Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-17
NEWS BRIEFS

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Charles W. Morse. aged Maine
financier, declared himself physically
unfit to travel from Bath, Maine, TO
New York to face fraud charges.
J. r. Smith, director OF controlling,
corporation which includes IS
Georgia banks, committed suicide at
Atlanta.
Don r. Millett, Canton. Ohio. pub
Usher. assassinated as result of his
| newspapers anti gambling crusade.
Bennett j. Doty, of Memphis
Tenn, received eight year sentence
for deserving French foreign legion.
Hall Mills murder mystery re-
opened by filing of startling annul-
ment documents at Trenton, n. J.
Governor Smith of New York paid
official call on President Coolidge at
White Pine Camp.
Rutland VT, July 16.-(P,-Her-
bert R. Barney of this city was to-
day appointed receiver of the Bris-
tol Railroad. seven miles long. run
ming from Bristol to New Haven
Junction on the Rutland Railroad.
The receivership follows a petition
of the State Trust Company of this
city to foreclose mortgage cover
ing bonds of 100000 and $4,000 in
interest in default of payment. Mo-
tor bus competition is given as the
reason for the receiver ship.
Portsmouth. \. H., July 16.-(Pl--
Liquor intended to allay the Illicit
| thirst of American drinkers will be
used to keep mechanical apparatus
in order at the Portsmouth navy
yard. If the United States court
grants a request which has been
submitted to it. Captain P. s. Jack
! son, supply officer at the yard. re-
quested that 1850 gallons of alcohol,
| seized by coast guard and prohibit
ton forces at Seabrook Beach a
year ago and now stored in the Fed
| eral building here be turned over to
/ the supply department. He believes
| 1t will last about a year for me-
! chanical uses.
| Keene. n. H, July 16.-(P)-Bert-
ram Caldwell Farnham, "a, contrac-
! tor, IA Wendell street. East Saugus,
| Mass, and William Sanford Full. SO.
architect, Is Beacon street, Marble
head, Mass. in Municipal Court to-
| day pleaded not guilty and waived
! examination on charge of break
ing and entering the home of Mrs.
Laura Hills, Swanzey, with intent
to commit larceny. They We're Or
! dered held in $500 bond for the Oc-
! tober grand jury of Cheshire coun-
! ty. The men at the time Of thei~
arrest, were in the blind attic of tho
! Hills home which is occupied only
occasionally during the summer.
| The men had an automobile backed
! up to a window in the rear of the
| house and had numerous articles
loaded in the car.
East Hampton, L. I. July 1s.-(P1-
| John Drew. speaking last night at a
! dinner given to the volunteer fire
| fighters of this village, announced that
| it would be his last public appearance
| The stage veteran. who is IS years old,
| has been for 5S years portraying char
| acters on the stage. He made his debut
| in 1873 under the direction of his
mother in Philadelphia, and his last
| appearance was in the Knickerbocker
| Theatre in New York early last June
| when he spoke the prologue at the
| players revival of King Henry ". He
! has been a summer resident OF East
| Hampton for many years.
! Des Moines. Ia. July 16--(P)-NiisS
| Lena Madsen Phillips, of New York
/ City, was elected president of the
! National Federation of Business and
/ Professional Women at the closing
! business session Of the organization S
! convention here today.
| Concord, n. H. July 16-(P)-De-
! positors in the Peoples Trust Com
| pany of Lebanon, who owe the trust
! company money on outstanding notes
| must pay the full amounts regard
! less of any deposits they may have
| tied up in the trust company, tie
! State Supreme Court ruled today in a
! special sitting. The ruling was made
! in a test case brought by r. ID. Cat
! tabriga, of Enfield. as a result of the
failure of the trust company some
] time ago. He held that the amount
| of his note due the trust company
should be deducted from the amount
! due him from deposits in the closed
! bank.
! Concord. \. H.. July 16--(P)-The
Public Service Commission today de-
! MED the petition of the Boston &
I Maine Transportation to operate
| motor buses between Nashua and
Manchester and at the same time
| granted two petitions of the Nashua
Street Railway to operate buses be-
| tween Nahsua and Merrimack and
/ from the city on certain routes.
| Center Effingham, n. H., July IL
| --(P)-The store and home Of Allie
! w. Libby were destroyed by fire ear
| ly this morning with all their con-
| tents. The fire started from the eX-
| plosion of Kerosene lamp. Mr.. and
! Mrs. Libby carried their four snail
| children to safety but were una bic to
save any of their belongings.
/ Paris, July 16--LP)--The govern :
mnet will insist upon The ratification
/ of both the Washington and London
debt funding agreements before Par
lament adjcurns for its summer re
cess, Finance Minister Cdlllaux told
the Chambers finance committee to-
day. Without these Publications,
he said, there is no possible chance
of getting credits for the stabiliza-
ton of the frame
New York, July 16.--IP)-Mrs. S
| V. Brandvein. 36. Of Chicago and