid 1000
a month including cable tolls, spec
ulators said the young officer had
demonstrated the truth of the theory
that long range shots are the best"
Toxic. Dec. %, fBy A. PA
youth dressed as a laborer, was ar