Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-16
STATE NEWS.

The following are recent business changes
in this State:
Portland-Charles J. Schumacher, fresco
painter; now VIM. Schumacher.
Automatically Pratt, stoves, dis.
Tobie 4 Clark, pump makers; now Tobe,
Clark & Buckley.
Bangor-Henry B. Thaxter. fruit and gro.
sold out to w. B. Gould s Co.
Biddeford-Bead Bros, gro., dis.
Lewiston-Geo. II. Donnell, stoves, sold
out to T. l.. Pratt.
Sebec--T. Wyman. gen. store; now 7.
Wyman & Son.
Waterville-Webb & Rideout, spring bed
mfrs, dis. now A. z. Webb.
The Fourth is to be duly observed in Cam
den.
The physicians of Portland, for sanitary
reasons strongly favor the plan of sprinkling
the streets with salt water.
Youthful burglars are operating in Rock
land.
Trains will be running regularly on the
Lewiston and Auburn railroad in about two
weeks.
Judge Fox of Portland has visited the Au-
burn Jail workshop and is so well pleased
to sentence prisoners from his court to that
prison.
]. c. Leavtt of Portland, reports that he
was robbed of watch and $50 in money in
front of the Central House, on Brattle square,
Boston, Friday night, by three men, who
knocked him down.
fine ship of 400 tons is building in Bath
to be commanded by Capt. VIM. Dunphy Of
Gardiner. She is to be launched in about G
weeks.
Thaddeus Morr ill of North Berwick, of the
Society of Friends, died recently at the age
of 81 years, and his wife, aged 81, survived
him only day, recent fracture of the hip
doubtless Fastening her death. They had
lived together seventy years-truly a ripe old
age.
The ship Richard III, Capt. Hubbard is
now loading deals for Liverpool at the Stur-
gis mill in Wiscasset. This will be the first
| cargo of deals ever shipped from that port.
She carries about 900, 900 feet.
A despatch to the Press says that Frank
b. Hill of Boston, aged 10, was arrested at
his uncles in Skowhegan late Friday night,
charged with stealing from his uncle. Fran.
els Drawn of La Crosse, Wis, $1,000. The
matter was put into the hands of police off.
Ger, who traced the young man to Boston,
where he had been spending money quite
| freely, and from thence to Skowhegan. AS
the officers approached, the fellow saw them
| and escaped to the woods without hat or coat.
Friday all day in the rain, the woods were
searched and all points telegraphed to which
| he would be likely to reach. Friday night,
| however, hunger and cold compelled him to
surrender. He was taken to Boston.
The night express train from Boston to
Bangor, ran over and killed four horses a,
Etna, Friday night. The train was going al
full speed, which saved it from being thrown
| from the track. One of the animals, whose
hind legs were cut off, was found some dis
lance from the road, having Graz led to 9
brook.
The High School course of lectures il
Gardiner netted about $40. The amour
will be expended for the benefit Of tn,
school.
The Wing says that on Thursday morning
last, Mr.. Joseph Prescott, a resident of Will
iamsburg, started to 60 to Brownville with a
horse and wagon, but did not arrive as wal
expected, and nothing was heard from hin
until in the afternoon he was found in thu
road on his face dead and cold His heaC
and face were badly bruised, but not suffi
GENTLY to cause death, and further exami
nation disclosed the fact that his neck wa
broken. His horse was found several mile
away, with the wagon, all right, with the ex
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