Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-05

,enion was made known when it was
learned today that she would leave
Tor Texas next Wednesday.
Beaumont, Tex, Nov. 4-(P)-The
spindle Top oil field near here was
threatened with fire early today.
Two gushers were burning and wind
was whipping high colmns of flames
around adjoining derrick tops. Fire
men with pumping equipment, as
sisted by hundreds of workmen, were
ehueaVoring to prevent further
spread of the fire.
Paris, Nov. - up - Mrs. Neil
bushe Bostwick. an American writ
er, aged 81. committed Suicide by
shooting early this morning in her
room In small hotel on the Seine.
The body was found seated in front
OF mirror. Mrs. Bostwick whose
aaoress is given as 1856 Joralemon
street Brooklyn. N. Y. came to
Paris from London on Oct 10, after
previously visiting Russia and the
ioaltlc states She is said to have
been born in Columbia. S. C.
providence. Nov. 4-(P)-Reverend
Leroy c. Perry, lineal descendant of
Massasoit and King Philip and pas
tor OF churches in Charlestown and
westerly, told members of q lunch
con club today that the American
indian Is the one form of life in the
human family friendless and alone
and despised in his native land.
Reverend Mr.. Perry, known to mem
oers OF his race today as Yellow
Feather. is campaigning for better
ment of the conditions under which
the Indians live.
Providence, r. T., Nov. 4.-(Pp-
Yale University needs endowments
or S2O,OOO.OOO If her educational pro-
gram is to continue, President James
X. Angel told group of Yale al
umn1 meeting at the Hope Club here
tonight to plan Rhode Islands part
in drive for funds next spring,
Perp1gnan, France, Nov. 4-(P)-
The rout of the recently discovered
Spanish republican expedition which
hoped to stir up the people of Cata-
lonia, was completed today when the
flag of the state of Catalan fell into
the hands of the French police at
the railroad station here The STAN
dard bearer, still unaware of the
discontinue of the expeditionary
corps and the arrest of more than
100 of his companions in arms. ar
rived at Perpignan, rather belatedly
but with all the necessary enthusi-
asm to lead the plotters across the
PyreneeS.
Los Angeles, Calf, Nov. 4-(P.-
1nfi 70 l,rI
officers to place Kenneth G.. Ormis-
ton, fugitive radio man, in the seat
in the defendants row likely to be
vacated by Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman-
Sielaff when Aimee Semp1e McPher-
son and her co-defendants go before
the superior court for trial, were
taken here today. District Attorney
Reyes announced he would present
to the county grand jury the trans
crlpt of testimony taken at evangel-
lists preliminary hearing on crimi-
nal conspiracy charges, and ask that
body to return a true bill against
the former Angelus Temple radio
operator.
Boston, Nov. 4.-[P,-The full
bench of the Massachusetts supreme
court today over-ruled the eXcep-
tons of David Hosman, convicted Of
malicious injury to property in con-
nection with the transportation of
alcohol and he must serve from
three to five years in state prison.
Hosman was charged with being an
accessory before the fact and Law
renee Lavan was named principal in
the indictment. The latter turned
states evidence and was not prose-
0nfpd He testified ha nc p.
ed by Hosman mot TO stop for no
one. and crash through if neces-
sary," when transporting liquor.
London, Nov. 4.-(P)-Society and
big business circles have been stirred
by the killing of Roscoe E. Brun-
ner, former chairman Of Drummer,
Mond and Company, Ltd, and his
wife, which occurred Wednesday
night in small cottage at Roe
hampton. Their deaths is being
made a sensation in the London
newspapers, which assume that
Drummer shot his wife and then COM
mitted suicide. Greater attention is
attracted to the affair, because of
the connection of Drummer, Mond
and Company with the formation of
the largest industrial combine ever
arranged In Great Britain, amount
ing to in the neighborhood of
So 100000.
Pomeroy, Ohio, Nov. 4-(P-Bad
feeling over award in church beauty
contest led to a three cornered fight
here yesterday with two of the par
Elephants in the hospital today and
one in Jail charged with shooting with
intent to kill. Wesley Little, 43, and
his son, Kendall Little, 10, are In the
hospital. The elder Little was shot
through the lungs
Gloucester, r. l., Nov 4-(Pl-
Stricken by a hemorrhage from the
nose while he was hunting in the
woods here late today, Frederick Su-
ter of Warwick was fatally injured
when the automobile in which he was
being taken to a doctor by his hunt
ing companion capsized bounced fifty
feet along the highway and crashed
into a gasoline station.
Chicago, Nov l-[P)-Martin J.
Durkin, sheik slayer. was found gull
tv tonight of the second OF seven
federal indictments charging him
with transporting stolen automobiles.
Durkin, who already faces 35 years in
prison for the Staying of Edward
Shanahan, a policeman, heard his
third pronouncement of guilty read
two hours and half after the jury
retired to deliberate.
Salem, Mass, Nov. 4.--P)--Al-
phonse Cloutier was sentenced to
serve two years In the house of cor
rection today after he had pleaded
guilty to a charge of polygamy. Ac-
cording to statement by the police
Cloutier married Marie Hebert in