Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-10-20
State News.
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A1DBOoCOG9IX.
The Argus says: A frightful accident &C.
Cured At Lewiston steam mill, Wednesday.
Chas. Vine, employee, fell into large fy
wheel which makes Is revolutions per minute.
A fellow workman had the presence of mind to
shut on the power. Vine was thought to be
dead He was fearfully injured, but not
necessarily fatal. His chances of recovery,
however are very slight. Ii was a narrow es-
cape from instant death.
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A eight year old girl, Eva Brown of Wash
burn; was severely bitten by dog. Her nose
was nearly bitten Of, so that it only hung BY q
strip at one side. 1t was put in place again
and will probably heal on. though with .
hard looking scar.
Washburn farmers who have hops for mar
ket are jubilant. 1t is estimated that the hop
crop will bring S., 900 into washburne this
year. Mr.. Lenox Taber has the largest
ield-fve acres. Pickers get % cents day.
Mr.. Gunner of Maysville has seven acres in
hops and employs so pickers.
The Lewiston Journal SAYS: Aroostook
District Lodge, 1 o. of G. Templars held its
quarterly session at Sprague's Mill, Wednes-
day, Oct 4th. Next meeting at Caribou, in
december, when it is expected arrangements
will be made for large public meeting.
The Commercial says that potatoes are
almost drug in the Fort Fairfield mrrket.
No one cares to purchase to ship, and thous-
ands of bushels, conseque ntly, find their way
into the starch factories.
KENNEBEc
Canker rash and scarlet fever are raging
in Mt. Vernon
The llth inst, as Ida Stevens, aged l6
years, who is living with Atwood Creasey,
of Mt. Vernon, went into the pasture to drive
home the cows, she was attacked by a Young
bull and thrown down and her shoulders
broken. Getting clear from the brute she
started to drive the cows, when she was at
tackled again, when a shepherd dog owned BY
Mr.. Creasey, came to her rescue and seizing
the animal by the nose led him safely to the
barnyard, while the young lady drove the
cows. At last accounts the young lady was
doing well.-Age.
Mr. A. X. Waterman, manager of the Bos-
ton Ideal Double Uncle Tom Cabin Co,
which gave a performance at West Water
vile, Saturday evening. at Memorial Hall,
was at the close of the performance hit over
the head with heavy glass bottle by fellow
with whom he had been disputing about the
price of some tickets.
Saturday morning the wife of Capt. Ralph
p. Morse, of Stockton, was thrown out of
carriage. Her elbow joint was dslocated
and she sustained a compound fracture of the
wrist, so bad that the bones protruded through
this flesh.
At Winterport, on Tuesday the 10th inst,
II. G. Miller of Belfast and E. Foley OF
Winterport were engaged in scraping the
mast of schooner Winslow Morse, Capt
McDonough, lying at steam boat wharf The
triangle" on which they were working gave
way and they were precipitated to the deck, "a
distance of 80 or 60 feet, and were badly
though not seriously injured. Their escape
from death was almost miracle.
Mrs. Mary Smith, who moved from Sears
port to Rockland Thursday, says she has
moved Al times.
Thursday, Clarence Martin son of Pearl
Martin of Liberty, was accidentally shot in
the shoulder with pistol, the ball entering
about two inches below the collar bone. At
last accounts he was doing WE'LL
A letter dropped into the Belfast post Office
addressed to a party at ''Kerribough" was
forwarded to Caribou.
York.
Tuesday morning Will McCorrison. a sail
or belonging to a vessel lying at the mouth
on the shore between Camp Ellis and the
breakwater. McCorrison made the body fast
with a rope and notified Mr.. McKenney
The body is supposed to be that of the sailor
drowned on the bar by the capsizing of a
boat 10 days since.
The Times saws: AT Cider Hill, York,
last week, a number of cellars of which the
doors were left unfastened were visited by
thieves, who helped themselves literally to
pork, potatoes, butter and other articles, and
large quantities of turnips. cabbages and
other vegetables have been stolen from the
fields in the same locality within a short
time"
Ogunquit has the champion wonder. 1t
claims a mermaid.