Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-02-13
State News.
ANpRoSCoGGlN.

The Auburn Reform Club will celebrate its
anniversary on Saturday and Sunday of this
| week.
The Auburn Light Infantry has voted to
| accept the invitation Of the Lowell Mechanics
Phalanx to visit Lowell. A large delegation
| of promineDS citizens will accompany the
| infantry.
The Journal saws: Saturday morning, the
police seized ive-gallon key of liquor ad-
dressed to ''Flavin Maxim" from the Amer
ican Epress. In the afternoon, Maxim ap-
peared at the police station and demanded
the liquor. He said he was a married man
residing at No. 2G Blake street, and the liquor
was for family use. The liquor was de-
livered to him. Not thirty minutes afterward
! City Marshal Metcalf was in Cross shop on
Chestnut street, when he saw Maxim go down
the street with bundle under his arm. He
Immediately pursued the fellow. who went
directly into Lanes drug store, corner of
Lisbon and Chestnut streets. The Marshal
sprang into the store few feet behind Maxim
and followed him to the back shop, just in
season to see him lay three-quart bottle of
whiskey on the counter. He seized the bottle
with one hand and Maxim with the other,
and took both to city prison. Then he drove
to 26 Blake street, and found it was Lanes
house IN which Maxim roomed. In his room,
the Marshal found the five-gallon keg of
| whiskey, minus the three quarts which he hAd
drawn out. Warrants for transportation and
seizure have been made for Maxim, and he
is in a tight place. The Lewiston police are
making it decidedly hot for the runsellers.
KENNEBEc.
| On Wednesday night last while Edward +.
Grant was at work in the paper mill of Rich
| ards & Co., Gardiner, he caught one of the
| fingers on his left hand in the calenders and
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was dressed by DIR. Turner.
| The Foster Edge Tool Company has just
been organized at Gardiner for the manufac-
ture of axes and edge tools. The company
| is composed Of gentlemen with capital, who
will carry on the shop started by Mr.. H. M.
Foster. Augustus Bailey is president of the
| company, and Mr.. Foster, superintendent.
| The capital stock of the company is $4,000.
| 1t will be quite an addition to the industries
| of Gardiner. Their mandatory is on what
is known as 'Bone Island" near the Gard-
ner Spring and Axle Works.
SAGADAHoC.
The Bath Times says: 1t is an ordinary
exploit for certain old gentlemen S3 years
| of age to drive his load of hay from three
/ miles above Bowdoinham into Bath, sell it,
| and go home. We met him the other morn.
| ing at eight o'clock. lie had arrived in town
at seven. had walked every foot of the way
| from his home, some III miles distant and
| would drive his steers back at night. He
does this on average twice a week. 1t is
| a remarkable record for a man S3 years of
age.
The Bath Times Of Saturday says: Dr.
| f. M. Fuller was called to Wiscasset to-day
to attend Horace Brown, formerly of this
| city. in a very severe case of injury, result
| ing from fall. He was at work hooking on
| the ice in the loading of the schooner Angus.
tus Hunt, and slipping, fell the distance of
22 feet His injuries are of a very serious
| character. He was unconscious from three
O'Clock in the afternoon of Tuesday, the time
when the injury occurred, until five o'clock
the next morning. He was attended BY DR..
Cushman of Wiscasset, and to-day by Dr. f.
NJ. Fuller.
| There is a very earnest agitation among
the most influential men of Bath in regard
to the possibility of introducing water sys-
tenn into that city. In recess at the last city
council meeting, the matter was very earnest
ly debated.
WAsHISGToS.
| The Eastport Seminal says: The Penob-
| scot and Machias steamers are having hard
time of it this winter. The steamers State of
| Maine and Falmouth continue to make their
regular trips without interruption n0twith-
standing the rough weather, often arriving
there from Portland before eight o'clock in
the morning and seldom later than nine. The
City of Portland will probably take the place
of the State of Maine about the middle of this
month.
| The frame Of the new hotel at Campobello.
opposite the Tyn-y-coed, is up and nearly
boarded in The ice house is nearing COM
pletion and ice is now being stored in the
building. The proposed new hotel near the
Owen has been given up for this season.
The Eastport Sentinel says: By the burs t.
ing of an emery wheel at the Rink, recently,
two or three persons narrowly escaped serious
injury. Fred Furbush was engaged in grind
ing pair of skates on the stone, which was
running at high rate Of speed, when it sud-
denly burst, one piece striking Furbush on
the head knocking him senseless. Two or
three others who were standing near were
stunned and knocked down by the shock.
One piece of the stone went through a win
dow into the Rink dining room and smashed
large hole in one of the heads of the Bands
bass drum; another piece went out through a
window and on through kitchen window Of
the house occupied by Frank Kelley, striking
near the stove, but fortunately doing NJ
damage.