Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-08-27
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STATE NEWS.

| \ son g: Abeatha Levett of Saco, aged 20,
was drowned Monday by the capsizing Of his
boat in the lower harbor. ~
| The store of j. l.. Parrot. in Cane Eliza.
beth was entered Saturday night and goods TO
the amount Ut $3.50 we're stolen. The thief
gained IN entrance by cutting the sash ard
taking out pane of glass.
The dwelling house belonging to Elbrid9e
Marks, about two miles from Orland village,
was totally destroyed by fire at IL o'clock on
SUNDAY. The furniture was saved. The loss
is prchahl, about $1,000, insured for $500.
/ Saturday last, W. II. Marreit Of Ssandisl,,
= stuIt AZ kent's Hill, swan from the head
OF the pond near Fayette to North Wayne
and returned without stopping. Distance Ave
miles. Time three and three quarters hours.
On the way he ate small lunch tossed him
from the boa, that accompanied him.
Messrs. Goss & Sawyer launched at Bath,
Saturday afternoon, a fine barque of 1927 tons
named William A. Besse. She 10 owned by
Alden Besse and others Of Wareham, Mass,
and other builders. Capt. w. II. Besse CON-
mands her. The same enterprising builders
have nearly ready for launching, schooner
of 600 tons for Capt. Phillips and others 81
Taunton, Mass, and a ship Of 1900 tons for
Denny and others of this city.
Eugene Carver, aged IA, and his brother,
Charles Carver, aged 10, were arrested by
Marshal Bolton of Bangor for displacing the
rails on the Maine Central railroad near Her
mon Pond about q week since. 1t is alleged
that the boys lifted one end of rail and
placed a stone under it. freight train ran
over it without accident, and while they were
lifting it still higher, the section men discov-
cred them, and the lads fled. The older boy
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his uncle in Hanpden, and the younger boy
was found at his mothers home about mile
beyond Hermon Pond. The older lad con-
fesses the crime, but the younger denies all
knowledge of the affair.
The Lewiston Journal says young man
named Henry Nevens, who has recently en-
tered into the employ of the Maine Central
railroad at Danville junction had his leg bro
ken Saturday forenoon while unshackling two
cars of a freight train. He was standing be-
tween the cars for the purpose of uncOupling
them, but before he had withdrawn the pin
the train started, and he was caught between
the cars, breaking his leg between the knee
and hip.
Charles l.. Berry, trader at Island Falls,
Aroostook county, was arrested last week and
taken to Portland, where he was bound over
in the sum of So 800. The case in briet is As
follows: Last March Berry purchased goods
of parties in Portland amounting to over two
thousand dollars, representing himself to be
worth some seven or eight thousand dollars.
1t was afterwards discovered that he was In
bankruptcy, and the Portland parties aad him
arrested for obtaining goods under false pre-
fences.
Monday afternoon seven cars of freight
train on the Eastern & Maine Central railroad
were thrown from the track about mile
north Of North Berwick. 1t 10 reported the
accident was caused by very long spar,
loaded on Two or three platform cars, rolling
of, throwing the other cars from the track.
The road bed for a considerable distance was
damaged. The passengers by the three and
six O'Clock trains from Boston and the six
six o'clock from Portland, had to be transfer
red. No one was injured.