Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-01-22
State News.
ANploac0aan.

AHDaoscoeeu.
BENZ. Fowler, whom Mayor Farrar
of Lewiston has appointed one of
the Lewiston police, was City Mar
shall of Hallowell for several years.
d. B. Stevens of Lewiston and another
gentlemen are negotiating with the Little
Androscoegin Water Power Co. for the lease
of power tor a sash and blind factory on the
TAYLOR Brook dam.
In the Supreme Judicial Court at Boston,
Wednesday. the arguments were begun in
the case of the president and trustees of Bates
College VS.. executors of the will of Benjamin
E. Bates. this is an appeal from the decision
of the commissioners appointed bv the Pro-
bate court, The claim is founded upon an
agreement BY Bates offering the college $780,
900, provided the college raise a like sum.
The commissioners had decided that the con-
ditions had not been complied with. The
court reserved its decision.
Orville ". Walker, of the firm of o. w.
Walker & Co. of Lewiston, died very sud-
denly about five o'clock P. NJ. Wednesday
Mr.. Walkers mother states that Orville was
brought home from the store in a hack. about
one O'Clock 2. NJ. He vomted several times
and appeared very sick, but set up during
the afternoon till about half-past four o'clock
Wnen sne went lDtO Tue SlttlUS-ToOul anu louUu
him living on the sofa, gba~tly pale. She
said, .'Orville, you're dying" and then in
formed the people living in the upper tene-
ment of the house (on College street,. Two
physicians were summoned, but when they
arrived all was over. They decided that the
cause of his death was an organic disease Of
the heart. He was 90 years of age.
AROosTooK.
IT ID III. =.
able to run for want Of water, and people
from long distances are obliged to go to
Preque Isle for their grinding.
TitcOmb's new steam shingle mill at Eaton
commenced operations on Monday, GO days
after his former mill was destroyed by FIRE. Mr..
Titcomb claims he how has one of the best
mills for the manufacture of shingles to be
found in New England
The Times says business is good in the
locality of Presque Isle. farmers are pros
pering as they have cash market and get
good prices for their produce, owing to the
railroad facilities now enjoyed.
CUMBERLAND.
The Portland Packing Company will build
a new corn packing house at Monmouth.
The Portland Cadets have voted
part of the proceeds of their ball to the
Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association.
The Portland Horse Railroad Company
have placed a neat, new omnibus sleigh on
the Congress street route. This is step in
the right direction.
The Portland Mechanic Blues have extend
ed an invitation to the Maverick Rifles, Capt.
Parkinson. of the First Massachusetts Regi-
ment, to be present at the ball to be given in
that city, February 22d, and the invitation
has been accepted.
At the meeting OF the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen at Portland Thursday, VIM. II.
Green and Hartley w. Lewis were drawn as
grand jurors and Irving Blake and John J.
Lappin as petit jurors for the United States
District court at the May term.
KENNEBEc.
Hon. J. Warren Merrill has authorized the
President of Colby University to offer. upon
certain conditions, to students needing aid,
who may enter the University next year, a
special prize. This prize is to be given to
the one who, upon competitive examination,
shall be found to be exceptionally well fitted
for college. The prize will be q sum, which
added to the ordinary Univerity prize. will Sc
cure an annual income of Sl82.00, or S72S 90
for the entire four years course. The design
of the prize is to enable q young man to earn
his way through college by scholarship and
character
Young Tim O'Donnell lost two fingers
from his left hand while uncouplng cars at
the NJ. C. II. r. yard, Waterville. Friday
forenoon
Mr. w. H. Jordan, formerly of Portland,
who learned his trade with Mr.. A. Thompson
of Waterviile. and has also been in the ems
ploy OF some of the best confectiuners of
Portland and Bangor, has gone to Skowhegan
to start candy factory in that hourishing
town.
PENOBsCoT.
petition was presented to the legislature
on Wednesday the 10th inst, for the estab-
lishment of a municipal court in Dexter.
j NJ. Homestead of Palmyra, lost a last
springs colt recently, for which he had re-
fused 500.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Johonnett of Palmyra, has
three Jersey cows from which she has made
10 pounds of butter per month for the year
ending Dec. 81, 1882, besides using all the
milk needed in the family.
The Whig says that rapid progress is being
made in putting the machinery in place in the
mammoth pulp mill at West Great Works.
The telephone wire from Bangor has reach
ed Wint rport and the Office in that town will
be at the Western Union Office. The line
will soon be extended to Frankfort.
Capt. Walter Brown of the brig Woodbury.,
has received through the Collector of Gus
toms at Castine an aneroid barometer. award
ed by the Minister Of Marine and Fisheries
of Canada, is acknowledgement of kindness
to the shipwrecked crew of the bark Kate, of
Shelburne, N. S.
Miss II. L. Savage, teacher in the school
house on Main street. below Railroad street.
Bangor. had narrow escape from death
on Thursday last. In The forenoon, while
in the cellar at her home, the planks over a
cistern on which she was standing broke, and
she was precipitated down into the cold
waters. There were about seven feet of
water in the cistern at the time. and there
was no one near to render any assistance.
The lady was in the water some time, but af-
ter arduous exertions succeeded in rescuing
herself from the extremely dangerous predica-
ment
baby was born in a cemetery at MARSHALL
town, Iowa, a short time ago, but every