Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-11-18
State News.
CUMBERLAND.

Anderson, mate of the bark Harriet S. Jack
son at Portland, was Friday continued until
Wednesday, the 18th. The uncertain condi-
ton of Anderson rendered this necessary, rs
the extent of Bulham's punishment will not
be so great if the mate RECEIVERS.
Mrs. Dennis Harmon of Brunswick who
has been at the insane ASYLUM several times
but who was thought well enough to be re-
moved about two months since, on Monday
Nov. TO- committed suicide by cutting her
throat with dull butcher knife from ear to
ear.
Andrew Meserve of Saccarappa, had a pen
ell driven through his left eyelid and broken
off. A few days ago the beveled end, half an
inch long, worked out of the wound
KENNEBEc.
Mr.. l.. c. Ballard, who has been located
in Philadelphia, in the interests of the knick-
erbocker Ice Co, arrived home last Satur-
day. lie Will be stationed at Farmingdale
throughthe winter
The schooner Mabel A. Phillips, Capt
Phillips, lately launched from Goss & Saw
yer's yard, Bath is loading at lIaleys ice
houses at Gardiner with ice. She brought
1000 tons of coal and is expected 20 take
/ POO tons of icc-which will be the largest
cargo of ice ever taken ont Of Gardiner.
A very pleasant surprise party assembled
at the residence of Mr.. 5. +. Wells of Hal
lowell on Monday evening last, on the occa-
sion Of the return of Mrs. Chas. Wells and
family from q four years residence in Ger
many.
LINCOLN.
A barn at Damariseotta Mills, containing
about seventy-fve tons of hay, owned by
NJ - l.lL
Friday night. Probably incendiary Insured
for $1,000 on barn and $500 on hay. Loss
about the same.
OxFoRD.
A freight train on the Ogtlensburg was
wrecked just beyond Fryeburg Saturday even
ing
Miss Laura A. Towle. aged 20. daughter
Of DIR. wm. Towle Of Fryebarg. died sudden
~ SUNDAY morning Of congestion Of the lungs.
& - - - -PESoescor '-t
Friday morning Mrs Riley of East Cor
inth, cut two terrible gashes in her throat
with razor, first on one side and then on the
other. nearly seFering the Jugular vein. The
cause Of the deed i not known. She seemed
perfectly sane.
Mr.. George Weston sawed at the mill OF
Messrs. Stockwell, Adams & Co., of Orono,
two hundred and seventy-five thousand shin
giles in five and one-hslf days, on two ma
chimes.
Last Friday evening as Mr.. Amos +. Kim
ball of Carmel, was returning from Bangor,
he was waylaid by three men within half a
mile of his home, who stopped the horse.
knocked him from the carriage and robbed
him OF sixteen dollars. Mr. kiinball was on
Nv slightly injured
An otter about five feet long was shot in
Chase's pond at York, by two young men a
few days since Mr.. Horace McIntire, the
well known trapper of York, had been after
this animal for two years past, but the cum
ming creature constantly avoided the traps set
to capture it. An otter had not before been
killed in that town for forty years or more.
George E. Twambly, jeweller, Saco, has a
contract to furnish eighty silver badges for a
coiored Society in Georgia.
James Beedean, an Englishman, residing
at Alfred, and ore of the towns poor, has
had an eventful history. He was born in
London, January, 1893. At an early age he
was apprenticed to captain in the seal
catching business. The vessel touched at a
port in South America, the captain was arrest
ed for smuggling and Beedean, with another
man, ran away and enlisted in the British
army. During the years 1914 and 1915 he
was under the Duke of Wellington, was in
the battle of Waterloo and saw the defeat of
Napoleon, whose appearance he well remem-
bers. During the following years up to 1920
he was stationed in the West Indies In the
wear 1920 his regiment was mustered out at
St Johns and he soon after came over to the
States.
three year old son of Napoleon Tatro OF
Biddeford was drowned in Il hog.head of wa
ter on Friday last.
Arrangements are completed for the cele-
bration ofthe sem-centcnnial ofthe introtluc.
tion of Methodsm into Alfred Me Servic-
es are 70 be given on Sunday, Dec. "A, and
end on tue Eth.