Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-10-19
seate News.
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AypRoscoGGIy.
/ The Journal saws: Saturday afternoon
Ed. Conant. IA wears old son of Mr.. Frank
Conant. of No. 2 Bates Corporation. in COM
/ pany with playmate went out for beeehnuts.
| The Conant lad got out on a limb and was
/ filling his pockets, when Suddenly the limb
broke and he fell to the ground. breaking his
| thigh. He Law under the tree for an hour be-
fore aid could be summoned to remove him
to his home. II is feared that he will be
famed for life
| ARoosrooK.
| The Wing SAYS: We are assured that Mr..
". G. Penney sawed %, coo shingles with a
Dirigo Single Machine. in nine hours. a,
Van Buren,. and that they were punched by
E. II. Hobert in one day. They may well
claim this to be "a fair days work
| CUMBERLAND.
| A serious accident occcrred Monday at the
new ice house of Barry Creek Cape Elizabeth
which d. W. Clark & Co. are erecting. Ii
seems that the men engaged in boarding the
sides of the building had erected a staging for
that purpose and had not used care to make it
sufficiently strong. The result was that the
| staging gave way, precipitating four men a
| distance of about twenty feet to the ground
| Their names were Augustus kenison. Nell
Morton, John Bartlett and John MCGOWAN.
No bones were broken but the men were very
much bruised and shaken up.
OXFORD.
The Lewiston Journal SAYS; The fire of
| last week at South Paris the most de-
! structive that has ever visited that place. II
has not vet been decided to rebuild the shoe
| shop. A. F. Barrows has bought a lot and
will at snce erect a blacksmith shop. The
4 fra of he shna shNp of i kniUhf ia already
up. Probably Mr.. A. C. Jones will rebuild
his machine shop on the same spot. The
South Paris Furniture Co. were paid S45 for
their loss on the building which was slightly
damaged. There was also an insurance on
the movable machinery, caskets, collins, ETC..
which were damaged in moving. The cause
of the fire is yet unknown.
| PENoBscor.
The Wing says: Thursday last, just as
the steamer Mount Pleasant of the Sebago
| Lake line was entering the lock on the Son.
go river, one of the lower abutments of the
lock about thir. y-five feet long and ten feet
high, and made of split stone, suddenly
sank about foot and a half, at the same
time leaning forward iuto the lock over a
foot. Fortunately the boat escaped being
crushed by the mass of stone. A large crew
of men are now at work, and it is expected
| Tic lOCk Will iSPdASu sooh- he oi'
abutment will have to be removed and en-
tirely rebuilt.
SAGADAHOC.
! A lady in Bath was recently much alarmed
by dreaming that some one was holding her
wrist. Vainly endeavoring to scream for as
sistance she succeeded at length in whisper
| ing Just loud enough to awaken herself. At
ter few minutes relief at being no longer
under the influence of the dream, she became
| conscious that some one was really holding
| her left wrist, and all her strength was mad
| equate to release it. Whether to call her
hostess or not was easily decided, for her
terror rendered her as speechless as she had
beeen before awakening 1t could not be
that any of her friends had seized her wrist
in sport, it was too rigid clasp. and had
been continued some time, for her right hand
was cold and numb. But just as she should
! be able to speak in moment, she found the
relentless grasp was that of her own right
hand and not easy to withdraw from its twin
companion, so desperate had become its
hold.-Bath Times.
SOMERSET.
| The cattle show at West New Portland,
was held October 9th. There was a large
| attendance. Although not so larges an ex-
| hibtion of stock as in some former shows.
.oo, shaor and soma 5erds Of draft md
$780,, oa,,t,
| '" ny H.
Char,os Traftan ,.;f, and cb;i3 ware com;no
e.na.' ", Un.,,",a 20 g, .i,ans ,,,, CO..
m mou, avoI hrnlo ,.,.;n1 Tho Who'll "a and
,,' 49, NJ T..,ton ~, rha horso h.;na
fr;ah,aned ran With Mrs. Traf,on and ,be
lila on,rtor 81 III or n,nra dr.,,u;n
,h, wacon on ,bree wheels whom cominr 70
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