The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-24
State News.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.

We learn from the Winthrop Bulletin that
| Mr.. Thomas jackson met with severe acct
| dent the other day at the oil cloth works in
that village. He was sweeping one of the up
| per rooms and fell through a trap door that
had been opened unbeknown to Mr.. Jackson,
striking on his head and shoulders. He was
taken up insensible and conveyed to his
home. ls.i5- -s., ..ss. ~ --t.7...
The Gardiner Reporter understands that
the Epicopal Society in that city propose to
erect free church near the locality known as
| Chattaguay, if sufficient funds for that pur-
| pose can be raised by contribution.
| The Gardiner Reporter says Holman Ham
| ilton, who resided in South Gardiner, was
| kicked in the stomach by his horse, ON Satur-
| day night last, and died twenty-four hours
afterwards. On the night of the accident,
Hamilton, his wife, and another person, re-
returned from the City in a somewhat iutoxi-
Gated condition. On the way, the horse, irri-
tated by cruel treatment, had run away and
done considerable damage: and when Hamil-
ton finally got the animal into his barn, he
commenced beating it furiously, which caused
it to kick him, resulting in his death. r..
We learn from the Gardiner Reporter that
| on Monday last, Mr.. Orrin Benner, of that
| city had the misfortune to break his collar
bone IN the same place where he broke it last
season. He had been engaged in repairing
| Joshua Gray's house, and was carrying an
| armful of laths down stars, when he caught
| his foot in some manner, and was thrown to
the foot of the stairs.
estst[a KNOX COUNTY. s-o--
Mr.. Fred A. Ripley, of Appleton. Young
| man about q years of age, met with a serious
accident at Rockland on Thursday last by
| which his back was broken in two places. He
was employed in hauling rock for Cobb, Wight
| a Co. at their kiln. 1t seems that Mr.. Ripley
| had been in the habit of getting on the tongue
of his cart when driving into the kiln, but on
| this occasion attempted to bend over and was
rrrhth nf,tr H.. la. al4 Al
load of rock. The Patriot thinks he cannot
recover #H~Twe t-WaHe .5
PENoBSCOT COUNTY.
l. We learn from the Bangor Wing that Tues-
day afternoon, while Mr.. George G. Rice and
| his crew of men were at work on Franklin
bridge, the bridge tell, precipitating Mr. Rice
and his crew on the rocks in the bed of the
stream. Mr.. Rice had his right knee badly in.
.jured, and one of the toes of his left foot bro
ken, by falling with the timbers among the
rocks. One of his men had his leg bruised
but not badly. Il was narrow escape Tor the
whole crew.
The Bangor Wing states that Mr.. Andrew
j. Brown, of Augusta, foreman of the morning
gang employed on the foundation OF the Gus
tom House, fell from the wall to the rocks be-
low, distance of twenty-three feet, while en-
gagged in striking with heavy sledge ham
mer, and was injured internally, and badly
bruised externally.
Inc mig says the rumOr tlat MT. u. NJ.
Stillwell was missing from Millinocket, where
he was in camp, was entirely without founda-
ton, ms we Learn from the friends who started
Tor the camp upon hearing the rumOr. The
person who made and started the story has
the satisfaction of knowing that he caused a
gre;n amount of anxiety TO the friends of Mr..
| Stillwell.
Inc Bangor Wing says that ON Wednesday
a'tetnoon, three young men who were riding
doWh the hampden road and driving in a
| careless manner, by some maneuyernq man
aged 20 throw their horse and overthrow their
vehicle, badly smashing the top, and one of the
| young men got his head caught between the
ends of one OF the broken ribs of the top which.
pres 'ed into his cheeks and held him firmlp
until saw was procured and he was set at
liberty by saving off the wood work. =
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
The City Council of Bath decline to pay an
assessment of two and a half per cent. on the
stock of the Knox & Lincoln, Railroad sub
scribed for conditionally by the city-the con-
ditlons upon which the subscription was made
not having been complied with by the railroad
| company. .r.....--.-