Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-01-11
STATE NEWS.

The Oldtown correspondent of the Bar gor
Commercial writes that Geo. Devou, poor
French boy, whose father is living on Indian
Island, had his leg broken on Tuesday,
while at work for Messrs. Dillingham; &
Wing at their steam mill in Milford. 1t was
done by the rolling of a log. The tibial bone
was badly fractured.
Hon. N. S. Littlefeld of Bridgton, who
has been lying dangerously i'll of typhoid
fever at the residence of his son-in- law. Mr..
Fred Slower in Portland, is now pronounced
out of danger and rapidly recovering.
We learn that at town meeting held in
Norridgewock on Monday, it was voted to
render farther aid to the Somerset Railroad
by taking thirty thousand dollars of the first
mortgage bonds of the company, which will
doubtless ensure the completion Of the road
to West Waterville. The vote stood l72
for, and &c against the proposition-a little
over a two-thirds vote in its favor. 1t is
proposed to have the road built next season.
Bangor Wing.
By order of Gen. c. P. Mattocks, De-
partment Commander, G. A. r., the De.
partment Encampment of Maine will be held
at the Headquarters Of Sheridan Post, No.
%, at Biddetord, on Wednesday, LIST inst.
at o'clock p. NJ. The Council of Admins
tration will meet at z. M.
The spring term at Bowdon College COM
mences to-day.
The Advertiser states that Seth B. Hill
born proposes to give lot of land, valued
by the appraisal at $1,000, situated in Cape
Elizabeth, about three miles from the City
Hall, on the road leading to Saco, on condi-
ton that the State Industrial School for
Girls be located there.
The Reckland Gazette says that Hon. l. s.
Kalloch, is about to start a new paper in
Lawrence, Kansas.
The Sunrise says that the New Sweden
colonist are all doing first rate, all as busy
as men and women can be. They own %
horses, about 20 cows, have threshed out
2OOO bushels Of grain, and have another 1000
to thresh, have bought all the boards and
brick they can get at Caribou, and are haul
ing them in. Some of them are building a
saw mill, and have it nearly ready to run.
Caribou is having large trade from the
Swedes.
The Argus states that Luther Smith, on
trial at Biddeford for shooting his two sons
in a quarrel about two quarts of rum, has
been sentenced to ten years imprisonment at
hard labor in the State prison.
On Tuesday afternoon a freight train Port
land bound, was descending a steep grade,
miles above South Paris. when the train ran
off the track. Just in the rear Of the freight
train was special freight, and fiagman was
hurried back to warn the approaching train,
but that train was already laundering rapidly
down the grade in so near proximity that the
alarm was too late. The special plunged
into the rear of the freight train with fear
tul violence, telescoping and demolshing
several cars, throwing the locomotive send
for end" and practically running it. Fortu-
nately the engineer and fireman jumped from
the locomotive just in season to save their
lives.
The Gardiner Journal says that on Thurs
day last, Geo. Cox, a lad aged about l6,
while at work in Standwood & Towers paper
mill. caught hand between the rolls of the
calendering machine, taking the end of a fin
ger off. On Wednesday night, Reuel Dun
lap, at work in the same mill, was going down
a scuttle with pail of hot water. He had
stepped down, and reached up for the pail,
when his foot slipped and the pail capszng,
the hot water came down ION the place
where the hair ought to grow" and all over
him, scaldng badly but not so as to blister.
1t was a narrow escape. If the water had been
little hotter it must have killed him. He is
confined to the house.