Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-11-05

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dro~ ned himself Friday noon. st brook nea
his house at Crowleys Station. he disap
peared from the house about 10 80, Frida,
forenoon. His body vas recovered Al 81
in the afternoon. He had been partially in
sane. and had been i'll for a considerable
length of time says the Lewiston Journal.
The Journal saws I. Blouins Bakery oil
Lisbon street, Lewiston, caught on FIRE Fri
day morning. The FIRE department soon ex
tin knished the flames. Not much damage was
DONE Insured.
The Lewiston ,urnsl saws party of three
Lewiston men went CANNING at No Name
Pond, Thursday. Ducks were plenty. In
the excitement of the chase the boat wa,
overturned and the three gunners went 10 tie
bottom with guns and game bags. The gao-
ners came up but the guns and game bags
chung to the bottom. One of the guns was
breech loader Waived at sl25. A young
man named Hines volunteered to dive for the
guns and got it
At one of the Levi ston mills some boys
were swinging on a hook suspended from
above, when one of them slipped and the
sharp pointed hook penetrated HE thigh and
abdomen. He could with difficulty be re-
leased. The hook made a frightful, gaping
wound. He was taken home and is still in a
dangerous condition.
CUMBERLAND.
Friday afternoon George |. Milliken and
three or tour other men were at work in a
trench ut The rolling mills, Portland. when a
piece OF jCist about FIVE feet long fell strik-
ing Mr.. Milliken and breaking his neck. lie
was taken out but dead. After a con-
sultation with DR.. Webster, Coroner Gould
decided an inquest unnecessary. Mr.. MILL
ken was So years old and leaves a widow and
one daughter, residing in Cape Elizabeth.
MIR Frank A. w. Hammond of Ferry Viii
lage, the gentleman who had the sad misfor-
tune to be crushed by the cars while making
up train at the Boston s Maine railroad
yard in Boston, Monday, died from his in
juries on Saturday. October 20. He was a
conductor and hae been in the employ of the
company five years.
Owen Conley, a boy about l6 years of age
belonging in Portland. was kicked by a horse
at Falmouth Wednesday, receiving terrible
blow over the eye from the horses iron hoof,
from which he has since died
KNOX.
| There are now l53 convic,s in the State
prison at Thomaston.
| The Free Press says last Friday Raymond
Robinson of Thomaston, hired a team of
Berry Brothers of Rockland, to go to South
Hope. He was furnished gray mare, low
top buggy, silver mounted harness and buffalo
| robe. Not returning as agreed. il has been
| ascertained that he did not go to South Hope,
but up river, and traded the horse last Mon
day at Winterport. He was accompanied by
woman.
LINCOLN.
| The people of BOotbbay were alive with
enthusiasm on the occasion of the organza-
| ton of Post of the G. A. X. in that town
| Thursday night. Comrades were present
from different parts of the state. including
Asst Adjt General ID. Horace Holman and
| Asst. Qvartermaster Gen. ID. F. Beals of the
Maine Department. Thirty members of the
Howard Dunbar Post, 50 of Damariscotta.
who drove eighteen miles in teams to be
present. Twenty-Five members of the Sedg
wick of Bath. and representatives from
the Custer Post, No. of Lewiston and many
others were present.
OXFORD.
burg, was thrown from his carriage near Wes
toms bridge, Tuesday evening of last
week, and died from the effects of
injuries then received at o'clock
Thursday afternoon. MIR. Hutchins
was born in Fryeburg in 1885. He was a
graduate from Bowdon College in the class
of 1859. After graduation he studied law for
a time, but never practiced the profession.
He lived on pleasant farm a few miles from
the village of Fryeburg.
PIsCATAQUIs.
Steamer Day Dream was wrecked on
Moosehead Lake Tuesday morning, Oct 80
MIR. George Cunningham, the old hermit of
Chesuncook Lake, who was discovered in his
camp last June after having laid their eight
DAYS suffering from stroke of paralysis, land
nearly eaten up by flies, and brought to Green
vile, died recently and was buried Tuesday
the 80 inst. He was about 60 years old. and
has lived his hermit life for nearly % years.
He was formerly from Washington, Knox
county where he has friends living. He has
received the best of care and attention from
the Greenville authorities since he has been
| there.
Some 800 men are now engaged at the
Monsoon slate quarries. Not much over a
year ago but 22 to 30 were engaged.
WALDO.
| One of the sailors Of the barque Henry
knight of Belfast missed his hold as he started
to go over the side as the vessel was about
to get under wav, and fell between the vessel
and dock. He was pulled out very uncerre-
moniously, none the worse, and somewhat
sobered by his involuntary bath.
Samuel Day of Wesley, has drawn from
the treasury OF that town, during the past
year, $40 bounty money on bears. Daring
the past twenty years Mr.. Day has probably
captured one hundred and fifty bears. says
the Machias Union.
| There was large story about a hen re-
manning in a hay-mow some 20 days without
food. recently published in the Maine papers
Now the Portland Argus comes forward and
takes the belt by relating the following about
another hen in Marlborough. "About sun
set some years ago, hen belonging to a
farmer in Marlborough, became very much
frightened, says the Argus, and flew to the
ridge pole OF the barn. Ii being in the win
ter the roof of the barn was covered with
snow. She was noticed in the morning, but
as she did not move, was supposed to be
dead and no effort was made TO rescue her.
Thirty four days after, there came a thaw.
and judge OF the amazement of the farmer,
when he saw the hen fly from the barn to the
door of his house, her feathers having been
frosen to the snow during this length of
time.