Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-23
NEWS BRIEFS

NEWS BRIEFS
New York. Jan. 22-Major Henry
Murray Calvert, who was 4 member
of President Lincolns bodyguard.
died today. He was IS years old.
New York, Jan. 22.-As the result Of
deep cut in his arm sustained in a
fall on an icy railroad platform,
Willie Hoppe. worlds balkline billiard
| champion, has been forced into tenn
porary idleness and handicapped in his
preparations to defend his title in the
| international tournament opening at
Chicago Feb. %. Hoppe was forced
| last night to cancel a three-cushion
match with Henry Solomon Of Spo-
kane, Wash. and will be out Of COM
| petition for at least week.
Rome. Jan. "a sensational
crime is announced in dispatches from
Cagliari, sarinia. today. Invading
during the night the home Of family
Of eisht persons, living in the Jerzu
quarter of that town, unidentified
slayers killed all eight members of the
family as they slept. The messages
gave no other details Of the crime, but
stated that q widespread search had
been instituted by the police for the
criminals, whose motive in committing
the murders was not revealed.
Sofia, Bulgaria. Jan. 22.-speaking
before the Sobranje Irrational assem-
bly), Premier Tzankoff told tho depu-
ties that his recent trip and confer
ences in Bucharest and Belgrade were
at the suggestion Of the great powers
in order to consider common anti
/ " y-A at u
| lief that the heavy postwar atmos-
phere of the Balkans had been light
ened considerably. Material steps to-
ward Balkan cooperation were taken
during the conversations, he added.
San Francisco. Jan. 22.-tBy A. p
Aid in extending the theory of the
ether is expected to come from OBJ
servations Of the solar eclipse Satur-
day, although it seems doubtful
| whether new light will be thrown on
the Eirstein theory Of relatively. said
/ Capt. r. ]. J. See. professor OF math,
eniatics In the United States navy ana
government astronomer at Mare is.
land, Cal, in a statement TO-DAY. III
! is believed now that all forces etc.
come from waves, disturbances in the
/ ther," he said.
Paris, Jan. 22.-Mrs. William ii.
! Hirst. was granted a divorce here
TODAY from her husband, New
| York lawyer. They were married IN
New York Feb. 10, 1916. Mrs. Hirst's
! maiden name was Minetta Sartor1s.
Buffalo, N. Y, Jan. 22.-Niagara
Falls, with its magnificent cararact
bank with great pillars of crystal Ice
never darkened by total eclipse IN
the memory Of the white man, and
Ithaca. with It's concentration OF
scientific experimentation at Cor
| hell University, are wing for this
section of New York states chief In
terest in the total eclipse of the sun
/ which will take place next Saturday
morning.
Hutchinson. kas., Jan. 22.-Vada
| Watson, 10. slight girl with blue
eyes and merry dimples, who has
cooked for the harvest hands. and
managed a Kansas farm, planned to
leave here today to deliver to Presi-
dent Coolidge O sack of wheat har-
vested by President Harding and
message declaring kansas grows
, the best wheat in the world
Dmaha, Neb., Jan. 22-Lorenz Ko-
enig, 72, inherited $4,000 worth of
negotiable securities from his son.
DIR. Albert H. Koenig, who killed
himself last Saturday, but will con-
tinue to stack Shingles in an Omaha
lumber yard for s2s a week. "If I
quit I'd die" said the aged man,
who has been a laborer all his life.
He caid bo vyOs,Id shoro ha nctoto
| with his three children.
Chicago. Jan. 22-Philip X. Wrig-
| ley, notyet 80. will become president
OF the $35,O00,O0o chewing gum COR
| poration, succeeding his father. Will
| liam Wrig,ey. Jr.. at the annual
meeting Of the stockholders next
month. the Chicago Herald and Ex-
| aminer said today. The elder Wrig-
ley will he named chairman Of the
board Of directors.
Los Angeles, Jan. 22-Thomas
Egan. Irish tenor. known In operate
circles in this country and abroad, Is
dead here.
New York. Jan. 22-Robert Ridg-
way Of New York City was elected
, Pi CSENohl Ok SilC ftlIlCk iCdH OOClcly Vi
Civil Engineers at Its annual meet
ing yesterday.
Norfolk. Va, Jan. 22-William E.
Baker and Rex d. Sheldon are on
| I'll in the United States district
court here on a charge of conspiracy
to violate the prohibition laws in
connection with the operation OF
| feet of rum vessels Off the Virginia
and New Jersey coasts in 1923.
| Twenty-Five witnesses were sworn
yesterday.
London. Jan. 2e-The quaint little
| housein Central London known to
| thousands Of American visitors as
the reputei original of Dickens "Old
Curiosity Shop" was endangered by
] fire last evening. The house is at
present untenanted and workmen
are repairing it. Evidently they left
floor became ignited. Firemen were
! able to quench the flames before
much damage had been done.
Washington, Jan. 22.-Proposed ex-
tension Of congressional authority UNI
| der which the naval radio service
transmits commercial business to Ha-
wall and the Philippines has struck
snag, and unless some way is found
to extricate it American newspapers
in the Pacific possessions will have
their, news dispatches much curtailed
after next June so. Since 1920 Con-
gress had authorized the naval radio
to handle commercial business, includ-
ing news dispatches, across the Pa
ciGc with the proviso that the service
should be discontinued when private
companies were able to take over the
work. Extended from time to time,
the authority expires June 80.