Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-12-03

| The shooting affair at West Gorhsm has
claimed the public attention quite recently.
i The story at first was considerably exaggera-
ted. 1t seems tina. Mr.. Skillings heard
commotion in his hennery, and on going out
called to the thief to leave. He did not stir.
| He then snapped the barrel of his gun at him
but.it missed fire. Then the fellow ran and
Skillings after him. Finding that he was
gaining on him Skillings fred the other bar
rel, which brought the fellow down. On 60
ing up to him Skillings found him to be a
neighbor named Perkins. He Immediately
went back to his house, got out his team and
conveyed Perkins to his own home. Then he
went for physician, who found twenty b
shot in the part of him where in his youth his
mothers slipper was frequent visitor, though
| Judging from the mans habits it was not ap-
! piled often enough. The wounds were not
dangerous. Hen thieves will fight shy of
that hen roost hereafter, as it has been dem
onstrated that the owner is good shot.
| While the Maine Central train was passing
1arding's station below Brunswick Capt.
Gross attempted to drive across the track.
The engine struck the wagon, demolishng it
and throwing Mr.. Gross some distance, badly
injurng him. 1t was fortunate escape from
death.
Peletah Foss of Saco, while suffering from
an attack of delirium tremens las week, took
gun and fired it at his mother, but fortu-
nately he did not hit her. Hswas arrested by
officers. H.t7Ea
full grown man was arrested in Auburn
for robbing hens nests.
The extreme cold of Monday night had the
| effect to close the Penobscot river from the
toll bridge to point High Head, and that
quite solid.
Chaplin Humphrey of Bangor, an esteemed
citizen, was stricken with paralysis Monday
morning, and died from the shock in the eve
| ming. At the time of his death he was
member of the Board of Trustees of Colby
University, and of the Maine Baptist Mission
arg Society. Deceased was so years Of age,
| and leaves a wife. ...-. -
S. F. Fancy of Bangor has sheet Of GIN
gerbread which he purchased for thirty Ave
cents, while he was in the rebel prison at
Salisbury, S. G..
The Lewiston Journal says that Mr.. Ben.
jamin Sampson of Lewiston, while at work
choppng cord wood in Auburn, Saturday,
met with severe accident. In trimming a
limb his axe caught in a twig, and the sharp
edge descended upon his left wrist, cutting it
to the bone, ssvering a number of muscles
and arteries. @ are .aszr
The Eastport cutter ran ashore on Frisbie's
Ledge, near Rockland, on Tuesday. She was
brought to Rockland leaking about Eve hun
dred strokes an hour. She goes on the rail-
way for repairs
On Tuesday morning Mr.. Steven Cony,
who resides over his store on Front street in
Bangor, arose and went down stairs to attend
to a coal fire. Finding the hour four o'clock
he returned to bed and apparently tell asleep,
when his wife noticed a strange sound in his
breathing. She Immediately spoke, but re-
ceived no answer. Upon examination it was
found that he had received psralytic shock.
He fingered till three o'clock in the after
noon, when life departed From the first he
was unconscious and did not speak.