Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-25
STATE NEWS.

The Lewiston fire department is to be sup
piled at once with thrty-six sets of rubber
clothing.
Auburn railroad opened on Tuesday. Quite
force of men are employed on the point
where it crosses the grounds of Edward Lit
tie institute.
The Eastern Steamboat Company held its
annual meeting on Wednesday. The follow
ing directors were chosen for the ensuing
year: s. d. Bailey, President: II. W.
Swanton, Treasurer; T. w. Hyde, G. NJ.
Patten, A. B. Vanever Of Boston. A divi-
dend of $3.50 per share was declared.
The board of health of South Berwick
have issued circular requesting all persons
in that town to be vaccinated.
Two well known commercial houses in
Portland were required to give bouds in a
smuggling case Wednesday. Nutmegs and
liquors are said to have been the articles
smuggled.
The Irish population of Portland is de-
creasing. 1t has not been so small for ten
years as at present, and is smaller than even
at Lewiston or Bangor
The are five lodges of Knights of Pythias
in this State, The sixth is expected to be in
sttuted in Portland on the 2sth inst. 1t is
to be called "Munioy Lodge Number six, X.
of p"
The accident on the Boston & Maine rail-
road extension at Wells, on the 18th inst,
seems to have been more serious than at first
reported. 1t is now stated that twenty or
thirty persons were more or less injured.
Michael Cotton of Great Falls, deaf and
dumb, was severely injured internally, and
his injuries will probably result fatally.
Charles Simpson of kennebunk had an arm
broken. Thomas Crowley of Berwick, skull
broken and head severely cut. The conduc-
tor was thrown from the top of the csr and
badly injured in the back. Several Dover,
N. H., parties were hurt and others badly cut
about the face and head.
T.. W. Flagg, Esq, well known lawyer
of Bangor, died in that city on Thursday last
of disease of the lungs, after long and pain
full illness. He had held various official po-
sitons, among them those of Clerk of the
House of Representatives and deputy collec-
tor of Bangor. AT one time he edited the
Bath Times.
At the annual meeting of the International
Steamboat Company held in Portland We'd
nesday afternoon, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Directors, I.
c. Hersey, President; J. B. Coyle, S. F..
Spring, Rufus E. Wood, Portland; A. Mel.
Seeley, St. John. Secretary and Treasurer,
II. j. Libby.
Mr.. Waldron Marston, who belonged in
West Pembroke in this State, and was shoe
cutter by trade, at work in Lynn, Mass, was
instantly killed " Wednesday morning. In alb
sent mindedness apparently, he stepped di-
rectly in front of swiftly approaching train,
and was thrown many feet by the blow. He
lived only about an hour. He was 20 years
of age
Mr.. A. g. Larnard of Anson committed
suicide by hanging Monday. He had been in
the village in the forenoon and returned home
at noon. When his children returned home
from school they found him hanging by the
neck in the barn, dead. He was As or so
years old and much esteemed citizen.
A new schooner has been taken up to be
built this season for Capt. John Furgerson,
and to be owned by Otis & Co.. Frederick
Bros, Howes Co., and others. She will be
built by C. Z. Carter & Co., and finished in
July. This makes six that Carter now has
under contract, says the Belfast Journal.
The Free Press of Rockland says small
building in the rear of the Thorndike hotel
was destroyed by fire Wednesday morning,
together with some lumber belonging to w.
Ii. Glover & Co. A pile of deck plank near
the building was also considerably burned.
The building belonged to the Thorndike heirs
Glover & Co.'s property outside was insured;
inside uninsured. The building was Sc. ON
fire, without doubt.