Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-11-14

ANpRoCoGGN.


On Wednesday morning of last week a
boy evidently but little over sixteen years Ut
age. and apparently far from robust in health.
came in at the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms at Lewis
ton. He sat around in the rooms an hour or
more and finally approached the secretary
The boy had no overcoat, was stability
dressed, and had no money. He was taken
in charge BY the association and in t~o days
the boy was comfortably housed under Its
care and direction. had q winters job, and
was on the high road evidently to contented-
ness. But the secretary of the association
was not satisfied With the story of the boy
and SO answered an advertisement IN the
Boston Herald. "A boy left home" from
Roxbury, Mass which proved to be the one
mentioned. Detectives had been put upon
the hunt, advertisements freely circulated
and every means Intellectually used until the
receipt of the letter from Secretary ODER.
The boy had not recovered from a recent Sc
rious illness and left home in a condition of
great mental weakness. He had walked
from Portland to Auburn, having taken the
train from Boston. His parents are well-to-
do people,
Thieves broke in and stole at George ".
Beans on Upper Maine street. Lewiston,
Friday night He had q ine coop of hens
and spring chickens when he shut the hen
coop FRIDAY night. SATURDAY. morning there
wasn't cackle. Fifteen plump spring chick
ems were gone.
spool mill is soon to be built at No.
Township, on Passadumkeag river, BY the
Milford Land and Lumber Company.
Lieut.. C. L. F. Howe of Auburn, COM
menced holding temperance meetings in
Presque Isle last Sabbath evening. During
this time be has awakened considerable in
terest. Johnson's Hall is crowded at each
meeting and 200 have signed the pledge, in
Guiding some of the hardest drinkers in town.
CUMBERLAND.
Monday forenoon, Mrs. Harriet D. Stowell
was found At her residence, corner of Will
lay at the foot of the basement stairs and be
side her was an empty pail. There is no
doubt that she attempted to descent the stairs
and stumbled. The doctor thought that she
must have lad fainting spell. He said that
she had ruptured a blood vessel in her head,
producing instant death. Coroner Gould
was summoned, but no inquest of course was
necessary. Mrs Stowell was a widow about
~ wears of age. She had two sons, one of
whom, Edward. lived with her and the other,
William, is employed on the Shore Line
railroad near Bangor.
Brunswick's new town hall will be COM
pleted by the first of March. The building
is y feet in width by 1872 in depth. wIthra
tower over 100 feet in height. The main hall
10 llx62 feet, with a stage "a feet in width.
This is the fourth hall in size in the State,
and will have seating capacity of 1900. The
building, in addition to the town offices, will
contain the post Office, court room, large
with q room for the Public Library. The
Library project was first started last winter
and has been so well supported by the manu-
featuring firms and private individuals that
10 will start out with over one thousand
volumes. At a recent town meeting $l2, 900
additional was raised to furnish the building
and to supply it with water, steam and gas.
A barn in Saccarappa owned by Levi p
Warren and occupied by Lorenzo Knight was
burned Friday night. The barn was valued
at $500. Ten tons of hay belonging to l.. B.
Lowell of Gorham and yoke of oxen and q
calf owned by Mr.. Knight were burned. No
insurance. Something thought to resemble
remains of human being has been found in
the ruins near where the flames were seen.
and it is thought tramp may have sought
shelter in the barn over night and caused the
conflagration by attempting to light his pipe.
LINCOLN.
Wednesday morning of last week, as Mr.
Peter Gross, an aged citizen of Waldoboro,
was going down Main street with q loaded
team, he was startled by the Washington
stage driving quickly by, and sprang in front
of his own wheels. says the News. He was
thrown down, and, apparently the axle struck
the back of his head and neck, leaving him
in a paralyzed condition. He was carried in
to house, and attended by physician who
expressed fears that his spine had been in
jured.
Wiscasset is to have new hall, an asso-
citation having been formed with that object,
and the money is being rapidly raised. The
capital stock is to be $4,000 divided into
5000 shares, at 81. each.
Hon. Henry Ingalls, of Wiscasset. L. S.
Commissioner on Alabama claims, has been
in Damariscotta. holding court says the
Damariscotta Herald. Mr.. Munroe of the
firm of Hale & Munroe, Portland, and Wash
ington, d. c., has been in attendance prose-
cutting claims and examining claiments in that
vicinity.
Numerous hotels are being erected and
other Improvements are in progress at York
Beach. In addition to the improvements on
the Marshall House, a large hotel is being
built between Hotel Bartlett and the Sea Cot
tage the Sea cottage is being raised and en-
larged and two large hotels and several pri-
vate cottages are in process of erection at
Long Sands. A chapel for the accommoda-
ton of summer visitors 10 also talked of.
WASHINGTON.
The Calais Times says q man named Cush
ing hired horse Sunday, Nov. Sd, in Calais
to go to Wesley, were he lived. Tuesday he
was found dead near Debec station on the N.
B. railroad. The team was found at Houl-
ton. A coroner's jury returned verdict that
the cause of death was unknown.