Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-08-17

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Monday night the Post Office At Mechanic
Falls was broken open. The burglars 90
into the building by cutting out pane o.
glass and unfastening the rear window
They we're evidently after money only. and
made attempts to open the safe, but failed
As nothing is missed from the office it i.
supposed the burglars were frightened away,
ARoosrooK.
The Commercial says Augustus Ouilette,
Frenchman residing in No. .. Range 6,
was killed in that township last Wednesday,
while falling trees. 1t seems he was strnck
by large limb of the tree he was falling.
A brother of this man was killed last spring
on the East Branch of the Penobscot. by q
pile of logs rolling upon him.
FRANKLIN.
The Franklin Journal saws the present
season at kingheld, two mills work up 459
cords of birch and poplar; 200 cords of cedar
are sawed into shingles; so cords of yellow
birch are manufactured into spring rolls.
Formly quite large quantities of spruce were
manufactured but now what is used about
the town is used up. 1t was thought that
APO tons of Merchandise were brought into
town the past year and sold, and that some
500 tons passed through from other points
for Dead River. The timber lands lie all
about Kingsfeld, while there are many
acres of lumber in Kingfeld ready for use as
soon as railway will furnish a transit
There is also large water power utilized
In Jerusalem township this year they are saw
ing 10000 shingles q day and expect TO get
out a million this year.
PENoBsCoT.
Mr. Daniel f. Curran, formerly of Ban
gor, recently took valuable horse from Bal
timore to Genoa, Italy. The animal was a
present from Mr.. John W. Garrett. President
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad TO the King
of Italy. The horse was delivered in excel
lent condition after passage of twenty eight
DAYS. The King was much pleased and pre-
scented Mr.. Curran with a very fine gold
watch and chain with twenty four diamonds
set in the back ofthe watch case.
Additional attachments of the real estate
of f. Shaw & Bros. have been placed in
Penobscot county as follows: S. B. Hume
of Eastport, $4,000; Casco National Bank
of Portland. 500, 900; Samuel Greeley of
Readfield, $4,000.
The line officers of the Second Regiment,
NJ. V. NJ, met at the headquarters in Ban
gor. Tuesday, TO elect lieutenant colonel,
and adjourned to the armory of the James
town Guards. Colonel Henry l.. Mitchell
presided at the election. Major n. c. Stowe
of Dover was elected lieutenant colonel and
Captain c. E. Miles of Oldtown. major.
There were four ballots for the position of
major before choice was made.
The Commercial says the Lincoln pulp and
paper mill company have voted to accept the
act of the legislature allowing them to in
crease the capital stock to $3.50, 900 and voted
to set the stock for the present at 900 to be
issued by the directors as required to supply
working capital.
A. W. Weatherbee of Lincoln has invent
ed and constructed great improvement on
the Indian birch canoe, being made of tin,
which is very tight, and to avoid the great
danger of upseting or filling with water and
sinking, or being swamped in rough water,
he has conveniently arranged on either side
a series of air chambers.
Mrs. Dorcas c., wife of Mr.. Francis Davis,
died in Rowland, recently, very suddenly.
She was taken i'll at nine in the evening, and
died before midnight.
SOMERSET.
DIR. W. S. Rollins of Mercer, died quite
suddenly last Saturday, of heart disease. He
was sick but few days. and was not con-
sidered dangerously i'll but short time be-
fore his death. He leaves wife and one
child.
Mrs. Wentworth Varney, of Skowhegan,
met with quite a Serious accident Wednesday.
She was about to go away with her horse and
carriage and took the horse by the head when
the animal started to run and trampled her
under foot. She was taken up insensible.
but had sustained no dangerous injuries and
is now recovering.
On Monday of last week, as o. A. Moody
of Cornville was running a moving machine
drawn by pair of horses the machine struck
some obstruction, throwing him from his
seat on the left side. He struck the ground
and as he fell one leg caught the rens caus-
ing the horses to back. The more he tried
to extricate himself the more dangerous his
position became, for the horses continued to
back until the wheel of the machine had
passed over his head bruising it terribly.
Then to prevent the horses from backing over
him he managed to break the reins, and thus
escaped although terribly bruised and stunh-
ed he considers himself lucky to have escaped