Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-26

blaze to the baking plant.
Brockton, Oct, 24-John Ustapas,
Brockton and Monponsett movie pic
ture house manager, Is the defendant
in q $4,000 suit brought by Miss
Pauline Aiken, q Cleveland avenue.
Miss Aiken alleges that John prom
ised to marry her. She says she de-
voted 10 years of her life, money and
affection to the man she adored.
New Haven, Conn, Oct. 24.-(AP)-
Thomas Durkin, 20, supernumerary
Of the flre department, died OF suffooa-
tion in fire here early this morning.
He had gone into an apartment to cre-
ate ventilation and was overcome. 9th
er members of the department found
him prone on a floor.
Karachi, India, Oct. 24.-Forty
vessels have been sunk in the Per-
sian Gulf in the worst cyclonic storm
in the memory of the present gen,
Grafton. Messages from Berkshire,
Persia, estimate the death list at
from 100 to 1000.
Baltimore, Oct. "a. = (AP)-
Washed out in scudding rain squalls
Schneider international seaplane
trophy place race will take place
| next Monday. II the weatherman's
promise of fair weather holds out
over the week end, special trial for
the worlds speed record, over a
three kilometer course, scheduled
originally for tomorrow. may be held
Tuesday.
New York, Oct. 24.-(AP)-Still
dressed in deep mourning, Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, travelling as Mrs.
Edith Wilson, returned from Eu-
rope tonight on the Berengaria. She
was accompanied by Mrs. Bernard
Baruch, Miss Belle Baruch and Miss
| Evangeline johnson.
Chicago, Oct. 24.-The James
Simpson-Roosevelt expedition to
| Central Asia for the Field Museum,
; has conquered the mighty Pamir
Piateaus and has obtained four of
the rare Owls Poll (Marco Polo
SLEEPY which were the outstanding
detectives to the expedition, accord
ing to a cablegram received today by
D. c. Davies. director of the mus
cum.
Washington, Oct. 24.-Extensive
sales of government freight. and pas
senger vessels to private corporations
for continued operation in the over
seas trade was foreshadowed in q
statement made public by T. v. O'Con-
| nor. chairman Of the United States
Shipping Board, who today returned
from New York where he had confer
-tf taf nf
| be purchasers.
New York, Oct. 24.-Ths will of
! Elihu B. Frost, inventor and pioneer
builder of submarines, who died on
August 90 last, cuts off all blood rela-
tives and his adopted daughter. and
leaves virtually all Of his million-dol-
lar estate to a, Mrs. Helen Evans, de-
fscribed in the will as "a friend whom
| he is said to have met in Providence.
/ R. I.
Vienna, Oct. 24.-(AP)-It is on
cially reported from Belgrade that the
Jugo-Slav under secretary of state. M.
| Markovics, at the conclusion Of long
interview with the British, German
| and Bulgarian ministers today, gave
assurances that his country was deter
mined to observe the strictest neutrali-
| ty in the Greco-Bulgar trouble.
London, Oct. 24.-(AP)-A Reuter-
dispatch from Sofia says that Greek
| artillery on the Macedonian frontier
1 resumed firing at $50 o'clock this eve
| forward toward Petrich. The Bulga-
rian authorities are reported to have
| evacuated 10 villages, seven of which
4 the Greeks have occupied.
| Gilman, VT, Oct. PA posse of so
armed men under the direction of
High Sheriff Fred Hastings of Essex
county, have been combing the woods
around this village in search of a
man who brutally assaulted Mrs.
| Charles Blodgett late last evening as
she was returning to her home from
a shopping trip. .-
Concord, N. H., Oct. 24-The New
England Bakery plant on North Penn
broke road was destroyed by fire to-
day with a loss of 1000. The fire
apparently caught from an oven and
spread rapidly owing to lack of wat
| ef supply. A brisk wind endangered
| ignited, but the fires there were ex-
| tinguished by the chemical apparatus
from the Concord department.
Salvatore Augusta, %, Of 16 Park
street. Arlington, died at the Law
renee Memorial hospital, Medford,
yesterday, as a result Of injuries re-
ceived when q tractor he was oper-
ating on some property that is be-
ing developed in Someryille over
turned. pinning him underneath.
Washington, Oct. 24-(AP)-A
score of men picketed the Hungarian
legation here today protesting
against arrests Of members of the In
dependent Socialist party in that
country. They carried banners de-
claring Rakoski must not die. Math-
sentenced by court martial to death
in Hungary.
Rochester, N. H., Oct. 24-The ap-
plication of the Boston & Maine
Transportation Co., for permission
to operate a motor bus line from
Rochester to Somersworth. Dover,
Madbury and Durham will be OPP
posed by the Dover, Somersworth &
Rochester Street Railway.
| Providence, r. J., Oct. 24.-(AP)-
Hetrodore Gibeault. 20. Of Central
Falls, died this morning at st. Joseph's
Hospital from injuries received last
Friday when an elevator at the Cis-
tercian Monastery in Cumberland
crashed to tllP ground with six work
men. Ern<Ht Benois of Pawtucket
died few hours after the act. Abrich
Gibeault. As, father of the second vic
tim. is in a critical condition. The
other three injured are not yet out OF
danger.
San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, Oct.
25.-(AP)-General Emiliano Cham
orro, former president of Nicaragua,
advices from the capital say, has