Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-02

Old Colony Wooden Mills Co., operat-
ing mills in this city and Sangerviile,
Maine, have been forced into re-.
ownership through suits brought by
Campbell, Fuller & Ward Co., and
winston & Co., both Boston wool
MERCHANTS to satisfy claims of $12,-
OBS and 14$,564, respectively. Rob-
ert Gordon of Arlington, Mass, has
been appointed receiver and will
i furnish a $4,000 bond.
Hartford, Ct, Oct. 31.-fAP)-A
limousine carrying a group of six
Italians from Northampton, Mass, to
funeral in Bristol, CT, sweryed or
the East Hartford boulevard today,
went through a steel bridge railing,
and dropped 40 feet into . swampy
PED OF mud and water in the Conn
ectlcut river. The occupants were
taken to the Hartford hospital by
| passing motorists.
Attleboro, Oct. 31-Positive idenn-
ncatlon was made this afternoon of
the body of the man shot and fatally
wounded last night on the Charles III.
Fuller estate here by Special Officer
Joseph Mason, as Thomas E. "Pad-
| dy" Coyne, $50 Albion street. Fall
River. He had criminal record dat
ing to 1910 and including several
prison sentences.
| Portland, Ore. Oct. 31-fAP)-A
woman today held up two EMPLOYEES
or the Roberts Brothers department
| store in front of the United States
National Bank and escaped with a
$500 payroll. mostly in silver coin.
Columbus, Ohio. Oct SLAP
OF the Anti Saloon League. declared
here today that Yesterdays statement
of the Federal Council of Churches,
reitera ting its stand for prohibition,
blasts the last hope Of the vets that
the dry forces were letting down in
| the fight"
Denver Oct. 31-(AP)--A proposal
OF members of the school board of
Manasso, to name the new high
school there 1.-THE Jack Dempsey
school," has met a. Storm Of protest
from the American Legion. j. C. vi
Wan. chairman of the district rehab-
| ilitation committee, said today that
he had protested to the school board
on behalf of the national organsza-
| ton.
Worcester, Oct 31-A huge pfc Of
| hard coal, dumped on the cellar floor
OF the three-family house at 80 Cutler
street, caught fire from boiler today
and threatened to destroy the house.
The firemen said it was the first tim:
in their experience that hard coal
stored in cellar had caught fire.
The house was owned by J. H. Cot
ton.
Marlborough, England, Oct. 81
(AP)-Juan de la Cierva's helicop-
ter, which made several successful
fights recently, crashed here today.
The under carriage was driven
through the fuselage. Pilot Haig es-
capped uninjured.
Hartford. Ct, Oct. 31.-fAP)-An-
order issued today by the public uti1i-
ties commission permits the Connect
cut company to discontinue 1928 miles
Of electric trolley service in eastern
Connecticut and to substitute bus serv-
ice. This is the greatest mileage of
trolley that has been discontinued at.
any one time since the Connecticut
company adopted the policy Of substi-
tuting bus service for trolley cars.
Chicago, Oct. 31.-(AP)-Resolu
tions adopted today by che American
Negro Labor Congress, which the
American Federation of Labor has
condemned as communistic,+ assailed
the activities of the American flyers
against Abd-Eel-Krim's Rifians. The
Lafayette Escadrille should be brought
back and the United States should
abandon it's claim to extra territorial
ity in Morocco, the negroes declared
Cesto> Calende, Italy. Oct 31-(AP)
Count Casagrande, who is complet-
ing preparations for an attempt to fly
from italy to South America, said to-
day that he would hop OFF from Sesto
Calende Monday if nothing unforeseen
prevented, and make the real start of
his flight next Tuesday, Nov. ., from
Genoa.
Rome Oct. 31.-(AP)-The three
days celebration of the third anniver-<
sary of the Fascist march on Rome
had it's official close today in color
full demonstration. The blackshirted
Fascist. from Mussolini down. spent
the entire day in glori- was not to he
considered merely as d geographical
expression, but represented rejuve-
mating force for the whole world II the
Fascist program succeeds.
Brattleboro, VT. Oct. S1.-The Gem
ire Congregational church has accept
ed the resignation Of the pastor, the
Rev. DR.. Herbert P. Woodin. DIR.
Woodin begins tomorrow a pastorate
with the First Congregational church
at Saybrook, CT.
Reading, Oct. 31.-As victor g. Wen
nistrom, 1863 Commonwealth avenue,
Allston, was crossing North Main
street this evening about $50 O'Clock
he was struck by an automobile oner-
alter by William A. Green, 11s Nor
wood street, Everett wennistrorn
was cut and bruised considerably. He {,
was attended by DIR. E. D. Richmond
and then sent home y,
Springfield, Oct. 31-James P. DAILY,
81. was captured at the point of re-
volver by Patrolman James w. Maho-
ney while in the act of cracking a safe
in the Office of Central High school
early today. Daily said he had been in
Springfield about 10 days, having been
registered at the Cooley Hotel a. John
Ross of Muncie, Ind.
Worcester, Oct. 31.-Hilding Wal
ters, 81, of 50 Downing street. who was
given the name The Dreamy Kid"
when he was arrested in Cambridge
several days ago, was given a new
name by the Worcester police today
that of 1.-The dinnerbox bandit" the Of
ficials charging that he has lived, to a
considerable extent, by stealing the
lunch boxes of workmen in his travels
between Worcester and Boston.
Lowell, Oct. 31.-The George estate
on Thorndike and Chelmsford streets,
it is announced today, was sold by
Charles E. Bunker to Cardinal O'Con-
nell and will be remodeled as center