The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-06-09
state eWS.
ANDRosCoGGlN COUNTY.

ANDROSCOGGlN COUNTY.
We learn from the Lewiston Journal that tue
total shipment OF SHOES and boots frem A uburu
and Lewiston the past week have been 54l
cases; 457 cases bp freight and "a by express.
Most OF the shoes by freight are sbppp! from
Auburn The total receipts of leather the past
week has been GO, $40 lbs. Shipments OF shoes
ior week ending Nav 3lst were 5l4 cases: re-
celpts OF leather az, $50 lbs Shipments and re-
eeipts are each heavier this week than last.
The Lewiston journal says there is to be
grand trial of speed at andre Hcog2in riding
park Saturday afternoon, between Ginsey
Queen. owned bv John Kelsey, aud Jonathan,
owned by C. L. Edwards.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Pennington Chronicle says Mr.. J.. w.
AveIill, " ho IN 1912 lett his home i'm Wilton
and has not been heard from for sixteen years
last March, and who was given up as dead, re-
turned to his family aud friends May 231 His
present home is in Nevada, weere he has a
wife aud three children. He spent three years
in California, from 1912, aud two in Oregon,
where he was situate d as TO be unable to get
any word to his fiesds. He returned to Cali
fornia in 1917, spending four years, when he
wen. to Carson, Ormsby county, Nevada,
where he has since remaiued, engaged i'm tia
business OF Ianchlng. lie will return to Ne
vada next week.
The Chronicle says X Larkin of Farming
ton was recently offered and refused $1,000 for
his s0rrel geldipg Daniel Boone, by a gentle
man from Massachusetts.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The Ellsworth American says very extensive
| fires have been raging in the woods in Sulli-
van and No. 10. Several thousand acres bave
been burnt over and large quantities of timber
and wood destroyed.
The American saya John Hoofer, who some
| ago broke into the store Of Messrs 5. q IL. A.
| Dutton, in Ellsworth, was arrested in Con-
| cord N. H., last week and ill be brought to
| EllswO rth for trial. VIM. Brooks and Samuel
Hollis were arrested iu Ellsworth "wednesday
on suspicion of being concerned with HoOfer
in the robbery.
| The American says it is quite dry all throueh
that section, and vegetation is suffering tor
| want of rain. The grass in the different towns
in the county is looking very backward and
| parched.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
| Mr.. Sylvanus Kendall of Augusta. of the
firm of s. Kendall & Son, committed suicide
by hanging himself IN his Workshop about IL
O.clock Thursday. Cause unknown. He was
81 years OF age.
A committee of the Massachusetts, Legisla-
| ture visited the Massachusetts, soldiers at the
National Asy lum at Tosus Wednesday afte r
| noon.
KNOX COUNTY
| Mr.. & Mrs. Thomas Murray were seriously
| injured on the 28th Of May, by being thrown
from wagon, as they were Hiding along in
Warren.
| The Rockland Free Press says the good peo.
people of Rockport have made a raid against
all the liquor sellers in that Ilace, and have
| noufied the dealers in ardent Gnclnding ale
| that they must desist in selling or they will be
prosecuted. 1t is said every dealer has prom
ised to give up the business.
The Free Press states that on Sunday morn
ing large dog owned by Wm II. Rollins, il
RockpoIt, gave unmistakabie signs of being
| mad, foamlog at the mouth and making efforts
to bite the inmates OF the house. There were
| no men about ana Mrs. Rollins and her sister
win the helE OF small boy, seized the dog
and after smart struggle muZzed him with a
line. They then sent for Capt John McIntre
who killed the poor brute.
| PENoBsCoT COUNTY,
The Bangor Democrat SAYS in consequences
| OF the heavy vote thrown for Gen. Roberts las
fall, PenOb.cOt county will be- entitled to the
| largest representation of any county i'm the
and also the largest she has ever had in an,
State Convention.
| 'lf PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
Iron CorrespoduentI
As Dea. E. L. Smart of Parkman was riding
home from Dexter on the Och inst. his horse
took fright and ran fnrously, throwing him
| from the wagon; fearfulIy decorating his face
and head, aud producing several severe contu.
sions upon other parts of the body. s.
| sAGADAHOC COUNTY.
Correspondence OF the PREss,1
An unknown man, about thirty years of age
was found dead and hanging in the stable O
the Aims House at Bath Wednesday after.
noon. He is stranger, OF sandy com plexion
curly hair and heavy chin whiskers, wearing
at tie time Guernsey frock, gray pantaloOns
blue cloth cap, had on thee shirts, one white
| and black check one gray, and the other, with
the drawers, was knit; also heavy rubber boots
His baggage at fhe same time consisted OF
only one shirt and one pair of stockings As
yet his name has not been ascertained. 1t il
| reported that man answering the same de-
| scrlptiOn was seen lurking about the Bath HO-
tel between the hours of IL and /. E. q. d.
YORK COUNTY.
Royal Mason, a boy eight years old, SON Of
Lyman Mason, OF East Limington, was drown
ed in SacO river last Tuesday. He with an
older boy was in bathing and waded out be-
yond his depth and was drowned before he
could be rescued.
The York County Free Baptist Quarterly
Meeting was in session at SpriDgvale Wednes-
day and Thursday. Attendance very large.
Bar Mills is rapidly recovering from the de-
structive fire of five weeks ago. A new grst
mill ls already up, much larger and better
| than the old one, and MessIs. Berry & Palmer
| are fitting it up with all the modern improve.
ments When finished it will be one of the
best mills in the county. Stephen Fowle is
already in his new shop, enlarged and improv-
| ed. IL. Z. Jordan has sold his store lot to Hi
ram and John Harmon, on which they will
| is hoped that the furniture factory will soon be
rebuilt. The water is about the right pitch to
| saw, and all the mills are running, giving the
| place a lively Appearance D.