The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-10-07
STATE NEWS.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.

Mr.. Horace nj. White of the firm of Pearce
& White, Houlton, met with very severe ac.
cident on Tuesday, while returning from mill
with a load of boards. He was driving spir-
tied colt, which became frightened and ran,
throwing him to the ground, njuring him bad
ly, producing, it is feared, fracture of the
spne
A small boy at Presque Isle, while carelessly
handling pistol, shot himself in the leg last
Sunday.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.
James Haines one Of the young men engag-
ed in the recent robbery of the Campbell House
and cigar mandatory of G. P. Drake in Lew
iston, and one of the two who escaped from the
lookup on Saturday, but was re-captured soon
after, made another attempt to escape on Sun.
day. He cut off one of the bars of his cell and
was escaping from the building through the
same opening that let himself and companion
out the day previous, when officer Clark espied
and captured him.
The Minot Corner corn factory closed its bus.
mess for the season last Saturday. For the
past month business at that factory has been
very lively. force of from 300 to 250 hands
has been employed and 100000 cans of corn put
up. This factory belongs to Messrs. Burnham
& Morrill,.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
press Correspondence
The Portland Packing Company commenced
packing corn at their factory at Naples the
first day of September and finished the last
day. They worked about twenty three days,
packing 200, 600 cans from $50 acres. The pay
role for help is about $l25 day; amount re-
ceived by farmers for corn about $4,000. The
fine weather of late gave double the amount
expected.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Ice formed in Madrid last week as thick as
window glass.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
There are about $4,000 volumes in the state
library.
KNOX COUNTY.
Frank Case of Rockland while hauling
granite to the new custom house in Rockland
Monday, had leg badly jammed by stone
tipping upon it.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The porgy business has closed and the fishing
fleets have gone to Fall River where they will
catch porgieS month longer.
PIsCArAQUIs COUNTY.
The Merrill scandal case at Foxcroft begins
to assume an appearance of business. 1t will
be remembered that DR.. Russell Merrill recent
ly sued his nephew, James Merrill, for SANDER
of his daughter Mary, the doctor alleging that
James circulated very naughty stories DIR, L.
sued by Dr. Russell Merrill for the same Of
Tense with little more added, as Dr. Russell
says DR.. T. NJ. called him quack and several
names unfit for publication. Rumor says that
the sympathy of the townsfolk is almost en-
tirely with the parties sued.
YORK COUNTY. =.
The Saco cemetery is haunted by bull which
ran away from Kennebunk and took up his
residence among the tombs
William Bingham, boy twelve years old,
fell down the elevator in the Laconia mill, Bid
deford, Tuesday, three stories, and sustained
serious and, it is feared, fatal injuries.
An Eastern railroad freight train ran off the
track at Biddeford Monday night. Four cars
were thrown off the track.
The body of a stll-born child was found in
the Saco river, near Biddeford, Monday. 1t
was contained in salt box
The Saco Board of Aldermen has passed an
order abolishing the city liquor agency, it APP
pearing that too many men had sick hcrses and
cows that needed alcoholic stimulant