Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-26
NEWS BRIEFS

dispatch to the Frankfurter ZeitunS
reports that the French have arrest
ed the Prussian general. Won MudrA,
who commanded the Germans in the
Argonne during the Great War,
General Won Mudra was in command
of the first German army and III
vested Verdun. He was placed on
the retired list in 1913.
Terre Haute, Ind.-Mr. and MrS.
w. d. Goble and their daughter, Mar
garct. of Near Farmersburg. Ind.
were killed today when their motor
car collidcd with an interurban car
south of here.
Reading. Mass,-Peter Doucette
was burned to death in a shack II
which he made his home near here
today, but the building was only
slightly damaged. 1t was believed
that an overturned oil lamp caused
the fire and the mans clothes caught
fire when he was attempting to ex-
tinguiSE T.. Firemen found DOucette
dead when they broke into the shack.
Rome-A. Hugo SHINES, the Ger
man industrialist leader. has arrived
in Rome to have a consultation with.
Ebert H. Gary. chairman of the
United States Steel Corporation, ac-
cording to the Paese. 49,, - .
eBrantford. Ont.-The factory Of the
Brandon Shoe. Company, was de-
stroyed by fire today. The loss wns
estimated at 100000, partly covered
by insurance 90. -
Chicago-Miss Dellora Angel.
youthful. heiress to the estate of the
late John w. Gates, estimated at
$3S,O00,000 and Lester Norris, son Of
st. Charles. Illinois undertaken, and
childhood sweetheart of Miss Angel.
are to be married this week, accord
ing to report received here today
from X. r. Angel. the girls father,
VINO Is with the family at Altadena,
Cal.
Dublin-(By A. P.)-General Bofin.
one of the chief Irregular leaders,
has been captured by Free State
troops operating from Sligo, accord
ing to an official army report received
here.
Croton. N. Y.-The mysterious
theft Of mail pouches from New Yorl,
Central trains between New York and
Albany was believed to have been
solved by the Arrest of Henry A.
Moore, a negro Of Rock Hill, s. q.
charged with stealing a sack Of regis
tered mail from the Harmon railroad
station last Thursday.
Macon. Ga.-Twenty-two members
or the Yale baseball team and a num-
Der OF the trainers and members of
the faculty arrived tonight. Yale
morrow.
New Haven. Conn.-Mrs. Gabrielle
Turner. IS years old, was burned 70
death when her apron caught Are
while she was preparing dinner in her
home. 49,
Yonkers. N. Y.-Joseph Hight was
crowned and his companion, Stephen
Fedor, narrowly escaped death. when
their canoe capstzed in the Hudson
river.
New York-Mrs. Sadie spadala:
was shot and killed tonight as she
came down the steps Of her home in
Her husband, Frank Spadala was ar
rested. Police said they Captured
him as he was running away from
the scene with a pistol in his hand, ss
Wakefield, Mass-Three stores in t,,SS
Walton building were swept by NH
and two others badly damag ed as a r1s
suit OF an explosion in the basenaeHe
or the store owned by Mrs. Lena Ar
derson here tonight. Two firemen welH
injured by fyisg glass. The DANA -
was estimated at about $25.Q00..
Washington-President Harding hee
been urged by Richard Dana. presiderT
OF the National Civil Service ReforM
League, to end the practice of makinEs
political appointments" to first, seE
ond and third class postmas tershipI,
and to see that selections hereafter ais.
confined in each instance to the psrsoas
standing highest on the civil serviok
eligible list. IS -
Memphis. Tenn.-Clarence Saundera
president Of the Piggy, Wisely StoreS.s
Inc, today notified shorts, caught d.
last weeks jam which resulted In tIsss
New York Stock Exchange stoppiTr,
trading in Piggy Wigsly class A stool
that ne VIII accept delivery from ths5fs
tomorrow at the hour fixed By the snsis
cial rule Of the stock exchange, OF aisSs
number OF shares they may have II
cover their contracts. but that hie. acs
ceptance is to be made with reserve
tions.