Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-10-27

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ANDRoscoGeIN.
Two Lynn gentlemen have been negotiat.
ing for shoe factory building 1t Mechanic
Falls.
The father of the Fraser boy, Who ~as
drowned in the Knox street reservoir, asks
the city of Lewiston for 5000 damages.
ARoosrooK.
The Pioneer saws that the store of Weed
& Hall, in Monticello. was burnt Tuesday
morning. There was . dance the previous
evening in Gaiety Hall overhead, and the fire
is supposed to have caught from the stove.
Nearly all of the stock was saved. Loss,
IS 900; insured for 81 600. The same even
ing 4 vacant store belonging to H J Fletcher
of Monticello, vas destroyed BY fire. Sup
posed incendiary. Loss about $4,000; no in
sufance.
The Times says that q patent attachment
to the common tubular lantern BY means of
which the entire globe and cap to the burner
NAV be raised at pleasure, the match applied
and the globe replaced with more cor veni-
ence even than upon an ordinary house lamp
was purchased of the inventor by . brother of
F. H. Wilson.the Brunswick apothecary. He
sold the patent to the tubular lantern factory,
which pays him q royalty, that gave him
about go. 600 last year.
KENNEBEc.
Jackson Bros. cider mill at Branch Mills
was burned to the ground. Monday night, to-
gether v it'll all il contained.
OXFORD.
Good Templars was held at East Hebron, on
the 10Th inst. Delegates were present from
six lodges.
The Lewiston Journel says: Obed Chap
man came TO his nephew's Abram Chapman,
in Porter, to stop Il few days, feeling unwell.
He retired Thursday night feeling better, but
some one stepping into the room Is minutes
after. found him dead. Heart disease was
the cause.
Sunday night, the 22d. Edith. daughter of
John Bradeen of Porter. died with diphtheria.
She was soon to be married, and was about
20 years old. Others are hurried of in this
section with the disease.
PENoBscor.
The Commercial says that q savage New
foundland dog bit severely four years old
child of Prentiss Loring, of Bangor, Tuesday
Mr.. Joseph Mountain, head edger in the
employ of James Walker and Co., at the
Basin Mills, had his hand sawed completely
off by an edger while at work, Tuesday.
Several cases of diphtheria have recently
occurred among pupils in the Bangor schools,
but the authorities have taken all possible
measures and it is thought the spread of this
dread disease will be stopped.
Mr.. George Walker recently recovered
from a crevice in a ledge near High Head .
grape shot fred from a vessel of the British
squadron which entered the port of Bangor
in 1914. The ball is about an inch and a
quarter in diameter and very rusty.
PIsCATAQUIs.
A painful accident occurred in the woods
near Moosehead Lake on Saturday The
man injured was in the employ of J. E. Big
ney of Greenville. The fellow was engaged
in telling tree and, jumping back to escape
the falling tree, he encountered the descend
ing axe of q fellow workman, on his arm.
The axe came down with force and cut
through the bone of the arm.
SAGApAHoC.
The Times says that Tuesday morning as
the X. & l.. railroad boat came to the wharf
at Bath, a seven year old son of Henry Bray
jumped upon the moving boat, and as she
neared the wharf, attempted to step upon the
drop. In so doing he was caught between
the stringers on the boat and drop, and as the
boat closed in, his leg was fearfully crushed
between them. He withdrew his foot with
out assistance and attempted to walk, bot
was unable to do so. The doctor pronounced
it a compound, comminuted fracture of the
tibia and fbula, and one of the worst broken
legs that he ever saw.
Bryan Seaman, IL years old, is missing,
but will doubtless turn up all right.
YORK.
white squirrel was shot in Biddeford
lately.
The Times says the new box factory at
Somerville. Saco. built by Geo. w. Frost Of
Beverly, Mass, is about completed. One
half of his new crew are now at work, and
turning out daily over 10000 feet Of boxes.
About 80 men have been employed in the
building of the factory.