Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-18

but one small house has been filed
and that with six inch ice. Two or
three weeks of real cold weather is
needed it is said.
Lawrence, Mass. Jan. 17-James
Henderson, s.. run down by q city
ambulance last Tuesday afternoon.
died today at his home and an autop-
sy has been ordered to determine the
cause of death. The ambulance, dri-
ven by Thomas p. Cavanaugh. was
rushing seven year old Fred Carney.
fatally injured in a coasting accident,
to a hospital. When Anderson was
run down the ambulance was stopped
and he. too, was taken Ito the hospi-
tai where n was not thought his
condition was serious? He was al
lowed to go to his home. The Gaff-
ney boy also died.
Moscow-The bubonic plague has
leaped over the borders of Asia into
extreme southeastern Europe and Is
threatening tn Astrakhan district, ac-
cording to the Moscow Workman's
Gazette.
Washington-Presid Coolidge
today nominated Albert E. Wellman
to be postmaster at Torrington. Conn.
Boston-Sixty cases containing 600
gallons of alcohol and labelled as from
st. Pierre. Miquelon. and Havana. Cuba,
were seized by the police here today on
a truck near a police station.
Columbus. Ohio--John George
Broadly. Ohio State student. sells his
blood to earn money> to help pay his
way through school. The price is
about S106 a quart.
Worcester. Mass.-The American
Steel & Wire Co. is to start at once
the erection of a $4,000 electric cable
Providence-Thrift week began here
today with the announcement by bank
officials that Rhode Island leads the
country in school savings deposits.
94.1 per cent. of the public school chill
dren having deposits in banks.
Essen. Germany-Four persons were
seriously wounded when the police dis
persed a meeting held in commemora-
ton of the fifth anniversary of the as
sassination in Berlin of DR.. Karl Lieb-
knecht, Spartacan leader.
Crefeld, Germany-Wort in the tex
tile mills of Crefeld. Elberfeld and
Observation-Disclosures is practically sus-
pended owing to the acute turn in the
dispute over wages. =
Boston, Jan. 17.-Mrs. Matilda
Khouri was held without bail for the
grand jury in the Dorchester court to-
day. charged with the murder Of her
husband. Louis. on October last. She
waived examination. Moshel Kurka.
whose statement to the police that the
woman had told him she had killed
her husband led TO her arrest yester-
day. was held in $500 bonds as ma
terial witness.
Bloomington. Ind, Jan. 17.-Guy
Pierce of Windfall, Ind. a Junior at
Indiana University. was in Jail today.
and Sam Ruman of Gary. Ind. fresh
man, was in the city hospital recover
ing from eight cuts received in a fight
which friends say started during an
argument over the merits of their re-
spective home towns.
Washington, Jan. 17.-Chairman
Kahn told the House military commit
tee today that he had been assured a
''clean cut statement" would be forth
coming from the Ford interests by
next Tuesday defining their present at
titude towards Muscle Shoals Mr..
Kahn also announced that all bids for
the project should be in by that time,
as the committee was determined to
speed action.
Trenton. N. J.. Jan. II speaking at
a meeting of the w. c. T. u. Congress
man William d. Upshaw Of Georgia
last night declared that no wet candi-
date for nomination for the presidency
on the Democratic ticket would stand a
ghost of a show at the Democratic
convention in New York. since the par
ty leaders know that he could not be
elected. He declared that the time was
coming when January 16 will share
honors equally with the Fourth of July
in the march for American redemp-
ton"
( Washington, Jan 17.-Whitc ~spats."
tea drinkers and cookie pushcrs"
should be eliminated from the diplo-
matte corps. Hugh Gibson. minister to
Poland. told the House foreign affairs
committee in urging passage of the
Rogers bill for reorganization OF the
diplomatic and consular service. Mr..
Gibson declared that halo chasers"
also are unwholesome elements in the
service and under the bill could be rel
egated to inconspicuous places"
New York-Captain Lyman Chandler
Kimball and Captain Luella Carolyn
Hall of the Salvation Army were mar
ricd today and sailed Immediately to
spend a life honeymoon in mission
work in the darkest regions Of Africa
New York-Mary Arbold Lewisohr
has brought suit for separation from
Ludwig Lewisohn. novelist. it became
known today with the fling of mo-
ton in the supreme court.
Providence. r. I.-George Herbert
Clark. for many years president Of the
Columbia Narrow Fabric Co.. Of Shan
mock. died at his home here this morn
inas
New London. Conn.-Central Yer.
mont freighter New York grounded in
! the mud in the harbor here last night
during the storm. After being pulled
OF by tugs she resumed her trip ap.
rarently undamaged.
Pittsburg, Jan. 17-Leo p. Moon.
school senior. died today in the
Warren hospital Of broken back
received Tuesday afternoon while
engaged In a wrestling match with
jerome Miller. classmate.
steamship Latouche, Via st. Pau
Island, Alaska. Jan. II (By A. Pr
The inhabitants of Belkofsky and vi
cinity reported that q severe earth
quake occurred at 1850 Tuesday
morning. The southern edge of Paw
lof volcano blew off. Belkofsky is
on the Alaska peninsula. st. Pau
Is one Of the Pribyloff islands.
Washington, Jan. 17-Senator
Pepper. Republican. Pennsylvania
has returned to Governor Pinchot
the anthracite bill drawn by the
governor. The senator said he did
not desire to introduce the measure
sincehe might not be able to give
it his whole-hearted support.
Luxor, Egypt. Jan. 1.-THE dis
mantling of the golden shrines that
enclose the sarcophagus OF Tutank-
hamun is being watched anxiously
by all persons interested in the tour
ist trade, for inasmuch as the min
lister Of public works plans to open
the tomb for a week to those posses
sing special passes. there Is q flood