Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-09

o. ~ anu ~. Inc 1tlnS OF the MI
belung' consisting of THE Rhein-
sold" Die Walkure," "Siegrfied,"
and "Gotterdammerung," will be
given from July 26 to July 90, and
from August 10 to August II.
Nashua, n. H., March Fire, be-
lieved to have been set, destroyed a
large storage shed of the Osgood
construction company and several
thousand dollars worth of tools here
tonight. For time it threatened one
Of the large mills of Proctor Brothers
md the coal sheds of the City Coal
company. This is the second fire in
three days Of mysterious origin.
New York, March ARRESTED and
'harsed with the theft, here and in
'hicago, of more than 100000 in
wells and furs, Mrs. Anton Wer-
'itzer is said by the police to have
onfeSsed today to the robbery of
three homes in which she had worked
rs a maid. She implicated her COM
panion, Herman Lieberwirth, who al
so was arrested ard said that he
played the stock market with the re-
suits of heg operations.
New Haven. March 7-Announce-
/ ment was made by the secretary's
office at Yale University tonight of a
gift of $4,000 to establish in the Yale
school of law fund to perpet,ate
the name of Judah Philip Ber iamin.
who was characterized in the secre-
tary's statement rs "the brains of the
southern confederacy." and later one
Of the best known of English barris-
! ters of the second half of the 10Th
century. The donor of the gift was
ANONYMOUSLY given as a New York
attorney.
Athol. March 7-Leaving requests
Of only 800 each to her two brothers.
Walter NJ. Lee of this town. and
William d. Lee of Marlboro. Miss FL
lon +. Ice, proprietor of Miss Lees
Little shop for the past II years. who
died here Sunday. names her friend,
.Toeenhine I. Hare of this town. rs
residuarv legatee and executrix.
Bonds filed indicate that the estate
is valued at $4,000.
Pittsburgh, March 7.-Harry Hou-
DIM, magician and eXposer of bogue
spirit mediums" announced today
that he had resigned from the
american Society for Psychical Re-
ScdIcn allcT ne Idu Itcllu VI Liz
appointment of J. Malcolm Bird as
successor to Walter Franklin PrlLce
as research officer of the society.
Houdini who is appearing in a local
theatre, issued q statement in which
he accused Bird of "helping Mar
gerry" OF Boston. who claimed
powers of a medium in her test
manifestation" for the Scientific
American prize OF $1,000.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. widow
of the former President, sailed on
the Comic Verde for Genoa today. AS
usual, she declined to see newspaper
men or to be photographed.
Philadelphia, March IA young
woman who took poison in subway
station early here today was identi-
fed this afternoon as Mary Lee
Madden. said to he grand daughter
of the late Gen. Robert L. Lee. She
is recovering in a hospital, where
she was identified by sister, who is
n nurse in Haddonfeld, n. j., near
here. The young woman came from
the South last night and said she
was respondent over family trouble.
Los Angeles Cal, March IA
purported confession by Harold
Willis, 14-year- old son of Mrs. Mar
garet Willis, sentenced to life i'm
prisonment for the murder of DR..
benjamin i. Baldwin here last
April. that he and not his mother
shot the physician. was "diScredlted
and ignored" by the district attor-
rey's office today after he was ques-
toned.
Kiev. Ukraine, March 7-(By A.
P)-Rev. Andrae Fedoukovitch, a
Polish catholic priest, has been
near here. The authorities allege
that his assailants were agents of
the Polish secret police. The muir
derers poured kerosene over the
priests body and then ignited it, say
the advices from Jitomir, describing
the crime, the unfortunate man
writhing in agony while his assail-
ants looked on unmoved.
Johnstown, Penn, March ste
phen and Helen Balough, brother
and sister, who eloped to Cumberland
this week and were married. had
hearing before Alderman Alexander
Cover today and We're held under
$500 bail each for their appearance in
court. Friends of the family sup
piled the bail.
Greensboro, n. c., March Re
QUESTION papers looking to the eX-
tradition to Georgia of Gutzen Borg
lum, the sculptor, were withdrawn
late today and Borglum Immediately
decided to remain here and fight to
have all indictments against him in
Georgia mol pros'd.
Lawrence. March ten horses
were burned to death tonight in q
fire which destroyed the two-story
stable at 1872 West street. A general
alarm was sounded as the stable, a
wooden structure containing 90 tons
of hay, was situated next to lum-
Der yard on one side and a wheel
factory on the other.
New York March THE New York
Evening Post says today that the Rev.
DR.. Leighton Parks, for more than 20
years rector of fashionable st. Bar
tholomew's church and in recent years
standard bearer for modernists in
the Episcopal diocese, IS expected to
resign soon. The Rev. DR.. Robert
Philadelphia. will probably be his sue
cessor the Post says.
Paris, March 7.-(By A. P.)-Austen
Chamberlain, British foreign secreta-
ry, and Premier Herriot in their talks