Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-23
Hawkins was held for

S. Iddings. Hawkins was held fol
appearance in the United States dis
trict court at Indianapolis to ans
wer to an indictment charging USE
OF the mails to defraud, after the
preliminary hearin, before Commits.
sioner Iddings.
Milbury. Mass. Jan. 22-Elimina.
ton Of the photographs of Lee and
others who fought against the Nortf
in the Civil war, from the new hall
dollar coins being distributed
through the country in behalf of the
Confederate Memorial on Stone
Mountain, was advocated in an ad.
dress given by George Wetherbee
department senior vice comma. der
at the annual banquet rendered as.
Sociated members of Post %, G., A
/ r., in Memorial Hall here.
Brockton, Mass, Jan. 2o.-Brock.
ton retail merchants today voted not
open their establishments Saturday
morning until ten o'clock, in order
TO guard against any possible at.
tempt by highwaymen to commit
depredat1ons during the dark hours
OF the eclipse. The banks will open
at their usual hour of . o'clock, but
VIII have all their armed guards on
'ne moor. No payrolls or other large
sums of money will be distributed
until after the eclipse. The banks
armored cars will be kept in gar
ages until mid-morning. The police
force VIII have every available man
On duty to provide against oontin-
2encics.
Charleston, w. Va, Jan. IA
check for money saved by instruct
ors and students of Brockwood labor
College at katonah, N. Y, was re-
ce1vet by w. P. Thompson, secretary
or District No. q, United Mine
Workers of America. The money
Will be applied, he said, to the relief
OF evicted miners and their families.
Two boxes Of clothing were received
earlier in the week from the same
source. A letter accompanying the
check explained that the money was
saved in avoiding desserts for three
weeks by the instructors and stud
ents.
Buenos Aires, Jan. a2-Patrick
O'Hara of New York and Reynold
Mccarthy of Liverpool, members of
tfc crew of the Southern Cross, were
arrested here today for the drown
ing of an Argentine port Waterman.
1t is alleged that they returned to the
ship under the influence of liquor and
jolting1y threw the Waterman off the
pier. They are technically charged
with rflanslaughter. The Southern
Cross arrived from New York yester-
day.
Paris, Jan. 22-Albert Herter, AM
erican artists, whose son was killed
In 1913 at Chateau Thierry, has Of
fered to execute In the East railway
station here, a large historical fresco
representing the departure of the
French troops for the war in August,
1914. Herter will soon start work on
the fresco in the lobby of the station.
Dedham, Mass, Jan. 22-Thomas
J. Brennan. night officer at Dedham
Jail. was severely beaten early today
by Fred Bedard. a prisoner. when he
detected Bedard in the act Of escap-
ing. In spite Of his wounds. Bren-
nan mastered his prisoner without
assistance after is minute battle.
Norfolk. Va. Jan. 22-S. Warner
Ironmonger. chief of police Of Nor
folk. testified in federal court here
today that he had been told by Will
liam Baker. who Is facing liquor law
charges. that Federal Prohibition
Commissioner Haynes and David H.
Blair. commissioner OF internal rev.
enue. were fixed" to permit the
Smuggling into Washington Of liquor
for the Shriners' convention in June
1928.
Lawrence, Mass, Jan. ga wage
cut of approximately ten percent in
the cotton department Of the Pacific
Mills. effective Jan. Is. was an
nounced today. Approximately 1900
will be affected.
Jersey City. n. j.. Jan. 22-Twelve
persons including the motorman are
reported to have been seriously in
iured when a Jersey City. HOboken
and Patterson trolley car plunged
off trestle onto the tracks Of the
West Shore Railroad near the Ho-
boken line this afternoon. No one