Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-10-25

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| HooOt Cst1tCO
When the alirm awoke him his room was full
of smoke and smoke a pouring up the stair
| way into the dwelling rooms. He Was par
TALLY stupeied by smoke and dszed BY ;hs
suddenness of the awakening. He tried FIRST
one Windows and found il locked and finsll,
pushed NJ q wiaiow 10 the front o. the buili
| ing. The rest Of the family escaped in tn,
rear. The FIRE Was soon exsinguished by the
department.
John Newell, an OiiIo~n Indian, va.
brought before the Auburn police court Mon
dav the - inst on a charge of drunkenness
and was sentenced to forty days in Jail.
Sunday, the 2lst inst, Mr.. Freedom W.
Gould Of North Leeds. discovered wild
man in the woods. He was informed that a
FIRE hsd been started in his woods, and tax.
ing hoe and pail he proceeded 70 where the
IRE VAS burning and threw pail of wate T
on it. when from behind bush close by.
Jumped the most degraded specimen of hu-
manitS he ever saw, without hai or. coat and
snaiching stake from the burning embers,
| came at him with oaths and threats Mr.
| Gould waried of the blows with his hoe and
| defended himself as best lie could. till his
dog came TO the rescue, when he turned and
run. The rascal followed some distance,
but not being able TO overike him, turned
back Mr.. Gould thinks tue dog was the
Means of saving his life. The neighbors
were Immediately informed and a search
made. but no trace of him could be found ex
cept an old mitten and bunch of rags which
he doubtless overlooked in his flight
| kENNEBEc.
As Walter, a lad of Is years. son Of Pres
ton Lancaster of Vassalboro, was cunning
last Thursday the gun burst, SCATTERING the
thumb oil the left hand. 1t WAS smputated by
| DIR. Devinal. He loses the entire thumb.
Ii now seems to be doing well.-The Metho-
dist church has been repainted; color slight
| iy changed from white towards drab, trim
mings darker Quarterly meeting will be
in this church next Sabbath The Congre-
! gationali>t chapel will be dedicated Wednes-
day evening, October 3lst.
A few of the leading farmers of Chelsea
writes correspondent of the Lewiston Jour
nal, have raised the following number of
bushels of grain this season: \. X. Winsow
go bushels Geo. X. HAYES, go; w. f.
| Trask. 80; Eben Freeman. l75: G. F.
Blanchard, 200; James :. Tenney 100; j.
Il. featon, no. The most of these lots are
| in one small school district and number of
lots from so to 100 bushels have not men,
tioned.--Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Young had a
social gathering at their home a few evenings
since. After spending a very pleasant even
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the way that Mr.. Young and his better half
entertain their friends We are having a
very fine term of school in District No. Q
which is taught by Miss Dana OF Augusta,
and another very fine school in District
No. taught BY Mrs. Fred Tenney of our
town.-On the 18th inst, Miss Louisa Evans
one of our old and much respected citizens
passed away, after long and lingering sick
ness. Her funeral was attended by a large
gathering of her friends aud tow nsmen.
Mr.. A. 5. Young of Oakland, has ten or
dozen hives of Italian bees, using what is
known as the Cotton" hive. From one
swarm he has taken this season two full
swarms Of bees and los pounds of honey.
When Mr.. Young first went into the business
he went by books, but he has learned that
much of the written law relating to bee keep
ing cannot be applied successfully, and that
experience is the best schoolmaster.
The Winslow Packing Company have this
season nut up in their Oakland factory $780,
600 cans of corn. About Sl2 900, has been
distributed among the farmers for corn, and
to the help in tae factory. There were 100
employed in the factory being paid 1925 per
day on the average. The company make their
own cans but buy the boxes in which the
corn is shipped.
PENoBsCor.
The town of Orono is to be lightgd by
street lamps.
The Penobscot County Grange meets at
Etna on next Saturday morning at 10 o'clock.
Vension in the Bangor mrrket now sells
from a shilling to twenty-f cents per pound.
The rails on the Shore Line Railroad are
now laid distance of about IA miles from
Bangor.
Frank Towle, who was accidently shot at
Bangor severaldays ago, is in A comfortable
| condition. The ball has not yet been re-
moved.
Mr.. Warren f. Cobb. proprietor of the
Bangor House stables, accidentally shot him
self in the lett hand, Saturday evening.
On Monday the II inst, Patrick Burke of
Bangor, was severly injured bv being damned
to the ground by the tipping back of coal
cart One leg was fractured below the knee
and amrutation ia thought will have to be
made TO save his life.
The New York Herald. in its report of the
killing of the burglars Walsh and Irving,
thus connects it with the Barron case
with the gentlemanly burglar fire.
quently. and big Frank" openly threat
ened his life. On Feb. %, 1873, the Dexter,
Me-, savings bank was robbed. The cashier,
James w. Barron. was beaten, gagged and
handcufsed, and then was closed in vault.
He died an hour after he was discovered
Dobbs, Perris, Abe Coskley and Jimmy
Hope were said to he among the perpetrators
of the outrage. They were assisted by Les
lie, who was greatly unnerved by the muir
der, as he had hitherto relied upon his me-
chanical ingenuity for success. The gang
always suspected that Leslie had revealed
| something to the authorities abont the rob
berry. THIS, coupled with Shang Diapers
jealousy. was the grudge which was held
against him. 1t must have been in some
treachercus manner that Leslie was done to
death. His body was found at Tramp's Rock,
| in Westcheste7 county, on June 4th, 1873
Bullet holes were found in the body. but
there were no holes in the clothing showing
that the burglar was killed while undressed.
and then dressed by his mur1erers. The
dead man was identified by a friend Of Mrs.
Mendelbaum. a notorious receiver of stolen
goods. 1t was never judicially determined
who were the murderers. but the friends of
the dead man always regarded Irving and the
other friends OF Coskley as the culprit..
| YORK.
| Charles .Iorden, the Bath livery stable
| keeper. found his stolen team in Springvale
All Of the following named aged persons
were living dead on Oct the % within small
raiius in kennebunkport and kennebunk.
viz: Oliver Davis aged 95-lacking | DAYS !:
Widow Joshua Downing, pensioner of 1912
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