Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-02-17
NEWS BRIEFS

unusually bad weather. Rain, alter
mating with snow sent the Seine up
four feet yesterday, causing dwellers
along the river bank to fear repi-
tition of the floods of two months
ago. The Rivera was hit by a storm
which wrecked the famous carnival
program, necessita ting the abandon
ment of many of it's features. Along
the coasts and in the interior the
storm is causing havoc in many re-
gions, and there is a heavy fall of
snow, which is unusual for this time
of year. In the Montpelier region.
walls have been blown over, houses
unroofed and trees uprooted. and
similar conditions are reported from
Savoy. Rivers are beginning to ov-
erfioW in many places.
San Francisco, Feb. I'm. II. De
Young, one of. the last survivors of
the dwindling school of personal
journalists in the United States,
who built a great newspaper from
theatrical handbill he started on It
borrowed $40 gold piece in 1865, died
here last night. He was IS years
old. His death was as sudden as
many of the events in his spectacu-
lar career which made him a nation
al figure. Early last night he un-
derwent an operation for intestinal
trouble. Two hours later he was
dead.
Minneapolis, Feb. 16-Federal
Judge John Franklin McGee of Min
neapolis, was found dead in his
chambers yesterday in the Federal
building. A bullet wound was in his
temple and a pistol with one eXplod-
ed cartridge was found by his side.
He was 65 years old. 1t is recognized
that ill health caused him to take his
own life. Judge McGee was appoint
ed to the Federal bench in 1913.
Norfolk, Va, Feb. ia monkey,
tethered a few feet from the pulpit
as an exhibit against the evolution
theory, cast quizzical glances over an
overfiowing congregation in the Park
Avenue Baptist church here last
night, while Rev. DR.. Floyd T. Hol-
land preached a sermon on Man or
Monkey" The climax for the con-
gregation-and the monkey-came
when he was held aloft in the pulpit,
q stern finger thrust toward him and
the pastor challenged anybody in the
church to stand up and concede COM
mon ancestry with the simian. No
body stood up.
Washington. Feb. 16.-The commits
sion to arrange for the celebration in
1882 of the 2O0th anniversary of the
birth of Washington, held it's first
meeting today at the White House
with President Coolidge. Congression-
al members of the commission met
with the president two weeks ago. but
today's session was the first of the full
commission.
Rangoon, Burma, Feb. 16.--The
high court here has dismissed the ap-
peal of the three Buddhist priests and
one layman who last November were
sentenced for assaulting and seriously
injuring Prof. and Mrs. Paul Gleason,
American missionaries attached to
Judson College here. The prison
terms from which last month the
chief justice granted the appeal. which
now has been denied. We're three years
rigorous confinement each for three of
the defendants. and seven years for
the fourth. one of the priests tried
was acquitted.
Berlin, Feb. 16.-To facilitate
American tourist travel to Germany,
the foreign office announced today that
a visa good for six months will be
given for a 81 fee.
Halifax, y. s., Feb. 1G.-Thc marine
and fisheries department today receiv-
ed a report that the schooner Repub-
lie was sunk in a collision with an
other schooner off Cape Sable Island
last night and that the captain and
six men of the Republic We're missing.
Twelve members of the schooner's
crew were landed at the Cape Sable
Island life saving station. The schoon-
er in collision with the Republic was
not identified. The Republic Is not
listed in the maritime register.
Koenigsberg. Germany. Feb. IA
Chancellor Luther in a speech opening
the German Eastern Fair here COM
planned Of the extraordinary economic
and traffic difficulties under which
eastern Prussia was suffering owing to
it's separation from the mother coun-
try. Railway transportation, passing
entirely through the Polish corridor
he said. could only be carried on with
friction, while inland water tranSpor-
tation was PROSTATE. He declared the |
settlement of the question of access
to Vistula proved entirely unsatisfac-
tory both to Germany and east Prus- |
sia. and asserted that, moreover. it
was contrary to the treaty of Ver-
sailes. The government would avail |
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