Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-07-16
State News.
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The Journal says Mr. T. Augustus Bail.
ey has taken the management of the Lake
Auburn mineral water. this season, and the
team is now doing very successful bust.
ness.
The left arm Of Mr.. Herbert Carpenter 0,
Auburn, an employee in the Continental
Mills was fearfully mangled "wednesday II
was necessary to amputate the arm
The officers of Enterprise Lodge, X. of P
of Auburn, were installed. Wednesday even
ing by P. S. Laughton of Lewiston. ID. %. G.
C., as follows: L. o. Bracket. C. CIR.
+. Bickford, V. c.; James Knight, P. Hor.
ace Verrill, NJ. at A.
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The Times says: We learn that on Mon
day, last, barn belonging to Hiram X.
Brown. of Letter B Plantation, was DESTROY
ed by fire, and valuable stallion. Cob
bier. persisted in the flames, there being no
one about the premises to rescue him. Sup
posed incendary
Alba Holmes of Carbon. is building drv
house, which. when completed, will prob
ably be the largest one ever built IN the
county, for drying starch, it being 6OxIS0
feet on the ground. The starch is to be
dried by steam.
CUMBERLAND.
john Il. Whittier is now summering at
Fry-bnrg. He finds among the residents
there some of the descendants of the old fam
lilies VIII" were his fathers neighbors in Ha-
verhll. Mass, his native town.
The Press SAYS Thursday afternoon. Mrs.
Joseph Perry. wife of the proprietor of the
Perry House, had a narrow escape from burn
ing to death. She had taken the steamer
Sea Flower for Long Island, and was sitting
we'll aft on the steamer. when spark which
she thinks came from the smoke. stack set
fire to her dress. In extinguishing the flames
several gentlemen burned their hands badly
Thursday afternoon George Hatch, man
eighty years old, who has been an inmate of
the aims house eight years. was found dead
lying on the floor of his room. Coroner
Gould pronounced it a case of apoplexy, and
accordingly held no inquest.
FRANKLIN.
The Chronicle says: 1t is said that Mr..
William Norton has opened vein of zine
ore on his Mt. Day farm at Strong, and that
black lead in large quantities is also found
KENNEBEC.
A correspondent of the Lewiston Journal
writes Wednesday afternoon July 9Th Mr..
Geo. Cushman, an old and respected citizen
Of Pana, Illinois, was assisting Mr.. Robert
Lowe in haying near the city limits. when he
received fatal sunstroke, dying in about
two hours after the attack. Mr.. Cushman
was formerly an employee in the o. & NJ.
shops as engineer, for the past seven years,
and was one of the most attentive employees
in the service of the company. Mr. Cush-
man was formerly of Monmouth, Maine, COM
ing west about ten years ago; age 81 years.
PENOBsCOT.
Among the honorary degrees conferred Nv
Bowdoin College Thursday. was that Of PHI
d., upon President NJ. c.. Fernald, of the
Maine State College of Agriculture and the
Mechanic Arts.
The Wing says: Phillip Daley, a young
man of 81 years, son of Charles G.. Daley.
living in VIM, was drowned on Monday last in
Merrill's mill pond, near East VIM. DALEY
got among the drift wood where he was in
bathing and not being able to swim, he
drowned, although an older brother with
him made many efforts to save him. Mr.
Daley formerly lived in Lincoln.
Miss Blanche Willis Howard and Miss
Laura HAYWOOD are expected to sail from
Europe for home shortly
PIscATAoUIs.
The Observer says: Capt. S. S. Cole, of
Abbot village, has contracted to build four
dwelling houses in Monsoon village for the
Monson Pond Slate Company. They will be
completed in September.
The report in circulation last week that
Wallace Chadbourne's bloody clothes and a
dirk knife had been found in the woods, is
denied by County Attorney Peaks, who went
to Parkman Thursday to ascertain the facts
of the case.
SOMERSET.