The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-31
STATE NEWS.
HANCOCK COUNTY .


Charles L. Stevens Post, No. 76, g.. A. R.,
was organized at Csstine, Tuesday evening,
May 18th, by Department Inspector II. A.
Tripp, assisted by &. S. Osgood, Assistant
Inspector, and Comrade E. K. Bowden, all of
James A. Garfield Post, No. 46, OF Bluehill
following officers installed: Charles J. Whit
ney, p. O.; George L. Weeks, J. V. c.; John
Collins, Jr., Adjt.; Charles II. Hooper, Q.
NJ; George A. Wheeler, Surgeon; John +.
the D.; F. S. Perkins, o. of the g.; q. S.
Perkins, Sergt. Msj.i j. r. Veszie, Q. NJ.
Sergt
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
On Monday, the 2Sth instant, Mr.. Winthrop
Branch, an employee in the Dunn Edge Tool
Company's works, at Oakland, was seriously
injured by the bursting OF grindstone, one
leg being badly broken and his head receiving
serious injury. The stone was a new one, just
hung, and the man had ground but one scythe
when the accident occurred.
OXFORD COUNTY.
Hon. +. E. Richards, bank examiner for
Maine, has Just completed his examination of
deposited in the South Paris Savings Bank,
SPA, 1854; at Norway, Si44,S II; at Bethel,
500 933 65-making a total of S459 1890 or
nearly half a million dollars.
Mr.. Sewall Sawyer Of Porter owned a nice
shepherd dog, which the family were very
acted strangely, and was frequently seen snap
ping his jaws as though in the act Of catching
something. All at once he seemed enraged,
bit q lamb and a calf, rushed into the house
and killed the cat, and flew at Mr.. Sawyer's
mother, biting one OF her legs through her
clothing, so that il brought blood. He also
grazed the side OF boys face, some ten years
old, but did not bring blood. MIR. S.
kicked him and was trying to keep him from
the rest, when he seized him by the foot, but
fah haI ON n thfeE ha aid N hFaoE he
skin. After quite struggle Mr.. S. succeeded
in killing the bog The boys face aud neck
swelled very badly, MIR. Sawyer's foot turned
black around the bite, and was much swollen
for a few days, and the lady's leg was in
about the same condition, but the swelling and
Inflammation have subsidized and they seem all
right at present.
rENoBscoT COUNTY.
Charles SturtevaAt, noted horse thief, was
captured Tuesday after some resistance, at the
house OF Frank Dufur in Orono, by q Piscata-
quis deputy, and taken to that county, to an
swer for depredations committed last year.
Sturtevant is an old State prison convict.
sAaApAHoc COUNTY.
Mrs Sarah s. Sampson of Bath has been
appointed to a clerkship in the pension office
at Washington. This is an appropriate recog-
milton OF the services Of Mrs Sampson in be-
half Of our boys in blue during the war, and
the orphan children of soldiers since the war
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
George Crocker's dark brown horse and
one seat carryall were stolen from his barn in
Machias on the night of May 9th. No clue to
the thief Monday forenoon.
YORK COUNTY.
The knights of Pythias, Of whom Mr.. Seidel
of Biddeford, an insane patient at the hospital,
was a member, and who was alleged TO have
suffered ill-treatment there, sent representa-
tives to examine the circumstances, and de-
cided that the charges were unfonnded, and
that he had received good care and as much
liberty as was consistent with the necessary
restraint for his welfare.