Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-08-09
State News.
ANDROSCOGGIN.

aNphostobulS
Saturday forenoon W. II. Gowell, car
penter. at work on the Bates Mill fell from a
staging % feet to the railroad trsck, break
ing the bones of the wrist. arm. leg, hip: and
one heel is badly bruised. The doctor has
hopes of his recovery.
CUMBERLAND.
A mad dog was killed in Portland, Satur-
day.
The Press says that Mr.. Noah Mayo, of
Portland, whose fish were recently seized for
non-inspection, says that il was the result of
enmrty of the Fish Exchange. in consequence
of his buying fish of the fishermen out of
pickle.
Mr.. Halves. wife of e. X. Halves. Esq. had
an elegant diamond ring worth 500 stolen
from their residence at Cape Elizabeth last
Tuesday. They traced and recovered it from
Young teamster in Portland.
The Times SAYS that. Saturday morning
workmen were rep. banking the York street
end of Portland bridge. and had left an open
space. Charles Archibald, lad about l..
years of age, undertook to carry an armful of
planks across the bridge, and, not seeing the
open place, fell through. The distance to the
ground below is about % feet. Archibald
struck hsavy. receiving severe internal in
juries, diving in short time.
The Press says a few days ago a st. Ber-
nard dog owned by Elisha y. Jordan of Cape
Elizabeth, captured a coon. which was so
large he could not despatch him readily. so
he carried him down to Jordan's banks and
held him under water until the vital spark
had ceased to glow. then carried it home.
Mr.. johnson, who WAS terribly crushed
at Cumberland Mills the other day, is getting
we'll. He loses one arm above the elbow ami
the other just below the elbow.
HANCOCK.
Among the new industries started at Sedge
wick is that BY the firm of Herrick 4 Bvard.
namely, Grand Bank fishing They have sent
three vessels the present year, and deserve
success for Their pluck and enterprise.
The fire on Mt. kebois, Mt. Desert Island
is raging fiercely.
W. l.. Perham, of Paris, states the he rode
his bicycle to Portland. a distance of a. miles.
on Friday, in little over six hours.
The Sunday Times saws Jason Russell. of
Buckfeld, Saturday, was brought before
Trial Justice James S. Wright. of Oxford
county, upon a complaint charging him with
obtaining 1900 pounds OF phosphate of the
Winslow Packing Company. by false pre-
fences, and after a full hearing, he was bound
over in the sum of $500 to appear at the
September term of the Supreme Judicial
Court for Oxford county.
PIsCATAoUIs.
Katahdin Iron Works. as a place of sum-
mer resort is becoming more popular every
year.
The Wing says work on the new school
building in Dover village is progressing rap
idly. At recent school meeting it was
voted to raise 81, 900 in addition 20 the Sc 600
raised at the first meeting With this money
a fine building ought to be erected.
WALDO.
The Commercial says Mrs. 7. ID. fainter
died at her residence in Winterport, We'd
nes1ay evening, from heart disease, after an
illness of about ten minutes. Her shrieks of
agony were heard all over the village, in the
last minutes of her life. She had been in
good health up to few minutes of her death
Col. Philo Hersey of Belfast. has been con-
fined at home for some time. from irritation
of wound received at Irish Bend, La.
April IA, 1868. The wound which is in the
right shoulder, has not given him trouble be-
fore in seventeen years.
YORK.
The towp If HoIlis boosts of ba lar1ast